| "A Little Bit of Soap" | |
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| Single by the Jarmels | |
| B-side | "The Way You Look Tonight (Swing Time)" |
| Released | July 3, 1961 |
| Recorded | 1961 |
| Genre | Doo-wop |
| Length | 2:13 |
| Label | Laurie |
| Songwriter(s) | Bert Berns (aka Bert Russell) |
"A Little Bit of Soap", written by Bert Berns (aka Bert Russell), was a song, first sung in a bluesy soul style by the Jarmels, who reached number 12 with it in September 1961 and number 7 on the R&B charts.[1] The song has been covered by many other artists.
The song was a major hit in the United States when it was first released. It reached the Top Ten on the Canadian charts, and Top Twenty in Australia in 1970 for Paul Davis.[2] It was his first charting single release. "A Little Bit of Soap" was a huge hit in southeast Asia when the Hong Kong-based group Cliff Foenander and the Fabulous Echoes released it as a single. It spent 25 weeks at number 1 in top ten charts in 1963 in southeast Asia.[3] Foenander and the Fabulous Echoes also sang the hit in Las Vegas, USA, in 1964. It made Cliff Foenander a household name in South Asia: Radio Ceylon, the oldest radio station in South Asia, played the number one hit across the Indian subcontinent.[3]