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Released in 1986, The Chicken Song spent three weeks in the UK number one slot, despite it being one of the most irritating novelty songs ever written. To be fair though, being irritating was always the point of the song as it was intended to be a parody of songs such as Agadoo and Superman, and any of the rest of cringe worthy group Black Lace’s records.
The song was penned by Rob Grant and Doug Naylor, the creators of sci-fi comedy Red Dwarf, when they were writers for the satirical adult puppet show Spitting Image, which featured rubber charicatures of famous people of the day, the majority of whom were political in nature, although anybody famous was a possible target. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and US President Ronald Reagan were two particularly memorable puppets from the show. The song featured in the show initially, but eventually was released as a single where it found success amongst young and old alike.
Billy Joel stormed the charts in 1983 with his classic song Uptown Girl, reaching number three in the US and claiming the top spot in the UK for five weeks, knocking 
June 1987, and the UK goes barmy for Star Trekkin’, a single celebrating all that was great (and stereotypical) about the classic Star Trek series - i.e. the series with Captain Kirk and Spock. No Trek cliche was left unused, except perhaps the one about Kirk always kissing the pretty female guest character. The song knocked Whitney Houston’s I Wanna Dance With Somebody off the top of the charts (thank God) although it was only at number one for two weeks (also thank God!).
Junior Senior are a Dutch band formed in 1998 comprising of Jesper Mortensen and Jeppe Laursen, who were both previously members of the band Ludo-X. So what are they doing being featured in a sight about the 1980’s, I hear you cry? Well, the reason is for the amazing pixellated video that accompanies one of their best known songs, Move Your Feet.
It may be looked back on with distaste now, but at the time Joe Dolce’s hit Shaddup You Face stormed the charts around the world. The song was first released in Australia in 1980, where it went to number one and was the most successful Australian produced single in Australian music history for 26 years, selling over 350,000 copies. Total sales worldwide of the song including the 35 different foreign language versions (including the aboriginal dialect Indjubundji) are set at 4 million copies!
The adventures of the little white bear called Rupert have been popular for many many years. Paul McCartney was a fan as a child, and when he realised that his own children loved Rupert just as much as he had done, it gave him the idea of creating an animated Rupert film.
Which song is still the staple method employed by wedding disco DJ’s of trying to get everyone up on the dance floor to embarrass themselves after all these years? The answer is, of course, The Birdie Song. There will come a time during most wedding receptions that The Birdie Song will be put on, and everybody with no shame, from the tiniest tot to the drunkest uncle gets up to make their hands look like bird beaks, flap their arms like wings, wiggle their backside and then skip round in a circle.