#15

Poor old Johnny Ray! I've always liked today's one-hit wonder video/song. It's just quirky and you have all these overall wearing dudes and chicks doing funny little dances and playing violins and a banjo and an accordian, and shouting out to a girl named Eileen. His thoughts verge on dirty, and for a brief time in 1982 this group with this song was at the top of the world. This song actually prevented Michael Jackson from having back to back #1 hits on the Billboard charts when it spent one week at #1 between "Billie Jean" and "Beat It."

#15 "Come On Eileen"
by Dexys Midnight Runners




Lyrics | Dexys Midnight Runners lyrics - Come On Eileen lyrics

My Thoughts, I Confess, Verge on Dirty

... ah, "Come On Eileen", it's the British band Dexy's Midnight Runners today... this is POST #300 here, and I've got to get me some of these overalls they are wearing in this video...

Dexy's Midnight Runners - Come On Eileen
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Lyrics | Come On Eileen lyrics

“Come On Eileen”

Single by Dexys Midnight Runners & The Emerald Express
from the album Too-Rye-Ay
B-side "Dubious"
Released 1982
Genre Pop
Length 4:28
Label Mercury
Writer(s) Kevin Rowland, "Big" Jim Paterson, Billy Adams
Producer Clive Langer, Alan Winstanley

US Billboard Hot 100 Peak: #1
UK Peak: #1