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302:, a new character named Tico Tac was created as the group's mascot and used in place of Woody. Tico was named after the 1982 song of the same name by Polysix, another Cat Music project. He was designed by Dirk Arend, who was occasionally doing cover artwork designs for Boni Records and Break Records under the pseudonym "Fruut" at the time, and animated by Bjørn Frank Jensen and coloured by Frits Godhelp at 262:, whom they were big fans of. The song was recorded at Cat Music, which Mol, Bergman, Veerhoff, Van Prehn and Hessing had formed in 1979. The vocals were done by Bergman, Hessing and Anita and Sylvia Crooks of the vocal trio The Internationals. The Woody laugh (provided by Hessing) used in the song was first heard in "Let's Break" by Master Genius in 1983, another Cat Music project. 298:. Peter, Bianca and the flight crew's pilots and scientists (played by Cat Music themselves, except Aart Mol and Geertjan Hessing) lip-sync to Cees Bergman, Hessing and Anita and Sylvia Crooks' vocals during the video. The former two's costumes were personally sewn by Peter's mother, Helen Slaghuis. In order to avoid being sued by 40: 285:
and Bianca Bonelli, hired by Cat Music to be the members of the group. Slaghuis had done remixes of Cat Music's other projects, such as the Special European Edit of "After The Rainbow" by Joanne Daniëls (along with Emile Noorhoek) and "Steppin' Out" by
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In the video, the woodpecker plays one prank after another on the Slaghuis/Bonelli flight crew, messing with their spaceship and leaving the duo hardly any time to sing. The video was filmed in the Airplane Museum at
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The song was written and produced by Aart Mol, Cees Bergman, Elmer Veerhoff, Erwin van Prehn and Geertjan Hessing (under the pseudonym "Adams & Fleisner"), all of whom were former members of the Dutch
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The idea for the song began when Gert van den Bosch's (co-founder of Boni Records) children asked him if he could produce a record based on
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group SpritneyBears in 2003 (their cover laid in second place on the Norwegian chart, spending 8 weeks on that chart in total),
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as well as the original version of the episode "Pingu Looks After the Egg", whereas the redubbed version of the latter has the
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in 1985, with their version holding the No. 1 position on the South African Top 20 for 7 weeks; Doctor Pecker in 1986,
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in 1995, V-Kid in 1999, Swedish singer Evelyn in 2001, Norwegian
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The album version of the song features sound effects from the
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Offiziellecharts.de – VideoKids – Woodpeckers from Space"
1068:"Various – Kidz Hitz Party 2 - Back To School (2007, CD)" 1046:"Cirez D - Hoodpecker (Original Mix) [MOUSE001]" 936:"Doctor Pecker – Woodpeckers From Space (1986, Vinyl)" 914:"Café Society – Woodpeckers From Space (1985, Vinyl)" 773:"Digital Emotion – Outside In The Dark (1985, Vinyl)" 364:'s "Pingu-Dance" by Chris Van Tongelen in its place. 1024:"Spritneybears – Woodpeckers From Space (2003, CD)" 350:The song was featured in the 1986 pilot episode of 173: 161: 149: 137: 118: 95: 87: 79: 67: 57: 46: 32: 751:"Joanne Daniëls – After The Rainbow (1984, Vinyl)" 698: 696: 314:The song was covered by the South African outfit 607: 605: 603: 1175:(1st ed.). Spain: Fundación Autor-SGAE. 8: 558: 556: 554: 552: 980:"V-Kid – Woodpeckers From Space (1999, CD)" 529: 527: 525: 523: 521: 519: 723: 721: 704:"The VideoKids and their Space Woodpecker" 371: 38: 29: 679:"Die "Video Kids" und die Außerirdischen" 958:"Die Schlümpfe – Klipp Klapp (1995, CD)" 729:"Die Video Kids und ihr Weltraum-Specht" 515: 56: 45: 1171:Salaverri, Fernando (September 2005). 269:toy, sampled from "Home Computer" by 7: 535:"Сеанс массового диско-разоблачения" 1214:VideoKids – Woodpeckers from Space" 1197:VideoKids – Woodpeckers from Space" 1155:VideoKids – Woodpeckers from Space" 1107:VideoKids – Woodpeckers from Space" 1090:VideoKids – Woodpeckers from Space" 1002:"Evelyn – I Wanna Dance (2001, CD)" 25: 1230:"VideoKids: Artist Chart History" 1173:Sólo éxitos: año a año, 1959–2002 340:Kidz Hitz Party 2: Back To School 235:The Invasion of the Spacepeckers 61:The Invasion of the Spacepeckers 1138:Nederlandse Top 40 – VideoKids" 1236:. 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Index

Woodpeckers From Space

Single
VideoKids
The Invasion of the Spacepeckers
B-side
Genre
Eurodisco
synth-pop
Label
Polydor
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
VideoKids
Dutch
eurodisco
VideoKids
The Woody Woodpecker Song
studio album
The Invasion of the Spacepeckers
glam rock
Catapult
Woody Woodpecker
Speak & Spell
Kraftwerk
Peter Slaghuis
Digital Emotion
Amsterdam Airport Schiphol
Universal Studios
Toonder Studio's

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