![]() ![]() And they were like, 'What? We love this! This is good!' So now, every single weekend thousands of people are singing that back to me. So I started singing that stupid Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet, eating her curds and whey, along came a spider and sat down beside her and said, 'What's in the bowl, bitch?' I'm cracking up, and I'm like, no, no, I'm just kidding. But I did one of those notes at the end of 'Ooops Up' and I wanted them to take the track back so I could re-do it. It's not like back in the day when they would have to tape this whole thing back together. Now we have digital, so they can just erase the cuss and keep the crap. ![]() So I started doing this stupid thing when I was really young: if I sang something that I hated, I would cuss in the track, that way they would have to erase it. Here's how she told us it happened: "I used to do this thing where I would curse into the mike because as a musician, many times the producers will use the worst vocal. But I'd just ask them through the booth, I was like, Hey, how do you say 'oops' in German? And they said, 'Opala.' And so I said, 'Everybody say oops up side your head, say oops upside your head, somebody say opala.' And it's a big frickin' hit."Īt the end of this song, Penny Ford does a dirty nursery rhyme taken from an Andrew Dice Clay bit. When it came to "Ooops Up," she told us: "on "They had the 'Oops upside your head' sample, which was ironic, because I started out with the Gap Band, so I know a little something about that. Penny was improvising the words as she went along. I just sang the first thing that came off the top of my head, because I didn't understand that music, and I didn't think I'd ever have to hear it again." Penny spent 3 days working with the producers, and she described the experience to us: "It was more or less them picking me up by the scruff of my neck like a pit bull and throwing me in the booth with a pack of cigarettes and a bottle of champagne and turning the mike on. Snap! was the German producers Michael Münzing and Luca Anzilotti, who in 1989 recruited the American singer Penny Ford to add vocals to the beats they had assembled. and Oops Upside Your Head are among their immense catalog and some of the. Penny sang backup with the Gap Band earlier in her career, but she wasn't the one who picked this song. Career The Gap Band: From the start of his career, Charlie and his brothers. These are merely our favourite songs with dance-routines that would be an appropriate part of your wedding music."Ooops Up" is based on a 1979 song by The Gap Band called "I Don't Believe You Want to Get up and Dance (Oops!)," which is commonly known by its refrain "Oops Upside Your Head." Penny Ford, who was the original female vocalist in Snap! and rejoined the group in 2006, sang on this track and came up with many of the lyrics. “Come on baby, do the locomotion…”Ī children’s party favourite, everybody learnt the moves to the Hokey Cokey at nursery school – a bit of nostalgia that will go down well towards the end of the night! Revived by Kylie for her first international hit, Little Eva’s 1960’s classic is still well-known today. However, it’s not safe to assume everybody will know how to ‘Criss-Cross’ and we’ve yet to see a convincing ‘Cha-Cha’.Įven your Dad will get this one. You’d think this would be easy, but we’ve lost count of the number of backward ‘C’s we’ve witnessed.Ī real old favourite, your Mum and Auntie will love reliving their youth whilst jiving along to Chubby Checker.Īnother where the dance-moves form the lyrics of the songs. Be careful, though, when performing a pelvic thrust unattended! ![]() You can’t fail to get this one right – the moves are called out during the chorus. ![]()
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