Can Can (Bad Manners song)

"Can Can"
Single by Bad Manners
from the album Gosh It's ... Bad Manners
B-side"Armchair Disco"
Released19 June 1981 (1981-06-19)[1]
GenreSka
Length2:55
LabelMagnet
Songwriter(s)Jacques Offenbach
Producer(s)Roger Lomas
Bad Manners singles chronology
"Just a Feeling"
(1981) 		"Can Can"
(1981) 		"Walking in the Sunshine"
(1981)

"Can Can" is a song by British 2-tone/ska band Bad Manners, released in June 1981 as the first single from their third album Gosh It's ... Bad Manners. It is an instrumental song, based on the music "Galop infernal" written by French composer Jacques Offenbach which was later adopted as the music for the dance the can-can. The arrangement was credited to Bad Manners. It peaked at number 3 for four weeks on the UK Singles Chart, becoming the band's joint biggest hit with "Special Brew".[2]

  1. ^ "News" (PDF). Record Business. 8 June 1981. p. 21. Retrieved 17 March 2022.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference UK was invoked but never defined (see the help page).