"The Official BBC Children in Need Medley" is a single by Peter Kay's Animated All Star Band. It is the official Children in Need Single for 2009, and was released on 21st November 2009. The song was shown for the first time on Children in Need 2009. The cover art is a parody of the cover of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band by The Beatles. The single has sold over 452,000 copies in the UK, earning it Gold status from the BPI.
Songs[]
The single is a medley of multiple songs played out in the following order:
- "Can You Feel It" – originally performed by The Jacksons (1980) (0:00–1:08)
- "Don't Stop" – originally performed by Fleetwood Mac (1976) (1:08–2:27)
- "Jai Ho!" from the film Slumdog Millionaire – originally performed by A.R. Rahman and The Pussycat Dolls (2009) (2:12–2:41)
- "Tubthumping" – originally performed by Chumbawamba (1997) (2:41–3:00)
- "Never Forget" – originally performed by Take That (1995) (3:00–3:18)
- "Hey Jude" – originally performed by The Beatles (1968) (3:18–3:37)
- "One Day Like This" – originally performed by Elbow (2008) (3:37–4:30) Disc 2
The music video shows the Animated All Star Band meeting and recording the song in a studio, parodying other charity songs in the style of Band Aid's "Do They Know It's Christmas?", with Big Chris, the character voiced by Kay in Roary the Racing Car, first arranging the recording session and then leading the singing. Most of the contributions are stop motion characters. Those who are not are displayed on a TV screen with in the stop motion world "via satellite".