Announced on his Facebook page. After high school, he hitchhiked to Los Angeles, where he wrote "The Hippy Hippy Shake." That led to his signing with Del Fi Records, the same label that had signed Ritchie Valens. Del Fi then released Romero's definitive recording of his song, though the Beatles did a great rendition that was preserved by the BBC. Romero was later the first Latino to be inducted into the Rockabilly Hall of Fame.

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Can’t say I know much else by the Swinging Blue Jeans, but their version of “Hippy Hippy Shake” rocks like a mutha, one of my top Merseybeat rekkids.