"Da Doo Ron Ron" is a 1963 hit single

Single (music)

In music, a single or record single is a type of release, typically a recording of fewer tracks than an LP or a CD. This can be released for sale to the public in a variety of different formats. In most cases, the single is a song that is released separately from an album, but it can still appear...

 by The Crystals

The Crystals

The Crystals are an American vocal group based in New York, considered one of the defining acts of the girl group era of the first half of the 1960s. Their 1961–1964 chart hits, including "Uptown", "He's a Rebel", "Da Doo Ron Ron " and "Then He Kissed Me", featured three successive female lead...

, produced by Phil Spector

Phil Spector

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 in his Wall of Sound

Wall of Sound

The Wall of Sound is a music production technique for pop and rock music recordings developed by record producer Phil Spector at Gold Star Studios in Los Angeles, California, during the early 1960s...

 style. The song was written by Jeff Barry

Jeff Barry

Jeff Barry is an American pop music songwriter, singer, and record producer.-Early career:...

, Ellie Greenwich

Ellie Greenwich

Eleanor Louise "Ellie" Greenwich was an American pop music singer, songwriter, and record producer. She wrote or co-wrote "Be My Baby", "Christmas ", "Da Doo Ron Ron", "Leader of the Pack", "Do Wah Diddy Diddy", and "River Deep, Mountain High", among many others...

 and Spector. The drummer was Hal Blaine

Hal Blaine

Hal Blaine is an American drummer and session musician. He is most known for his work with the Wrecking Crew in California. Blaine played on numerous hits by popular groups, including Elvis Presley, John Denver, the Ronettes, Simon & Garfunkel, the Carpenters, the Beach Boys, Nancy Sinatra, and...

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On May 11, 1963, it reached number three on the Billboard Hot 100. It also reached number five in the UK.

Other versions

Bette Midler

Bette Midler

Bette Midler is an American singer, actress, and comedian, also known by her informal stage name, The Divine Miss M. She became famous as a cabaret and concert headliner, and went on to star in successful and acclaimed films such as The Rose, Ruthless People, Beaches, and For The Boys...

 recorded a version of the song for her album Bette Midler

Bette Midler (album)

Bette Midler is the eponymous second studio album by American female vocalist Bette Midler, released in 1973 on the Atlantic Records label...

 (1973). The song is performed as a medley with "Uptown" and "Don't Say Nothin' Bad (About My Baby)".

Iain Matthews recorded a version of this song on Tigers Will Survive

Tigers Will Survive

Tigers Will Survive is the 1971 album by country rock/folk rock musician Ian Matthews. Former Fairport Convention bandmate Richard Thompson sat in on guitar and accordion.-Track listing:#"Tigers Will Survive"...

. He kept the gender-orientation intact.

The song became a #1 Billboard hit in 1977, launching the career of teen idol

Teen idol

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 Shaun Cassidy

Shaun Cassidy

Shaun Paul Cassidy is an American actor, singer, writer, and producer. He is the eldest son of Academy Award winning actress Shirley Jones, and the second son of Tony award-winning actor Jack Cassidy...

. (The words were changed slightly to make it a boy-girl song.)

All-girl rock band The Donnas

The Donnas

The Donnas are an American all-female rock band from Palo Alto, California. They draw inspiration from The Ramones, The Runaways, AC/DC, Bachman–Turner Overdrive and Kiss. Rolling Stone has stated that "the Donnas offer a guileless take on adolescent alienation; they traffic in kicks, not...

 recorded a version of the song as a single, which was later placed on the 1998 re-release of their 1997 self-titled CD.

Bootlegged studio recordings of the song are found by Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter, musician, poet, film director and painter. He has been a major and profoundly influential figure in popular music and culture for five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was an informal chronicler and a seemingly...

, The Rolling Stones

The Rolling Stones

The Rolling Stones are an English rock band, formed in London in April 1962 by Brian Jones , Ian Stewart , Mick Jagger , and Keith Richards . Bassist Bill Wyman and drummer Charlie Watts completed the early line-up...

, and The Beach Boys

The Beach Boys

The Beach Boys are an American rock band, formed in 1961 in Hawthorne, California. The group was initially composed of brothers Brian, Dennis and Carl Wilson, their cousin Mike Love, and friend Al Jardine. Managed by the Wilsons' father Murry, The Beach Boys signed to Capitol Records in 1962...

 (early sessions for Keepin' the Summer Alive

Keepin' the Summer Alive

-Singles:* "Goin' On" b/w "Endless Harmony" , March 11, 1980 US #83* "Livin' with a Heartache" b/w "Santa Ana Winds" , May 20, 1980...

). Other artists who have covered this song include The Carpenters

The Carpenters

Carpenters were an American vocal and instrumental duo, consisting of sister Karen and brother Richard Carpenter. The Carpenters were the #1 selling American music act of the 1970s. Though often referred to by the public as "The Carpenters", the duo's official name on authorized recordings and...

, Jack Nitzsche

Jack Nitzsche

Bernard Alfred "Jack" Nitzsche was an arranger, producer, songwriter, and film score composer. He first came to prominence in the late 1950s as the right-hand-man of producer Phil Spector, and went on to work with the Rolling Stones, Neil Young and others...

, The Raindrops

The Raindrops

The Raindrops were an American pop group from New York, associated with the Brill Building style of 1960s pop. The group existed from 1963 to 1965 and consisted of Ellie Greenwich and Jeff Barry, both of whom worked as writer/producers for numerous other acts before, during and after their tenure...

, Brian Poole and the Tremeloes and The Searchers

The Searchers (band)

The Searchers are an English beat group, who emerged as part of the 1960s Merseybeat scene along with The Beatles, The Fourmost, The Merseybeats, The Swinging Blue Jeans, and Gerry & The Pacemakers....

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In 2004, this song was ranked #114 on Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone

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s list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time

The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time

"The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time" was the cover story of a special issue of Rolling Stone, issue number 963, published December 9, 2004, a year after the magazine published its list of "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time"....

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The British comedy show, Spitting Image

Spitting Image

Spitting Image is a British satirical puppet show that aired on the ITV network from 1984 to 1996. It was produced by Spitting Image Productions for Central Television. The series was nominated for 10 BAFTA Awards, winning one for editing in 1989....

, parodied this song as "Da Do Run Ron", a spoof election campaign song for Ronald Reagan

Ronald Reagan

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It was used as the theme tune to Hale & Pace's one sitcom vehicle, The Management.

In 1963, Johnny Halliday sang a French

French language

French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...

 version, written by Georges Aber, in his first film

Film

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, D'où viens-tu Johnny ? Other French singers also covered the song, including Frank Alamo (1 June 1963), Richard Anthony

Richard Anthony

Richard Sidney Anthony was an Irish politician. A Linotype operator by profession, Anthony stood unsuccessfully for election at the 1923 general election. He was first elected to Dáil Éireann as an Labour Party Teachta Dála for the Cork Borough constituency at the June 1927 general election. He...

 and Sylvie Vartan

Sylvie Vartan

Sylvie Vartan is a French singer. She was one of the first rock girls in France. Vartan was the most productive and active of the yé-yé style artists, considered as the toughest-sounding of those. Her performance often featured elaborate show-dance choreography. She made many appearances on French...

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and Donald Lautrec

Donald Lautrec

In 1957, he created, with one of his friends, a pair of acrobats on a trampoline, Don and Lee, which occurs in Canada and the United States. Subsequently, he meets show business occupying the lighting function, master of ceremonies in several Montreal cabarets and for a short period of time, the...

 in Quebec

Quebec

Quebec or is a province in east-central Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level....

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