The Chicken Song
1986 single by Spitting Image, featuring The Wet Gits / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"The Chicken Song" is a novelty song by the British satirical comedy television programme Spitting Image (series 3, episode 6). The nonsensical lyrics were written by Rob Grant and Doug Naylor; the music was written by Philip Pope, who also produced the song, with Michael Fenton Stevens & Kate Robbins as vocalists.
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"The Chicken Song" | |
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Single by Spitting Image featuring The Wet Gits | |
from the album Spit in Your Ear | |
B-side |
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Released | April 1986 (1986-04) |
Recorded | 1986 |
Genre | Pop, parody |
Length | 2:37 (7" version) |
Label | Central TV / Virgin |
Songwriter(s) | Music: Philip Pope Lyrics: Rob Grant and Doug Naylor |
Producer(s) | Philip Pope |
The song was a parody of summer holiday disco songs such as "Agadoo" and "Do the Conga", which were in vogue during the mid-1980s. The song made specific reference to the group Black Lace, who performed those songs ("those two wet gits, with their girly curly hair"). The song featured heavily during the 1986 series of Spitting Image, playing recurrently in the background, and being hummed by characters; at one stage, the puppet of Pope John Paul II played it on a banjolele. A subsequent release as a single reached number one in the official UK Singles Chart for three weeks in 1986.[1]