Original vs Remake #17

Our song this week is the #3 Hot 100 hit and a #1 hit in the UK in 1968,  "Mony Mony".  
The original hit the charts for Tommy James and the Shondells in the summer of '68 and topped the UK chart for 3 non consecutive weeks in August.

The most successful of the remakes came from an unlikely source in punk rocker Billy Idol.
His live version shot to the top in the fall and topped the Billboard Hot 100 for one week in November of 1987.