Pac-Man Fever reached its peak, #9, on the Billboard Hot 100, March 27, 1982. It is the only song about a video game to achieve this much success. Released in December 1981, songwriting duo Jerry Buckner and Gary Garcia wrote the song after playing Pac-Man for two hours. The song is about someone who plays too much Pac-Man.
They got a friend of these who was a DJ on a morning show on an Atlanta radio station to play it. It got the attention of CBS Records, who approached them to issue it as a single in wide-release. Then CBS decided to cash in on the craze and decided they wanted a whole album of video-game themed songs.
The single Pac-Man Fever sold over two million copies and was certified Gold, but the album did not do as well, as none of the other singles did. Do The Donkey Kong only reached #103.
VH-1 listed it as #98 on the best 100 One-Hit Wonders of the 1980s.
http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=2070
No comments:
Post a Comment