Group
The Swinging Blue Jeans
British Merseybeat band
- From
- Liverpool, United Kingdom
- Active
- 1960–2010
- Rating
- ★ 5
- Releases
- 27
- beat music
- merseybeat
About
The Swinging Blue Jeans are a 1960s British Merseybeat band, best known for their hit singles "Hippy Hippy Shake" in 1963 and "Good Golly Miss Molly" and "You're No Good" in 1964. Their last charting single was "Don't Make Me Over" in 1966. The band's first stable line-up was singer/guitarist Ray Ennis, guitarist Ralph Ellis, bassist Les Braid, and drummer Norman Kuhlke. Ellis was replaced by Terry Sylvester (later of the Hollies) in 1966. From the late 1960s onwards, the Swinging Blue Jeans underwent many more line-up changes, which eventually left them with no original members by 2010.
Members
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Les Braid electric bass guitar
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Ray Ennis guitar
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Norman Kuhlke drums (drum set)
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Ralph Ellis guitar
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Colin Manley guitar
Discography
Compilations
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Feelin’ Better: Anthology 1963–1969
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Merseybeat
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The Gold Collection
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The Very Best Of Apple Music
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Good Golly Miss Molly!: The EMI Years 1963-1969 Apple Music
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Hippy Hippy Shake
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French 60’s EP Collection
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The Swinging Blue Jeans
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Best of the 60’s
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Don’t Make Me Over
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The Best Of
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25 Greatest Hits Apple Music
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At Abbey Road: 1963–1967
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Come On Everybody
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The Best of the Swinging Blue Jeans: 1963-1966
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Original Hits
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Hippy Hippy Shake: The Definitive Collection Apple Music
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The Best of the Emi Years
Links
Official
Concerts
Reference
Also known as
Swinging Blue Jeans · The Swingin' Blue Jeans
Identifiers
- MusicBrainz
- f200e1a5-43c6-42e1-a715-d9742d6559ef
- ISNI
- 0000000121895059
Data from MusicBrainz, saved 6 Nov 2026. Photo from Wikimedia Commons, covers from the Cover Art Archive and Apple Music.