RIPPERS SONG FACTS! Song Name: Barbara Ann Song Artist: The Beach Boys Year Released: 1965 Peak US Chart Position: #2 (Billboard Hot 100) Rippers Lead Vocalist: Jason Biggerstaff Barbara Ann is a song written by Fred Fassert and performed (as Barbara-Ann) by The Regents in 1961. The recording reached a peak position of #13 on the Billboard Hot 100 record chart. The most famous cover version is by the Beach Boys, which was released as a single on December 20, 1965, with the B-side Girl Dont Tell Me. The song peaked at #2 in the US Billboard Hot 100 (#1 in Cash Box and Record World) and at #3 in the UK It also topped the charts in Germany, Switzerland and Norway. It was The Beach Boys biggest hit in Italy, reaching #4. The song was also released on the 1965 album Beach Boys Party!. Dean Torrence, who had previously recorded the song as one half of Jan and Dean, and Brian Wilson are featured on lead vocals. Dean is not credited on the album jacket but Thanks, Dean is said by Carl at the end of the track. Capitol Records released this without telling the band. The Beach Boys were trying to gain credibility as a serious musical act, and didnt want to put out such a simplistic song. A version recorded by the Beach Boys without the Beach Boys Party! effects can be found on the Hawthorne, CA album. The Beach Boys made a false start on the Party! album by singing Baa Baa Black Sheep instead of Baa Baa Baa Baa Barbara Ann. The Beach Boys sang this song as an encore on their Live In London album. Brian Wilson has a rendition on his live Roxy CD, and in 2001, performed it himself, with the ensemble, on An All-Star Tribute to Brian Wilson. Jan & Dean covered the song in 1962 and released on their album, Golden Hits. The Beach Boys appeared in the television series Home Improvement as cousins of the character Wilson. They perform Barbara Ann in Wilsons backyard. In an episode of Full House called Beach Boy Bingo the Tanner family went to a Beach Boys concert and got to sing this song with them on stage. The song was also covered by The Who (released in November 1966 on the Ready Steady Who 7 EP), sung by Keith Moon, and was included in the film The Kids are Alright. Blind Guardian also covered the song on the album Follow the Blind. In the late 1970s series Welcome Back Kotter, the character Vinnie Barbarino (John Travolta) sings a version with the lyrics Baa-baa-baa Baa-Barbarino. A modified version of the Barbarino song is currently used in commercials by Barberino Nissan of Wallingford, Connecticut. The song featured in the 1973 film American Graffiti. In 1975, the Martin Cicus group performed a French version named Marylène. In the early 1990s, the melody of the song was made into a jingle for Babybel cheese and has remained in advertising for the cheese ever since. In the early 1990s television series Saved by the Bell episode House Party Zach, Slater and Screech lip-sync to the song while enjoying guys night in at Screechs house when his parents are away on vacation. The song was featured during the 4th season episode, My Ocardial Infarction, of the sitcom Scrubs, being sung by The Janitors fake band, Hibbleton. Brian Griffin mentions the song in the Family Guy episode Oceans Three and a Half. The song is also used as a plot point in the film Surf Ninjas. The song is often parodied in commercials for car dealership Keyes on Van Nuys located in Van Nuys, California. In 1983, the song was used in a then infamous Italian commercial for Sangemini mineral water, in which a little baby jumps up, and his genitalia are showed. The song was used as walk-on song for John McCain on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. In a 2012 teaser trailer for Despicable Me 2, the minions sing the song as: Ba ba ba. Ba ba nana. The song was parodied as Bomb Iran by various musicians, including Vince Vance and the Valiants, during the 1979 Iran hostage crisis. John McCain briefly sang Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran in response to a question at a campaign stop on April 19, 2007. Paul Shanklin recorded a full Bomb Iran parody of the song (impersonating McCain) for Rush Limbaughs radio show.[citation needed] The ApologetiX also recorded a version called Baa Were Lambs. 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Posted on: Mon, 24 Feb 2014 23:52:03 +0000
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