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"Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick" is a song by Ian Dury and the Blockheads, first released as a single on Stiff Records in the UK on 1 December 1978 and credited to "Ian & the Blockheads". Written by Dury and the Blockheads' multi-instrumentalist Chaz Jankel, it is the group's most successful single, reaching number one on the UK Singles Chart in January 1979 as well as reaching the top three in ...
The album was released in the wake of the chart-topping hit single "Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick", and reached number two in the charts, behind ABBA's Voulez-Vous. [7] Do It Yourself sold around 200,000 copies, and was Dury's second Platinum album (after its predecessor New Boots and Panties!!
The hit single "Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick" was notably not included, however, on the original release of the album. The single and its accompanying music video featured a Davey Payne sax solo with dual saxophones, in evident homage to jazz saxophonist Rahsaan Roland Kirk , who had made this his trademark technique.
The band recorded it in The Workhouse Studios, Old Kent Road, London and in 1979 had a number one hit record with it in the UK. Ian Dury & The Blockheads went on to record the Do It Yourself (1979) album, toured Europe and the UK recording in Rome " Reasons to be Cheerful, Part 3 ", which was released as a single in late 1979 reaching number ...
The tour was a success, and Stiff launched a concerted Ian Dury marketing campaign, resulting in the Top Ten hit "What a Waste" and the hit single "Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick", which reached No. 1 in the UK at the beginning of 1979, selling just short of a million copies.
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"Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick" (with the Blockheads) 1 2 14 22 3 9 7 3 9 79 Non-album single "Inbetweenies" (with the Blockheads; Continental Europe-only release)
As with "Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick" before it, "Reasons to be Cheerful" is found on every Dury compilation. Like all of his singles, this was not originally the case because, in keeping with his singles policy at the time, the song was omitted from the next album ( Laughter ) and was not made available again.