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Equally, does William Orbit’s role in Loadsamoney (Doin’ Up the House) qualify that song for honorary Balearic classic status? Last year, the song topped the charts in China for the first time, and is one of the 50 best-selling singles of all time. They roped in Glen Campbell – “I think the extent of our UK credibility may have been slightly exaggerated to his people,” Matthews laughs – for a version of Rhinestone Cowboy.

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The piece of music was Mah Nà Mah Nà, a song closely associated with the Muppets; Vanilla’s resulting 1997 single, No Way No Way, was named the 26th worst song ever by Channel 4, but was inescapable at the time.By the 80s novelty hits such as seemed to come with a far greater reliance on presentation and personality – a novelty single came part and parcel with a career in light entertainment. If you heard the original demo of I’m Too Sexy you’d have a hernia,” declares Right Said Fred’s former label boss, Guy Holmes. It makes you think that the group is made up of Mariah Carey, Whitney Houston, Dina Carrol, and Cher. In 2014, a track like All About That Bass has blown up – like Gangnam Style – through YouTube, where its brilliantly charismatic video is the embellishment on the song’s eccentric sonic styling. More Hamburger icon An icon used to represent a menu that can be toggled by interacting with this icon.

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We build and maintain all our own systems, but we don’t charge for access, sell user information, or run ads. The album never materialised but Matthews did create that internet-flavoured hit – based on the hamster dance song – and found an unlikely champion in John Peel.Swart laughs off the longstanding rumour that Vanilla signed to EMI as the result of someone losing a bet, but accepts that Vanilla were launched with what was unmistakably a novelty single.

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Images Donate icon An illustration of a heart shape Donate Ellipses icon An illustration of text ellipses. The cooler corners of the internet are currently tying themselves in knots over QT’s Hey QT, a deranged electronic pop record fronted by a girl purportedly selling a made-up energy drink. He went to lunch, came back an hour later and was greeted by a defiantly absurd disco banger by the name of Kung Fu Fighting. The band's first single was "No Way, No Way", released in December 1997 and based on Piero Umiliani's " Mah Nà Mah Nà". More recently, does the presence of Stargate – the team behind hits for Beyoncé, Rihanna and countless others – on Ylvis’ The Fox (What Does the Fox Say?

That’s only fair: Kung Fu Fighting was released 40 years ago this month, sold 11m copies, won a Grammy, and hit No 1 on both sides of the Atlantic. Our resources are crucial for knowledge lovers everywhere—so if you find all these bits and bytes useful, please pitch in. Oh how my friends and I would be glued to "The Box" when this came on, it is impossible to drag yourself away from the TV and woe betide anyone that tried to turn it over.