![]() ![]() "Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye" reached number one in the United States for two weeks, on December 6 it was Billboard 's final multi-week number 1 hit of the 1960s and also peaked at number twenty on the soul chart. Everything was 'na na' when you didn't have a lyric." Gary added "hey hey". "I started writing while I was sitting at the piano going 'na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na'. "I said we should put a chorus to it (to make it longer)", Leka told Fred Bronson in The Billboard Book of Number One Hits. Instead of using a full band, Leka played keyboards and had engineer Warren Dewey splice together a drum track from one of DeCarlo's four singles and a conga drum solo by Ange DiGeronimo recorded in Leka's Bridgeport, Connecticut, studio for an entirely different session. With DeCarlo as lead vocalist, they recorded the song in one recording session. In need of a B-side, Leka and DeCarlo resurrected an old song from their days as the Glenwoods, "Kiss Him Goodbye", with their old bandmate, Frashuer. The singles impressed the company's executives, who wanted to issue all of them as A-side singles. In 1969, DeCarlo (using the professional name Garrett Scott) recorded four songs at Mercury Records in New York with Leka as producer. ![]() The group disbanded when Leka talked Frashuer into going into New York City with him to write and possibly produce. ![]() Paul Leka, Gary DeCarlo and Dale Frashuer wrote a blues shuffle version of the song in the early 1960s when they were members of a doo-wop group from Bridgeport, Connecticut, called the Glenwoods, the Citations, and the Chateaus, of which Leka was the piano player. It was released under the Mercury subsidiary label Fontana and became a number-one pop single on the Billboard Hot 100 in late 1969, and remained on the charts in early 1970. ![]() " Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye" is a 1969 song written and recorded by Paul Leka, Gary DeCarlo and Dale Frashuer, attributed to a then-fictitious band Steam. ![]()
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