The Pipkins

Kept in mind almost exclusively for the 1970 novelty smash “Gimme Dat Ding,” the Pipkins had been another in an extended group of one-hit amazing things to feature bubblegum pop king Tony Burrows. The English session vocalist dominated pop graphs on both edges from the Atlantic throughout a lot of 1970, albeit anonymously — his lead vocals had been also presented on Edison Lighthouse’s “Like Expands (Where My Rosemary Moves)” and White colored Plains’ “My Baby Loves Lovin’,” and in Feb Burrows became the very first in support of performer ever to seem within the BBC’s The surface of the Pops fronting three different works in one show. The Pipkins combined Burrows with pop songwriter Roger Greenaway, whose intensive réamounté included such blockbusters as Gene Pitney’s “Something’s Gotten Your hands on My Center” as well as the Hollies’ “Very long Cool Woman inside a Dark Gown.” The non-sensical “Gimme Dat Ding,” using its tongue-in-cheek voices and rollicking, boogie-woogie piano, reached quantity six within the pop graphs, with mid-year EMI’s spending budget imprint Music for Pleasure released the Pipkins’ only LP, a break up launch with then-fledgling glam rock and roll outfit the Lovely, also entitled Gimme Dat Ding. Two following Pipkins singles — a cover from the Coasters’ traditional “Yakety Yak” and “ARE YOU CURRENTLY Cooking, Goose?” — both flopped and Burrows and Greenaway each shifted to their following studio classes. “Gimme Dat Ding” however earned immortality because the theme for the English children’s tv series Oliver within the Overworld, and was also a staple from the long-running sketch humor series The Benny Hill Display.