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  • This was freaking awesome!!!

  • Who says white people can't dance?

  • aunt betheney from christmas vacation did the voice of betty boop and olive oil. saw betty dancing and i thought of that.

  • I will tidy up your living room for a few dance lessons.

  • Im not much into dancin, but i gotta say, thats pretty damn good.

    Mum alway's said "they could move back then" - sure can !

  • This sounds like a Mickey Mouse-Wolfman Jack Duet!

  • Her name is Eve. Look for her other videos on Youtube under "twentythreeskidoo".

  • I tried to keep up with the girl in the green top............ The doctor says he thinks everything will heal and I will be able to walk again. I swear I could do that 30 years ago.

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  • I lost my Metromnome

  • 24 people got the wrong ding.

  • Diga Diga Doo.....dance

  • Does anyone know who the girl is that is dancing in her living room? No, I don't mean Betty Boop either. LOL

  • This is very scary. I remember this when I was 5 years old.

  • I'm in love with a girl with a very untidy living room.

  • lyrics?

  • @weightfeather1

    That's a good one too!

  • ever wonder why we had good times back then?.......cause we had fun music! real music!

  • I hear ya! thought I was 6 when I first heard it, but guess I was 8. First song that ever stuck with me - is that sad??? Brings back memories of riding in the back of my parents blue bug on the way to the beach.....

  • Who's the crazies that gave this song 24 dislikes!? Come on, who could NOT like this fun song that makes us all smile! Somebody always has to spoil the fun. Oh well, pooh on them.

    Anyway, good job creating an amazing video to accompany the song! Love it!!!

  • Would love to know what movie (s) opening dance clip plus the two couples cutting the rug is from..? Any ideas..?

  • I have this on vinyl. Awesome!

  • who is that chic in the video dancing

  • that girl must have had lessons from Hal Leroy

  • Sounds like Herbert the pervert from family guy.

  • @akglesing Yeah,i agree :))

  • That chick can really dance! A lot of fun. ;-)

  • Watching this in -1303 on my iStone.

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  • Whats the name of this kind of dance.. is it some sort of swing?

  • White people can't dance...riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight

  • Thw girl at home is great....looks like Ziva from N.C.I.S.

  • that girl!!!!!!!!!!

  • Does anybody remember this on Ally McBeal?

  • @hunter62786 No... but I remember it on the radio when it first came out in the very early 70s!

  • Love that girl in green top

  • I've seen the girl dancing in her living room in her own youtube video, but I lost track of it. Does anyone have a link?

  • @dwneylonsr search for Diga Diga Doo here on tube. You're welcome. And BTW: giggity!

  • @Siska0Robert Thanks very much. :))

  • Had the album on 8-track as a kid, played dat ding till it disintigrated. Would LOVE to get the rest of the album, would buy the cd if it was ever remastered. My fave moment was seeing them on American Bandstand doing "The Telephone Song" - Can anyone name the dance they're doing? Loved this video!!!

  • the girl in green & black is incredible!

  • Who is the girl dancin , she is great, wow she can sure swing.....can't stop watchin this...:>)

  • OMGoodness, this is an awesome video, listen that music, look at em dancin, I remember when I could that, woooo hooo...love it.....adorable, thank you for the fun..:>)

  • Challenge accepted limbs.

  • I remember this song as a jingle in some commercial in the 90s, at that time I thought it was just a jingle lol. Hearing it in full, I have to say this is quite catchy n enjoyable. Have to say the guy with the gravel voice sounds a lot like Aussie transgender comedian character Aunty Jack played by Grahame Bond who had the famous line ''I'll rip your bloody arms off'' lol

  • somebody mop the tears from my eyes. i'm in bits!

  • EVEN AFTER 41 YEARS I STILL LOVE THIS SONG, let the googtimes roll!

  • Tak si kup kanára.... :o)

  • I remember buying this 45 as akid when this came out.

  • Was Hartly Hare the vocalist?

  • @ITSASYRUP The vocalists were Roger Greenaway and Tony Burrows. Borrows fronted a number of one-hit wonder acts (often at the same time) such as Edison Lighthouse, The Flower Pot Men, White Plains, The First Class and Brotherhood of Man.

  • I think I still have this somewhere on 45! LOVE IT!

  • Epic epic epic that ding!

  • Wow unreal good!!!!

  • My Gosh! I remember this song veeeery well (being the first one that I actually remember...) I was as little as a mosquito back then, but insisted carrying around my brother´s magnetophone (behind his back) that had this song on it...I had to carry it with two hands (for it was so darn heavy), but I got all the kids around the block hanging around me like if I was some kind of a DJ or something hahaha! I never got caught ;D

  • Often used as backing music in the Benny Hill Shows I seem to remember!

