"Seventeen" is a popular song, recorded by Boyd Bennett and His Rockets in 1955.
The original version, recorded by Bennett's band with a vocal by Jim Muzey (the latter credited on the label as "Big Moe"), reached No.
[3][4] A fourth version was recorded in 1955 (as the "B" side of a single) by 1940s boogie-woogie singing star Ella Mae Morse, backed by Big Dave Cavanaugh's orchestra.
In the United Kingdom, Frankie Vaughan recorded a version of the song.
[5] The Boyd Bennett disc of "Seventeen" "changed record-producing/buying and marketing forever," wrote musicologist Robert Reynolds: "As Boyd Bennett had predicted, teenagers bought 'Seventeen' in droves and other record companies soon began producing songs aimed specifically at the teen market.