Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chirpy_Chirpy_Cheep_Cheep "Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep" is a song recorded in early 1971 by its composer Lally Stott,[1] and made popular later that year by Scottish band Middle of the Road for whom it was a UK number one chart hit.[2] That version is one of the fewer than thirty all-time singles to have sold 10 million (or more) copies worldwide. The original recording, by its composer Stott, was a minor hit in Italy and Australia as well as on the Billboard Hot 100, where it charted but failed to achieve significant success. Stott's record company Philips were reluctant to release it overseas so he offered it to Scottish folk-pop group Middle Of The Road who were working in Italy at the time. The song became a large hit on the continent initially but became a hit in the UK as returning holidaymakers searched out a copy. It nearly flopped in the UK as Mac and Katie Kissoon released a version just before them, but aided by the patronage of DJ Tony Blackburn it became a massive hit. It reached #1 in the UK for five weeks in June 1971, whilst the Kissoon version failed to chart in the UK but reached #20 on the Billboard Hot 100. Dismissed by critics as bubblegum at the time, this was also a view initially held by band leader Ken Andrews: "We were as disgusted with the thought of recording it as most people were at the thought of buying it. But at the end of the day, we liked it." The song appears as a cover on a 1973 live record by the Little Angels

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