"Bad Boy"
Single by Marty Wilde
B-side
  • "It's Been Nice" (UK)
  • "Teenage Tears" (US)
Released18 November 1959 (1959-11-18)[1]
Genre
Length2:22
Label
Songwriter(s)Marty Wilde
Producer(s)Ivor Raymonde
Marty Wilde singles chronology
"Sea of Love"
(1959)		 "Bad Boy"
(1959)		 "Johnny Rocco"
(1960)

"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.[3][4]

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".[1] Promoting the single several weeks later, it was described as a "double-sided smash… Bad Boy coupled with It's Been Nice".[5]

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.[6]

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.[7]

Reviewed in Melody Maker, "Bad Boy" was described as "easy going, with a folk-sounding air about it".[8]

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

Chart (1960) Peak
position
Australia (Kent Music Report) 41
Canada (CHUM)[9] 47
UK Singles (OCC)[3] 7
US Billboard Hot 100[4] 45
US Cash Box Top 100[10] 50

Cover versions

References

  1. 1 2 "His wildest rocker" (PDF). Disc. 7 November 1959. p. 4. Retrieved 28 July 2021.
  2. ↑ Breihan, Tom (February 19, 2021). "The Number Ones: Kim Wilde's "You Keep Me Hangin' On". Stereogum. Retrieved October 6, 2023. ...though one Marty Wilde single, the fun little rockabilly original "Bad Boy," reached #45 in 1960.
  3. 1 2 "Marty Wilde: Artist Chart History". Official Charts Company.
  4. 1 2 "Marty Wilde Chart History (Hot 100)". Billboard.
  5. ↑ "Marty Wilde" (PDF). Disc. 21 November 1959. p. 1. Retrieved 28 July 2021.
  6. ↑ Vickers, Graham (2013-08-28). Pomus & Shuman: Hitmakers Together & Apart. Omnibus Press. pp. 63–64. ISBN 978-0-85712-800-3.
  7. ↑ "Marty Wilde - Bad Boy". 45cat.com. Retrieved 2021-07-28.
  8. ↑ "Pop Singles" (PDF). Melody Maker. 28 November 1959. p. 6. Retrieved 28 July 2021.
  9. ↑ "CHUM Hit Parade, week of March 14, 1960". chumtribute.com. 14 March 1960. Archived from the original on 2021-07-28. Retrieved 28 July 2021.
  10. ↑ "Cash Box Top 100 Singles – Week ending March 5, 1960". Cash Box magazine. Retrieved 28 July 2021.
  11. ↑ "Robin Luke - Bad Boy". 45cat.com. Retrieved 2021-07-29.
  12. ↑ "Dig Richards – Bad Boy (1960, Vinyl)". discogs.com. 1960. Retrieved 2021-07-29.
  13. ↑ "Gene Rockwell And The Falcons – The Many Faces Of Gene Rockwell (1965, Vinyl)". discogs.com. 1965. Retrieved 2021-07-29.
  14. ↑ "Sir Henry & His Butlers – A Portrait Of Sir Henry And His Butlers (1966, Vinyl)". discogs.com. 1966. Retrieved 2021-07-29.
  15. ↑ "Freddie Starr - Bad Boy". 45cat.com. Retrieved 2021-07-29.
  16. ↑ "Robert Gordon (2) - Bad Boy". discogs.com. 1980. Retrieved 2021-07-29.
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