Black Slacks

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"Black Slacks"
"Boppin' Rock Boogie"
July 1957
Rockabilly
2:05
ABC-Paramount 9837
Joe Bennett, Jimmy Denton
"Black Slacks" (1957)

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"Black Slacks" is a song written by Joe Bennett and Jimmy Denton and performed by Joe Bennett & the Sparkletones. It reached No. 11 on the R&B chart and No. 17 on the Billboard pop chart in 1957.

The single ranked No. 100 on Billboard's Year-End Hot 100 singles of 1957.

The rockabilly band Jackslacks adopted their name from the song "Black Slacks".

• Joe Bennett – vocals, guitar

• Wayne Arthur – double bass

• Howard "Sparky" Childress – guitar

• Jimmy "Sticks" Denton – drums

• Buchanan & Goodman sampled the song on their 1957 single, "Santa and the Satellite".

• Robert Gordon released a version of the song as a single in 1979.

• Matchbox released a version of the song as a single in the United Kingdom in 1979.

• Simon & Garfunkel released a version of the song as a medley with their song "Hey, Schoolgirl" on their 1997 compilation album, Old Friends.

• The Sparkletones version has been featured in the films, Crazy Mama (1975) and The Rescuers Down Under (1990).

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