Chick A Boom

[TRACKMASTERPC]

Funny as it was but the fact remains that the single "Chick A Boom" was a chart topping hit based on the Billboard charts and it was done by the artist Daddy Dewdrop,

[gizmocat11]

My favorite song is Lights Out but I can't seem to find it anywhere.

[wildflowernoris]

OMG.....I loved this song as a child....:)

[42belvedere]

I wish I could find an audio take of the Frankenstein guy saying "I needed that."

[markostojanovski]

kakva pesna!



[confederatecolonel1]

OMG, I used to see this cartoon back in my youth. The Groovie Goolies would play a song and video at the end of each episode.

[pbanta62]

Even when I was 8-9-10 I was noticing how choppy and repetitive the animation was on Saturday morning cartoons. My parents took me to practically every Disney movie that came out and I began to notice even then the difference between theatrical and television animation. My parents told me that tv shows didn't have the same money as movies did to do their thing and had to re-use elements in their cartoons. I outgrew them very early, with rare exceptions like "Johnny Quest".

[mister1763]

Thank You! I was very young when this show was out, so I could not remember the name of the cartoon, but I remembered Chick A Boom. Watching this brought back memories long forgotten...

[TrappedIn1968]

One of my favorite Saturday morning shows back in the early 70's, along with the Banana Splits, Lancelot Link and others. I loved how all the kids shows back then had musical segments in them, every show had to have their own hippie rock group. "Chick a Boom" brings back great memories, thanks for posting this.

[yootoobnoob1]

George Thurogood?

[999manman]

I watched this as a kid...no wonder I'm so screwed up now!!! LOL!

[partypianoplayer]

Never thaught i'd ever hear this song again...lol

[pbanta62]

@partypianoplayer Now this of course is a kid-friendly version of the original song, whose lyrics would have been considered quite racy at the time (and even slightly suggestive today) when you listen to it. Check out the Daddy Dewdrop original version here and see for yourself ;)

[MickScarborough]

Amazing how this brings back vivid memories 4 decades old.

[Abitibidoug]

@MickScarborough This video brings back memories of exactly 4 decades ago. I remember watching it on our first colour TV in the spring of 1971.

[BitoMom]

For some reason, I thought this was from Scooby doo. I remember opening the doors.

[BitoMom]

For some reason, I thought this was from Scooby doo. I remember opening the doors.

[smith1958b]

Saturday Mornings during the 1970's........don't cha just love it.

[aitch3]

what a trip!

[hippie1959]

In Britain in 1975 a group called 53rd & 3rd (a jonathon king band) released it as a single. It was the first I had heard of the song until now.

[blkirk]

What memories!

[ralahinn1]

My sister went around for over a year singing this song when she was a kid

[spacegasp]

@Gerry50ify probably within a year before Dewdrop`s version, practically the same time. Saturday morning was paradise for 6-12 year olds.

[punchcar]

A clean version?? who knew? this was a 'groovie goulies' recording, but because of the lyric content the original version and some under songs was released under daddy dewdrop. It was even in the original cartoon music video . So all and all the GG released a 'clean' LP and whatever 'unclean' songs left went under the name Daddy Dewdrop. the DD album is pretty good actually.

[lawntroll777]

The Groovy Ghoulies ~ early 70's TV ~ Wow I'm old !

[ChokalitKitty]

Thanks for posting this :)

[Gerry50ify]

Super cool! Did this predate Daddy Dewdrop's version?

[sychamp]

Couldn't wat forsat mornings when I was a kid with all the great cartoons we had. The groovy ghoulies was always one of my favorites.

[SockBoy65]

I really dug this show. :)

[Jiltedin2007]

I loved thse Groovie Ghoulies Cartoons back in the Early 70's.

[MadameLil]

This is faster & with cleaner lyrics than I remember. Don't remember the cloud, but I do remember the old-fashioned swim suit she wore. She's like Mama Cass to Bella's Michelle Phillips! LOL

[tamspeci]

@MadameLil Of course it had to have cleaner lyrics than you remember (the original hit was by Daddy Dewdrop). This was a Saturday morning cartoon from the 70's!

