(((wakey-wakey))) Gimme Dat Ding, The Pipkins

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The Pipkins - Gimme Dat Ding

jobiejaws
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Published on Dec 19, 2007

Piano bar swing dance song from 1970 as sung by Tony Burrows.

A lot of people asking who is the girl in green?? Here is her youtube link: And here she is....watch her dance! http:// www.youtube .com/watch?v=UFBKnv...

While editing this comment I saw that this video is blocked in some countries. Now that would make for interesting conversation as to why?

From Wikipedia, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimme_Dat_Ding :

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Song profile

"Gimme Dat Ding"[15] is a call-and-response duet between a deep, gravelly voice, that of Tony Burrows, and a high tenor, that of Roger Greenaway. The voices are said to represent a piano and a metronome. The gravelly voice is also thought[by whom?] to be an imitation of Arte Johnson's recurring dirty old man character "Tyrone F. Horneigh" on the NBC-TV show Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, of Popeye the Sailor Man, of Wolfman Jack, or of the 1930s and 1940s film actor Eugene Pallette.[citation needed]

When Hammond and Hazlewood wrote and composed "Gimme Dat Ding," it was one selection from their musical sequence "Oliver in the Overworld," which formed part of the British children's show Little Big Time, hosted by Freddie and the Dreamers; this narrated a surreal story of a little boy seeking the parts to mend his grandfather clock. The lyrics of the song relate to this story, the song being sung by a metronome who has been expelled by the Clockwork King; the "ding" has been stolen from the metronome by the "Undercog." The original version of the song, as performed by Freddie Garrity, was released on the album Oliver in the Overworld in 1970.

In the UK, interest in the song resurfaced in the 1990s when the Maynards confectionery company used it in a popular television commercial for their 'Just Fruits' fruit pastille and fruit gum range between 1992 and 1994, which led to the song reappearing on radio playlists during that era. In 1998, Dairylea also used the song in an advertisement in the UK.

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[Cirque du So-What]

1. Been forever since hearing that

Sure hope it doesn’t morph into an ear worm.

[TomVilmer]

2. I always thought this was a Dr. Hook thing...

... and so do most of the web. But no, the Pipkins it is. And I found the original long version here:

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3. Thanks. I'm speechless. n/t