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"Witch Doctor" is a 1958 American novelty song written and recorded by Ross Bagdasarian (under the stage name of David Seville). Bagdasarian sang the song, varying the tape speeds to produce a high-pitched voice for the titular witch doctor; [2] [3] this technique was later used in his next song, "The Bird on My Head", [4] [5] [6] and for the creation of the voices of his virtual band Alvin ...
This was J.P. Richardson's first release under the moniker The Big Bopper. However, DJs and the public preferred the flip side "Chantilly Lace", and it was this song that became a hit. [5] The song reached No. 6 on the Billboard Hot 100 and spent 22 weeks on the national Top 40. It was the third most played song of 1958. [6]
Their most notable single to date is their cover version of Ross Bagdasarian's novelty song "Witch Doctor", which reached No. 2 in the UK Singles Chart. [1] It features a combination of the original's "oo-ee-oo-ah-ah, ting-tang, walla-walla, bing-bang" chorus (albeit lacking the record's double-speed playback of the chorus), driving dance beat ...
The lyrics describe a man with a bird sitting on his head, sitting in a vacant lot. Throughout the song, the man and the bird sing together talking about where they belong and lamenting their current position — the man lacking a house and wife, and the bird not having a tree.
David "Dave" Seville is a fictional character, the adoptive father and producer and manager of the fictional singing group Alvin and the Chipmunks.The character was created by Ross Bagdasarian, who had used the name "David Seville" as his stage name prior to the creation of the Chipmunks, while writing and recording novelty records in the 1950s. [1]
In 1958, his cover version of "Witch Doctor" reached the top 10 of the UK Singles Chart. [3] Lang played trombone on the song "Revolution 1" on the Beatles' 'White Album'. [4] Lang retired in the late 1980s. [4] He died of cancer in London on 3 August 1992, aged 67. [2] [4]
Doctor Who Goblin Song Musical Number As the Doctor buys time to calculate his, Ruby and Lulu’s way out of this predicament, he joins the goblin band for an improvised verse or two.
The tune concerns a young Aboriginal lad (with Drake's signature Cockney accent) cast out by his tribe due to his inability to toss a boomerang.After months of isolation (and fighting off "nasty bushwackin' animals"), the local witch doctor takes pity on the lad and tells him, "If you want your boomerang to come back/Well, first you've got to throw it!"