Gimme Dat Ding is a split album

Split album

A split album is a music album which includes tracks by two or more separate artists. There have been singles and EPs released in the same nature, which can be referred to as split singles and split EPs respectively...

 by The Sweet (side one) and The Pipkins

The Pipkins

The Pipkins were a short-lived novelty duo, best known for their hit single "Gimme Dat Ding" , which reached No. 6 in the UK Singles Charts and #9 on the U.S. charts in 1970...

 (side two), released on EMI

EMI

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's budget record label

Record label

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, MFP (Music For Pleasure) in 1970. It is named after the 1970 song "Gimme Dat Ding

Gimme Dat Ding (song)

"Gimme Dat Ding" is a 1970 popular song sung by "one-hit wonder" The Pipkins, written by Albert Hammond and Mike Hazlewood. Released as a single, it is the title track of an album by The Pipkins on EMI Columbia, the song also appeared on a compilation of the same name, which The Pipkins shared with...

" by The Pipkins.

Side One was given over to (then) fledgling pop band The Sweet and features the A & B-sides

A-side and B-side

A-side and B-side originally referred to the two sides of gramophone records on which singles were released beginning in the 1950s. The terms have come to refer to the types of song conventionally placed on each side of the record, with the A-side being the featured song , while the B-side, or...

 of what were three commercially unsuccessful singles (on Parlophone Records) before the band finally found fame with "Funny Funny" released by RCA Records

RCA Records

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. Despite the cover shot of The Sweet featuring Andy Scott, he was not actually a band member until "Funny Funny" and does not feature on any of these recordings. The band's guitarist then was Mick Stewart (who replaced Frank Torpey) and wrote two of the featured B-sides on this compilation.

Side One The Sweet

1. "Lollipop Man" (Albert Hammond
   Albert Hammond
   Albert Hammond OBE is a British singer, songwriter and record producer from Gibraltar.-Birth and early success:Hammond was born in London, England, where his family had been evacuated to from Gibraltar during World War II. His family returned to Gibraltar shortly after his birth, and there he grew...
   
   , Mike Hazlewood)
2. "Time" (Sweet)
3. "All You'll Ever Get From Me" (Roger Cook
   Roger Cook (songwriter)
   Roger Cook is an English songwriter who has written many hits for other recording artists. He has also had a successful recording career in his own right.-Early life:Cook was born in Fishponds, Bristol, England...
   
   , Roger Greenaway
   Roger Greenaway
   Roger Greenaway , is a popular English songwriter, best known for his collaborations with Roger Cook.-Career:...
   
   )
4. "The Juicer" (Mick Stewart)
5. "Get On The Line" (Jeff Barry
   Jeff Barry
   Jeff Barry is an American pop music songwriter, singer, and record producer.-Early career:...
   
   , Andy Kim
   Andy Kim
   Andrew Youakim, performing as Andy Kim, is a Lebanese Canadian pop rock singer and songwriter. He grew up in Montreal, Quebec in Canada. Kim is known for a number of hit singles that he released in the late 1960s and early 1970s such as "Rock Me Gently", which topped the US singles charts. In 1968,...
   
   )
6. "Mr. McGallagher" (Mick Stewart)

Tracks 1 & 2 Produced by John Burgess

John Burgess

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. Tracks 3, 4, 5 & 6 Produced by John Burgess and Roger Easterby.

Side Two The Pipkins

1. "Gimme Dat Ding
   Gimme Dat Ding (song)
   "Gimme Dat Ding" is a 1970 popular song sung by "one-hit wonder" The Pipkins, written by Albert Hammond and Mike Hazlewood. Released as a single, it is the title track of an album by The Pipkins on EMI Columbia, the song also appeared on a compilation of the same name, which The Pipkins shared with...
   
   " (Hammond, Hazlewood)
2. "Yakety Yak
   Yakety Yak
   "Yakety Yak" is a song written, produced, and arranged by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller for The Coasters and released on Atlantic Records in 1958, spending seven weeks as number one on the R&B charts and a week as number one on the Hot 100 pop list...
   
   " (Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller)
3. "The People That You Wanna Phone Ya" (Hammond, Hazlewood)
4. "My Baby Loves Lovin'" (Cook, Greenaway)
5. "Busy Line" (Semos, Stanton)
6. "Sunny Honey Girl" (Cook, Greenaway, Hiller, Goodison)

Produced by John Burgess.