[Gunstar1701]

@tamspeci I remember the original lyrics LOL Eeewww, who'd wanna see the witch in the vid with no top on? *shudder*

[TammiWayKewl]

What about the songs "Frightening Frankie, Dangerous Drac, and Weirdo Wolfie?" Not to mention a song about Frankie that has him sporting a zebra vest and other clothes he got from animals, and the zebra and other beasts chase after him?

[floydfreak63]

@TammiWayKewl I got to poking around the net after seeing your post and downloaded an album called "Groovie Goolies Rarities" that has both the songs you mentioned along with 26 others. The first one is named "The Monster Trio" and the second you mentioned is "Frankie". Wow, what fond memories I have of us neighborhood kids riding our bikes around and screaming "Weirdo Wolfie!" at the tops of our lungs.

[girl4spidey]

OOOOH MAN! I'm sitting her listening to this with my girls .. I've been singing it to myself for months now. They thought I had made it up. Thank you! :)

[stardaddyo9]

wt f

[normharris]

The Doors...ha ha ha!

[TheDominuse]

oh great now im cring too

[sayoname]

my child hood memories like i'm about to cry

[vshird]

What great memories. The guy's "girl of his dreams" is really Fred Flintstone in drag with green makeup - I guess there's someone for everyone. Kudos to Fred for being a good sport in all this.

[justinsma2]

Thanx for posting I've been looking for this song. !!!  I loved these guys growing up

[6A8G]

Yay! I've only had a very dim memory of this song.... saw it when I was nine! Thanx for posting this:)

[Ceresoracle]

Don't you just love it?!!!!!!

[MarkSentMe]

Found a seller on eBay selling the 3 DVD set of Groovy Ghoulies cartoons. Scored a set for my kids. These cartoons are too cool to let them grow up without them!

[astrotrain1]

Nope... This was a Filmation Studios production. This spun off also Sabrina The Teen Age witch (decades before the ABC live action one), and since this was Filmation, you occasionally saw the Archies with Sabrina.... this is when Saturday Morning's ruled in the 70s.

[wizzwamf]

yes and sabrina was a witch too so it was a nifty tie in ,do you know the name of the morticia like charecter i know the little red headed witch is hagatha

[astrotrain1]

The "Morticia" like character was named 'Bella Lugosi', she is also the switchboard operator at Horrible Hall....

[HardyGirl66]

Actually, It's Bella La Ghostly.

[ckc1958]

@wizzwamf Bella Laghostly.

[Brigadierbob]

Oh wow! This really brings back memories. I still remember this song from waaaay back. I hear the tune in my head every once in a while but I could never remember the words. Thanks for this.

[SquaredEyeballs]

I love the Goolies!! And this song was a favorite. Trivia too for you Dew Drop Daddy was the same people who created the Goolies and Archies etc.

[Darkstar263]

I keep humming this song to myself lately.

[Madcat0543]

Hey it was late 1969 , 70 tops , I know cause prolly unlike you I was there =P .. give it a rest dude

[mkl62]

I'm suprised that they let this song air on a children's show. I mean, you do know what this song is promoting. It could very well be Bang-a-Chick, Don't You Just Love It. On Daddy Dewdrop's version, it's a lot of oohing & ahhing. And to think, I bought that record as a child. Makes The Village People's YMCA seem tame by comparison. The Goolies were one of my favorites, though. Maybe Boomerang will air the Filmation Cartoons one day.

[hotstix12]

oh fuck you mkl, "love" doesnt always lead directly to sex, unles your a perv like you.

[mkl62]

@hotstix12 No, I'm not a perv. BTW, I have the 45 of this hit by Daddy Dewdrop. The flip side is a jazzy version of John Jacob Jingleheimer Smith. As for copyright, someone said that Classic Media owns the rights to most of the Filmation Cartoons like this, The Archies, Lassie's Rescue Rangers, Mission: Magic, New Adventures of Batman, Tarzan, etc.

