Starry Eyed Surprise

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"Starry Eyed Surprise"
Starry Eyed Surprise.jpg
Single by Oakenfold
from the album Bunkka, Happy Love Sick and Greatest Hits & Remixes
B-side "Mortal"
Released19 August 2002 (2002-08-19) [1]
Studio
Length3:09
Label Perfecto
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
  • Paul Oakenfold
  • Andy Gray
Paul Oakenfold singles chronology
"Southern Sun"
(2002)
"Starry Eyed Surprise"
(2002)
"The Harder They Come"
(2003)

"Starry Eyed Surprise" is a song by English record producer Oakenfold featuring vocals from Shifty Shellshock of Crazy Town. The song was released on 19 August 2002 as the second single from Oakenfold's debut album, Bunkka (2002), reaching number six in the United Kingdom, number 19 in the Netherlands and New Zealand, number 21 in Ireland, and number 37 in Australia. It also reached the top 50 in Italy and the United States. It was later included on Shifty Shellshock's 2004 album Happy Love Sick and Oakenfold's 2007 album Greatest Hits & Remixes .

Contents

Content

The line "Freaky deaky, star speckles and pink butterflies", sung by Shifty Shellshock, is sung in a similar manner to that of his band's previous single, "Butterfly". The song also samples "Everybody's Talkin'" by Harry Nilsson, which is a cover version of the original by Fred Neil, hence why Neil received a songwriter credit for "Starry Eyed Surprise".

Track listings

Credits and personnel

Credits are lifted from the UK CD single liner notes. [2]

Studios

Personnel

Charts

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