Here's how I hear it, via Spotify: BIG NAME BUTTON As sung by The Royal Teens on "'50s & '60s Lost & Found Records, Vol. 1" Big name button (ah-ah, you've got to wear a—) Big name button (ah-ah, you've got to wear a—) Big name button (ah-ah, 'cause if you don't then—) You're a square and you're really nowhere. Big name button (ah-ah, you've got to wear a—) Big name button (ah-ah, you've got to wear a—) Big name button (ah-ah, 'cause if you don't then—) You're a flub and you aren't in the club. If your name is Bobby, how do we know it? If your name is Stevie,* why don't you show it? When you have no button, oh, what a shame! How in the heck will anybody know your name? Big name button (ah-ah, you've got to wear a—) Big name button (ah-ah, you've got to wear a—) Big name button (ah-ah, 'cause if you don't then—) You're a square and you're really nowhere. [* "Stevie" is highly doubtful. All I'm sure of are the vowels. It could be Edie, or Deedee (nickname for Diana), or Mimi, or maybe a dozen other things. [I'm also doubtful about "'cause if you don't then—". There might be another syllable after "then" but I don't know what it is.]
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