[DiscussAndDebate]

I can't believe I'm seeing this again after almost 40 years! I still think about this cartoon every time I think of (or sing) "Chick-a-Boom" (which I had as a kid on 45 and now on MP3). Actually, I think I still have the 45 but don't get much use out of it anymore. Did the Groovy Goulies ever make a music video out of "The Pushbike Song" (another one of my favorites from childhood)? Thanks so much for posting this video.

[DDsadl]

I know, whenever I hear this I still think of that fat witch in the cloud. Too funny! What an excellent example of the good part of American culture btw. The '60s ruled! I never suspected back then I was growing up in a golden age.

[ccie12933]

Same here - I heard this tune yesterday on a 70s station and immediately thought of this cartoon!

[andyknight1]

I don't remember this one

[astrotrain1]

Epsiode #12. Daddy Dewdrop was part of the Music producers of this show. Folks suggested he take it to the "Charts", so it was re-worded and behold... the one hit wonder.

[Audrtte]

o3o was that a singing door.. lol

[kimratrockmetaleirof]

reminded me of my childhood... thanks =)

[wsbtam]

Actually, the Groovie Goolies version was first..THEN Daddy Dewdrop's version.

[Yakovlievich]

There is another version of this song which was released as a novelty single. This is version is slightly toned down for the kids.

[astrotrain1]

This was the first version before "Daddy" re-worded it and took it to the top 40 for a more older audience.

[thomandybish]

I've wondered . . . if the powers that be went with "Save Your Good Lovin' For Me" instead of "Chickaboom" as the Goolies single. Maybe that's the reason Dick Monda aka Daddy Dewdrop released his version of the song a few months later in 1971?

[astrotrain1]

"Save Your Good Lovin' For Me" is another great tune from the show...They should have released it on two separate 45's... would have been interesting to see which one topped the other.

[spy4863]

By the way, if anybody wants to know, here's another bit of totally usless information you can amaze your friends with-the instrument that the tall red "Headstone" on the right is playing is called a "Windsynth"-yes, there IS such an instrument! It's played much like the way the character is playing it in the cartoon-sort of a combination of a clarinet and an organ-it also usually has a bass pedal. Being a synthesizer you blow into (Hence the name "Windsynth"), it can produce many cool sounds.

[bigpopparamma]

This was the only song I remembered from this show.

[spy4863]

You don't remember the really cool theme song "The Goolie Get-Together"?

[bigpopparamma]

I do know the theme all too well. I'm just referring to the other songs within the show. This was the best one I remembered.

[JeoMummy]

Oh, you don't call "Super Ghoul"? Back then, that was my favorite.

[KezRox]

I swear this is NOT the GG's adaptation of this song that I saw. What I saw was based on the actual song & featured a lithe girl in a bikini & followed the original story line, as it were.

[spy4863]

I hate to disagree with you, Kezrox, but there is only one Groovy Goolies version of this song, and this is it. This is the original version of "ChickA-Boom". Months later, Daddy Dewdrop released this song as a radio single. A common promotional practice in the 50's, 60's and 70's was to create a video of a song, and show it on various variety shows. Remember, these were the days before MTV! Perhaps what you saw was a promotional video for the Daddy Dewdrop release of "Chick-A-Boom".

[KezRox]

Well, maybe that what it was then.- a video for the Dewdrop version. But I swear there was a version that used the GG's in it b/c I know what I saw didn't have no short fat green witch chick in it! lol

[spy4863]

Love how that robot/computer's eyes pulsate with little hearts in time to the music! Kind of makes me think of.......well

.....uh.......something ELSE that pulsates when I do "Chick-A-Boom"!!

[spy4863]

My first thought was "Wow! This sounds just like that song I heard on The Groovy Goolies!" But for years I didn't think it was the same song, because somehow it didn't occur to me that cartoon characters could have a hit on the radio. (It took me some time to realize that while "Sugar Sugar was recorded by live musicians, the credit went to The Archies, who are cartoon characters, of course!) It wasn't until I did some research on "Chick-a-Boom" that I realized that it was the same song!!

