Alvin Stardust – My Coo Ca Choo

“My Coo Ca Choo” – Single by Alvin Stardust from the album The Untouchable.
Released: 1973
Songwriters: Peter Shelley

The song was written, sung, and recorded by Peter Shelley, using the glam rock name Alvin Stardust. Although he had already appeared as the original Alvin Stardust on the Lift Off television programme, Shelley was surprised when the record went straight into the chart the following week. As he had no desire to become his own stage name creation, he and Levy both agreed that if this act were to become more than just a one-hit wonder, then a “face” was required to be, and perform as, Alvin Stardust. The ideal person appeared, Bernard William Jewry, who at the time performed under the name Shane Fenton. The new “Stardust” then appeared on BBC Television’s Top of the Pops just as the record had entered the UK Top 30, before finally reaching number 2.

Alvin Stardust (Bernard Jewry) first saw chart action in the UK in 1961 as Shane Fenton. Although Jewry was the vocalist with Shane Fenton and the Fentones, he was in fact the second singer to bear that name, the first having died suddenly before the group’s success. After their final and biggest hit “Cindy’s Birthday” reached UK #19 in 1962, Jewry went into management, but returned in 1973 as leather-clad Alvin Stardust.

“My Coo Ca Choo” spent seven weeks at the top of the Austrian singles chart. It was the top-selling single in Australia in 1974.

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