The Smurfs music
[3] In 1979, as work on a second Smurf album stalled due to creative differences between Mr Kartner and his record company Dureco, the latter – which owned the music rights to the Smurfs output – decided to take matters into its own hands and started releasing Smurf-related records produced by music promoter Frans Erkelens and composer Barrie Corbett (who had a European hit in 1975 with "If You Go" as half of the duo Barry & Eileen [nl]).
The first single was a new version of the 2 Unlimited hit "No Limit", which took the top spot in the Netherlands in early 1995.
[4] Since 1996, EMI Finland has released a total of 19 Smurf CDs (mostly featuring "smurfy" versions of pop hits), with the first selling 170,000 copies in the country.
[9] Three of the songs used melodies by Piero Barbetti, known to Icelandic children from the television series Mio Mao and Quaq Quao, and the fourth the melody of the children's song "Litlu andarungarnir", which is almost identical to the German Fuchs, du hast die Gans gestohlen [de].
The record received considerable radio play, and was followed up in the same year by Haraldur í Skrýplalandi, an LP containing Icelandic versions of the songs by Pierre Kartner, which sold extremely well.
[10] Despite the popularity of the Skrýplar-titled albums, the name used in the books gradually won out, and is the one under which the Smurfs are now exclusively known in Iceland.
The song was written by Keisuke Yamakawa [ja] and its music is by composers Pierre Kartner, "Corbett", and "Linlee".
It features vocals by Yoshio Maruyama and Masaki Kobayashi, credited as Blessing Four [ja].
[11] The success of the Smurfs music in the Netherlands started with the Dutch artist Father Abraham, whose single 't Smurfenlied (The Smurf Song) stayed at number one on the Dutch charts for seven consecutive weeks, while the follow-up single Smurfenbier reached #5.
The single "No Limit", based on the 2 Unlimited hit of the same name, also went platinum[13] and topped the Dutch charts for six weeks in 1995.
The first was the #2 "The Smurf Song" in June 1978,[20] followed by the #13 and #19 hits "Dippety Day" and "Christmas in Smurfland" in September and December of the same year.
The Smurf is also mentioned in "The New Style" and "Posse In Effect", songs by the band Beastie Boys on their album "Licensed to Ill"; in "Turn Me Loose" as recorded by the collaboration of Eminem and Limp Bizkit; and in the song "I'm Through With White Girls" written by Jim Diamond and recorded by the band The Dirtbombs.
The rapper Nas referenced The Smurf in the song Made You Look, along with two other fad dances, (the Wop and the Baseball bat).
That same Nas line was used in the song "88" by the rap duo The Cool Kids, which is also featured on the video game NBA Live 08.
