Jivin' Gene and the Jokers - Breaking Up Is Hard To Do 1958

This is not the Neil Sedaka version. I kind of like this!

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Music

Tags:

• Doo
• Wop
• Oldies
• 45rpm

[DuckMayor]

if u like i know i can get u an autograph from him. When i run into him nextime ill ask then get u to give me ur info and ill send it to you. I saw him about 4 days ago at the supermarlet..lol. He puts on a great show,,lots of horns and good beats from his new stuff.

[leadsquirter]

That would be cool. I'll put it in the record sleeve. Thanks!

[DuckMayor]

Gene is from my hometown, and my parents are old school mates with Gene and Connie, his wife. I as well know him, and go watch him play all the time. He plays regularly at Larry's French Market, and was a mainliner at our Mardi Gras this yr, as well as in past. Great Stuff!!

[leadsquirter]

Thanks for posting this interesting info.

[toodeadbroke]

R. I. P Huey P. Meaux. The co-writer and producer of this tune. The owner of the oldest recording studio in the U. S., Sugar Hill Recording Studios in Houston, TX. So goes the "Crazy Cajun."

As I hear this tune for the first time, it had a Dave Bartholomew feel to it, and this is the first time I've heard this! I found about his death on wikipedia on 27 Apr 2011.

[XavierNinnis]

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

I've wanted to hear this great version again for a longest time!

As a matter of fact, I haven't heard it since my brother unintentionally broke my (45) copy, which had taken me forever to find, by sitting upon it more than 35 years ago.

[ELD61]

too bad we do not hear music like this on radio anymore love the middle 50's to early 60's

[johnnyweep59]

quality louisiana rocknroll...5*****

[sgtbudlight]

I have grown up around Gene and Connie. They are two wonderful people.  On sundays my dad would start the stereo up and play records all day long and breaking up is hard to do was Me and y Mom's favorite songs.Jerry

[gandmreese]

Like this version of the song. One of my favorites growing up in Northeast Pennsylvania in the late 1950s.

[h31sman]

My search is complete I've been looking for this song for years I loooovee this song!!!!

[TheDooWopKid]

I dig this swamp pop song way better

then that soda pop oldies tune!...

Long Live Swamp Pop Soul...!

-Jonny B.

[57Will]

So this was the very first recording produced by Huey "The Crazy Cajun" Meaux?  This, as I understand, was Gene's first and biggest hit on Billboard's charts. Yes, it seems the "bathroom" was a real good place to get that great "echo" sound.

[rocco4116]

This was the first recording ever produced by the noted (nororious?) Huey Meaux, a one-stop hit machine who eventually owned Sugar Hill Recording Studios and who produced, among many others "You'll Lose a Good Thing" by Barbara Lynn. As for Jivin' Gene, that was the name Huey gave him; his real name is Gene Bourgeois. According to Huey, the echo heard in this song "was made when we put Gene's mike in the shitter surrounded by all that porcelain".