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Fact #135239

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Short story:

TV rock show Where The Action Is, in the USA, features Ian Whitcomb performing Sugar Babe, The Impressions performing It's All Right and The Detergents performing Leader of the Laundromat.

Full article:

Ron Dante (The Detergents) : Two of my friends, Danny Jordan and Tommy Wynn, we were all staff writers at Don Kirshner's publishing company. Danny's uncle was a guy named Paul Vance, who was a very successful songwriter in the fifties and sixties. He wrote Catch a Falling Star for Perry Como. He wrote Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini for Brian Hyland. He was very talented. He came up with this idea to do a parody of Leader of the Pack. He asked Danny to bring in a couple of friends. Danny and I blew on over and we ended up singing on this parody. It became a career for a couple of years. We went out and toured on the Dick Clark Caravan of Stars singing 'Leader of the Laundromat.'
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