Gimme Dat Ding

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Gimme Dat Ding
Studio album by The Sweet
Released	1971 (December 1970)
Recorded	1968 - 1970
Genre	Rock
Length	??:??
Label	EMI
Producer(s)	John Burgess
The Sweet chronology
	Gimme Dat Ding (1971)	Funny How Sweet Co-Co Can Be (1971)

Gimme Dat Ding (1971) is an album by Sweet (side one) and The Pipkins (side two).

This was a compilation album released on EMI's budget label MFP (Music For Pleasure). Side One was given over to (then) fledging pop band The Sweet and features the A & B sides of what were three commercially unsuccessful singles (on Parlophone) before the band finally found fame with "Funny Funny" released by RCA. Despite the cover shot of The Sweet featuring Andy Scott, he wasn't actually a band member until "Funny Funny" and does not feature on any of these recordings. The band's guitarist then was Mick Stewart (who replaced Frank Torpey) and wrote two of the featured B-sides on this compilation.

[edit] Track listing

[edit] Side One The Sweet

1. Lollipop Man (Hammond/Hazelwood)
2. Time (Sweet)
3. All You'll Ever Get From Me (Cook/Greenaway)
4. The Juicer (Mick Stewart)
5. Get On The Line (Barry/Kim)
6. Mr. McGallagher (Mick Stewart)

Tracks 1 & 2 Produced by John Burgess. Tracks 3, 4, 5 & 6 Produced by John Burgess and Roger Easterby.

...as a matter of interest...,

[edit] Side Two The Pipkins

1. Gimme Dat Ding (Hammond/Hazelwood)
2. Yakety Yak (Leiber/Stoller)
3. The People That You Wanna Phone Ya (Hammond/Hazelwood)
4. My Baby Loves Lovin' (Cook/Greenaway)
5. Busy Line (Semos/Stanton)
6. Sunny Honey Girl (Cook/Greenaway/Holler/Goodison)

Produced by John Burgess.

The Pipkins were a short-lived novelty duo best known for their hit song "Gimme Dat Ding", which reached No. 6 in 1970. They were Roger Greenaway, best known as a member of several songwriting teams as evidenced by the track listing, and Tony Burrows, singer who had fronted several groups (often simultaneously) such as Edison Lighthouse, White Plains, and Brotherhood of Man.

"Gimme Dat Ding" is a call-and-response duet between a deep, gravelly voice and a high tenor. (The voices are said to represent a piano and a metronome.) "Giimme Dat Ding" became the title song for the English children's television series Oliver in the Overworld, but would become most famous for its use (as an instrumental) in silent sketches on The Benny Hill Show throughout the 1970s and 1980s. The Pipkins also released two follow-ups as singles, "Yakety Yak" and "Are You Cooking, Goose?", but without success. "My Baby Loves Lovin'" had been a hit for White Plains, while "Sunny Honey Girl" was a Top 20 hit for Cliff Richard in 1971.