Count Manfred Mann among those who made an initial splash with somebody else's song – transforming the wordlessly salacious "Do Wah Diddy Diddy" into a chart-topping world-wide smash in 1964.

In The Number Ones, I’m reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart’s beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present.

Manfred Mann, like most British Invasion bands in the 1960s, had energy to spare. And "Do Wah Diddy Diddy" possessed a hook for the ages, even if it was comprised of gibberish.

When Hampshire-born blues star Paul Jones and his fellow Manfreds steps on the Concorde stage he will be marking a pop milestone. For this year marks the 60 th anniversary of ‘Do Wah Diddy Diddy ...

An increasingly popular ditty heard around the terraces at Tynecastle Park is Manfred Mann’s earworm Do Wah Diddy Diddy which spent two weeks as the UK No 1 in October 1964.

The group bring their celebrated Maximum Rhythm N Blues Show to Buxton Opera House on October 9, 2025. Expect to hear songs such as Do Wah Diddy Diddy, The Mighty Quinn and Pretty Flamingo from a ...

In The Number Ones, I'm reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart's beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present.… ...

The whole journey of “Do Wah Diddy Diddy,” a deliriously fun piece of horny-nonsense pop music, is basically the story of everything that was happening in pop music, rendered in miniature. Jeff Barry ...