"duet by German alternative acts Freaky Fukin Weirdoz and Nina Hagen and released as a single in Germany in 1994. It appears on Hagen's compilation album ""Sternenmädchen"", released in 2001. Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick ""Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick"" is a song by Ian Dury and the Blockheads, first released as a single on Stiff Records in the UK on 23 November 1978. Written by Dury and the Blockheads' multi-instrumentalist Chaz Jankel, it is the group's most successful single, reaching number one on the UK Singles Chart in January 1979 as well as reaching the top three"
"(1979), Barbra Streisand's ""The Main Event"" (1979), Dan Hartman's ""Instant Replay"" (1978). The biggest hit by Ian Dury and the Blockheads, best known as a new wave band, was ""Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick"" (1978), featuring a strong disco sound. Even mainstream rock artists adopted elements of disco. Progressive rock group Pink Floyd used disco-like drums and guitar in their song ""Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2"" (1979), which became their only number-one single in both the US and UK. The Eagles referenced disco with ""One of These Nights"" (1975) and ""Disco Strangler"" (1979), Paul McCartney & Wings"
"the band started performing as Ian Dury & the Blockheads, when the band signed on for the Stiff ""Live Stiffs Tour"" alongside Elvis Costello & the Attractions, Nick Lowe, Wreckless Eric and Larry Wallis. The tour was a success, and Stiff launched a concerted Ian Dury marketing campaign, resulting in the Top Ten hit ""What a Waste"", and the hit single ""Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick"", which reached No. 1 in the UK at the beginning of 1979, selling just short of a million copies. Again, ""Hit Me"" was not included on the original release of the subsequent album"
"that suggests they can hear it."" Despite this, Chaz Jankel often re-tells the story that after recording it he phoned his mother and told her, ""I've just recorded my first number one"". On radio ""Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick"" was a popular song from its release, but in the UK the single was initially kept from the number one position in the charts for two weeks by The Village People's smash hit ""Y.M.C.A."", which was number one for three consecutive weeks. On the 27 January 1979, however, Turnbull, Watt-Roy and drummer Charley Charles were waiting outside the Gaumont State"
"""New Boots and Panties!!"" which, although it did not include the single, achieved platinum status. In October 1977 Dury and his band started performing as Ian Dury & the Blockheads, when the band signed on for the Stiff ""Live Stiffs Tour"" alongside Elvis Costello & the Attractions, Nick Lowe, Wreckless Eric, and Larry Wallis. The tour was a success, and Stiff launched a concerted Ian Dury marketing campaign, resulting in the Top Ten hit ""What a Waste"", and the hit single ""Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick"", which reached No. 1 in the UK at the beginning of 1979, selling"
"Dury and the Blockheads. Under the management of Andrew King and Peter Jenner, the original managers of Pink Floyd, Ian Dury and the Blockheads quickly gained a reputation as one of the top live acts of new wave music. They released two more albums on Stiff and several singles, achieving a UK number one in 1979 with ""Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick"". In 1980, Wilko Johnson replaced Jankel for a while, which led to a rapport between Johnson and Watt-Roy. This resulted in Watt-Roy becoming a regular member of Johnson's own band by 1985. During the 1970s and 1980s,"
"Panties!!"" had raced up the charts and its sales kept the label in business over the following months. In 1979, Robinson signed Madness, whose considerable commercial success, both in Britain and abroad, would keep Stiff afloat for several years. The next few years were the halcyon period, with many Top 20 single chart placings, including the label's first No. 1 single, ""Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick"" by Ian Dury, and a number of other big-selling albums. Stiff expanded rapidly and moved its premises twice. It also continued to release dozens of obscure and uncommercial releases. For example, ""The Wit"
"the UK Single Charts, becoming Stiff Records' biggest-selling single. A very limited 12"" pressing was also released. Although the song is seen as specifically a Blockheads song, the B-side, ""Wake Up and Make Love with Me"", was taken from Dury's ""New Boots and Panties!!"" album. First released as the Stiff Records 7"" single BUY 38, ""Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick""/""There Ain't Half Been Some Clever Bastards"" was Number One in the UK Singles Chart in January 1979 and is the band's most successful single. It also was named the best single of 1979 in the Pazz & Jop poll."
