Deeply Dippy

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"Deeply Dippy"
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Single by Right Said Fred
from the album Up
B-side "Deeply Dubby"
Released9 March 1992 (1992-03-09) [1]
Length3:21
Label Tug
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s) Tommy D
Right Said Fred singles chronology
"Don't Talk Just Kiss"
(1991)
"Deeply Dippy"
(1992)
"Those Simple Things/Daydream"
(1992)

"Deeply Dippy" is a song by British trio Right Said Fred from their debut album, Up (1992). Written by Right Said Fred and produced by Tommy D, "Deeply Dippy" was the third single by Right Said Fred. It bested the number-two chart peak of "I'm Too Sexy" in the United Kingdom by peaking atop the UK Singles Chart for three weeks in April 1992.

Contents

Outside the United Kingdom, "Deeply Dippy" reached number one in Ireland for four weeks and entered the top 20 in Austria, Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, and New Zealand. The song failed to chart on the US Billboard Hot 100, where "I'm Too Sexy" had reached number one, but it did peak at number nine on Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart. NME ranked "Deeply Dippy" number 22 in their list of "Singles of the Year" in December 1992. [2]

Track listings

  1. "Deeply Dippy" (single mix)
  2. "Deeply Dubby" (single mix)
  1. "Deeply Dippy" (single mix)
  2. "Deeply Dippy" (Deeply Brassy)
  3. "Deeply Dippy" (Deeply Nervous)
  4. "I'm Too Sexy" (extended club mix)
  1. "Deeply Dippy" (single mix)
  2. "Deeply Dippy" (Deeply Brassy)
  3. "I'm Too Sexy" (Italian version)

Charts

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
United Kingdom (BPI) [30] Silver200,000^

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

Covers

The song was later covered by the Rockingbirds, on the Terence Higgins Trust, supporting charity EP The Fred EP .

The song was featured in an advert for Sun Bingo in September 2015. [31] It was also featured in an advert, "Deal of the Decade", for the range of the Fiat Punto and Fiat Stilo, in July 2002. The song's background music, was also featured, and used by Heart Yorkshire, for their Yorkshire Song in July 2014, as promotion for the bike race, the Tour de France, with changed lyrics to be based around Yorkshire. [32] [33] Colleagues in the Sainsbury's in Heaton performed their own version of the song in March 2011 as part of raising money for Red Nose Day 2011. [34]

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