Wade & Dick recorded three songs (with guitarist Don Gililland), "Wild Woman", "Don't Need Your Lovin'", and "Bop Bop Baby", which was included on the album Walk the Line, the soundtrack of the eponymous film biography of Johnny Cash.
The songs did not rise to the popularity of "Ooby Dooby"; which reached a formidable level on the national charts in Orbison's hands and, eventually, became regarded as a classic of the genre.
Penner and Wade had taken a six-pack of beer onto the flat roof of their Lambda Chi fraternity house and wrote "Ooby Dooby" in a matter of minutes.
[citation needed] Wade Moore later recorded a version of "Ooby Dooby" with Rod Barkley.
After the recording of "Ooby Dooby" Rod Barkley quit the music business and moved back to his hometown of Gruver, Texas.
Columbia was not interested in Orbison, but pitched the song to Sid King and the Five Strings, a band from Denton, Texas, who recorded it on March 5, 1956, in Dallas.
In 1957, while working on his undergraduate degree, Penner was inducted into Blue Key, a national honor fraternity.