Straight Skirt

"Straight Skirt " (later "Straight Skirts") is a song written by Mary Tarver in 1958 and published by Song Productions, BMI the same year. It was originally recorded by Gene Summers and his Rebels, a rockabilly band from Dallas, Texas and was first released in February 1958 by Jan Records #11-100. On March 8, 1958 Cash Box Magazine picked it as their Sleeper Of The Week. In Billboard Magazine's Reviews Of Pop Records they wrote: "The artist is backed by a chorus and cheerful rockabilly support on this blues. The kid's might take to this". They were right...within a few weeks of its release, Summers and his rockin' band of Rebels had their first big regional hit.