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50s Jiver Vocal Group - Italo-English version from LP The Gaylords "The Gaylords Sing American Hits in Italian" Mercury – MG 20620.
"Sh-Boom" sometimes referred to as "Life Could Be a Dream" is an early Doo-Wop song by the Rhythm And Blues vocal group The Chords.
It was written by James Keyes, Claude Feaster, Carl Feaster, Floyd F. McRae, and William Edwards, members of The Chords, and published in 1954.
It was a U.S. top-10 hit that year for both the Chords (who first recorded the song)
A more traditional version was made by a Canadian group, the Crew-Cuts with the David Carroll Orchestra, for Mercury Records and was No. 1 on the Billboard charts for nine weeks during August and September 1954.
The single first entered the charts on July 30, 1954, and stayed for 20 weeks.
The Crew-Cuts performed the song on Ed Sullivan's Toast of the Town on December 12, 1954.
On the Cash Box magazine best-selling record charts, where both versions were combined, the song reached No. 1.

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