<sod>"'''Black Denim Trousers and Motorcycle Boots'''" is a popular [[teenage tragedy song]] written by [[Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller]].  Recorded by [[The Cheers]], it went to #6 on the [[Billboard (magazine)|''Billboard'']] Best Selling singles chart in the fall of 1955, becoming Leiber and Stoller's first top ten pop hit.<ref name=pc13/>  Veteran performer [[Vaughn Monroe]] covered the record, going to #38 on the Billboard charts; the song also rose to a top-10 chart appearance on the ''Cash Box'' chart (which counted songs, not records, and thus counted all [[cover version]]s of a song as one).  In 1956, French chanteuse [[Edith Piaf]] recorded a French translation of the song entitled "'''L' Homme à la Moto'''," which became one of her biggest selling singles. <eod>
<sod>"'''Black Denim Trousers and Motorcycle Boots'''" is a [[teenage tragedy song]] written by [[Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller]].  Recorded by [[The Cheers]], it went to #6 on the [[Billboard (magazine)|''Billboard'']] Best Selling singles chart in the fall of 1955, becoming Leiber and Stoller's first top ten pop hit.<ref name=pc13/>  Veteran performer [[Vaughn Monroe]] covered the record, going to #38 on the Billboard charts; the song also rose to a top-10 chart appearance on the ''Cash Box'' chart (which counted songs, not records, and thus counted all [[cover version]]s of a song as one).  In 1956, French chanteuse [[Edith Piaf]] recorded a French translation of the song entitled "'''L' Homme à la Moto'''," which became one of her biggest selling singles. <eod>