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  • Bizarre all those connotations to this song...drugs, sex, wtf? I can tell you nothing to do with all that. I knew the writer Michael Hazlewood well when I was little as he was a friend of my parents, who are Dutch. he heard them talking dutch in the kitchen, saying 'geef me dat ding eens aan' (hand me that thing) which sounds like 'geme dat ding'. That's all it was! And it was part of a musical for kids he was writing called Oliver and the Clock. No sex or drugs at all!

  • @sanspareille Wonderful to hear this, it´s the first time I hear somebody explaining what this was all about, LoL =D

  • I am surprised some dead head hasn't called this song "racist", because it uses slang.....wazzamaddu America - we wuz freer in the 70's than now. Too much politikal crekness.......another form of tyrrany against the people....or sheple as we have become. And what IS a PIMPKIN???

  • I'd hate to play full back against the girl in green!

  • will somebody please give her that thing

  • this video is a GREAT match to the song! whoever put this together is genius! I remember that song from my jr high school days.

  • @RatuscaDiniarba, It's called jitterbugging and it was a popular style of dancing in the late 30's and 1940's ; ) JD

  • @jdollinter 10x~!!!

  • @jdollinter Actually, they are doing the Collegiate Shag, not the Jitterbug. Similar, but not the same.

  • Wow, I never realized how annoying this song is.

  • I LOVED THIS SONG BACK WHEN I WAS IN THE ARMY BACK IN 1970. I WAS STATIONED I.G.M.R., PENN. ABOUT 20 TO 30 MILES FROM HARRISBURG, PENN. IT WAS A R.O.T.C. CAMP IN THE SUMMERTIME BACK THAN. DON'T KNOW IF IT STILL IS?

  • Wow. I thought we were the only ones that ever heard of this wacky song. We had the Pipkins album as kids and played it all the time, over and over! I'm sure my mother hated that somehow it ever got into the house!!

  • From sec. 0:13 to sec. 0:30 there are 3 couples dancing. Anyone can tell me what style is that? How is it called? Is it a combination?

  • @RatuscaDinIarba They are the San Francisco Jitterbugs performing a Collegiate Shag Routine On The USS Hornet in 2000. They have a video of the whole routine on YouTube.

  • Our parents must have loved this dance! That's how we got here!

  • Just love it!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • the girl in the green top , brilliant.

  • @MrLawman10 She got happy feet! :^)

  • This track, featured onthe UK children's TV show "Oliver and the Overlord," reached #9 in the U.S. over a 12 week run beginning May 23, 1970. The vocalists? Songwriter Roger Greenaway ("Green Grass," "You've Got Your Troubles," "Long Cool Woman In A Black Dress," etc.) and deep-voiced Tony Burrows (First Class, Edison Lighthouse, The Brotherhood of Man, etc.). Both also worked together in the group White Plains ("My Baby Loves Lovin'). This track gets my vote as one of the '70s greatest hits.

  • It's not actually Hippies, it's not actually Muppets, but I always saw this as being by Hippie Muppets! Anybody who thinks music has progressed any in the last forty years, ask yourself if anything this fun could happen on the charts today.

    Say what you want about the Seventies, but we used to be able to have fun then.

    "Does anybody remember laughter?"

  • Somebody Remix it and Release it please!

  • @GaryDenverShaw Re- remix it... this great song? Why? How could you, why do such a thing? Desecrate art? Shame on you.

  • Like if Anita and Me brought you here :D

  • Please com back seventies

  • remember this song as a kid great video.

  • I remember this song from "Ally McBeal" when John Cage did a crazy dance to it when he was stressed - always very funny! Thanks for putting it on here!

  • I can't believe thats not Wolfman Jack

  • 20 people can't do the boogaloo

  • lol havht heard this tune since the late 60s. wasnt the artist wolfman rudy?

  • I thought it was an Artie Johnson (from Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In) imitation. He played a a dirty old man named Tyrone F. Horneighi who used suggestive language to tease an old lady, Gladys Ormphby in a park. That rough, deep voice was a great imitation.

  • @OliverC26 especially with him saying, "ah - gotcha!" in the song

  • great moves at 0:34 to 1:00, but now clean your room!!

    

  • i think the Ding is going to win the snooker!!

  • TEACH ME HOW TO DANCE LIKE THAT

  • Feet don't fail me now. Forget the girl in green I would like to just be able to dance like the opening act. No matter how one looks at it this was the "good ole days" for many reasons. Life was simple and fun fun fun. Just gimma dat ding baby!

  • Love the girl dancing in her home

  • @jnmklo9 Yes......she's cute :-) Brunettes are always cute.

  • . If my deciphering is correct – and I’m certain it is - the trickery is revealed: “Ah what good’s a metronome without a bell for ringing? How else can anybody ever know he’s ringing? How can you tell the rhythm written on the bar? How can you ever hope to know just where you are?” The pipkins were clever … CLEVER!

