"Hippy Hippy Shake" is a song written and recorded by Chan Romero in 1959. That same year, it reached No. 3 in Australia. Romero was 17 years old when he wrote the song.

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The Beatles version

A live version of "Hippy Hippy Shake" can be found on The Beatles album Live at the BBC. That version was recorded in July 1963, almost certainly pre-dating The Swinging Blue Jeans recording. The Beatles also played the song in their early days when they performed in small clubs. It is included on ''Live! At the Star-Club'', Hamburg 1962. Another version, recorded on 10 September 1963 for "Pop Go the Beatles", can be found on On Air – Live at the BBC Volume 2. The Beatles also revisited the song during the sessions for the Let It Be album and film in January 1969. That version is currently unreleased but is available on various bootleg recordings.

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Other cover versions

In popular culture

The song was included in the films The Men Who Stare at Goats, X-Men: First Class, Uncle Buck, Angels in the Outfield and Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery. The cover version by The Georgia Satellites is featured in the films Cocktail and It Takes Two, as well as an episode of The Simpsons. In 1979 The B-52's song "Dance This Mess Around", which featured numerous 1960s pop culture references, repeated the line, "Hippy hippy forward hippy hippy hippy hippy hippy shake", an allusion to this song. In the Full House episode "The House Meets the Mouse", the fictional band Jesse and the Rippers performed this song live at Walt Disney World. In 2013, Jesse and the Rippers again performed this song on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon as part of their one-night-only reunion.