ARTIST: Sugababes TITLE: "Girls" WEB DEBUT: Aug. 11, 2008 RELEASE DATE: Oct. 6, 2008 ONE-LISTEN VERDICT: Some of you may remember the Christmas-themed ad for the UK cosmetics chain Boots that used Ernie K. Doe's "Here Come The Girls." A refresher: Well, this new single from the Sugababes is pretty much the above song, only pitched down a bit and given "updated" lyrics. Hearing this song on the same [...]
Someone asked me what track is playing in the current Boots Christmas campaign.
Probably not, but Ernie K. Doe's pressure-cooking tune "Here Come The Girls" is featured in the above ad for the British drugstore chain Boots, and according to Billboard that ad is helping the song make inroads on the UK charts: There was also an improbable chart comeback on the low rungs of the top 75, as the late New Orleans singer Ernie K-Doe debuted at No. 71 with "Here Come the Girls" (Soul Jazz), a 1970 track now being featured by another retail giant, Boots, in their Christmas TV [...]