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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 ...
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]
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]
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]
In 1957, the following five charts were produced: Best Sellers in Stores – ranked the biggest selling singles in retail stores, as reported by merchants surveyed throughout the country. Most Played by Jockeys – ranked the most played songs on United States radio stations, as reported by radio disc jockeys and radio stations.
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.
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 ...
"My Boomerang" is not exactly a paragon of political correctness, even by 1961 standards.In the song an Aboriginal meeting is described as a "pow-wow"—something more appropriate for Native Americans—while their chanting sounds more African than Aboriginal (many of the Aboriginal speakers in the song have either American or British accents.)