Me, the Mob, and the Music: One Helluva Ride with Tommy James & The ShondellsEveryone knows the hitsHanky Panky, Mony Mony, I Think Were Alone Now, Crimson and Clover, Crystal Blue Persuasion. They are nuggets of rock and pop history. However, few know the unlikely story of how these hits came to be.. Tommy James was discovered in 1966 at the age of nineteen, and was pursued by every record mogul in New York until, inexplicably, every offer but one quickly disappeared. James soon found himself in the office of Morris Levy at