Gimme Dat Ding (album)

Gimme Dat Ding
Compilation album by The Sweet/The Pipkins
Released 1971 (December 1970)
Recorded 1968-70
Genre Rock
Label EMI
Producer John Burgess
The Sweet/The Pipkins chronology

Gimme Dat Ding
(1970)
Funny How Sweet Co-Co Can Be
(The Sweet; 1971)

Gimme Dat Ding (1971) is a split album by The Sweet (side one) and The Pipkins (side two), released on EMI's budget record label, MFP (Music For Pleasure) in 1970. It is named after the 1970 song "Gimme Dat Ding" by the Pipkins.

Side one was given over to (then) fledgling pop band the Sweet and features the A and B-sides of what were three commercially unsuccessful singles (on Parlophone Records) before the band finally found fame with "Funny Funny" released by RCA Records. Despite the cover shot of The Sweet featuring Andy Scott, he was not actually a band member until "Funny Funny" and does not feature on any of these recordings. The band's then-guitarist was Mick Stewart (who replaced original guitarist Frank Torpey) and wrote two of the featured B-sides on this compilation.

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Track listing

Side one The Sweet

  1. "Lollipop Man" (Albert Hammond, Mike Hazlewood)
  2. "Time" (Brian Connolly, Steve Priest, Mick Stewart, Mick Tucker)
  3. "All You'll Ever Get from Me" (Roger Cook, Roger Greenaway)
  4. "The Juicer" (Stewart)
  5. "Get on the Line" (Jeff Barry, Andy Kim)
  6. "Mr. McGallagher" (Stewart)

Side two The Pipkins

  1. "Gimme Dat Ding" (Hammond, Hazlewood)
  2. "Yakety Yak" (Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller)
  3. "The People That You Wanna Phone Ya" (Hammond, Hazlewood)
  4. "My Baby Loves Lovin'" (Cook, Greenaway)
  5. "Busy Line" (Murray Semos, Frank Stanton)
  6. "Sunny Honey Girl" (Cook, John Goodison, Greenaway, Tony Hiller)