They had a bigger hit with that song than Them did with it. At least in the States. Interestingly, Them (without Van Morrison) redid the song around 1971:
The Swinging Medallions were from a little county near Columbia, S. C. They were are very large band. I suspect that I saw them perform live on more than 20 occasions. I own the same 45 rpm shown above.
A bit of teenage angst. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=laura+and+tommy+were+lovers+original
...ah yes, Brando's "The Wild One" and Dean's "Rebel Without A Cause" phase, where we all wore pegged pants, leather jackets and MC boots. Brando's character was about as hokey as Winkler's retrospective "The Fonz." While the look was awful, the music was overall positive...
The Ganser twins are both dead the Weiss sisters, one shown (Mary) in the pictures are still living. The composer of a lot of the songs, Shadow Morton, is dead. So is Jerry Leiber and Ellie Greenwich sp? who helped. Only Mike Stohler remains.
