I Go Ape- Neil Sedaka (1959)

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Additional information about this Neil Sedaka vinyl art.

Neil Sedaka – The Artist

Neil Sedaka (1939 – 2026) was an American singer, songwriter and pianist. Beginning his music career in 1957, he sold millions of records worldwide and wrote or co-wrote over 500 songs for himself and other artists, collaborating mostly with lyricists Howard Greenfield and Phil Cody. After a short-lived tenure as a founding member of the doo-wop group the Tokens, Sedaka achieved a string of hit singles over the late 1950s and early 1960s, including “Oh! Carol” (1959), “Calendar Girl” (1960), “Happy Birthday Sweet Sixteen” (1961), and “Breaking Up Is Hard to Do” (1962). His popularity declined by the mid-1960s, but was revived in the mid-1970s, solidified by the 1975 hits “Laughter in the Rain” and “Bad Blood”. Sedaka maintained a successful career as a songwriter, penning hits for other artists including “Stupid Cupid” (Connie Francis), “(Is This the Way to) Amarillo” (Tony Christie), and “Love Will Keep Us Together” (Captain & Tennille). He was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1983 and continued to perform, mounting mini-concerts on social media during the COVID-19 pandemic.

I Go Ape- The Song

I Go Ape is a song written by Neil Sedaka and Howard Greenfield, and recorded by Sedaka as a follow–up single to his first hit song “The Diary”. It was released in February 1959, and also appears on Sedaka’s 1959 debut solo album Rock with Sedaka. The rock and roll novelty song, which name-checks various primates, was performed in the boogie-woogie style of Jerry Lee Lewis. It was a hit song in the UK reaching number 9 in the UK charts.

The Gorilla – The Shape

This record has been modelled into a the silhouette of a gorillas snarling face. Gorillas are large, primarily herbivorous, great apes that live in the tropical forests of equatorial Africa. The genus Gorilla is divided into two species: the eastern gorilla and the western gorilla, and either four or five subspecies. The DNA of gorillas is highly similar to that of humans, from 96 to 99% depending on what is included, and they are the next closest living relatives to humans after the bonobos and chimpanzees. Gorillas are the largest living primates, reaching heights between 1.25 and 1.8 m (4 ft 1 in and 5 ft 11 in), weights between 68 and 227 kg (150 and 500 lb), and arm spans up to 2.6 m (8 ft 6 in), depending on species and sex. They tend to live in troops, with the leader being called a silverback. The eastern gorilla is distinguished from the western by darker fur colour and some other minor morphological differences. Gorillas tend to live 35–40 years in the wild.

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