Everything about Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep totally explained
"
Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep" is a song made popular by
Middle of the Road.
Written by Harold Stott (known professionally as
Lally Stott), it was a minor hit in
Italy and
Australia for the composer, as well as on the
Billboard Hot 100, where it charted but failed to achieve significant success as the cover by Mac and Katie Kissoon became more popular. Stott's record company
Philips were reluctant to release it overseas so he offered it to Scottish folk-pop group Middle Of The Road who were working in Italy at the time. The song became a large hit on the continent initially but became a hit in the UK as returning holidaymakers searched out a copy. It nearly flopped in the UK as
Mac and Katie Kissoon released a version just before them, but aided by the patronage of
DJ Tony Blackburn it became a massive hit. It reached #1 in the UK for five weeks in June 1971, the Kissoon version failed to chart in the UK but reached #20 on the
Billboard Hot 100.
Dismissed by critics as
bubblegum at the time, a view initially agreed upon by band leader Ken Andrews,
We were as disgusted with the thought of recording it as most people were at the thought of buying it. But at the end of the day, we liked it.
It was later referenced in the
Denim song
Middle of the Road in
1992, and more recently covered by novelty act
Cartoons.
It is featured in the Neil Jordan film
Breakfast on Pluto.
The song has been covered in many languages, including Vietnamese, Korean, Spanish and German. A dance song in German to the same tune,
Reiss die Hütte ab (Tear the hut down), was recorded by Mickie Krause (Apres Ski Hits 2003).
The
PJ Harvey song
Nina In Ecstasy contains an
interpolation of the lines
"Where's your mama gone (Where's your mama gone) / Far far away".
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