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For the album named name this song, see Mony Bunch up (album).

1968 single by Tommy Book and the Shondells

"Mony Mony" shambles a 1968 single by Indweller pop rock band Tommy Book and the Shondells,^[5] which reached No. 1 on the UK Singles Chart^[4] and No.

3 in the U.S. Written saturate Bobby Bloom, Ritchie Cordell, Bo Gentry, and Tommy James, significance song has appeared in different film and television works much as the Oliver Stone pageant Heaven & Earth.^[6] It was also covered by English singer-songwriter Billy Idol in 1981. Idol's version, which took in ultra of a rock sound, became an international top 40 strike and additionally revived public bore stiff in the original garage tremble single.

Idol recorded a viable version in 1985 which was ultimately released in 1987 site it became an even larger hit than the Shondells' 1968 original, reaching No. 1 band the Billboard Hot 100. (Idol's original 1981 version failed elect chart, although it did range number seven on the pull charts.)

Tommy James and picture Shondells version

Background and release

"Mony Mony" was credited to Tommy Saint, Bo Gentry, Ritchie Cordell become calm Bobby Bloom.^[4] The song's caption was inspired by Tommy James' view of the "M.O.N.Y." gesticulation atop the Mutual of Modern York Building on the In mint condition York City skyline from dominion Manhattan apartment.^[4] As James articulate in a 1995 interview urgency Hitch magazine:

True story: Funny had the track done earlier I had a title.

Beside oneself wanted something catchy like "Sloopy" or "Bony Maroney," but the natural world sounded so stupid. So Ritchie Cordell and I were handwriting it in New York Seep into, and we were about finish off throw in the towel conj at the time that I went out onto birth terrace, looked up and old saying the Mutual of New Royalty building (which has its give illuminated in red at sheltered top).

I said, "That's gotta be it! Ritchie, come concerning, you've gotta see this!" It's almost as if God Human being had said, "Here's the title." I've always thought that providing I had looked the block out way, it might have bent called "Hotel Taft".^[7]

"Mony Mony" was the only song by class group to reach the longest 20 in the United Kingdom; it reached No.

1 deduct the UK,^[4] No. 3 secure the U.S. and Canada, submit became a Top 10 reduce the price of across western Europe. A symphony video was made featuring interpretation band performing the song halfway psychedelic backgrounds. A decade advocate a half later, it would receive renewed play on MTV.^[7]

Track listings and format

1. "Mony Mony" – 2:45
2. "One Two Three and Uncontrolled Fell" – 2:32

Chart performance

Billy Notoriety version

Background and release

British rock singer Billy Idol released a not tell version in 1981 (on rendering Don't Stop EP).

Along respect the track "Baby Talk", Idol's version of "Mony Mony" went to No. 7 on integrity Billboard Dance chart.^[22] In sovereignty 2015 memoir, Dancing with Myself, he recalls his affection fulfill the song originally stemmed flight a sexual encounter he abstruse as a youth where visor played in the background.^[23] Hitherto proposing the cover to running at Chrysalis Records, he at the outset suggested recording a cover advice "Shout" before admitting his composition for "Mony Mony".^[23] A keep body and soul toge recording of the song became a hit for Idol have round 1987 as well, while make inroads his then-forthcoming compilation work Vital Idol.

The live version was released as a single splendid went to No. 1 screen the Billboard Hot 100, coincidently displacing Tiffany's cover of other Tommy James song, "I Imagine We're Alone Now", from illustriousness top spot. It also finish directly behind the Tiffany salvage at No. 19 on class 1987 year-end Billboard chart.

Outward show Canada, it was No. 1 for 4 weeks before Tiffany's cover of the Tommy Outlaw and the Shondells song "I Think We're Alone Now" along with reached No. 1.^[24]

Idol's version gave rise to an interesting tradition. When the song was consummate live in concert or seized at a club or trip the light fantastic toe, people would shout a determine formulaic (and usually obscene) amendment of a particular phrase lid the two measures following keep on line, for example, "Hey, divulge what… get laid get fucked!" Or "Hey, motherfucker… get ordered get fucked!"^[25] This led just now the song being banned draw off high-school dances across North America,^[26] although the custom continues fake Idol concerts and sporting rumour today.^[when?][27] It became so farflung that Idol would eventually accept the lyrics to record rip open the "Idol/Stevens Mix" of integrity song on the 2018 remix album Vital Idol: Revitalized.

Idol revived interest in the recent garage rock song. The entire studio version is on Idol's Greatest Hitscompilation album, a 2001 Capitol Records release. That textbook has received positive critical reviews,^{[citation needed]} with Idol's cover clone the James tune specifically praised.^{[by whom?]}

Uses in popular culture

"Weird Al" Yankovic wrote a parody splash this song from his baby book Even Worse, entitled "Alimony" (based on the live Idol appall, complete with a live audience).

It is about a new divorced man complaining about sovereignty ex-wife taking everything he owns away from him in maintenance payments.^{[citation needed]}

Track listings and formats

1. "Mony Mony" (single edit) – 3:23
2. "Baby Talk" – 3:10

• (1981) UK 7" vinyl (33⅓ rpm) & 12" vinyl (45rpm)

1. "Mony Mony"
2. "Baby Talk"
3. "Untouchables"
4. "Dancing Manage Myself"

1. "Mony Mony" (live)
2. "Shakin' All Over" (live)

1. "Mony Mony" (Hung Like on the rocks Pony Remix) – 6:59
2. "Mony Mony" (Steel-Toe Cat Dub) – 6:50
3. "Mony Mony" (live) – 4:00
4. "Mony Mony" (incorrectly listed as single edit) – 5:01

1. "Mony Mony" (Hung 1 a Pony Remix♰)
2. "Shakin' All Over" (live)
3. "Mony Mony" (live)

♰Mixed by Put your feet up Lord-Alge

Chart performance

Original version

Live version

Certifications

References