Who recorded this song, in the late 50s?
*So you met someone who set you back on your heels…Goody Goody!
And now you’ve been dumped so now you know how it feels…Goody Goody!
[…]
So you’re lying awake and singin’ the blues all night…Goody Goody!
So you think that love’s a barrel o’ dynamite!
Well, hooray and hallelujah!
You had it comin’ to ya!
Goody Goody for you!
Goody Goody for him!
And I hope you’re satisfied you rascal you! *
Ella Fitzgerald did a nice version of it; the only other person I’ve heard cover it is (yer never gonna believe this) Robert Palmer.
Ella’s has a bridge in it between the 2nd and 3rd verses to the effect of:
“Do you remember me sittin’ all alone,
Waitin’ for a tinkle from tha telephone,
Now the Action Jackson’s turned right around,
Goody, goody,
Yes, you must remember me I was sad and blue
Sittin, waitin, hopin, like you told me to,
Now the Action Jackson’s turned right around --”
and then back into the actual song.
Kind of cool, I think.
Frankie Lymon also recorded this in the late 50’s/early 60’s. It was a solo record; post Teenagers.
Thanks, Born. 
I was in grade school then and didn’t listen much to the DJ saying who the artist was on a recording.
I may be wrong, but I think Ella Mae Morse recorded it in the late 1930s, too—the song itself dates from about '38, I think.
Great tune—now I’m gonna have it running through my head for the rest of the day! Oh, well, it can replace “Lovin’ Sam, the Sheik of Alabam’,” which had been there since this morning . . .
Consider yourself lucky, Eve, that it isn’t “Just My Style,” by Gary Lewis & the Playboys–which was running through my head in a nightmare the other night–when I found out that the doorway to my room at home had been boarded up–with me inside it! :eek: