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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 MONY (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:
Nighttrain [B-side of Hallo Bimmelbahn (see there)]
Martin Circus [als Monnaie monnaie]
Celia & The Mutations [alias The Stranglers]
Billy Idol [Bubbling Under hit US; in '87 n°1 US in a live version]
Amazulu [hit UK]
Weird Al Yankovic [as Alimony]
Bishop Miles Coverdale, the first one to translate the Bible in English, made following fire and brimstone remark in his Goostly Psalms And Spirituall Songs (c.1535!), appropriate to quote in this context: If women, sitting at their rocks, or spinning at their wheels, had none other songs to pass their time withal, than such as Moses' sister, Glehana's wife Dora and the mother of Christ have sung before them, they should be better occupied than with "hey nony nony, hey troly loly", and such like phantasies.
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
please let me know:
Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)
Belgium