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Tommy James And The Shondells - Songs. ABOUT. Tommy James and the Shondells had many hits in the late 1960s that included Hanky Panky (1966), Mony Mony (1968), Crimson and Clover (1969), and Crystal Blue Persuasion (1969). Band leader Tommy James went solo in 1971 and the remaining group members went on to record as Hog Heaven.
Certainly, they had no objection to the idea of selling several million copies of a song like Goodnight Irene, written and taught to them by their friend Leadbelly, who had struggled for decades for success and recognition and, alas, had died the year before.