''Hey Hey My My Yo Yo'' is the second and final album by

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pop duo

Junior Senior Junior Senior were a Danish pop duo. The duo consisted of Jesper "Junior" Mortensen (vocals, guitar, keyboards, bass guitar, drums, percussion) (born 7 February 1977) and Jeppe "Senior" Laursen (vocals, programming) (born 25 December 1975). T ...

, released in Japan and parts of Europe in

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. It was released in

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on 9 April 2007. The album was released on 14 August 2007 in the United States and packaged with a bonus EP.

Release

''Hey Hey My My Yo Yo'' was released in

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and

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in 2005. ''Hey Hey My My Yo Yo'' was successful in Japan, charting at number two on the Japanese music charts. The American version of the album was released by

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on 14 August 2007. This release of the album included a seven-song bonus EP. In 2007, ''Hey Hey My My Yo Yo'' peaked at number five on the ''

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'' Top Electronic Albums chart.

Reception

Initial critical response to ''Hey Hey My My Yo Yo'' was very positive. At

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, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has received an

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score of 80, based on 14 reviews.

Track listing

Personnel

* Jesper "Junior" Mortensen –

vocals Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. A person who sings is called a singer, artist or vocalist (in jazz and/or popular music). Singers perform music (arias, recitatives, songs, etc.) that can be sung with or without ...

guitar The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected stri ...

s and

synthesizer A synthesizer (also spelled synthesiser) is an electronic musical instrument that generates audio signals. Synthesizers typically create sounds by generating waveforms through methods including subtractive synthesis, additive synthesis and ...

s on all tracks;

percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument. Exc ...

on all tracks except 6;

bass guitar The bass guitar, electric bass or simply bass (), is the lowest-pitched member of the string family. It is a plucked string instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric or an acoustic guitar, but with a longer neck and ...

on track 11;

harmonica The harmonica, also known as a French harp or mouth organ, is a free reed wind instrument used worldwide in many musical genres, notably in blues, American folk music, classical music, jazz, country, and rock. The many types of harmonica inclu ...

on track 8;

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on track 8;

piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keyboa ...

on tracks 8, 9 and 10; kazoo on track 10;

handclaps A clap is the percussive sound made by striking together two flat surfaces, as in the body parts of humans or animals. Humans clap with the palms of their hands, often quickly and repeatedly to express appreciation or approval (see applause), b ...

, stomps * Jeppe "Senior" Laursen – vocals, handclaps, stomps * Thomas Troelsen – synthesizer on track 6; harpsichord on track 9; percussion on track 6; drum fills on tracks 7, 8 and 9; piano on track 8; handclaps * The Velvelettes – backing vocals on tracks 1, 2, 3, 6, 7 and 8 *Carolyn Gill – vocals on track 6 *Bertha Barbee – vocals on track 5 * Le Tigre – backing vocals on tracks 1 and 3 * Johanna Fateman – vocals on track 5 * JD Samson – vocals on track 3 * Kathleen Hanna – vocals on track 10 * Cindy Wilson – vocals on track 4 *

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– vocals on track 4 *Anna Køster – backing vocals on tracks 5, 6, 9 and 11; handclaps on tracks 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 7 *Joy Hoyle – backing vocals on track 11 *Rasmus Kihlberg –

drums A drum kit (also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums) is a collection of drums, cymbals, and other Percussion instrument, auxiliary percussion instruments set up to be played by one person. The player (drummer) typically holds a pair o ...

on tracks 4, 7, 8, 9 and 10 *Bjørn Joensson – drums on tracks 2, 3, 5, 6 and 11 *Mats Ingvarsson – bass on all tracks except 10 and 11 *Jens Lindgård, Petter Lindgård and Sven Andersson -

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on tracks 2, 5 and 7 *Filip Runesson – strings on all tracks except 10 and 11 * Spooner Oldham – piano on track 10 *Rune Kjeldsen – acoustic guitar on track 9 *Mads Nørgaard – handclaps on track 7 *Lars Vognstrup – handclaps on track 11

Production

* Jesper "Junior" Mortensen –

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and

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* Thomas Troelsen – co-producer * Jens Lindgård – recorder * Thomas T – recorder * David Leonard – audio mixing * Bernie Grundman – mastering * Sune P.L. Christiansen – album cover * Martin Dennis – layout * Marc Flori – cover photos * Jeppe "Senior" Laursen – inside photo * Jesper Reginal – A&R

Charts

References

External links

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