"release of ""What A Waste"" (his organ part on that single was overdubbed later) but he subsequently returned to the UK and began touring sporadically with the Blockheads, eventually returning to the group full-time for the recording of ""Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick""; according to Mick Gallagher, the band recorded 28 takes of the song but eventually settled on the second take for the single release. Partly due to personality clashes with Dury, Jankel quit the group again in 1980, after the recording of the ""Do It Yourself"" LP, and he returned to the U.S. to concentrate on his"
"Cinema, Kilburn, London, listening to a car radio when it was announced that ""Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick"" was the new number one. Dury was on holiday in Cannes, and was at the beach when the hotel staff brought him a bottle of champagne and told him the news. For their appearance on the British television programme ""Top of the Pops"" the whole band bought Moss Bros suits. The promotional video for the single was made by Laurie Lewis, a friend of Dury's from Walthamstow Art School who had been studying film-making. While the video simply showed the band"
"single of all time, confirmed by the Guinness Records. The early seventies also marked the deaths of rock legends Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, gospel great Mahalia Jackson and Cass Elliot of the Mamas and the Papas. The decade also saw the plane crash in 1977 in which three members of Lynyrd Skynyrd were killed. Elton John became the decade's biggest solo pop star, releasing diverse styles of music that ranged from ballads to arena rock; some his most popular songs included ""Crocodile Rock"", ""Goodbye Yellow Brick Road"", ""Bennie and the Jets"", ""Philadelphia Freedom"" and ""Don't Go Breaking My"
"1980. Throughout this time there were several changes in lineup. In the 1970s some artists stood out. Herman Brood became the ultimate Rock 'n Roll icon. He even scored a hit in the US with Saturday Night. He became the epitome of the ""rock'n'roll junkie"" he sang about. As an artist he was in the media until his suicide in 2001. Other bands from the 70s: Pussycat (lead singer Toni Willé) whose song Mississippi hit the charts at number 1 in Netherlands in 1975 and many other countries including UK in 1976, Gruppo Sportivo, Massada, Vitesse, Solution, the Nits, Focus"
"wallpaper catalogue. Bubbles also designed the Blockhead logo. Jankel left the band temporarily and relocated to the U.S. after the release of ""What a Waste"" (his organ part on that single was overdubbed later) but he subsequently returned to the UK and began touring sporadically with the Blockheads, eventually returning to the group full-time for the recording of ""Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick""; according to Gallagher, the band recorded 28 takes of the song, but eventually settled on the second take for the single release. Partly due to personality clashes with Dury, Jankel left the group again in 1980"
"like ""Say My Name"" in 2000), Kelly Rowland (4 #1 hits like Dilemma in 2002), Kelly Clarkson (3 #1 hits like ""A Moment Like This"" in 2002), rock and roll pioneer Roy Orbison (d.1988) (2 #1 hits like ""Oh, Pretty Woman"" in 1964), country singer Kenny Rogers (2 #1s like ""Islands in the Stream"" in 1983), Christopher Cross (2 #1s like ""Sailing"" in 1980), The Crickets (w/Buddy Holly (d.1959), ""That'll Be the Day"" in 1957), B.J. Thomas (""Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head"" in 1970), Janis Joplin (d.1970) (""Me and Bobby McGee"" in 1971, she attended the University of Texas),"
"but returned for an exclusive performance of ""New Boots And Panties!!"" on 17 April 2008, and on 30 April 2009 for two shows at The Electric Ballroom in Camden. Davey Payne David 'Davey' Payne (born 11 August 1944 in Willesden, North West London) is an English saxophonist best known as a member of Ian Dury's backing band The Blockheads, and his twin saxophone solo on their 1978 UK #1 single ""Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick"". He also appeared on the first version of Nico's 1981 album ""Drama of Exile"". According to Pete Frame's Rock Family Trees, Payne grew up"
"and ""Killing Me Softly"". Both were # 1 hits on the pop charts and she became the first artist and the only female artist to win back to back Grammy Awards for Record of the Year. Stevie Wonder who topped the charts five times during the decade with songs such as ""You Are the Sunshine of My Life"" and ""Sir Duke"" had a unique treble. He won Grammy Awards for both best male Pop and R & B vocal performance in 1974, 1975, and 1977. The Jackson 5 became one of the biggest pop-music phenomena of the 1970s, playing from"
