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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 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.
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 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 ...
"You Don't Bring Me Flowers" ‡ Barbra Streisand and Neil Diamond: 5 23 December 1978: 2 23 December 1978: 7 "Lay Your Love on Me" Racey: 3 6 January 1979: 3 5 "Song for Guy" Elton John: 4 13 January 1979: 1 Singles in 1979 6 January 1979: 7 "Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick" Ian Dury & The Blockheads: 1 27 January 1979: 1 13 January 1979: 5 ...
David Stanley Payne (born 11 August 1944) is an English saxophonist best known as a member of Ian Dury's backing band The Blockheads, and for his twin saxophone solo on their 1978 UK No. 1 single "Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick".
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First released as the Stiff Records 7" single BUY 38, "Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick"/"There Ain't Half Been Some Clever Bastards" was Number One in the UK Singles Chart in January 1979 and is the band's most successful single. [23] It also was named the best single of 1979 in the Pazz & Jop poll.