The Band Of Oz - "Shama Lama Ding Dong" (b/w "Keep On Sittin' On It (All The Time)")
(Mark Davis; William Peace)
Ripete single 3025
Released in 1995, but did not chart - however, this version of the classic Animal House tune originally by Otis Day & The Knights still proved to be a smash hit as far as record sales and radio airplay!!!

The Band of Oz is a prominent band of the United States beach music genre. Starting in the mid-1960s with high school students, the band turned professional in the early-1970s with a core group mostly from the Greenville, North Carolina Rose High School Stage Band, that featured Chuck French on trumpet, Gary Warren saxophone, Randy Hignite keyboards, Jim Heidenreich drums, Johnnie Byrd bass, Buddy Johnson vocals and Keith Houston guitar. In 1971 Billy Bazemore replaced Johnson.

In 1978, the group recorded and released their first single "Shaggin'". This was followed by "Star of My Life" in 1979, and national radio airplay. They performed 200 to 300 shows per year throughout the 1980s amidst massive personnel restructuring. In 1995 they released this video's featured hit single "Shama Lama Ding Dong", and despite not making any of the national charts, this one proved to be a monster smash in terms of record sales and radio airplay - even earning the band the 'Song of the Year' at that year's Carolina Beach Music Awards, and has since become one of the most requested beach music songs of all time.

In 1997, the band was inducted into the Beach Music Hall of Fame.

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