Thread: Strange and Unusual Facts

Originally Posted by tomcat

When Margaret Thatcher died in 2013 the song “Ding Dong! The Witch Is Dead” from the Wizard of Oz entered the British music charts at number two.

It was organized by a group that wanted it to be at number one, all but forcing BBC's Top of the Pops to play it.

Originally Posted by Edmond

It was organized by a group that wanted it to be at number one, all but forcing BBC's Top of the Pops to play it.

Now, that is a strange and unusual fact, given that TOTP finished in July 2006.

Not really, the campaign to make it number one in the week after her passing started almost 10 years before her death.

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Originally Posted by Edmond

Not really, the campaign to make it number one in the week after her passing started almost 10 years before her death.

No, really. The campaign was started in 2007, by which time TOTP was a thing of the past, and the song didn't chart until Thatcher died, which was the whole point.

Following the death of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in 2013, a social media campaign, whose Facebook page had been set up in 2007,^[7] emerged among anti-Conservative activists to encourage sales of the song so that it would chart on the UK Singles Chart;^[8][9] the song reached #2 on the chart and peaked atop the Scottish Singles Chart.^[9][10]

Ruth Duccini and Jerry Maren, who portrayed Munchkins in the 1939 film, reacted negatively. Duccini stated:

Nobody deserves to be treated in such a way. When we were filming the movie no one intended it to be used in this way. I am ashamed, I really am.^[11]

When it did chart, BBC Radio 1 did not broadcast the song in its entirety during its countdown programme The Official Chart,^[12][13] instead playing a Newsbeat report about the campaign. The BBC justified the decision due to its context as a celebration of Thatcher's death. The campaign was countered by one involving "I'm in Love with Margaret Thatcher" (led by the lead singer of its performers, Notsensibles), which charted alongside "Ding-Dong! The Witch Is Dead".^[14][15][16]

Ding-Dong! The Witch Is Dead - Wikipedia

^ The Facebook page was set up in 2007, not the campaign.

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Originally Posted by Edmond

^ The Facebook page was set up in 2007, not the campaign.

Ah yes, of course....that fact alone would all but force Top of the Pops to play “Ding Dong! The Witch Is Dead” when it charted, seven years after the programme's demise, wouldn't it?

You win. I'm done with this now.

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No need, I know the answer already. :-)

Hence why:

Originally Posted by TheMadBaron

You win.

:-)

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Originally Posted by TheMadBaron

You win.

He'll carry on pretending he has forever, that's for sure.

Originally Posted by Edmond

Hence why:

Hence means "for which reason."

Hence, if you say "hence why," you risk sounding like a dick, if you didn't already.

Originally Posted by Edmond

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Originally Posted by tomcat

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When Margaret Thatcher died in 2013 the song “Ding Dong! The Witch Is Dead” from the Wizard of Oz entered the British music charts at number two.

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