"onwards, that ""Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick"" finally became a million-seller. The song has been used for numerous purposes since its release including various adverts (including one in 2006 for financial company Capital One) and in numerous television programmes (including the ""Doctor Who"" episode ""Tooth and Claw""). It has had its lyrics changed often, including in one instance to 'hit me with your oven chip'. This, combined with its continued popularity and original chart success has ensured that today the song is incredibly easily to find on CD, not only on all of Ian Dury's compilations but in numerous"
"band as, for example, on their ""Live in Colchester 2004"" DVD. The hit single ""Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick"" was notably not included, however, on the original release of the album. The single and its accompanying music video featured a Davey Payne sax solo with dual saxophones, in evident homage to jazz saxophonist Rahsaan Roland Kirk, who had made this his trademark technique. Dury's lyrics are a distinctive combination of lyrical poetry, word play, observation of British everyday (working-class) life, acute character sketches, and vivid, earthy sexual humour. """"This is what we find ... [H]ome improvement expert Harold Hill"
"Hit Me with Your Best Shot ""Hit Me with Your Best Shot"" is a song by American rock singer Pat Benatar. In 1980, it was released as the second single from her second album ""Crimes of Passion"". It hit No. 7 in ""Cash Box"", and reached No. 9 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100, becoming her first Top 10 hit. ""Hit Me with Your Best Shot"" sold well over a million copies in the U.S., achieving a gold certification by the RIAA. The song is one of Benatar's most recognizable tracks. Heard at many baseball and soccer games, the song has"
"in a Barney Bubbles-designed sleeve of which there were over a dozen variations, all based on samples from the Crown wallpaper catalogue. Bubbles also designed the Blockhead logo. Jankel left the band temporarily and relocated to the US after the release of ""What a Waste"" (his organ part on that single was overdubbed later) but he subsequently returned to the UK and began touring sporadically with the Blockheads, eventually returning to the group full-time for the recording of ""Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick""; according to Mickey Gallagher, the band recorded 28 takes of the song but eventually settled on"
"Chaz Jankel Charles Jeremy Jankel (born 16 April 1952), better known as Chaz Jankel, is an English singer, songwriter, arranger, composer, multi-instrumentalist and record producer. In a music career spanning more than 40 years, Jankel came to prominence in the late 1970s as the guitarist and keyboardist of the rock band Ian Dury and the Blockheads. With Dury, Jankel co-wrote some of the band's best-known songs including ""Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll"", ""Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick"" and ""Reasons to be Cheerful, Part 3"". In addition to his work with the Blockheads, Jankel has had a solo"
"with 11 songs topping the chart, just ahead of 1956, 1962 and 1992, with 12. The act that has achieved the most number ones is American entertainer Elvis Presley, who has topped the chart 21 times – Presley's second number one, ""Jailhouse Rock"" was the first single ever to debut at the top of the chart. The most successful band are The Beatles, who have achieved 17 number ones on the chart. The Beatles' first chart-topper, ""From Me to You"", reached number one in May 1963. In the 1970s the required number of sales needed to top the chart was"
"No. 7 hit single ""Tighter, Tighter"" for the group Alive N Kickin'. James launched a solo career in 1970 that yielded two notable hits over a 10-year span, ""Draggin' the Line"" (1971) and ""Three Times in Love"" (1980). During the 1980s, the group's songbook produced major hits for three other artists: Joan Jett & The Blackhearts' version of ""Crimson And Clover"" (No. 7 in 1982), Tiffany's ""I Think We're Alone Now"" and Billy Idol's ""Mony Mony"" (back-to-back No. 1 singles in November 1987). Other Shondells covers have been performed by acts as disparate as psychobilly ravers the Cramps, new wave"
"a number-1 ranking. He would have five more through 1990, giving him a total of 55 number 1 hits. George Strait matched the feat of 50 number-1 hits in 2002 with his single ""She'll Leave You With a Smile"" and then reached number 1 for the 56th time in 2007, when the single ""Wrapped"" hit the top on the Media Base 24/7 list. Throughout much of Twitty's country music career his recording home was Decca Records, later renamed MCA. He signed with the label in late 1965 but left in 1981, when it appeared MCA was marketing and promoting newer"
"from their 1965 breakthrough with ""I Can't Get No Satisfaction"" via classics like ""Under My Thumb"", ""Miss You"", ""Sympathy For The Devil"" and ""Honky Tonk Women"" to their then most recent hit ""Start Me Up"" in the Autumn of 1981. The medley had first been released on the ""Superstars"" album in its full side-long, twenty-seven titles and sixteen-minute format. The heavily edited five-minute seven-inch version only featured ten of the Stones titles while the near ten-minute twelve-inch single included seventeen; the only mix of ""The Greatest Rock 'n Roll Band in the World"" medley to have been re-issued on CD"
