What has been Chas and Dave’s biggest hit to date
"and the song was then re-recorded and released as a single, retitled ""Gertcha"". They opened for Led Zeppelin at the 1979 Knebworth Festival. In 1980, Chas & Dave formed their own record label Rockney with their manager Bob England. Their first release under this label ""Rabbit"" became a top 10 hit. They had a bigger hit song in 1982 with ""Ain't No Pleasing You"", written largely by Hodges. Hodges was popular amongst supporters of Tottenham Hotspur Football Club owing to singles he had released as Chas & Dave. These include ""Glory Glory Tottenham Hotspur"", ""Hot Shot Tottenham!"", ""When the Year"
"Chas & Dave Chas & Dave (often billed as Chas 'n' Dave) were an English pop rock duo, formed in London by Chas Hodges and Dave Peacock. They were most notable as creators and performers of a musical style labelled ""rockney"" (a portmanteau of ""rock"" and ""cockney""), which mixes ""pub singalong, music-hall humour, boogie-woogie piano and pre-Beatles rock 'n' roll"". For a time, ""Rockney"" was also the name of their record label, their major breakthrough being ""Gertcha"" in 1979, which peaked at No. 20 in the UK Singles Chart, and was the first of eight Top 40 hit singles the"
"at the Sunshine Festival in Upton-Upon-Severn on 30 August 2015. In December they took their traditional Christmas show to the Hammersmith Apollo. In 2016 the band played in the week 7 episode of BBC One's ""Strictly Come Dancing"" performing their song ""Rabbit"". The songs for which Chas & Dave are most known are partly comic, and Chas & Dave are strongly identified with London's blue collar and working class pub sing-song culture. Their musical style is called ""rockney"" combining ""rock"" and ""cockney"", a word Hodges coined in 1976. The style, performed in a London accent, is a fusion of London"
"one of the duo's earliest and most famous sketches. In this sketch, a man named Dave (Cheech), who is apparently on the run from the police, attempts to enter the locked apartment of his roommate (Chong), who will not answer the door. As Dave repeatedly tries to identify himself, the roommate instead thinks he is asking for Dave, and replies ""Dave's not here."" Santa Claus and His Old Lady ""Santa Claus and His Old Lady"" is a bit by Cheech and Chong, one of their best-known comedy routines. It was the duo's first single. ""Santa Claus and His Old Lady"""
"of his wife Sue. However, In June 2010, it was announced that Chas & Dave would reunite for one final tour in 2011. Burt retired from the band with Chas's son, Nicholas Charles ""Nik"" Hodges taking over on drums. They also played their ""Christmas Jamboree"" at the IndigO2 on 23 and 24 December 2011 and 8 December 2012. In October 2012, they were subject of the BBC Four documentary ""Chas & Dave: Last Orders"". It was announced on 4 October 2012 that they would be the sixth act announced to play Rebellion Festival, as part of their last tour. Their"
"Cheech and Chong (album) Cheech And Chong is the 1971 self-titled debut album of Cheech & Chong, produced by Lou Adler. It features ""Dave"", one of their most famous routines. The album peaked at #28 on the ""Billboard"" 200 the week of March 4, 1972. The album was nominated for Best Comedy Recording at the 14th Grammy Awards, but lost to Lily Tomlin's ""This Is a Recording"". At Christmas that year, a single was released with ""Dave"" on the B-side and with ""Santa Claus and His Old Lady"" (a sketch not available on any LPs) on the A-side. The single"
"1999 hit ""My Name Is"". Hodges and Peacock recorded their first album as Chas & Dave in 1974, and this album, ""One Fing'*'Anuvver"", was released in 1975. According to Hodges, the title track ""One Fing'*'Anuvver"" was their first Rockney song. Burt joined the duo in 1976 as a drummer. They were signed by EMI in 1978, and the album ""Rockney"" was released the same year. A song from the album, ""Strummin'"", was their first song to reach the chart. In early 1979, a song from their first album ""Woortcha!"" was used used for a notable television commercial for Courage Bitter,"
"and that he would be undergoing treatment immediately. The pair stated that they hoped to be ""back out on the road"" soon. He died in his sleep in the early hours of 22 September 2018, from pneumonia, aged 74. ""Main article The Outlaws discography"" Chas Hodges Charles Nicholas Hodges (28 December 1943 – 22 September 2018) was an English musician and singer who was the lead vocalist of the musical duo Chas & Dave. Hodges was born at the North Middlesex University Hospital in Edmonton on 28 December 1943 to Albert and Daisy Hodges. He was named Charles Nicholas, but"
"the band. They were signed by EMI in 1977, and the album ""Rockney"" was recorded that year and released in 1978. A song from the album, ""Strummin'"", was their first song to reach the chart. In early 1979, a song from their first album ""Woortcha!"" was used used for a notable television commercial for Courage Bitter, and the song was then re-recorded and released as a single, retitled ""Gertcha"". They opened for Led Zeppelin at the 1979 Knebworth Festival. Chas & Dave first signed a management deal in 1978 with Bob England, who with business partner Natasha England then formed"
