This was the first of several songs George ‘Shadow’ Morton wrote for the Shangri-Las. It was released as their debut single in 1964 and went to No 5 in America and No 14 in the UK.
It was No 395 on Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Songs of All Time list in 2004 and No 26 on Billboard’s 2015 list of 100 Greatest Girl Group Songs of All Time.