The following year, they followed it with "Black Denim Trousers and Motorcycle Boots" (also written by Leiber and Stoller), a song about a wild-living leather-jacketed motorcyclist, which went to number six on the charts, and became a million-selling record.
[1] The Cheers' members included Bert Convy, who would later serve as host of several daytime television game shows such as Tattletales, Super Password, Win, Lose or Draw and 3rd Degree, Perry Botkin, Jr., who would later become a successful composer/arranger winning a Grammy Award for Nadia's Theme, Susan (Sue) Allen and Gil Garfield.
All three were living in Los Angeles at the time they began making records: Garfield was attending the University of Southern California and Convy had just graduated from UCLA when they teamed up with vocalist Allen.
[2] Leiber and Stoller wrote and produced "Chicken" (1955) for The Cheers, parodying the central sequence from James Dean's film Rebel Without a Cause.
[5] Sue Allen continued to record into the 1960s, providing vocals for performers such as Ray Conniff and Mel Tormé.