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"Witch Doctor" is a 1958 American novelty song written and recorded by Ross Bagdasarian (under the stage name of David Seville). Bagdasarian sang the song, varying the tape speeds to produce a high-pitched voice for the titular witch doctor; [1] [2] this technique was later used in his next song, "The Bird on My Head", [3] [4] [5] and for the creation of the voices of his virtual band Alvin ...
He and his band appeared on Six-Five Special, the first BBC Television show for teenagers, from 1957. [2] In 1958, his cover version of "Witch Doctor" reached the top 10 of the UK Singles Chart. [3] Lang played trombone on the song "Revolution 1" on the Beatles' 'White Album'. [4] Lang retired in the late 1980s. [4]
Three songs using a sped-up recording technique became #1 hits in the United States in 1958–59: David Seville's "Witch Doctor" and Ragtime Cowboy Joe, Sheb Wooley's "The Purple People Eater", and David Seville's "The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don't Be Late)", which used a speeded-up voice technique to simulate three chipmunks' voices. [11]
The vocable “rama lama lama ka dinga da dinga dong”, derived from the title of The Edsels biggest hit ‘Rama Lama Ding Dong’, is heard in the Grease song, "We Go Together". "Rama Lama Ding Dong" is heard in the film Children of a Lesser God , and is used by the character James Leeds ( William Hurt ) to teach his class of hearing-impaired ...
This was J.P. Richardson's first release under the moniker The Big Bopper. However, DJs and the public preferred the flip side "Chantilly Lace", and it was this song that became a hit. [4] The song reached No. 6 on the Billboard Hot 100 and spent 22 weeks on the national Top 40. It was the third most played song of 1958. [5]
A portion of the Frank Sinatra rendition is sung by Nick Bakay on Sabrina, The Teenage Witch in his voice role as warlock-turned-black cat Salem Saberhagen, before his character hacks up a hairball. In Hocus Pocus (1993 film) , the band performed this song at the Town Hall Halloween Party.
Toonage is the first album by the Danish band Cartoons, released on 24 September 1998.The album includes the group's biggest hit, "Witch Doctor", a cover version of Ross Bagdasarian's novelty song from 1958, which reached number 2 on the UK Singles Chart.
The lyrics describe a man with a bird sitting on his head, sitting in a vacant lot. Throughout the song, the man and the bird sing together talking about where they belong and lamenting their current position — the man lacking a house and wife, and the bird not having a tree.