"Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye" | ||||
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Single by Steam | ||||
from the album Steam | ||||
B-side | "It's the Magic in You Girl" | |||
Released | November 1969 | |||
Recorded | 1969 | |||
Studio | Mercury Sound Studios, New York | |||
Genre | Pop | |||
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Label | Fontana F 1667 (US) | |||
Songwriter(s) | Paul Leka, Gary DeCarlo, Dale Frashuer | |||
Producer(s) | Paul Leka | |||
Steam singles chronology | ||||
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"Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye" is a 1969 song written and recorded by Paul Leka, Gary DeCarlo and Dale Frashuer, attributed to a then-fictitious band Steam. It was released under the Mercury subsidiary label Fontana and became a number-one pop single on the Billboard Hot 100 in late 1969, and remained on the charts in early 1970. [1] [ failed verification ]
Paul Leka, Gary DeCarlo and Dale Frashuer wrote a blues shuffle version of the song in the early 1960s when they were members of a doo-wop group from Bridgeport, Connecticut, originally called the Glenwoods, then the Citations, and finally, the Chateaus, of which Leka was the piano player. The group disbanded when Leka talked Frashuer into going into New York City with him to write and possibly produce. In 1969, DeCarlo (using the professional name Garrett Scott) [2] recorded four songs at Mercury Records in New York with Leka as producer. The singles impressed the company's executives, who wanted to issue all of them as A-side singles. In need of a B-side, Leka and DeCarlo resurrected an old song from their days as the Glenwoods, "Kiss Him Goodbye", with their old bandmate, Frashuer.
With DeCarlo as lead vocalist, [3] they recorded the song in one session. Instead of using a full band, Leka played keyboards and had engineer Warren Dewey splice together a drum track from one of DeCarlo's four singles and a conga drum solo by Ange DiGeronimo recorded in Leka's Bridgeport, Connecticut, studio for an entirely different session. [4] "I said we should put a chorus to it (to make it longer)", Leka told Fred Bronson in The Billboard Book of Number One Hits. "I started writing while I was sitting at the piano going 'na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na'... Everything was 'na na' when you didn't have a lyric." Gary added "hey hey". [5]
"Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye" reached number one in the United States for two weeks, on December 6 1969, displacing "Come Together" by the Beatles. It was Billboard's final multi-week number 1 hit of the 1960s and also peaked at number twenty on the soul chart. [6] In Canada, the song reached number six. [7] By the beginning of the 21st century, sales of "Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye" had exceeded 6.5 million records, [8] attaining multi-platinum record status. [9]
"Na Na Hey Hey" | |
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Song by Jeronimo | |
from the album Cosmic Blues | |
Released | 1970 |
Genre | Hard Rock |
Jeronimo, a German hard rock band of the early 1970s from Frankfurt am Main.
The band was founded by Rainer Marz (guitar, vocal), Gunnar Schäfer (bass, vocal) and Ringo Funk (drums, vocal) in 1969 and in '69/'70 they had their first two hits "Heya" and "Na Na Hey Hey". With these two chartbreakers, they climbed to the number 1 position in almost all European countries.
"Sha-Na-Na-Na (Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye)" | |
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Single by The Dave Clark Five | |
B-side | "I Don't Know" |
Released | October 26, 1973 |
Recorded | 1973 |
Genre | Rock and roll |
Length | 3:19 |
Label | EMI Records |
Songwriter(s) | Gary DeCarlo, Dale Frashuer, Paul Leka |
In October of 1973, The Dave Clark Five released the song as a single, credited to Dave Clark & Friends. [10] It did not chart in the US, but was a minor success in Germany and New Zealand.
"Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye" | ||||
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Single by Bananarama | ||||
from the album Deep Sea Skiving | ||||
B-side | "Tell Tale Signs" | |||
Released | February 14, 1983 | |||
Recorded | 1982 | |||
Genre | Pop [11] | |||
Length | 3:30 | |||
Label | London Records | |||
Songwriter(s) | Gary DeCarlo, Dale Frashuer, Paul Leka | |||
Producer(s) | Jolley & Swain | |||
Bananarama singles chronology | ||||
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In February 1983, UK girl group Bananarama released the song as a single from their album Deep Sea Skiving . This version became a top ten hit in the United Kingdom (number 5), but only a minor hit in the US (Billboard number 101) later that year. [12]
This was the fifth single released from their first album in 1983. It peaked at number five in the UK singles chart, and number 38 in Australia on the Kent Music Report chart. [13]
UK: London Records NANA 4; USA: London Records 810 115-7
London Records NANX 4
The music video directed by Keith McMillan features the band playing in a school playground and then being made to move by a group of men. They then decide to join a boxing club so the video features them singing the song whilst boxing. By the end of the video they return to the playground wearing leathers and this time make the group of men move away. They then ride off into the night on motorbikes.
"Kiss Him Goodbye" | ||||
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Single by the Nylons | ||||
from the album Happy Together | ||||
B-side | "It's What They Call Magic" | |||
Released | January 1, 1987 | |||
Recorded | 1987 | |||
Genre | A cappella | |||
Length | 3:24 | |||
Label | Attic | |||
Songwriter(s) | Gary DeCarlo, Dale Frashuer, Paul Leka | |||
Producer(s) | Bill Henderson | |||
The Nylons singles chronology | ||||
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In 1987, Canadian quartet the Nylons released an a cappella version of this song as a single under the shortened title "Kiss Him Goodbye". It became their biggest hit on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at number twelve that summer, [14] and reaching number 15 in Canada. [15]
Canada: Attic Records AT 348; USA: Open Air Records OS-0022
Canada: Attic Records AT 1240; USA: Open Air Records OS-12240
Weekly charts
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Chart (1983) | Peak position |
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Australia (Kent Music Report) [28] | 38 |
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders) [29] | 29 |
Ireland (IRMA) [18] | 4 |
New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ) [30] | 29 |
UK [31] | 5 |
Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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United States (RIAA) [32] | Gold | 1,000,000^ |
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. |
A 1970 cover by the Canadian R&B/funk band Wayne McGhie and the Sounds of Joy had no chart success on its own, but has been sampled in numerous hip hop recordings. [33] When the band's long-forgotten album was reissued in 2004, Canadian music critic Bill Reynolds wrote that their cover was so good it should be used at sporting events instead of Steam's original. [34]
In 1977, Chicago White Sox organist Nancy Faust began playing the song. It had previously been sung spontaneously by fans in the stands, possibly beginning in a series with the Minnesota Twins July 1–3, 1977, a four-game series swept by the White Sox. The fan version went "Minnesota, Minnesota, Hey Hey Good Bye". Nancy Faust began playing it regularly on the organ later that month. It is generally directed at the losing side in an elimination contest when the outcome is all but certain or when an individual player is ejected, disqualified, or more often in baseball games, a pitching change is made during an inning (which is when Faust would play it). It has also been sung by crowds in political rallies, to taunt political opponents or to drown out and mock disruptive counter-protesters. [35]
The song was used for the intro/outro theme tune for the 1990-1992 TV-am / Hey, Hey, It's Saturday! show Top Banana , hosted by Mike Brosnan. [36]
The song is featured prominently throughout the 2000 biographical sports film Remember the Titans , which is based on the true story of the 1971 T. C. Williams High School football team from Alexandria, Virginia.
This song was one of 164 [37] included on the list of songs which were temporarily banned from public radio airplay by Clear Channel after 9/11.
On January 23, 2006, Paul Martin was defeated by Stephen Harper as Prime Minister of Canada. Martin had acceded to the prime ministry following the ouster of Jean Chrétien. The next day's issue of La Voix de l'Est , a French newspaper in Granby, Quebec, included a cartoon by Paquette showing Chrétien calling Martin and singing "Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye".
