Gimme Dat Ding

Infobox Album |
Name = Gimme Dat Ding
Type = Album
Artist = The Sweet


Released = 1971 (December 1970)
Recorded = 1968 - 1970
Genre = Rock
Length = ??:??
Label = EMI
Producer = John Burgess
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|3|5 [http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:0cftxq95ldse link]
Last album =
This album = "Gimme Dat Ding"
(1971)
Next album = "Funny How Sweet Co-Co Can Be"
(1971)

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

Side One was given over to (then) fledgling pop band The Sweet and features the A & 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 guitarist then was Mick Stewart (who replaced Frank Torpey) and wrote two of the featured B-sides on this compilation.

A live version of "Gimme Dat Ding" (3:38), performed at the Fremont Town Hall, appears on the album "Shaggs' Own Thing" by The Shaggs (Dorothy, Helen, and Betty Wiggin).

Track listing

ide One "The Sweet"

# "Lollipop Man" (Albert Hammond, Lee Hazelwood)
# "Time" (Sweet)
# "All You'll Ever Get From Me" (Roger Cook, Roger Greenaway)
# "The Juicer" (Mick Stewart)
# "Get On The Line" (Jeff Barry, Andy Kim)
# "Mr. McGallagher" (Mick Stewart)

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

ide Two "The Pipkins"

# "Gimme Dat Ding" (Hammond, Hazelwood)
# "Yakety Yak" (Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller)
# "The People That You Wanna Phone Ya" (Hammond, Hazelwood)
# "My Baby Loves Lovin'" (Cook, Greenaway)
# "Busy Line" (Semos, Stanton)
# "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" (Hammond/Hazelwood), which reached No. 6 in the UK Singles Chart 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, First Class,and Brotherhood of Man.

"Gimme Dat Ding" [http://www.songlyrics.com/song-lyrics/The_Pipkins/Miscellaneous/Gimme_Dat_Ding/220079.html lyrics ] 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. The gravelly voice is also thought to be an imitation of a "dirty old man" character (who went by the descriptive name of "Tyrone F. Horneigh") played on a recurring basis by comedian Arte Johnson on the old NBC-TV show "Laugh-In.") "Gimme Dat Ding" was originally written for the musical "Oliver in the Overworld" by Albert Hammond and Mike Hazelwood. It 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 song was also used (as Gimme Dat Ring) by Coca Cola to advertise their new Ring Pull Cans in the early 70's. 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.

In March 2007, a cover version of the "The Pipkins" track "Gimme Dat Ding" received much publicity in Australia when the National Australia Bank used the track as background to its television advertisement for the Australian Rules Football Auskick program for junior footballers. The television advertisement is known as "Kick to Kick" and is [http://www.nab.com.au/Personal_Finance/0,,87778,00.html?campaignID=KBJ&WT.mc_id=KBJ available for viewing online]