Billboard #1 Hits: #33″ Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini”- Brian Hyland. August 8, 1960- 1 week. Released on Kapp Records. Written by Paul Vance and Lee Pockriss. Genre: Novelty- bubblegum pop. Time:2:19. B-side:”Don’t Dilly Dally Sally.” Grade: F.
What a piece of annoying pop garbage. I’ve always had an active dislike for this single-easily the worst single to hit #1 in 1960 and a strong contender for the worst #1 single of the 1960’s. On the UK Singles Chart it peaked at #8. It was the first chart hit for Brian Hyland who would go on and place 22 singles into the Hot 100 from 1960 to 71- he was seventeen when this atrocity went to #1.
If you think this is bad, check out the version that made number one in the UK in the early 1990s. Genuinely terrifying….
I will look that up! Thanks.
This single and Sugar Shack (which I cringe even typing the name) are two that I actively hate from the sixties.
Didn’t George Martin produce the one in the UK? Pre-Beatles of course.
Hey, now. Don’t be crackin’ on Sugar Shack. That is a great song esp. for dancing. 😉😁
Itsy Bitsy, on the other hand, makes my teeth hurt.
Vic you have to be talking about Love Shack…look up Sugar Shack…is it possible to dance to that?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar_Shack
Jimmy Gilmer & the Fireballs? Hell, yeah. Modified Jitterbug or a Shag…even Swing steps. I’ve watched my parents dance to it.
It’s a great, funky little song.
Ah! I can finally say I’m the heretic!
My friends would play this song just to piss me off because this could be my all time hated song ever.
🤣 “Espresso coffee tastes mighty good…”
I was dancing a few minutes ago…😁😍
LOL….
It’s amazing how many songs I have discovered through commercials (I believe this one was a Yoplait commercial some years back). The power of advertising.
I don’t hate it, but I don’t like it much either. Probably made during the beach movie years…
I remember as a young kid watching the James Cagney film ‘One, Two, Three’, and this song was used to torture a young Communist, played by Horst Buchholz, who was married to Cagney’s rebellious daughter.
Never saw that movie- will look for it!
It’s pretty funny and quite topical politically for those Cold War times.