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The Clapping Song is an American song, written by Lincoln Chase, originally arranged by Charles Calello and recorded by Shirley Ellis in 1965. [citation needed]The single sold over a million copies, and peaked at number eight in the United States [1] and number six in the UK.
In August 2020, "The Clapping Song" was used in a TV commercial for the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.0, and in April 2021 her "I See It, I Like It, I Want It" was in another Samsung commercial, this time for the Galaxy Z Flip 5G and Galaxy Z Fold2. In 2021, "The Clapping Song" was used in the movie Ghostbusters: Afterlife.
Lincoln R. Chase (June 29, 1926 – October 6, 1980) was an American songwriter and occasional recording artist. As a writer, his most notable songs were "Such a Night", "Jim Dandy", and several of Shirley Ellis' hits in the early 1960s including "The Name Game" and "The Clapping Song".
"The Clapping Song" Shirley Ellis 8 April 24 2 "Go Now" The Moody Blues: 10 April 17 1 April 24 "Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter" Herman's Hermits 1 May 1 7 "I'll Never Find Another You" The Seekers: 4 May 15 6 "Silhouettes" Herman's Hermits 5 May 15 5 May 1 "Count Me In" Gary Lewis & the Playboys 2 May 8 5 "The Last Time" The Rolling ...
Shirley Ellis: 1 "The Clapping Song" 6 — Burt Bacharach: 1 "Trains and Boats and Planes" 4 — The Byrds: 1 "Mr. Tambourine Man" 1 "All I Really Want to Do" (4)
Seven years later the song became a hit on the Billboard Hot 100 chart after it was featured in the movie ... "The Clapping Song (Clap Pat Clap Slap)" (Shirley Ellis ...
Singer Sophie Ellis-Bextor “survived” watching Saltburn with her whole family — including her mom and son — just to hear her 2001 song “Murder on the Dancefloor” take center stage ...
"The Name Game" is a song co-written and performed by Shirley Ellis [2] as a rhyming game that creates variations on a person's name. [3] She explains through speaking and singing how to play the game. The first verse is done using Ellis's first name; the other names used in the original version of the song are Lincoln, Arnold,