Red Price released "Week End" as a single in the UK on Pye Records in 1958.
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His guitar work influenced young musicians playing the same venues in the Philadelphia/Reading, Pennsylvania area where the Comets were based, among them the guitarist and future legendary comic-book writer-artist Jim Steranko.
The song also has a more light-hearted beat than the original, starting out with a high-pitched, childlike voice (belonging to Haley's lead guitarist, Franny Beecher) reciting the title of the song.
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