1966 single by Crispian St. Peters
"The Pied Piper" is a pop song written by the American song-writing and performing duo The Changin' Times , consisting of Steve Duboff and Artie Kornfeld , who first recorded it in 1965. Their version reached #87 on the Billboard Hot 100 .[ 2] However, when British pop singer Crispian St. Peters recorded it, he scored a major hit during the summer of 1966. It went to #4 in the United States , #5 in the United Kingdom , and #1 in Canada .[ 3] [ 4]
The song's title refers to a fairy tale from German folklore, the titular character of which is The Pied Piper of Hamelin .
Chart history
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
Later uses
An advertisement for the first-generation Toyota Echo in Australia and New Zealand.[ 13] [ 14] [ 15]
The song has been used in three episodes of the HBO series Silicon Valley , where it is sung karaoke by Dinesh .
Other versions
References
^ Rodriguez, Robert (2012). Revolver: How the Beatles Re-Imagined Rock 'n' Roll . Montclair: Backbeat Books. p. 242. ISBN 978-1-61713-009-0 .
^ The Changin' Times, "Pied Piper" chart position Retrieved June 18, 2015.
^ Songs from the Year 1966
^ Library and Archives Canada. RPM 100 Week of July 18, 1966 Retrieved March 13, 2012.
^ "Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada" . Collectionscanada.gc.ca . 1966-08-01. Retrieved 2018-11-12 .
^ "The Irish Charts – Search Results – The Pied Piper" . Irish Singles Chart . Retrieved December 9, 2018.
^ Flavour of New Zealand, 15 July 1966
^ "SA Charts 1965–March 1989" . Retrieved 5 December 2018 .
^ Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955–1990 - ISBN 0-89820-089-X
^ Cash Box Top 100 Singles, July 30, 1966
^ "Top 100 Hits of 1966/Top 100 Songs of 1966" . musicoutfitters.com. Retrieved 1 December 2017 .
^ http://tropicalglen.com/Archives/60s_files/1966YESP.html Cash Box Year-End Charts: Top 100 Pop Singles, December 24, 1966
^ "The Good Oil: Road safety in school" . New Zealand Herald. 2000-06-30.
^ YouTube - Toyota Echo Australian TV ad (2000) - "Follow me, I'm the pied piper..."
^ Four Donkey Films - production company for the advertisement
^ L'almanacco di Radioscrigno Retrieved March 13, 2012.
^ Bob and Marcia, "Pied Piper" chart position Retrieved June 18, 2015.
^ Janjatović, Petar (2024). Ex YU rock enciklopedija 1960-2023 . Belgrade: self-released. p. 288.
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