The Hampster Dance Song [Single]

Hampton the Hampster | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 13, 2000)
• Original Release Date: June 13, 2000
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Single
• Label: Koch Records
• ASIN: B00004U0S7
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (69 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #84,032 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Hampsterdance Song [Radio Edit]

2. The Hampsterdance Song [Extended Mix]

3. The Hampsterdance Song [club mix]

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

78 of 81 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars This is a great novelty cd for young kids, July 27, 2000

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Douglas A. Greenberg (Berkeley, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Hampster Dance Song (Audio CD)

Currently, this is the favorite cd of my eight-year-old son, and frankly, I'm glad he's listening to this rather than the teenybopper bleatings of the Backstreet Boys. The Hamsterdance Song follows in a long and venerable tradition of "novelty records" that extends all the way back to Spike Jones and other humorous ditties from the past. When I was my son's age, I just loved Charlie Drake's "My Boomerang Won't Come Back," which was equally silly and harmless.

The song samples were taken from a Roger Miller composition used in the mostly forgettable sixties Disney animated version of "Robin Hood." Some time ago, these speeded-up samples were grafted onto animated images of hampsters dancing and made available to the public as the "Hampsterdance Home Page," which then spawned various copies and imitations. Most kids and even many adults get a kick out of the dancing hampsters (with many different breeds of hampsters accurately depicted), and it's all jolly good fun.

In keeping with the brief but often-interesting tradition of electronic dance music remixes, this cd presents two different extended mixes of the Hampsterdance song, plus a "radio edit" version, which is the one that most kids will probably prefer.

Some musical purists and snobs will wail and gnash their teeth at the "shallowness" and "lack of artistic vision" of this release, but somehow I think that such would-be serious critics will be missing the point: this is harmless good fun for young kids.

27 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Keeps you dancing all day, June 13, 2000

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This review is from: The Hampster Dance Song (Audio CD)

The Hampsterdance Song has the elements of a fantastic single with the beat that makes you stand up and dance and the humurous voice of lead singer Hampton the Hampster. This single totally brings you away from the pressure of working for eight hours. I listen to it everytime I get home from a stressful and busy day. There should be more singles like The Hampsterdance Song with the one-of-a-kind beat.

15 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Corny song...but I can't stop listening to it!, June 15, 2000

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Rich (Stroudsburg, PA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Hampster Dance Song (Audio CD)

Corny idea of a song...but its a real toe tapper. Great dance song. Just something about it thats makes you feel good.