Agadoo

"Agadoo"
"Agadoo"/"Fiddling" Single
Single by Black Lace
from the album Party Party
Released1984
Recorded1984
Genre
Length3:06
Songwriter(s)
  • Mya Symille
  • Michael Delancray
  • Gilles Péram
  • Günther Behrle
Black Lace singles chronology
"Hey You"
(1983)
"Agadoo"
(1984)
"Do the Conga"
(1984)
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"Agadoo" is a novelty song recorded by the British band Black Lace in 1984. "Agadoo" peaked at number two on the UK Singles Chart, and spent 30 weeks in the top 75. It went on to become the eighth best-selling single of 1984 in the UK, (and over one million copies worldwide) despite not being included on the playlist for BBC Radio 1 because it "was not credible".

In a survey for Dotmusic in 2000, respondents voted "Agadoo" as the fourth most annoying song of all time. A 2003 poll for Q magazine saw a panel of music writers vote "Agadoo" as the worst song of all time, saying: "It sounded like the school disco you were forced to attend, your middle-aged relatives forming a conga at a wedding party, a travelling DJ act based in Wolverhampton, every party cliche you ever heard." The panel also described it as "magnificently dreadful".