"show ""Bangers and Mash"", and recorded the title theme for ""Crackerjack!"" used in the 1980s. ""Snooker Loopy"", a comic song about snooker, was released as a single in May 1986 and entered the UK Singles Chart, reaching number six. In 2003, Chas & Dave appeared on the 2003 Jools' Annual Hootenanny, which led to renewed interest in the band. In 2003–4, they supported The Libertines whose singer Pete Doherty said they were a big influence when he was young. They played the Glastonbury Festival in 2005 where they played to a crowd of 18,000 on the acoustic stage, and Hodges"
"Les Plus Grands Succès De Chic: Chic's Greatest Hits Les Plus Grands Succès De Chic: Chic's Greatest Hits, also known as The Best of Chic, is a greatest hits album by the American R&B band Chic, released on Atlantic Records in late 1979. It includes the biggest hits from their first three albums: ""Chic"" (1977), ""C'est Chic"" (1978) and ""Risqué"" (1979). The seven-track album, which omits the 1979 hit single ""My Forbidden Lover"" and replaces it with ""Chic Cheer"" and also combines three 7-inch edits and one extended 12-inch mix with three album versions, was the only compilation to be"
"1966 as well, a collection of the A & B sides of their six Roulette 45s, which did not chart. Sam & Dave's next huge R&B hit was ""When Something is Wrong With My Baby,"" their only ballad single, which was released in January 1967. Stax author Rob Bowman called this ""One of the most sublime records in soul music's history,"" and Mar-Keys trumpet player Wayne Jackson called it the greatest song he has ever heard. This was the only Sam & Dave hit where Dave sang the first verse solo; their other hits started with Sam & Dave together"
"or Sam singing the first verse. ""When Something is Wrong With My Baby"" has since become an often recorded and performed duet for male and female singers performing together. The duo also charted in late 1966 with the top 10 R&B hits ""Said I Wasn't Gonna Tell Nobody,"" and ""You Got Me Hummin"". These three singles, along with other tracks, were compiled on ""Double Dynamite"" (12/66), Sam & Dave's second LP on Stax. The LP peaked at #7 R&B and #118 Pop. Sam & Dave's biggest hit and best-remembered song, ""Soul Man"" (R&B #1/Pop #2), was released in August 1967."
"classic hits. However, he himself likened the ebb to a ""crossing of a very pretty desert"". In 1993, he released a new album, then in 1994, he made a comeback following the release of a greatest hits album, which sold more than 200,000 copies. He later recorded a new album entitled ""Toujours le même bleu"", which included a title single from which enables him to hit the charts once again. It is also around this time that Dave revealed himself as homosexual. In 1996, he appeared in a commercial for Dutch cheese. He later became a co-presenter with Sheila of"
"Chas Hodges Charles Nicholas Hodges (28 December 1943 – 22 September 2018) was an English musician and singer who was the lead vocalist of the musical duo Chas & Dave. Hodges was born at the North Middlesex University Hospital in Edmonton on 28 December 1943 to Albert and Daisy Hodges. He was named Charles Nicholas, but called Chas as it was a common nickname for Charles in Hackney where his father was from. He was raised in north London, and moved to Kent in the summer of 1947. His father, a lorry driver, killed himself the day before Hodges' fourth"
"by the Belinda Carlisle's 1987 ""Heaven Is a Place on Earth"". Shai (band) Shai is an American 1990s vocal R&B/soul quartet. Their biggest hit was ""If I Ever Fall in Love"", which reached #2 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100. ""If I Ever Fall in Love"" was released as the first single from the debut album of the same title, and peaked at #2 in the U.S. The next two releases from the double-platinum album, ""Comforter"" and ""Baby I'm Yours,"" each peaked #10. The group's next album release was ""Right Back At Cha"", a remix album that largely consisted of new"
"Santa Claus and His Old Lady ""Santa Claus and His Old Lady"" is a bit by Cheech and Chong, one of their best-known comedy routines. It was the duo's first single. ""Santa Claus and His Old Lady"" did not appear on the duo's eponymous debut album, although the B-side, ""Dave,"" did. It has since received continued airplay on radio stations during the Christmas season, particularly those that switch to temporary all-Christmas music formats. It peaked at number 4 on the ""Billboard"" Christmas Singles chart upon its release in 1971, then peaked again at number 3 on the same chart in"
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"for shipping four million copies in the US. Excluding his 1994 debut ""In My Wildest Dreams"" on Capricorn Records, all of his albums have been issued by BNA Records. Of Chesney's sixty-three singles, all but four have charted in the Top 40 on the US ""Billboard"" Hot Country Songs and Country Airplay chart. Thirty of his hits have reached number one, beginning with ""She's Got It All"" in 1997. ""The Good Stuff"" (2002) and ""There Goes My Life"" (2003–04) are his longest-lasting number ones on the charts at seven weeks each. The former was also the number one Hot Country"
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"formed a duo with his wife Shirley Douglas, until their professional and personal relationship ended in the 1970s. Since then, McDevitt has continued to perform as the leader of a re-formed group, and also remains active in charitable work, including through his membership of the showbusiness charity the Grand Order of Water Rats. Nancy Whiskey died in February 2003. More recently McDevitt appeared on the BBC Television show, ""Never Mind The Buzzcocks"". Chas McDevitt Charles James McDevitt, ( born 4 December 1934) is a British musician, one of the leading lights of the skiffle genre which was highly influential and"