[spy4863]

Oh man, how I remember when this cartoon first came out, back around 1971! I was about 5 or 6 at the time. I loved the song and thought it was catchy, but I didn't think I would ever hear it again. Then, some time later, my friend brought a new record over to my house to listen to-"K-tel's 22 Explosive Hits"I remember, because I now have a copy of that same album! Daddy Dewdrop's recording of "Chick-A-Boom" was on that album! Imagine my surprise at hearing that song again as a radio hit!

[nanajanamike]

Right Tom,to answer your question,This cartoon version was first,then a few months later,they changed a few words and recorded the hit single!

[markcruiser64]

not the original version of this by Daddy Dewdrop. He apparently rerecorded it for this cartoon. And must have had to change the lyrics because of copyright issues.

[UnionPacific2008]

Oh man--that show was always one of my favs, I guess it's probably been 40 years since it has been on tv.

[BlackMaria61]

I remember this also, kinda weird that they adapted the song though

[ThankfulForLife52]

This is cute; thanks for sharing!

[SLUMBERS2]

LAURA THANKS FOR SHARING you made my day girl thanks also for posting lupin

[DieHardBeatlesFan]

So Funny we have a female Freddie Flintstone

Morticia from the Adams Family +

Tazmanian Devil lookalike LOL!!

[d9y8l7a6n5]

those are some groovey goolies happy halloween

[garyifny]

LOL I'm laughing so hard I'm crying! I thought I'd never see this again. By the way, the Chickaboom girl looks like Fred Flintstone in greenface drag.

[chupachupben]

Don't you just love it?

[gymer15]

I remember this song, I loved this show.

[ckc1958]

God , how i love Youtube and all the great memoories. And I love you too for bringing this back. I have been waiting for so many years. I loved the Goolies!!!

[JLPB60]

I remember as a kid when this song played on the Groovy Ghoulies show. And for some reason going into fits of hysterical laughter while watching the frog that holds the candleabras dancing. Ahhh,the mind of a kid!

[JLPB60]

Slight correction: Of course, the frog IS the candleabra. But you get my point. :D

[unocarb]

eeeegahd... my suicide is youre fault... JK JK ;) This brings good memories!! :D

[NewGremlin]

Believe it or not, the Groovy Ghoulies version came first. The top 40 version came along about a few months later.

[pbanta62]

I remember seeing another version with a blond, one-eyed, creature playing the tambourine instead of the werewolf dancing in almost the same way.

[radioman66]

Ahhh 1971 all over again! I was in kindergarden and remember the song on my transistor. Havnt seen this though since 71. This is also Daddy Dew Drop as well. Real name Richard(Dick)Monda he supplied the music for this show, like Ron Dante did for the Archies. I have a few 16mm prints of this show & he is credited for the music.I had forgotten that he changed the lyrics for the cartoon show til now. Very cool to see & hear.

[mowm88]

This is good I was the same age when this was out, I remember this quite well.

[UROCKz14]

this is why i love youtube so much!soooo many memories!

[Shidyk]

I haven't heard this in years!

[bftskir]

of course this is the kids version...not even as good as the original done by Daddy Dewdrop...i have the LP

[pirategrrl775]

reminds me of simpler, fun times when you really looked forward to getting up early on saturday just to watch cartoons!

[RatFantom]

OMG, I remeber this from when I was a boy of 5 or 6, I still have it on 45

[iluvnuggets]

I love it indeed!

[ks4467]

Oh My god I remeber seeing this whe I was like 5 or 6 years old!! Holy crap!! that was along ago!! Don'tcha just love it!!!

[culpit]

I know I love it! :)

[slugluv1313]

was looking for the Daddy Dewdrop version (anyone have a clip of that???) and found this instead! thanks for sharing!

[clintorium]

thanks so much for posting this it was on one of my favorite cartoons and have been missing them lately

[heine71]

Thanks for uploading this Groovie Goolies song later covered by Daddy Dewdrop, lupinmaru!

[dadogster]

I have this on a 45 record. Thanks for posting this.