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"The Official BBC Children in Need Medley" | ||||
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Single by Peter Kay's Animated All Star Band | ||||
Released | 21 November 2009 | |||
Recorded | 2009 | |||
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Length | 4:30 | |||
Label | Sony | |||
Songwriter(s) | Various Jackie Jackson, Michael Jackson, Christine McVie, A.R. Rahman, Sampooran Kalra, Tanvi Shah, Judith Abbott, Duncan Bruce, Paul Greco, Anne Holden, Darren Hamer, Nigel Hunter, Louise Watts, Allan Whalley, Gary Barlow, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Guy Garvey, Craig Potter, Mark Potter, Pete Turner, Richard Jupp | |||
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Children in Need singles chronology | ||||
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"The Official BBC Children in Need Medley" is a single by Peter Kay's Animated All Star Band. It is the official Children in Need Single for 2009, and was released on 21 November 2009. The song was shown for the first time on Children in Need 2009. The cover art is a parody of the cover of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band by the Beatles. The single has sold over 452,000 copies in the UK, earning it gold status from the BPI. [1]
According to a news interview, Kay conceptualized the single while working with the director. The director said that he would "love to do something like that" but he and Kay regarded it mostly as a joke.
After some time away from the subject, Kay brought it up again, this time with the actual intent to produce it. The director said that he and Kay "just sat down one lunchtime and wrote a list", with as many characters recorded on it as they could think of from their childhoods, as well as some modern favourites and US cartoon characters. The song was recorded at Hullabaloo Studios by the Voice and Music Company.
The project was carried out in top secret at the request of executive producer Kay. Celebrities and voice artists who voiced characters' original vocals were brought in without being told details of the project. When contacted by Cartoon Network Studios, Casey Kasem agreed to take part on the condition that Shaggy was shown to be a vegetarian and asked not to be given credit as he was officially retired. [2]
The project took 132 hours to mix the vocals of the seven songs, eight months to animate, and around two years in total.[ citation needed ] Many of the original character models had been packed away, given to museums or cremated. Where possible the originals were found and transported to Chapman Studios in Altrincham from all over the world. In cases where the original models no longer existed, such as the characters from Camberwick Green and Trumpton, [3] new copies of the original models were created.
Because permission was not given by Royal Mail to use their more up to date logo, Postman Pat's van was a modified design with only the number plate PAT 4. [4]
The single raised at least £170,000 for Children in Need after more than 265,000 CD, DVD and download sales by mid-December 2009. [5]
The single is a medley of multiple songs played out in the following order:
The single entered the UK Singles Chart on download sales alone at number 18. On iTunes, the video was being downloaded almost three times as much as the single. Video sales are not included in the UK Singles Chart,[ citation needed ] so it was felt that the single might not chart as highly as expected, however it climbed to number one in its second week on the chart after it was released on CD and DVD. Although it peaked very highly on the UK Singles Chart, it peaked surprisingly low on the UK Downloads Chart, at number 30. The high physical sales of the single meant that it held off Jason Derulo's "Whatcha Say" in its first week and Rihanna's "Russian Roulette" in its second week. In its third week, the single dropped to number 2 after it was knocked off the number one spot by Lady Gaga's "Bad Romance". In the fourth week, the single fell to number 4 and then number 11 in its fifth week. In its sixth week, the song dropped 24 places to 35. The song entered the European Hot 100 at number 58; the next week it climbed 51 places to number 7, and peaked at number 5; the song then dropped to number 11 the next week. The song entered the Irish Singles Chart at number 25, then the following week the song moved up to 19, and peaked at number 6.
As of November 2016, the song has sold 452,000 copies in the UK. [1]
The music video shows the Animated All Star Band meeting and recording the song in a studio, spoofing other charity songs in the style of Band Aid's "Do They Know It's Christmas?", with Big Chris, the character voiced by Kay in Roary the Racing Car , first arranging the recording session and then leading the singing.
The music video features over 100 cartoon characters from different production companies. Nearly all of the characters are voiced by their original UK voice artists[ citation needed ] including Ringo Starr (who was a member of the Beatles who recorded "Hey Jude", which is sung here) as Thomas the Tank Engine. [6] One of the exceptions is Scooby-Doo who is voiced by Frank Welker since original voice artist Don Messick died in 1997. [7] Most of the contributions are stop motion characters. Some appear on TV screens within the stop motion world "via satellite", including US cartoon characters Shaggy Rogers, Scooby-Doo, and Ben Tennyson. Roobarb and Custard, Peppa Pig, George Pig and Muffin the Mule are also included. Cartoon characters SpongeBob SquarePants and Angelina Ballerina appear on Big Chris' smartphone.
The video depicts Big Chris at night talking to Postman Pat on the phone, saying he wants to get everyone together for the recording. Bob the Builder sings The Jacksons' "Can You Feel It", joined by Postman Pat, Fireman Sam, Teletubbies and other characters. Next Station Officer Steele and other characters sing Fleetwood Mac's "Don't Stop", such as Ted Glen, The Koala Brothers, The Wombles, Aloysius Parker, and Peppa Pig. Fifi sings The Pussycat Dolls' "Jai Ho", accompanied by Penny Morris, Wendy, Marsha, Primrose, Big Christine and Nisha Bains. Ajay Bains joins their flash mob much to the disapproval of Fireman Sam, Elvis Cridlington, Station Officer Steele, Postman Pat, Bob, Big Chris, Mr. Carburettor, Virgil, Parker, and Brains. Ajay then realizes his mistake and joins Sam, Elvis, Steele, Pat and the other men for their new rendition of Chumbawamba's "Tubthumping", and then Fireman Sam and the entire cast sing a montage of Take That's "Never Forget", the Beatles' "Hey Jude", and Elbow's "One Day Like This". At the end of the video, Chippy Minton appears, only to be informed by Big Chris that they have just finished.
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