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Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick
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| "Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick" | ||
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| Single by Ian Dury & The Blockheads | ||
| B-side(s) | "There Ain't Half Been Some Clever Bastards" | |
| Released | 23 November 1978 (U.K.) | |
| Format | 7" single | |
| Genre | Rock | |
| Length | 3:43 | |
| Label | Stiff Records | |
| Writer(s) | Ian Dury / Chas Jankel | |
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| Ian Dury & The Blockheads singles chronology | ||
| "What a Waste" (1978) |
"Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick" (1978) |
"Reasons to be Cheerful, Part 3" (1979) |
"Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick" is a 1978 single by Ian Dury & The Blockheads, written by Ian Dury and Chas Jankel. It went to number 1 on the UK popular music charts in January, 1979.
The song was recorded in The Workhouse Studio on the Old Kent Road, London (the same place Dury's debut album, New Boots and Panties!! was recorded), and was originally released on the Stiff Records single, Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick / There Ain't Half Been Some Clever Bastards. Chas Jankel often re-tells a story that after recording it he phoned his mother and told her, "I've just recorded my first number one."
While not a hit in the U.S, it sold 979,000 copies in the UK. Recently, its popularity was boosted by its appearance in a 2006 British advertisement for Capital One.
The B-side was "There Ain't Half Been Some Clever Bastards", written by Dury and Russel Hardy, his co-writer from his time in the pub-rock band Kilburn & The Highroads.
| Preceded by "YMCA" by Village People |
UK number one single January 7, 1979 |
Succeeded by "Heart of Glass" by Blondie |