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"The Hampsterdance Song" is a novelty song by Hampton the Hampster. The song's hook is based on a sped-up sample of "Whistle-Stop", a song from the 1973 Disney film Robin Hood . This sample was originally used for a 1998 web page called the Hampster Dance , created by Canadian art student Deidre LaCarte.
The Hampster Dance is one of the earliest Internet memes.Created in 1998 by Canadian art student Deidre LaCarte as a GeoCities page, the dance features rows of animated GIFs of hamsters and other rodents dancing in various ways to a sped-up sample from the song "Whistle-Stop", written and performed by Roger Miller for the 1973 Walt Disney Productions film Robin Hood.
Hampsterdance: The Album (also referred to as The Hampsterdance Album) is the debut album by Hampton the Hampster, released on October 24, 2000, [1] through Koch Records.It was produced by the Canadian producer team the Boomtang Boys after the success of the novelty track "The Hampsterdance Song" featuring the hamster character Hampton, which was created by Canadian art student Deidre LaCarte ...
The song's music video broke the records for the biggest music video premiere on YouTube, with 1.66 million concurrent viewers, and the most-watched music video within 24 hours, with 86.3 million views in its first day. [49] It became the fastest video to reach 100 million views, in just 32 hours, [50] and 200 million views, in seven days. [51]
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[1] [2] The video is a 5-second clip of a prairie dog (erroneously referred to as a chipmunk) turning its head while the camera zooms in and dramatic music is played. Origins [ edit ]
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how much faster the hampster song is compared to the robing hood song, its not 2x (tested), its less, but I don't know how much. My guess is that it is a record played at a faster speed than it was recorded. Since the record speeds are 33⅓, 45, and 75 RPM, then some good candidates are 1.35x or 1.67x. It was a lot of fun to play records this ...