The output of "Monte Video and the Cassettes" combined an advertising jingle writer's talent for catchiness and noticeability with an advertising jingle writer's regretful capacity to spout meaningless garbage. Shoop Shoop Diddy Wop Cumma Cumma Wang Dang, as heard on the Top 10 here and on the Dr. Demento show worldwide, was fairly much the story of Lola retold with a disco beat. The follow-up single, Sheba She Sha She Shoo, is basically a bunch of popular classical Egyptian stereotypes mumbled over a slower disco beat. Despite being more entertaining than the former hit, it failed to set the charts on fire and hasn't been seen since (Shoop Shoop, on the other hand, has even seen a cover version made of itself).
New Zealand Music Month - Day 20
The output of "Monte Video and the Cassettes" combined an advertising jingle writer's talent for catchiness and noticeability with an advertising jingle writer's regretful capacity to spout meaningless garbage. Shoop Shoop Diddy Wop Cumma Cumma Wang Dang, as heard on the Top 10 here and on the Dr. Demento show worldwide, was fairly much the story of Lola retold with a disco beat. The follow-up single, Sheba She Sha She Shoo, is basically a bunch of popular classical Egyptian stereotypes mumbled over a slower disco beat. Despite being more entertaining than the former hit, it failed to set the charts on fire and hasn't been seen since (Shoop Shoop, on the other hand, has even seen a cover version made of itself).
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