And while the band found success with it, the song wasn't originally meant for them at all.
Bang Records' first hit came from the Strangeloves, a group of three Brooklyn producers named Richard Gottehrer, Jerry Goldstein and Bob Feldman. They spent 1965 touring the U.S. behind "I Want Candy," which reached No. 11.
So, Berns had another idea. He asked the producers to find a group of young musicians who looked like the Beatles to record the song under a new title, "Hang On Sloopy."
"Coincidentally, the day that we were going to play as their backup band in Dayton, Ohio, we went out and bought Beatle suits," Derringer told Living Legends Music.
It turned out to be the right place at the right time. "So we played the heck out of it, because we knew it and loved it. They brought us backstage and they said, 'Would you like to come to New York tomorrow and record 'Hang On Sloopy?'"
According to Derringer, the engineers were so thrilled with the recording that they jumped up and down in the control room, yelling "Number one! Number one!"
Under their new name, the McCoys released "Hang On Sloopy" as a single in July 1965. By October 2 of that year, it had climbed all the way to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100.
"We like to say 'Hang On Sloopy' was No. 1 while 'Yesterday' was No. 2." he told WLOY Radio. "They don't have to know which one was going which direction."
It was also named Ohio's official rock song in 1985 and continues to be played at Browns and Cavaliers home games.
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