[1] As a cash-in for the Christmas market, Stiff commissioned session musicians to record a version of the Hokey Cokey with a Dury-soundalike vocal from Martin Kershaw, whose credits included guitar on "Kung Fu Fighting" and "Dance Yourself Dizzy",[2] and playing banjo on 120 episodes of the Muppet Show.
[3] The other musicians on the recording were Nick Portlock, Jonathan Miller, and Bob Butterworth.
[4] Stiff enigmatically refused to confirm the identity of the genuine vocalist,[5] leading to speculation that it actually was Dury.
Stiff press officer Nigel Dick, with other staff from the Stiff offices, donned snowman costumes for a video[8][9] (shot in Brimpton, Berkshire) and appearance on the 17 December 1981 edition of Top of the Pops.
[12] The Snowmen's final single came in 1986, with a version of the nursery rhyme This Old Man, by which time Dury himself was claiming to be involved, saying he "did it as a joke".