In 2005, after the White Sox won the World Series, during the credits on Fox Sports, "Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye" was the first song to be played. It has also been sung by crowds in political rallies, to taunt political opponents or to drown out and mock disruptive counter-protesters. It is generally directed at the losing side in an elimination contest when the outcome is all but certain or when an individual player is ejected or disqualified. Nancy Faust began playing it on the organ later that month. The fan version went "Minnesota, Minnesota, Hey Hey Good Bye".
#Canción oh na na na series#
It had previously been sung spontaneously by fans in the stands, possibly beginning in a series with the Minnesota Twins July 1–3, 1977, a four-game series swept by the White Sox. In 1977, Chicago White Sox organist Nancy Faust began playing the song. Weekly charts Steam original Chart (1969–70)
This version became a top ten hit in the United Kingdom (number 5), but only a minor hit in the US (Billboard number 101) later that year. In February 1983, UK girl group Bananarama released the song as a single from their album Deep Sea Skiving. Bananarama cover version "Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye" By the beginning of the 21st century, sales of "Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye" had exceeded 6.5 million records, attaining Multi-Platinum record status. "Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye" reached number one in the United States for two weeks, on December 6 it was Billboard 's final multi-week number 1 hit of the 1960s and also peaked at number twenty on the soul chart. The road group was lip syncing to DeCarlo's vocal in the video. The group that is seen on the album cover and in the old black and white video was a road group that had nothing to do with the recording. Everything was 'na na' when you didn't have a lyric." Gary added "hey hey". "I started writing while I was sitting at the piano going 'na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na'. "I said we should put a chorus to it (to make it longer)", Leka told Fred Bronson in The Billboard Book of Number One Hits.
#Canción oh na na na full#
Instead of using a full band, Leka played keyboards and had engineer Warren Dewey splice together a drum track from one of DeCarlo's four singles and a conga drum solo by Ange DiGeronimo recorded in Leka's Bridgeport, Connecticut studio for an entirely different session. With DeCarlo as lead vocalist, they recorded the song in one recording session. In need of a B-side, Leka and DeCarlo resurrected an old song from their days as the Glenwoods, "Kiss Him Goodbye", with their old bandmate, Frashuer.
The singles impressed the company's executives, who wanted to issue all of them as A-side singles. In 1968, DeCarlo recorded four songs at Mercury Records in New York with Leka as producer. The group disbanded when Leka talked Frashuer into going into New York City with him to write and possibly produce. Paul Leka, Gary DeCarlo and Dale Frashuer wrote a blues shuffle version of the song in the early 1960s when they were members of a doo-wop group from Bridgeport, Connecticut, called the Glenwoods, the Citations, and the Chateaus, of which Leka was the piano player.