Question: What punk rock band was the singer of "Mony Mony" a part of in the 1970s?

Context articles: Stratford Mercenaries
Billy Idol
Punks Not Dead
Area 12 (band)
G.a.s. Drummers
Tommy James and the Shondells
Darby Crash
Manic Hispanic
Mony Mony
Vital Idol

Stratford Mercenaries were an English punk rock band that was formed in late 1995 by Gary "Gazzer" Buckley from the punk band Dirt and Ed "Eddafed" Addley from the punk band Suicidal Supermarket Trolleys.
 The band was joined by Steve Ignorant from the punk rock band Crass and Phil Barker from the punk rock band the Buzzcocks in early 1996.
William Michael Albert Broad (born 30 November 1955), known professionally as Billy Idol, is an English musician, singer, songwriter, and actor.
 He first achieved fame in the 1970s as a member of the punk rock band Generation X.
 Subsequently, he embarked on a solo career which led to international recognition and made Idol one of the lead artists during the MTV-driven "Second British Invasion" in the United States.
Punks Not Dead is the debut studio album by the Scottish punk rock band The Exploited, released in April 1981 on Secret Records.
 Strongly working class and loyal to the first impulses of the 1970s punk movement, the album was a reaction to critics who believed the punk rock genre was dead, and went against popular trends such as new wave and post-punk.
 The album – and especially the title track – is a reaction to the punk rock band Crass' song "Punk is Dead".
 It contains the double A side singles "Army Life/Fuck the Mods" and the later follow up "I Believe in Anarchy".
 "Army Life" details the experiences of Wattie Buchan when he was a 17-year-old squaddie on a tour of duty in Belfast in the 1970s.
Area 12 is a melodic punk rock band from Bogotá, Colombia.
 The band was founded in 1998 as a school project.
 They started out playing in small bars and venues in Bogotá.
 It was not an easy start, full of adversity.
 They contributed meaningfully to the creation of a Punk Rock scene in the city.
 They are considered to be one of the pioneer bands of Colombian punk rock.
 Their influences include punk rock, melodic punk, Latin punk and hard core punk.
 They have been strongly influenced by bands such as NOFX and Bad Religion.
 They have reached a mature and diverse sound over the years, creating their own lyric and musical style.
 They have performed with bands such as Ska-p, Die toten hosen, MxPx, Voodoo Glow Skulls and Joey Cape from Lagwagon.
G.a.s. Drummers was a melodic hardcore band formed in Jerez de la Frontera, Spain at the end of 1997 by three teenagers who stood out from their other students due to their colourful hair dies and their taste in the california punk rock bands such as Bad Religion, Operation Ivy, NOFX, Lagwagon, The Descendents etc.
 Original members from other small local bands Dani Llamas (guitar and vocals), Pakomoto (Bass and vocals) and Rafa Camison (Drums) started playing together and composing their own music and after one year of sending demos around the country they got put as the opening act for Swedish Punk Rock band Randy on their Spanish tour.
 A tour that took the band through the whole country helping a lot of Spanish kids discover that there were actually Spanish bands capable of sounding as good as some of their favorite American bands.
 This lead immediately the band to sign to a young record label called Slide Chorus Records a young emerging record label from Madrid which would start releasing albums for other Spanish Punk Rock bands.
 This first release titled Proud To Be Nothing hit the streets at the end of 1999 and was presented on their first European tour which covered Spain, Great Britain, France and the Netherlands amongst Spanish punk rock legend[P.P.M.
Tommy James and the Shondells are an American rock band, formed in Niles, Michigan in 1960.
 They had two No. 1 singles in the U.S., "Hanky Panky" (July 1966, their only RIAA Certified Gold record) and "Crimson and Clover" (February 1969), and also charted twelve other Top 40 hits, including five in the Hot 100's top ten: "I Think We're Alone Now", "Mirage", "Mony Mony", "Sweet Cherry Wine", and "Crystal Blue Persuasion".
Darby Crash (formerly Bobby Pyn; born Jan Paul Beahm; September 26, 1958 – December 7, 1980) was an American punk rock vocalist and songwriter who, along with long-time friend Pat Smear (born Georg Ruthenberg), co-founded the punk rock band the Germs.
 He committed suicide by way of an intentional heroin overdose.
 In the years since his suicide at the age of 22, the Germs have attained legendary status among punk rock fans and musicians alike, as well as from the wider alternative rock and underground music community in general.
 Crash has come to be revered as a unique and talented songwriter; his myriad literary, musical and philosophical influences, which varied from Friedrich Nietzsche and David Bowie to Charles Manson and Adolf Hitler, resulted in lyrics that were unusually wordy and impressionistic in the realm of punk rock at the time, immediately setting Crash and his band apart from most other Los Angeles punk groups that sprang up in the late 1970s.
Manic Hispanic is a punk rock/Chicano rock band from Orange County and Los Angeles, California.
 They are a semi-parodic act that plays cover versions of punk rock and hardcore punk "standards" by slightly renaming songs and adjusting lyrics to address Chicano culture.
 The band's members are all Mexican or part Mexican and use stage names further marking the Mexican/Chicano image of the band.
 Manic Hispanic is a punk supergroup made up of former and/or current members of The Adolescents, The Grabbers, Punk Rock Karaoke, The X-Members, 22 Jacks, Final Conflict, Agent Orange, Death by Stereo and The Cadillac Tramps.
"Mony Mony" is a 1968 single by American pop rock band Tommy James and the Shondells, which reached No. 1 in the UK Singles Chart and No. 3 in the U.S. Written by Bobby Bloom, Ritchie Cordell, Bo Gentry, and Tommy James, the song has appeared in various film and television works such as the Oliver Stone drama "Heaven & Earth".
 It was also notably covered by English singer-songwriter Billy Idol in 1981.
 Idol's version, which took in more of a Rock sound, became an international top 40 hit and additionally revived public interest in the original garage rock single.
Vital Idol is a compilation by English rock vocalist Billy Idol.
 It contains remixed singles from his first three albums.
 Peaking at number 10 on the "Billboard" 200, the album was supported by a live single version of "Mony Mony".