Ian Dury And The Blockheads - Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick Album

Tracklist

1	–Ian & The Blockheads	Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick Directed By [Under The Musical Direction Of] – Chaz JankelWritten-By – Jankel, Dury	3:40
2	–Michael Gallagher, John Turnbull, Davey Payne, Norman Watt-Roy, Charley Charles, Chaz Blockhead & Ian Blockhead	There Ain't Half Been Some Clever Bastards Written-By – Dury, Hardy	3:01

Versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
BUY 38	Ian Dury And The Blockheads	Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick ‎(7", Single)	Stiff Records	BUY 38	UK	1978
AE7 1179	Ian Dury	Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick ‎(12", Promo)	Stiff-Epic	AE7 1179	Canada	1978
STIF 103	Ian Dury	Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick ‎(7", Promo)	Stiff Records	STIF 103	Italy	1978
8-50726	Ian & The Blockheads	Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick ‎(7", Single)	Stiff Records	8-50726	US	1978
BUY 38	Ian Dury & The Blockheads	Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick ‎(7", Single, RE)	Stiff Records	BUY 38	New Zealand	1978

Notes

Small center hole, "Demonstration - Not For Sale" below track title and artist at top of label.
"'Epic' is a trademark of CBS Records Canada Ltd. 1121 Leslie St., Don Mills, Ontario M3C 2J9" at bottom of label.

Barcodes

• Matrix / Runout: ZSS 166158 / ZSS 166159

Video

Album

Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick - Ian Dury, The Blockheads. Лента с персональными рекомендациями и музыкальными новинками, радио, подборки на любой вкус, удобное управление своей коллекцией. Ian Dury, The Blockheads. Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick. Chaz Jankel, Ian Dury. Roxy Music - Virginia Plain - Top Of The. Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick is a song by Ian Dury and the Blockheads, first released as a single on Stiff Records in the UK on 23 November 1978. Written by Dury and the Blockheads' multi-instrumentalist Chaz Jankel, it is the group's most successful single, reaching number one on the UK Singles Chart in January 1979 as well as reaching the top three in Ireland, Australia and New Zealand, and it was also a top 20 hit in several European countries. Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick In the Style of Ian Dury & The Blockheads. Hit me hit me hit me Hit me with your rhythm stick It's nice to be a lunatic Hit me Hit me Hit me. Ian Dury and the Blockheads biggest hit, reaching 1 in the UK Charts in 1979. Dury said the song carried an anti-violence message. Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick Track Info. Written By Chaz Jankel & Ian Dury. Release Date November 23, 1978. Cover By. Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick by Nina Hagen. Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick Ian Dury and the Blockheads. Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick. There Aint Half Been Some Clever Bastards. Ian Dury and the Blockheads. Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick Lyrics. Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll - Ian Dury, The Blockheads. Ian Dury , The Blockheads. Die Hit Giganten - Best Of Disco, CD 2. In the deserts of Sudan And the gardens of Japan From Milan to Yucatan Every woman, every man Hit me with your rhythm stick. Hit me Hit me Je t'adore, ich liebe dich, Hit me hit me hit me Hit me with your rhythm stick. Hit me slowly, hit me quick. Hit me . Released in November 1978, Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick typifies their ability to draw on everything from music hall to reggae to rocknroll to create what Jankel dubbed punk jazz. Rhythm Stick throws in funk and disco to create an oddly disorienting, almost stoned groove. Dury had the lyrics up his sleeve for years before the song was written in a jam session. Biographer Richard Balls suggests that the line Its nice to be a lunatic was probably inspired by a caustic remark from one of Durys teachers. New punk for old: Ian Dury's debut album reviewed - archive 1977. Read more. C Em7 And the gardens of Ja - pan, Em7 DF Em7 From Mi - lan to Yuca - tan, C D D Eb Every woman,. every man E Fm EG FmA E79 E79 Hit me with your rhythm stick,. hit me,. hit me E Fm EG FmA Je t'a - dore Ich liebe dich E79 E79 Hit me, hit me,. hit me . E Fm G7 G7 Hit me with your rhythm stick, A7 G7 G7 F7 Two fat persons, click, click, click, A B Em7 Em11 Em7 Em11 Em7 Em11 Em7 Hit me,. hit - A B Em7 Em11 Em7 Em11 Em7 Em11 Em7 Hit me,. hit me- Em7 Em11 Em7 Em11 Em7 Em11 Em7 : Hit me . Album: Sex & Drugs & Rock 'n' Roll: The Best of Ian Dury and the Blockh 1978. Charted: 1. Get the Sheet Music License This Song . It is well known that the Ian Dury song Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick was inspired by his disability Dury was born in Harrow in May 1942 not Essex as he would claim early on in his music career, and contracted polio when he was seven years old. Although unlike Michael Flanders of the Flanders & Swann duo who suffered the same fate six years earlier, Dury was not confined to a wheelchair, his body was still deformed by the disease, and he used a walking stick for the rest of his life