Daddy Dewdrop
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Daddy Dewdrop is a pseudonym for an American songwriter named Dick Monda (born 1940, Cleveland, Ohio
, United States
), backed up by some studio musicians, including Tom Hensley who later became the musical director for Neil Diamond
, and Butch Rillera who later became a member of the group Redbone
. Monda had written the song "Chick-A-Boom" for the cartoon
, Sabrina and the Groovie Goolies
. The song was re-recorded and distributed by Sunflower Records
, and released a full album of novelty based tunes, including "Chick-A-Boom" and was retitled "Chick-A-Boom (Don't Ya Jes' Love It)". The tune was a hit in the US, peaking on the Billboard
Pop Singles chart at #9 in 1971, and #3 on Cashbox. A second single, "Fox Huntin'/The March of the White Corpuscles" and also his further release, "Nanu Nanu (I Wanna' Get Funky With You)" from 1978. Richard Monda had earlier also founded and worked with a popular Los Angeles band the Novells back in the mid to late 1960s, who later recorded an album on Mothers Records under the supervision of H.B. Barnum. The album, That Did It! contains a song entitled "Age of Innocence," which was written and produced by Richard Monda. Therefore, Richard Monda, despite rumors to the contrary, discovered the Novells before H.B. Barnum did.
Monda went on to write hits for other artists such as Ringo Starr
, Kenny Rogers
, Tom Jones
, Engelbert Humperdinck
, Sammy Davis Jr., and many others. Monda continues to record as Daddy Dewdrop and recently released a CD entitled This Time.
Cleveland, Ohio
Cleveland is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and is the county seat of Cuyahoga County, the most populous county in the state. The city is located in northeastern Ohio on the southern shore of Lake Erie, approximately west of the Pennsylvania border...
, United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
), backed up by some studio musicians, including Tom Hensley who later became the musical director for Neil Diamond
Neil Diamond
Neil Leslie Diamond is an American singer-songwriter with a career spanning over five decades from the 1960s until the present....
, and Butch Rillera who later became a member of the group Redbone
Redbone (band)
Redbone is a Native American rock group that was most active in the 1970s. They reached the Top 5 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1974 with the million-selling gold-certified single, "Come and Get Your Love".-History:...
. Monda had written the song "Chick-A-Boom" for the cartoon
Cartoon
A cartoon is a form of two-dimensional illustrated visual art. While the specific definition has changed over time, modern usage refers to a typically non-realistic or semi-realistic drawing or painting intended for satire, caricature, or humor, or to the artistic style of such works...
, Sabrina and the Groovie Goolies
Groovie Goolies
Groovie Goolies is an American animated television show that had its original run on network television between 1970 and 1972. Produced by Filmation, Groovie Goolies was a spinoff of Sabrina the Teenage Witch...
. The song was re-recorded and distributed by Sunflower Records
Sunflower Records
Sunflower Records was a Los Angeles, California-based record label founded by songwriter Mack David and music industry veteran Danny Kessler that operated from 1970 to 1972. The label was distributed by MGM Records...
, and released a full album of novelty based tunes, including "Chick-A-Boom" and was retitled "Chick-A-Boom (Don't Ya Jes' Love It)". The tune was a hit in the US, peaking on the Billboard
Billboard (magazine)
Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis...
Pop Singles chart at #9 in 1971, and #3 on Cashbox. A second single, "Fox Huntin'/The March of the White Corpuscles" and also his further release, "Nanu Nanu (I Wanna' Get Funky With You)" from 1978. Richard Monda had earlier also founded and worked with a popular Los Angeles band the Novells back in the mid to late 1960s, who later recorded an album on Mothers Records under the supervision of H.B. Barnum. The album, That Did It! contains a song entitled "Age of Innocence," which was written and produced by Richard Monda. Therefore, Richard Monda, despite rumors to the contrary, discovered the Novells before H.B. Barnum did.
Monda went on to write hits for other artists such as Ringo Starr
Ringo Starr
Richard Starkey, MBE better known by his stage name Ringo Starr, is an English musician and actor who gained worldwide fame as the drummer for The Beatles. When the band formed in 1960, Starr was a member of another Liverpool band, Rory Storm and the Hurricanes. He became The Beatles' drummer in...
, Kenny Rogers
Kenny Rogers
Kenneth Donald "Kenny" Rogers is an American singer-songwriter, photographer, record producer, actor, and entrepreneur...
, Tom Jones
Tom Jones (singer)
Sir Thomas John Woodward, OBE , known by his stage name Tom Jones, is a Welsh singer.Since the mid 1960s, Jones has sung many styles of popular music – pop, rock, R&B, show tunes, country, dance, techno, soul and gospel – and sold over 100 million records...
, Engelbert Humperdinck
Engelbert Humperdinck (singer)
Engelbert Humperdinck is a British pop singer, best known for his hits including "Release Me " and "After the Lovin'" as well as "The Last Waltz" .-Early life:...
, Sammy Davis Jr., and many others. Monda continues to record as Daddy Dewdrop and recently released a CD entitled This Time.