Originally released as a single in 1968 on the Tommy James & the Shondells album of the same name, "Mony Mony" was a huge success in the U.S., where it peaked at #3 on the Billboard Hot 100, and an even bigger triumph in the U.K., where it went all the way to #1.
"Originally, we did the track without a song," James said. "The idea was to create a party rock record, and in 1968 that was pretty much a throwback to the early '60s. Nobody was making party rock records really in 1968. There were a few, Archie Bell and the Drells kind of did something with 'Tighten Up' and stuff like that, but nobody was doing those big-drum-California-sun-what-I-sing-money-type songs. So we went in the studio, and we pasted this thing together out of drums here, and a guitar riff here. It was called sound surgery, and we finally put it together in probably a month."
"I had looked at this thing for years, and it was sitting there looking me right in the face," James added. "We saw this at the same time, and we both just started laughing. We said, 'That's perfect! What could be more perfect than that?' Mony, M-O-N-Y, Mutual of New York. We must have laughed for about ten minutes, and we finally go in — and that became the title of the song."
Of course, the song quickly became a go-to for DJs looking to get the party started. Somewhere along the way, fans developed a call-and-response chant that was (and still is) frequently shouted, with great enthusiasm, during breaks in the song: "Hey, say what, get laid, get f—d!"
In 1989, the Chicago Tribune interviewed Griff Powell, superintendent of Grayslake Community High School, where students protested against "Mony Mony" being banned at the prom.
High school bans didn't stop Idol from incorporating the chant into an updated version of the song, released in 2018.
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