There's a Guy Works Down the Chip Shop Swears He's Elvis
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"There's a Guy Works Down the Chip Shop Swears He's Elvis" was Kirsty MacColl
's first hit single, charting in the UK at #14 in 1981, and remaining in the charts for nine weeks. It reached #9 in the Irish charts. A promotional version was released in the USA which referenced a truck stop
as opposed to the very British chip shop, but this was only available to DJs and did not get a full release.
Norwegian
singer Elisabeth Andreasson
covered the song on her 1981 country album Angel of the Morning
, with lyrics in Swedish
by Hasse Olsson as "Killen ner' på Konsum svär att han är Elvis" ("The guy down Konsum
" swears he's Elvis) . American singer Mandy Marie Luke covered the song on her 2009 country album $600 Boots, with a reworking of the title to "Thrift Shop." The Picketts covered the song (using the title "Chip Shop") on the 1993 compilation "Shotgun Barbeque", re-releasing the song in 2005 on the Think For Yourself album by Christy McWilson with The Picketts & Friends.
Kirsty MacColl
Kirsty Anna MacColl was an English singer-songwriter.MacColl scored several pop hits from the early 1980s to the early 1990s...
's first hit single, charting in the UK at #14 in 1981, and remaining in the charts for nine weeks. It reached #9 in the Irish charts. A promotional version was released in the USA which referenced a truck stop
Truck stop
A truck stop is a commercial facility predicated on providing fuel, parking, and often food and other services to motorists and truck drivers...
as opposed to the very British chip shop, but this was only available to DJs and did not get a full release.
Norwegian
Norway
Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...
singer Elisabeth Andreasson
Elisabeth Andreassen
Elisabeth Gunilla Andreassen - also known as just "Bettan" - is a Swedish-Norwegian singer who has finished both first and second in the Eurovision Song Contest....
covered the song on her 1981 country album Angel of the Morning
Angel of the Morning (Elisabeth Andreassen album)
Angel of the Morning, released in 1981, is the debut album of Norwegian singer Elisabeth Andreassen, and the first of several solo albums. Previously, she sang with Mats Rådberg on his album I'm the Singer, You're the Song...
, with lyrics in Swedish
Swedish language
Swedish is a North Germanic language, spoken by approximately 10 million people, predominantly in Sweden and parts of Finland, especially along its coast and on the Åland islands. It is largely mutually intelligible with Norwegian and Danish...
by Hasse Olsson as "Killen ner' på Konsum svär att han är Elvis" ("The guy down Konsum
Coop Norden
Coop Norden is a joint Scandinavian holding company, formerly a retail chain. It is owned by three major cooperative retail companies; Danish FDB , Swedish KF , and Norwegian Coop NKL . As a retailer Coop Norden operated around 1,000 stores and had a yearly turnover of approximately SEK 90 billion...
" swears he's Elvis) . American singer Mandy Marie Luke covered the song on her 2009 country album $600 Boots, with a reworking of the title to "Thrift Shop." The Picketts covered the song (using the title "Chip Shop") on the 1993 compilation "Shotgun Barbeque", re-releasing the song in 2005 on the Think For Yourself album by Christy McWilson with The Picketts & Friends.
Track listing
- "There's a Guy Works Down the Chip Shop Swears He's Elvis" (K. MacColl / P. Rambow)
- "Hard to Believe" (K. MacColl)
- "There's a Guy Works Down the Chip Shop Swears He's Elvis (country version)" (K. MacColl / P. Rambow)
External links
- freeworld - Kirsty MacColl fansite