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Did you know that the subject of "Hang on Sloopy" is a Steubenville, Ohio girl named Dorothy 'Dottie' Sloop, a jazz artist who performed in the quartet Southland Rhythm Girls? Did you also know that it was a Dayton, Ohio band called The McCoy's who made the song famous? After seeing her perform at the band's club in New Orleans, "Twist & Shout" song-writer Bert Russell Berns was inspired enough by Dottie to write the iconic song, which was originally entitled "My Girl Sloopy" and performed by The Vibrations, who took it to No. 26 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1964. The song was soon rerecorded by the McCoys as a rock song entitled "Hang on Sloopy." That version Hit No. 1 in 1965, and was first played by @TBDBITL a week after it hit No. 1, and has been played at the end of the third quarter now for more than 60 years. Ohio is the only state in the union to have an official rock song: "Hang on Sloopy."