MONY MONY

Created on 11/04/2003
Latest update on 09/09/2020

Artist: Tommy James & The Shondells
Author: Tommy James/Ritchie Cordell/Bo Gentry/Bobby Bloom
Label: Roulette
Year: 1968

Inspired by the billboard in Manhattan of the Mutual of New York Insurance Company. Their building is on Broadway, not far from Tin Pan Alley. N°1 UK, n°3 US; see also: Hanky Panky.

Covers:

1969:

Mohawks

1973:

Nighttrain [B-side of Hallo Bimmelbahn (see there)]

1975:

Martin Circus [als Monnaie monnaie]

1980s:

Cilia & The Mutations [alias The Stranglers]

1981:

Billy Idol [Bubbling Under hit US; in '87 n°1 US in a live version]

1988:

Amazulu [hit UK]

1988:

Weird Al Yankovic [as Alimony]

2000:

Status Quo

Contact


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Arnold Rypens
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B-2840 Reet (Rumst)

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