1966......#1 U.S. Billboard, #1 U.S. Cash Box Top 100, #1 Canada, #West Germany
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"Hanky Panky" is a song written by Jeff Barry and Ellie Greenwich for their group, the Raindrops.
A 1964 recording by the Shondells, later reissued in 1966 under the band's new, and more successful, incarnation of "Tommy James and the Shondells," is the best known version, reaching #1 in the United States in 1966.
Tommy James and the Shondells recorded their first song, "Long Pony Tail," in 1960 and had 500 copies pressed and distributed in southwest Michigan. Jack Douglas, a disc jockey at WNIL in Niles, Michigan, heard the song and asked James if he had other material to record. James had heard "Hanky Panky" being performed by a garage rock band in a club in South Bend, Indiana. "I really only remembered a few lines from the song, so when we went to record it, I had to make up the rest of the song," he told author Fred Bronson. "I just pieced it back together from what I remembered." "Hanky Panky" was released on Douglas' Snap Records in February 1964, selling well in the tri-state area of Michigan, Indiana and Illinois. However, lacking national distribution, the single's popularity quickly faded. James moved on, breaking up The Shondells and finishing high school.
In 1965, an unemployed James was contacted by Snap Records owner Jack Douglas. Pittsburgh disc jockey "Mad Mike" Metrovich had begun playing The Shondells' version of "Hanky Panky", and the single had become popular in that area. The single had been bootlegged in Pittsburgh, and slightly sped up. With the original Shondells having scattered, James realized he had to form a new band. Mack took him to Pittsburgh to see several bands in the area. James hired the first decent local band he ran into, The Greensburg, Pennsylvania-based Raconteurs, to be the new Shondells. A debate continues over whether Metrovich or Pittsburgh disc jockey Bob Mack actually broke the single in the area. James credits Mack.
After appearances on TV and in clubs in the city, James and Mack took a master of "Hanky Panky" to New York City, where Mack sold it to Roulette Records. "The amazing thing is we did not re-record the song," James told Bronson. "I don't think anybody can record a song that bad and make it sound good. It had to sound amateurish like that. I think if we'd fooled with it too much we'd have fouled it up." It was released promptly and took the top position of the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 for two weeks in July 1966.

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