This was written by Jeff Barry and Ellie Greenwich (who often teamed up with Phil Spector) and released by the Exciters in 1963. It reached a miserable No 78 in the US charts.
The following year the British group Manfred Mann released a deeply inferior version which reached No 1 in both America and Britain. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uc0x7xOap4I There is no justice.