In April 2009, the song was sampled by American singer Kristinia DeBarge in her single "Goodbye". [38] [39] [40]
In May 2014, the song was sampled by Norwegian singer Adelén with Olé used for the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil, as recorded for the soundtrack One Love, One Rhythm – The 2014 FIFA World Cup Official Album.
On May 4, 2017, after the House of Representatives voted to pass the American Health Care Act which partially repealed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Democratic representatives chanted "Na na na na, hey hey, goodbye" to Republican representatives, implying that in voting for the bill, they would lose their House seats in the next election. DeCarlo was happy to hear of the song getting renewed exposure, but said he opposed Obamacare. [41] It was not the first time the song had been sung in Congress; in 1993, after Democrats voted for then-President Bill Clinton's tax bill, House Republicans sang "Goodbye". [42]
In January 2019, GMC launched an advertising campaign for its 2019 Sierra 1500 pickup truck, focusing on GMC's new MultiPro tailgate feature. The commercial shows owners of competing pickups carrying tailgates from those trucks and singing "Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye" while heading to the top of a mountain. [43]
In 2020, American singer-songwriter and pop star Katy Perry sampled “Goodbye” in the song Not The End Of The World off her 5th studio album, Smile.
Bananarama are an English pop group formed in London in 1980. The group, originally a trio, consisted of friends Sara Dallin, Siobhan Fahey, and Keren Woodward. Fahey left the group in 1988 and was replaced by Jacquie O'Sullivan until 1991, when the trio became a duo. Their success on both pop and dance charts saw them listed in the Guinness World Records for achieving the world's highest number of chart entries by an all-female group. Between 1982 and 2009, they had 32 singles reach the Top 50 of the UK Singles Chart.
Deep Sea Skiving is the debut studio album by British vocal group Bananarama, released on 7 March 1983 by London Records. The album peaked at number seven on the UK Albums Chart and was certified Silver by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI).
"Me and Bobby McGee" is a song written by American singer-songwriter Kris Kristofferson and originally performed by Roger Miller. Fred Foster shares the writing credit, as Kristofferson wrote the song based on a suggestion from Foster. A posthumously released version by Janis Joplin topped the Billboard Hot 100 in 1971, making the song the second posthumously released No. 1 single in U.S. chart history after "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay" by Otis Redding. Gordon Lightfoot released a version that reached number 1 on the Canadian country charts in 1970. Jerry Lee Lewis released a version that was number 1 on the country charts in December 1971/January 1972 as the "B" side of "Would You Take Another Chance on Me". Billboard ranked Joplin's version as the No. 11 song for 1971.
Steam was an American pop rock music group, best known for their 1969 number one hit single, "Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye". The song was written and recorded by studio musicians Gary DeCarlo, Dale Frashuer, and producer/writer Paul Leka at Mercury Records studios in New York City. The single was attributed to the band Steam, although at the time there was actually no band with that name. Leka and the studio group also recorded the first album of the band from which four other songs were released as singles in 1970.
"Venus" is a song by Dutch rock band Shocking Blue, released as a single in the Netherlands in the summer of 1969. Written by Robbie van Leeuwen, the song topped the charts in nine countries.
The Greatest Hits Collection is a compilation album released by Bananarama which features their single releases and greatest hits. It was issued by London Records in 1988, eight months after the departure of group member Siobhan Fahey. The track listing differed between versions released in the United States and Canada, as well as those released throughout Europe and other territories.
New Ways But Love Stays is the twentieth studio album by the Jean Terrell-led Supremes. Building on the foundation of the group's first LP, Right On, New Ways was produced by Frank Wilson and features The Supremes' most successful single with Terrell, "Stoned Love".
The Essentials is one of several greatest hits collections by Bananarama. This compilation was only released in the US by Rhino Records' Essentials series. Within the same year, WEA issued The Very Best of Bananarama to mark the group's twentieth anniversary.