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"Cameo on this ad. In January 2015, another advertising campaign was launched featuring a man named Dave (played by Michael Van Schoik), walking down a street in L.A, dressed in a shirt, suit jacket, denim hot pants and high heels. He alongside two other people, struts confidently to the song ""Don't Cha"" by the Pussycat Dolls, while showing off his prominent rear to stunned onlookers, including Sharon Osbourne. It was later revealed by the Advertising Standards Authority in the UK to be the most complained about advert in 2015 with 1,513 complaints. In their ruling, the ASA found that whilst"
"December 2012. Since then they have had a ""Back By Demand"" tour of the UK between 28 February and 16 May 2013. The double act ended with Chas Hodges' death from pneumonia on 22 September 2018. Dave Peacock (musician) David Victor Peacock (born 24 May 1945) is an English musician and bass guitarist. He was raised in Ponders End and the Freezywater areas of Enfield. Peacock is best known as having been one half of the English musical duo Chas & Dave between 1974 and Chas' death in 2018. Earlier in his career in the 1960s, Peacock was in a"
"however was not originally intended to be a single, only as a B-side. Hodges did not want it released as a single, and it would be their only song he regretted releasing. Stars Over 45 ""Stars Over 45"" is a song by Chas & Dave which was released as a single on 6 December 1981 and entered the UK Singles Chart at No. 59. The song stayed in the charts for 8 weeks and peaked at number No. 21 on 2 January 1982. According to Chas Hodges, the song was recorded as a ""piss take"" on the series of pop"
"Cha"" is the 29th most successful song by a girl group on the chart. In the United States, ""Don't Cha"" debuted at number 95 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 on the issue dated May 7, 2005. In its tenth week, ""Don't Cha"" entered the top ten at number eight. The track reached number two in its sixteenth week, becoming their highest charting single in the country. The song stayed there for three consecutive weeks, being held off the top spot by Mariah Carey's ""We Belong Together"", which spent a total of 14 non-consecutive weeks at number one. Despite the song"
"song record of the week if Chas & Dave had released it a single, and so it was released as a single. The song would become their first song by Chas & Dave to reach the chart at number 52. Strummin' ""Strummin'"" is a song by Chas & Dave from the album Rockney, which was released as a single on 5 November 1978 and entered the UK Singles Chart at number 74. The song stayed in the charts for 3 weeks and peaked at number 52 on 25 November 1979. The song is a track from the second album by"
"shows, released many successful comedy record albums, and starred in a series of low-budget films. Some of their best-known comedy routines and songs include ""Earache My Eye"", ""Basketball Jones"", ""Santa Claus and His Old Lady"", and ""Sister Mary Elephant"". Perhaps their most famous line is """"Dave's not here"","" from their self-titled debut album. Their early success culminated with the release of their first feature-length movie, ""Up in Smoke"", in 1978. It became something of a cult classic, and was also successful enough at the box office (grossing over $44 million despite a low budget) to warrant two sequels: ""Cheech and"
"spoke to Peacock about forming a band together where they can sing in their own accent and about things they knew. This would the beginning of Chas & Dave. They had initially considered a few names, including Chubby. The name Chas & Dave came about when they were doing sessions together, and a producer would say, ""Here comes Chas and Dave"", often referring to them together, and later said: ""Why don't you just call yourselves Chas and Dave?"" They also recorded as Oily Rags (cockney rhyming slang for cigarettes - ""fags""), and released a self-titled album with Gerry Hogan and"
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"and released ""Sex Without Bodies"". Dave's True Story received favorable press and a loyal following in New York City night clubs. They won the Kerrville Music Award and appeared on Christmas compilations for Hear Music and Pottery Barn. They also won an award for the song ""Everlasting No"" at the Independent Music Awards. In 2001 two Dave's True Story songs, ""Crazy Eyes"" and ""Sequined Mermaid Dress"", appeared in the movie ""Kissing Jessica Stein"". Their songs also appeared on the TV shows ""Satisfaction"" and ""Breaking Bad"". Flint made a solo album, ""Drive All Night"", in a folk music style. Dave's True"
"was entitled ""Those Days"", and the album was released on August 19, 2016. Notes Dan + Shay Dan + Shay is an American country music duo composed of vocalists and songwriters Dan Smyers and Shay Mooney. They are signed to Warner Bros. Records Nashville and have released three albums, ""Where It All Began"", ""Obsessed"", and ""Dan + Shay"". These albums have accounted for a total of eight singles, of which four have topped the Country Airplay chart and one has topped the Hot Country Songs chart. In addition to their own material, the group's members have collaborated with Rascal Flatts,"