"Ag-a-doo-doo-doo, push pineapple, shake the tree
Aga-doo-doo-doo, push pineapple, grind coffee"
Aga-doo-doo-doo, push pineapple, grind coffee"
ABC Radio Newcastle recently drew my attention to this little gem:
According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agadoo
“Agadoo is a novelty song recorded by the
band Black Lace in 1984.
The song's
origins date back to 1971, when Michel Delancray and Mya Symille recorded it as
‘Agadou’ in French. It had been written based on a tune that had apparently
come from Morocco.
The Black
Lace group was made up during its heyday by the duo of performers Dene Michael
and Alan Barton. One of the early versions of the song became popular in a
Derby nightclub called Gossips, with the bar staff making a novelty dance; when
Black Lace performed at the club in 1981, they learnt the dance and recorded
their own version, which was the first version in English.
Agadoo peaked at number two in the UK
Singles Chart, and spent 30 weeks in the top 75. It went on to become the
eighth best-selling single of 1984 in the UK, despite being banned on BBC Radio
1 because it ‘was not credible’.
In a survey
for dotmusic in 2000, respondents voted Agadoo
as the fourth most annoying song of all time. In a poll for Q magazine in 2003,
a panel of music writers voted Agadoo
as the worst song of all time, saying: ‘It sounded like the school disco you
were forced to attend, your middle-aged relatives forming a conga at a wedding
party, a travelling DJ act based in Wolverhampton, every party cliche you ever
heard.’
The panel
also described it as ‘magnificently dreadful’.”
Well,
that’s all enough for me to want to learn the dance and join in!! Anne
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