  • Yes, we cannot rule out the possibility that "ding" refers to the principal copulatory organ of male mammals, and to be honest, for 40 years (1970 to 2010) I was inclined to consider “ding” a somewhat restrained suggestion of bawdiness. This notion received a possibly accidental assist from a 1972 pop song, “Ding –A-Ling.” But the rest of the lyrics, which I needed four decades to decide I finally understood, led me to rethink the message, and to applaud the sly verbal trickery involved.

  • yeah... girl in green is great!:)

  • 1:40, GO BETTY!!

  • I liked the part where he said Gimme Dat

  • I have wanted to know all about Eve, 25, the awesome dancer in this video...now Eve...if you dont tell us something about yourself I am going to retrofit Marlon Brando from Streetcar Named Desire to yell to the top of his lungs.....EVE.....EVE.....EVE.­...tell us about you or I will hit STELLA!!!!!!!!!!

  • @TheGunwriter Um, creepy mc-creepins..... just sayin.

  • Another 70's gem. I was 13 when this came out, and our local radio station played it lots, you gotta love a song that combines honky tonk piano music with a little bit of early rap.

  • Dude this sweet thx a million!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Great editing !

  • She is a youtube river dance dancer

    twentythreeskidoo is her id on youtube

  • @PCEntertainment2 She's a swing dancer. The dance she's doing is mostly solo Collegiate Shag, as is the partnered dance that the many other vintage film scenes in this clip depict, too (with a few other swing dances such as the opening clip of Jewel McGowan and Dean Collins doing the Lindy Hop). I mix Charleston/Collegiate Shag in my solo dancing, & people have asked me if I was doing a form of clog dancing or Irish dance, so I can understand why you'd guess that.

  • @Direness

    cool its awesome dance !

  • Does anyone know what that dance is called? I would love to do it in a future life!

  • @evoorheeswhelan It's actually a couple of different dances, but mostly what you're seeing is Collegiate Shag (not to be confused with Carolina Shag - also a great dance, but VERY different in looks and movement). If you look for groups that Lindy Hop, you'll probably find people or classes that will teach you to Collegiate Shag as well. It's a pretty fantastic dance. :)

  • @Direness Shouldn't be confused with the Backseat Shag,still the most popular dance in the world but likely to get you arrested if performed in public

  • @muddyboots111 Very true!

  • i thought this was by monty python or the goodies cuz its just random.

  • who is the beautifull woman dancing on the vid with the green jummper and black pants she is one hell of a mover!

    She puts the modern day dancers to shame she is so natural.

  • awesome!

  • brilliant video :D

  • I always thought it was a take off on that old Laugh In skit about the old guy and the spinster at the park bench!

  • pukka pies

  • Great song!!!! The dancing is fabulous. Americans know how to have fun like no one else in the world!!!

  • Something about this song just makes me smile, instantly! LOVE it and the swing dancing is a-m-a-zing!

    ♥♥♥ Marashor ♥♥♥♥

  • What film is the dancing from

  • the floor is on fire

  • Nooo WAY!

    It has just GOT to be some kind of computer wizardary - the way little miss green-top goes dancing her legs all crazy like that.

    No?

    Well, put it this way then:-

    Imagine (as i often like to do) that you are Bruce Lee (or even Bruce Leyroy) and she is the girl that just caught you cheating on her -

    imagine that.

    Wing-Chun Kung-Fu?

    Puh!

    She is going to give you such a kick in the nuts!

  • I am not ashamed to say that I still have this song on 45. It's still great fun, unlike alot of todays music.

  • I'm in love with the mysterious girl in green, she's so gracious !

  • Reminds me of Junior Choice with Ed Stewart on Saturday mornings!!!!

  • Type in diga diga doo artie shaw and you can get almost two and a half minutes of her. She's quite good.

  • This song was actually banned locally in Beaumont Texas when I was a kid. It was a time when older people "heard" all sorts of sex or drug references things in song lyrics.such as Simon & Garfunkle's "Bridge Over Troubled Water" meaning the bridge is drugs,that can get you over your problems, LOL

  • @kirbygene You mean it *isn't* about drugs? Dang, I've been listening to it for all the wrong reasons. :p :)

  • @Direness lol

  • @kirbygene Not in Yvonne's surely!

  • @kirbygene The real meaning of Gme dat ding is when you are removing a ceased rusted bolt....spraying penetrating oil all over it and then tapping it lightly to cause vibrations what this does is suck the oil down into the threads.." ting.., ting...,ting ting" how can someone ban that???

  • @kirbygene Remember when "A day in the life" off Sgt. Pepper was banned here in Texas? It was because of the "I'd love to turn you on" line. I grew up in Ft. Worth. Great music in them days, if the radio would play it!

