“Gimme Dat Ding” #9 7/18/1970

There have been really dopey songs that became novelty hits. But this, from a British kiddie TV show and co-written by Albert Hammond of rainy Southern California fame, might be one of the stupidest. The Pipkins were Tony Burrows and Roger Greenaway. Burrows appeared in yet another of his one-hit wonder studio groups. Greenaway was known far more as a songwriter; he co-wrote “Long Cool Woman In A Black Dress” and the Coca-Cola jingle “I’d Like To Teach The World To Sing” among many others. Roger sang falsetto while Tony’s put-on gravelly voice was best described as a cross between Popeye, Wolfman Jack and Arte Johnson’s dirty old man from “Laugh-In.”