"Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" is the Academy Award nominated song from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, the 1968 musical motion picture. In the film it is sung by Dick Van Dyke and Sally Ann Howes. "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" is also featured prominently in the award winning stage musical of the same name which premiered in London at the Palladium in 2002 and on Broadway in 2005 at the newly refurbished Hilton Theatre.
Songwriters
The song was written by Robert B. Sherman & Richard M. Sherman (also known as the "Sherman Brothers").
Stage Version Reprises
The title song is reprised several times throughout the stage version under slightly different names:
- "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (Nautical reprise)"
- "Chitty Takes Flight"
- "Chitty Prayer"
- "Chitty Flies Home (Finale)"
Trivia
- The song appears (in somewhat frenzied form) in an episode of the Peter Kay-Dave Spikey comedy series Phoenix Nights where an over-medicated Jerry (Spikey) attempts to get the audience to sing along with him.
- The song is parodied in the South Park episode "It Hits
the Fan" sung by
Mr. Garrison . - Aside from another Dick Van Dyke song being referenced in this film, Jim Carrey also famously parodies this song in Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls.
- Marilyn Manson has a song called 'Shitty Chicken Gang Bang' (an obvious allure to the original song) on his album Smells Like Children.
External Links
[1] - Ace Ventura's Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
| Chitty Chitty Bang Bang | |
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| Characters | Caractacus Potts · Truly Scrumptious · Child Catcher · Baroness Bomburst · Baron Bomburst |
| Objects and locations | Vulgaria · Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (car) |
| Media | Chitty Chitty Bang Bang: The Magical Car · Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (film) · "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" (song) · Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (musical) |
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