Pipkins, " GIMMIE DAT DING "

Damn you for bringing this up. This nightmare of a record will now be ear worming in my head for the next week. That's right, that's right, I'm sad and blue about this. One of the worst 45s ever to chart.

 

...To re-state what I said above, IIRC, the " proper Pop record " version of " GDD " is yet another turn-of-the-1970s British bubblegum record sung by Tony Burrows - and Roger Greenaway!

 

I can still clearly remember all of my summer camp counselors in the summer of 1970, standing on a beach and singing all of the lyrics of “Gimme Dat Ding” together.

 

To which I am sure a song like that was well suited and a great memory.

 

For some reason I tie this song together with Mouth and MacNeal "How Do You Do?" Now I've got both songs in my head!

 

Can't go wrong with a good Jonathan King 'best of'. 'Loop Di Love' and 'Johnny Reggae' still pop up regularly on my ipod

 

Oh yeah? How about this one from around the same time :
" Chick a boom chick a boom don't ya just love it ? Chick a boom chick a boom don't you just love it? Chick a boom chick a boom don't you just love it? Chick a boom chick a boom boom boom."

 

YES that's the good version. Old memories

 

I wasn't too keen on Gimme Dat Ding when it was on the radio. But hearing it recently, I loved the boogie piano in it.

 

Yes. Daddy Dewdrop was much, much worse.

 

I have the Pipkins album, which I picked up used fairly recently. I recommend that you stick to the single.

 

I've got that song, haven't played it for ages.

 

Um, yikes. I must've been a little too young to catch that song the first time around. I came in here expecting the Lord Kitchener calypso song that David Lindley covered.

 

Personally, I love this record...it was a pretty big hit here in the States circa the spring of 1970...I was in Junior High at the time and there was a kid in my class who could imitate the Pipkins' singer perfectly.

 

Just to note, this has nothing to do with Jonathan King

 

That song was awful too.

How Do You Do on the other hand is a great song!

 

I do own the Capitol 45, but mine only has a Capitol stock sleeve.

 

I bought the single when it came out, too. Hm.... the Daddy Dewdrop also.

 

Was Wolfman Jack the leader singer on this? Was it #1 on XERB?

XERB

 

The late sixties-early 70s was a mother lode for novelty songs..."Neanderthal Man" was another one that was spicing up the charts right around the same time as "Gimmie Dat Ding".

 

No. Gimme Dat Ding - Wikipedia

 

As most know, Neanderthal Man was by Hotlegs who soon enough became 10 cc.