The Very Best of Bananarama is a greatest hits album by English group Bananarama, released on 15 October 2001 by Warner Strategic Marketing and London Records. It was released to celebrate the group's 20th anniversary, including their singles released from 1981 to 1993. The album reached number 43 on the UK Albums Chart.
English group Bananarama have released 12 studio albums, two live albums, 16 compilation albums, two extended plays, 51 singles and four video albums.
"He Was Really Sayin' Somethin'" is a soul song written by Motown songwriters Norman Whitfield, William "Mickey" Stevenson, and Edward Holland, Jr. in 1964. The song is notable in both a 1964 version by American Motown girl group the Velvelettes, and a 1982 hit version by British girl group Bananarama.
"Cheers Then" is a song recorded by English girl group Bananarama. It appears on their 1983 debut album Deep Sea Skiving and was released as its third single in November 1982, a few months before the album. The song was the first Bananarama single to be written by group members Sara Dallin, Siobhan Fahey and Keren Woodward and also their first ballad release.
"I'll Never Fall in Love Again" is a popular song by composer Burt Bacharach and lyricist Hal David that was written for the 1968 musical Promises, Promises. Several recordings of the song were released in 1969; the most popular versions were by Dionne Warwick, who took it to number 6 on Billboard magazine's Hot 100 and spent three weeks topping the magazine's list of the most popular Easy Listening songs, and Bobbie Gentry, who topped the UK chart with her recording and also peaked at number 1 in Australia and Ireland, number 3 in South Africa and number 5 in Norway.
Paul Leka was an American songwriter, record producer, pianist, arranger, and orchestrator, most notable for co-writing the 1960s hits "Green Tambourine" and "Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye", the latter of which has become a standard song at sporting events.
"He Will Break Your Heart", is a song originally performed and co-written by Jerry Butler. It was a top-ten hit in 1960.
"Love on a Two-Way Street" is a soul ballad written by Sylvia Robinson and Bert Keyes in 1968. The song was originally recorded by Lezli Valentine, an artist signed to All Platinum, the record label that Sylvia Robinson co-owned with her husband, Joe. The song was then recorded by The Moments, an R&B vocal group signed to All Platinum subsidiary Stang Records, as filler for their 1968 album Not on the Outside, But on the Inside, Strong!. Sylvia and Joe decided to release the song as a single in March 1970 and it went on to become one of the biggest R&B hits of that year, spending five weeks at number one on Billboard's Soul Singles chart and reaching number three on the Hot 100 chart. Billboard ranked the record as the No. 25 song of 1970. It was also certified gold by the RIAA for sales of one million copies.
"Hey There Lonely Girl" is a song released in 1969 by Eddie Holman. The original version "Hey There Lonely Boy" was recorded in 1963 by Ruby & the Romantics. It was a hit for both of them. It has since been recorded by many other artists.
"Goodbye" is the first single released by the American recording artist Kristinia DeBarge from her first studio album Exposed. It was released digitally in the United States on April 7, 2009, to US radio on April 28, 2009, and in the UK on August 10, 2009. The song contains a sample of Steam's "Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye". An uptempo dance pop track, the lyrics of the song deal with DeBarge getting over her ex-boyfriend. A music video was released to promote the song, which features DeBarge and her friends stealing her ex-boyfriend's car and driving to various locations, including a house party. Throughout the video, DeBarge is seen flirting with several men in an attempt to get back at her ex-boyfriend.
"Chillin" is a song by American rapper Wale, featuring singer Lady Gaga. It was released as the lead single from his debut album, Attention Deficit, on April 14, 2009, by Allido Records. Wale had wanted to collaborate with Gaga, and met the singer through a mutual connection with the rapper's mentor, Mark Ronson. "Chillin" was composed by a number of songwriters, including Wale and Gaga, while it was produced by Cool & Dre. Recorded in New York City, the song discusses Wale's life in his hometown. It has musical influence of 1990s style rapping, and contains two samples from the 1969 song "Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye" by the band Steam, and the 1987 song, "Top Billin'", by Audio Two.
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