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"Hot Diggity (Dog Ziggity Boom)" is an Americanpopularsong written byAl Hoffman andDick Manning. The song is almost identical in melody and triple-time rhythm to a portion ofEmmanuel Chabrier's 1883 composition,España.^[1] It was published in1956.

The song was recorded byPerry Como.

Perry Como recorded "Hot Diggity" atWebster Hall inNew York City. The conductor wasMitchell Ayres and the producer was Joe Carlton. The back-up vocals were provided by theRay Charles Singers.^[2]

The song's title, repeated throughout the song, is "a general excl[amation] of pleasure or surprise".^[3] It is used as counterpoint^{[clarification needed]} to the lines it precedes in the lyrics, as in the following excerpt:

"Hot diggity, dog ziggity, boom

What you do to me,

When you're holding me tight."

At the end of the song, Como exclaimed "Hot dog!" before the last two chords.

The phrase "hot diggity" or "hot diggity dog!" dates to at least 1906.^[3] It appeared in a popular song in 1928, whenAl Jolson was recorded saying "Hot diggity dog! Hot kitty! Hot pussycat! Didn't I tell you you'd love it?" after a performance of the tune "There's a Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder".

The Perry Como recording went to #1 on theBillboard pop music chart in March 1956,^[4] and reached #4 on the British charts in May.^[2]

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• The song is briefly heard in the extended DVD cut of theFamily Guy episode "Airport '07", during "Peter Griffin's Champagne Dance Party" (a parody ofThe Lawrence Welk Show).
• It is also briefly heard inCall the Midwife, Series 1 Episode 6, set in late 1957.
• In the sixth episode of the first season ofDoom Patrol, the main antagonist of the series, Mr. Nobody, is shown to have orchestrated a plan in the 1950s which involved a giant balloon shaped like buttocks and playing the song on an attached jukebox repeatedly, sending people insane within 20 minutes.
• In the late 1970s a version with revised lyrics was used as a TV jingle for Oscar Mayer.
• From the mid 1980s and late 1990s to 2000, the song was used inWendy's andMcDonald's advertising campaigns in Canada and the UK to promote their new range of hot dogs.
• The song was used in the launch trailer of the 2020multiplayer video game,Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout.^[5]

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