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Ooh-Wakka-Doo-Wakka-Day

"Ooh-Wakka-Doo-Wakka-Day"
Single by Gilbert O'Sullivan
from the album Back to Front (2012 remaster)
B-side "But I'm Not"
Released 1972
Format 7 inch
Recorded 1972
Genre Pop
Length 2:45
Label MAM Records
Songwriter(s) Gilbert O'Sullivan
Producer(s) Gordon Mills
Gilbert O'Sullivan singles chronology
"Alone Again (Naturally)"
(1972)
"Ooh-Wakka-Doo-Wakka-Day"
(1972)
"Clair"
(1972)
"Alone Again (Naturally)"
(1972)
"Ooh-Wakka-Doo-Wakka-Day"
(1972)
"Clair"
(1972)

Ooh-Wakka-Doo-Wakka-Day is a 1972 song by Gilbert O'Sullivan. While it only made #8 on the UK Singles Chart, it was the first of three #1s on the Irish Singles Chart for him.

The song was never released on a studio album, but in 2012 made it on to a remastered version of Back to Front.

In 2013, a single-purpose version of the song which featured 300 people singing a reworded version of the song whilst going about their daily lives was used for an advert for the National Lottery.


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