View Full Version : Whats the song called/by on the Matalan clothes advert?


designbunny
16-03-2005, 18:57
Is cool! I want it too!

Siān
16-03-2005, 19:06
A quick Google throws up "The Clapping Song" :)

matalan advert (http://forum.digitalspy.co.uk/board/showthread.php?t=199399)

Ginner
16-03-2005, 21:54
It's not got the Matalan ad you refer to, but it comes in useful now and then....

http://www.commercialbreaksandbeats.co.uk/

bellis
16-03-2005, 22:06
talkin of matalan

what are the clothes like ? worth goin to have a look

designbunny
17-03-2005, 19:52
Thanks! I found this...

http://www.smokecds.com/track/151095

jgharston
18-03-2005, 13:14
It's an American playground rhyming/clapping song. Children clap their own and their partners alternate hands together. Like the english:
A sailor went to sea sea sea
[clap]x8
To see what he could see see see
[clap]x8
But all that he could see see see
[clap]x8
Was the bottom of the deep blue sea sea sea
[clap]x8

Crumbs... that brings back memories.

jgharston
18-03-2005, 13:22
The advert has the chorus, which, if memory serves me, is:

Three six nine
The goose drank wine
The monkey chewed tobaccy on the streetcar line
The line broke, the monkey got choked
And they all went to heaven in a little row boat.

[To the acccomanyment of various clapping motions]

t020
18-03-2005, 13:24
Is it Shirley Bassey - Big Spender? :hihi: :hihi:

Edit: smilies added for clarity.

Rich
18-03-2005, 14:35
Originally posted by t020
Is it Shirley Bassey - Big Spender?

Obviously not :loopy:

Next!

tara
18-03-2005, 15:59
Shirley Ellis did the original in early 60's.