"Instant Funk Instant Funk were an American 1970s and 1980s disco band, best known for their disco classic, ""I Got My Mind Made Up (You Can Get It Girl)"". Instant Funk came out of Trenton, New Jersey consisting of Raymond Earl, drummer Scotty Miller and guitarist Kim Miller. The group was then called The Music Machine and they were very successful as a back-up band for The Manhattans, Bunny Sigler and also the TNJs. Throughout their careers, Instant Funk would be the back-up band for many stars, including Lou Rawls, Loleatta Holloway, The O'Jays, MFSB, Curtis Mayfield and Evelyn Champagne"
"the late 70s with acts such as Wilfrido Vargas, Johnny Ventura, and Fernando Villalona. Their orchestras would also churn future solo acts such as Eddy Herrera and Rubby Perez. By the end of the decade, La Coco Band would reinvent merengue with a more comedic style. Australian rock band INXS achieved international success during the decade with a series of hit recordings, including the albums ""Listen Like Thieves"" (1985), ""Kick"" (1987), and the singles ""Original Sin"" (1984), ""Need You Tonight"" (1987), ""Devil Inside"" (1988) and ""New Sensation"" (1987). Kylie Minogue first single, ""Locomotion"" became a huge hit in Minogue's native"
"had a hit ""How Do You Do"" (1972) in the US chart. Herman Brood became the ultimate Rock 'n Roll icon. He even scored a hit in the US with ""Saturday Night"". He became the epitome of the ""rock'n'roll junkie"" he sang about. As an artist he was in the media until his suicide in 2001. Other bands from the 1970s: Gruppo Sportivo, Massada, Vitesse, Solution, the Nits, Focus whose ""Hocus Pocus"" (1973) was a hit and still Golden Earring with their greatest hit ever: ""Radar Love"" (1974), which was in the Top 10 in the US. The late 1970s"
"2000) and Matchbox 20- (""Bent""), Creed- (""With Arms Wide Open""), N'SYNC- (""It's Gonna Be Me""), Enrique Iglesias ""The King of Latin Pop""- (two No. 1s such as ""Be With You"" in 2000; he attended the University of Miami), T-Pain- (two No. 1s including ""Buy U a Drank"" in 2007), Flo Rida- (three No. 1s like""Low"" ft. T-Pain), Sean Kingston- (""Beautiful Girls"" in 2007), and Jason Derulo- (""Whatcha Say"" in 2009) all had a No. 1 Hot 100 hit. In the 2010s, Miami's Cuban-American Pitbull has had two No. 1 hits: ""Give Me Everything"" in 2011 and ""Timber"". Cuban born Camila"
"Fatback Band The Fatback Band (later, simply Fatback) is an American funk and disco band that was popular in the 1970s and 1980s. The Fatback Band is most known for their R&B hits, ""(Do the) Spanish Hustle"", ""I Like Girls"", ""Gotta Get My Hands on Some (Money)"", ""Backstrokin'"" and ""I Found Lovin"". Their 1979 single ""King Tim III (Personality Jock)"" is generally considered the first commercially released hip hop single. Formed in New York City in 1970, The Fatback Band was the concept of Bill Curtis, an experienced session drummer, inspired to merge the ""fatback"" jazz beat of New Orleans"
"(1997). Rudy Clark Rudy Clark (born 1935) is an American songwriter. He was most active from the early 1960s through the early 1970s. He has more than 250 copyrights listed by BMI. Clark wrote songs for James Ray (and indeed may have discovered the singer), including Ray's moody 1962 R&B and regional pop hit ""If You Gotta Make a Fool of Somebody"", later a hit for Freddie and the Dreamers, as well as ""Got My Mind Set on You"", which became a No. 1 US and No. 2 UK hit for George Harrison in 1987. ""Got My Mind Set On"
"is known in the industry—a condescending term—as a one-hit wonder. But sometimes, just sometimes, once in a while, a one-hit wonder can make a more powerful impact than a recording star who's got 20 or 30 hits behind him. And Billy's hit song was called ""Red Hot,"" and it was red hot. It could blast you out of your skull and make you feel happy about it. Change your life. Billy Lee Riley Billy Lee Riley (October 5, 1933 – August 2, 2009) was an American rockabilly musician, singer-songwriter, and record producer. His most memorable recordings include ""Rock With Me"
"had a top 40 hit in 1963 with his cover of Little Richard's soulful 1956 hit 'Send Me Some Loving'. James Brown said that Little Richard and the Upsetters, including drummer Charles ""Chuck"" Connor, were ""the first to put the funk in rhythm"", with a biographer stating that their music ""spark[ed] the musical transition from fifties rock and roll to sixties funk"". Little Richard's hits of the mid-1950s, such as ""Tutti Frutti"", ""Long Tall Sally"", ""Keep A-Knockin'"" and ""Good Golly Miss Molly"", were generally characterized by playful lyrics with sexually suggestive connotations. AllMusic writer Richie Unterberger stated that Little Richard"