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"Bad Boy" is a song by rock and roll singer Marty Wilde, released as a single in November 1959. It peaked at number 7 on the UK Singles Chart and number 45 on the Billboard Hot 100.[1][2]

Release and reception

Announcing the release of the single in Disc, producer Jack Good wrote that "It's Been Nice", written by Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman, was the "top side". However, he also said that he thought "Bad Boy" was "a toss-up which [would] develop as the top side".[3] Promoting the single several weeks later, it was described as a "double-sided smash… Bad Boy coupled with It's Been Nice".[4]

Mort Shuman had intended to give "It's Been Nice" to Elvis Presley, but instead gave it to Wilde after the two struck up an instant friendship.[5]

In the US and Canada, "Bad Boy" released with the B-side "Teenage Tears", which had been the B-side to Wilde's previous single "Sea of Love". "Bad Boy" was released in the US at the beginning of January 1960 and became the first of two hits there for Wilde.[6]

Reviewed in Melody Maker, "Bad Boy" was described as "easy going, with a folk-sounding air about it".[7]

Track listing

7": Philips / PB.972

  1. "Bad Boy" – 2:22
  2. "It's Been Nice" – 1:55

7": Epic / 5-9356 (US & Canada)

  1. "Bad Boy" – 2:22
  2. "Teenage Tears" – 2:20

Charts

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Chart (1960) Peak
position
Australia (Kent Music Report) 41
Canada (CHUM)[8] 47
US Cash Box Top 100[9] 50

Cover versions

References

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