"Party Doll" is a 1950s rockabilly song written by Buddy Knox and Jimmy Bowen. Buddy Knox was a teenager living near Happy, Texas in 1948 when he wrote the original verses of "Party Doll" behind a haystack on his family farm. Knox recorded "Party Doll" and it was released on the Roulette label and went to No.1 on the Cash Box magazine music chart in 1957. Knox's sister and two of her friends sang background vocals on the song, the song was distributed around the U.S. and became a chart-topping hit, spending a week at #1 on the Top 100 chart, the precursor to the Billboard Hot 100, in March 1957 |