  • @PoppaBlue59 I sure do remember, but I knew that John Lennon was being pretty explicit there, lol.. Most of the time the Beatles hid their risque lyrics with lines like "she's a prick teaser-- she took me half the way there" becoming "she's a BIG teaser", LOL

  • Watching this to Trampled Underfoot by Led Zep is totally wicked! Props to chris45 for telling us! Can't beat Betty Boop jamming to Led Zep!

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  • Fantastic Vidoecut to the song!

    Saw the dancing Girl in Green also in another Video.

    Could you help to find it again?

    Thanks

  • I agree, how can anybody not smile and like this

  • One of the Benny Hill themes...RIP, Benny ! You are sadly missed...

  • The girl is not very tidy.

  • try opening another tab and watching it to trampled underfoot Led Zeppelin that is trippy. Very similar to the OGWT video.

  • that green girl rules!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • great girl in green & best mood ever video

  • Beats bloody Dancing on Ice.

  • @cantleysugar great!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Heard this one night while on Guard Duty in Viet Nam! Good thing "Charlie" didn't hear us 'cause we sure were laughing loud!

  • The girl danse very well! There is any other video of her? :)

  • analhustenbrenner,The dance that most of the people are doing is the Lindy Hop.

  • how call it this dance?

  • BRING POOP TO SCHOOL! THIS ROCKS!!!!!

  • Yeah! The girl with the green top is COOL!!

  • How can you tell the rhythm written on the bar?

    (Well, you don’t go too far, that’s what you do!)

    How can you ever hope to know just where you are?

    (Well, yah look around yah,)

    Gimme dat, ah gimme dat, ah gimme dat, (And gimme dat, gimme dat,)

    Gimme dat, gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme …

    Gimme gimme - yeah, I gotcha!)

  • Ah, what good's the metronome

    Without a bell for ringing?

    (You’re right, you’re right, it’s no use, you know!)

    How else can anybody ever tell he's swinging?

    (Ah, they can’t tell!)

  • Oh, gimme dat, gimme dat, gimme, gimme gimme dat,

    Gimme dat ding, gimme dat, gimme gimme dat,

    Gimme dat ding, gimme dat, gimme gimme dat,

    Gimme gimme gimme dat ding!

    (Ah, you ain't doin' that late at all!)

  • For 41 yrs I've tried to understand why I'm so hooked on this song, because it seemed like nonsense at best and insanity at worse. But after more than four decades of studying it, I realize that it's deceptively complex, cleverly arranged and brilliantly performed. Aside from all this it actually MEANS something, although the foghorn voice adroitly conceals that fact and adds subtle mystery through its seeming intelligibility. To think: I went from a teenager to a Sr citizen scoping it out; Oy!

  • Has anyone ever analyzed this song? I have, and now someone can analyze ME!

  • @sltzbgh

    Well, "ding", as in "das Ding", is a German word for "thing". So it could also be Yiddish for "thing". The word "thing" is sometimes used as a slang term for "penis". The expression "gimme" means "give me", while "dat" is another way of saying "that". So, literally, "Gimme dat ding" means "Give me that thing." But what is the "thing" in question? is it something sexual? Or something else? (AS the raspy voice seems to suggest.) .

  • 17 peoples don't know how to dance.

  • Deano Rocks..."Everybody Loves Somebody, Sometime...." Matt Helm RULES!(Except Bond is better.....) Thanks for posting this song. Its been decades!

  • THe Girl in The Green Top Can Dance. Man she can dance.

  • Happy memories of this one at Marine Park Rhyl

  • You can see more of this pretty lady named EVE by looking up the song called Diga Diga Doo, her nic is twentythreeskidoo

  • The SLIDE at 0:25 is amazing. In my personal opinion, this is when dance was still dance. Today's dance moves remind me of someone going through withdrawal--endless jerking and hand waving.

  • I just love this one... makes me smile... love the video ... ;O)

  • omg i just love this...now and always....LOL

  • I wouldn't know, i didn't go to Class' prom i used the money on a couple of hanna-barbera dvds

  • hey does anybody know where to get the piano sheet music for this?

  • @huangshibei try MusicNotes com

  • @huangshibei try MusicNotes. com

  • That girl who dances at 0:32 and 2:00 is a pretty damned good dancer (and she has a nice body as well - very cute).

  • @elc1960 totally agree!

  • 00:56 Gotcha!

  • I was willing to bet money that this song was by "Dr. Hook and The Medicine Show"... The guy sounds just like Ray!

  • @aarhaug33 Yeah, I know - it isn't, but it sounds like a duet between Ray from Dr. Hook and "Mr. Herbert" from "Family Guy" (the old man who's in love with Chris).

  • I think we're weirder today!!!

  • Sweet good thing I have the same last name

  • Sweet good thing I have the same last name