''Gimme Dat Ding'' is a

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The Sweet The Sweet (often shortened to just Sweet), are a British glam rock band that rose to prominence in the 1970s. Their best known line-up consisted of lead vocalist Brian Connolly, bass player Steve Priest, guitarist Andy Scott, and drummer Mic ...

(side one) and

The Pipkins The Pipkins were a short-lived English novelty duo, best known for their hit single " Gimme Dat Ding" (written by Albert Hammond and Mike Hazlewood), which reached No. 6 on the UK Singles Charts, No. 7 in Canada ( ''RPM'' Top Singles), and No. ...

(side two), released on

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's budget record label, MFP ( Music For Pleasure) in 1970. It is named after the 1970 song "

Gimme Dat Ding "Gimme Dat Ding" is a 1970 popular UK song, of the novelty type, sung by " one-hit wonder" The Pipkins, and written and composed by Albert Hammond and Mike Hazlewood. Released as a single, it is the title selection of an album which The Pipkins re ...

" by the Pipkins. In the US, The Pipkins released a full album of the same name, consisting of the six songs here and an additional four. It charted at No.132.

Background

The unusual alliance between two groups so radically opposed, is attributed to that in that time both shared the same record producer ( John Burgess) and the same team of composers. After the poor commercial results with Burgess, in 1971 The Sweet decided to follow their own way, when it signed with successful duet of songwriters

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and

Mike Chapman Michael Donald Chapman (born 13 April 1947) is an Australian-American record producer and songwriter who was a major force in the British pop music industry in the 1970s. He created a string of hit singles for artists including The Sweet, Suzi ...

and with a new producer,

Phil Wainman Philip Neil Wainman (born 7 June 1946, West London, England) is an English record producer and songwriter, primarily active in the 1970s. He is noted for his work with Sweet, XTC, Dollar, Mud, and the Bay City Rollers. His greatest chart succes ...

. On the other hand, The Pipkins disappeared that same year due to the brief success that their comedy act had in their native Britain. According to the booklet of the CD version for this album, ''Gimme Dat Ding'' is considered "the first rap album", basically because of the material contributed by The Pipkins.

Content

; The Sweet 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

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) before the band finally found fame with "Funny Funny" released by

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. 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. ; The Pipkins Side two consists of six songs from

with a casual and satirical content or humorous elements, in a

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style in most songs. In their comedy characters,

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sings with a

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and

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with a

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, accompanied by an uncredited

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that plays all the instruments. Among them stands out the humorous song "

", a success in several English-speaking countries around the world, composed by

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and

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. The song was the debut and only hit of importance for the duo, when reaching the No. 6 in the

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and the No. 9 in

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in 1970. Another minor success was a parody of "

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" by

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, a very popular theme at the end of the 50s.

Track listing

Side one ''The Sweet''

#"Lollipop Man" (

Mike Hazlewood Michael Edward Hazlewood (24 December 1941 – 6 May 2001)Mike Hazelwood – Credits ...

) #"Time" (

Brian Connolly Brian Francis Connolly (5 October 1945 – 9 February 1997) was a Scottish singer-songwriter, musician and actor, best known as the lead singer of glam rock band The Sweet between 1968 and 1979 and renowned for his charismatic stage presence ...

Steve Priest Stephen Norman Priest (23 February 1948 – 4 June 2020) was an English musician who was the bassist (and, later, lead vocalist) of the glam rock band The Sweet. Biography Priest was born in Hayes, Middlesex. He made his own bass guitar and be ...

, Mick Stewart,

Mick Tucker Michael Thomas Tucker (17 July 1947 – 14 February 2002) was an English musician, best known as the drummer and backing vocalist of the glam rock and hard rock band Sweet. Biography Mick Tucker was born on July 17, 1947, in Kingsbury, North W ...

) #"All You'll Ever Get from Me" ( Roger Cook,

) #"The Juicer" (Mick Stewart) #"Get on the Line" (

Jeff Barry Jeff Barry (born Joel Adelberg; April 3, 1938) is an American pop music songwriter, singer, and record producer. Among the most successful songs that he has co-written in his career are " Do Wah Diddy Diddy", " Da Doo Ron Ron", " Then He Kiss ...

, Andy Kim) #"Mr. McGallagher" (Mick Stewart) *Tracks 1, 2 produced by John Burgess; tracks 3-6 produced by John Burgess and Roger Easterby *Lew Warburton - arranger, conductor on "Get on the Line"

Side two ''The Pipkins''

" (Hammond, Hazlewood) #"

" ( Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller) #"The People That You Wanna Phone Ya" (Hammond, Hazlewood) #"

My Baby Loves Lovin' "My Baby Loves Lovin'" was the top selling single for the British pop group White Plains (band), White Plains. The song was written by Roger Cook (songwriter), Roger Cook and Roger Greenaway, recorded on 26 October 1969, and released on 2 January ...

" (Cook, Greenaway) #"Busy Line" (Murray Semos, Frank Stanton) #" Sunny Honey Girl" (Cook, John Goodison, Greenaway,

Tony Hiller Anthony Toby Hiller (30 July 1927 – 26 August 2018) was an English songwriter and record producer. He was best known for writing and/or producing hits for Brotherhood of Man, including " United We Stand" (1970) and "Save Your Kisses for Me" (19 ...

)

Production

*Produced by John Burgess *

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- arranger, conductor on "Gimme Dat Ding" *Gerry Butler - arranger, conductor (tracks 2–6)

External links

The Pipkins – Gimme Dat Ding!
at discogs.com

References

{{Authority control The Sweet albums 1971 compilation albums Split albums EMI Records compilation albums The Pipkins albums Glam rock compilation albums