Daddy Dewdrop is a pseudonym for an American songwriter named Dick Monda, backed up by some studio musicians, including Tom Hensley who later became the musical director for Neil Diamond and Butch Rillera who later became a member of the group Redbone. Monda had written the song "Chick-A-Boom" for the cartoon, Sabrina and the Groovie Goolies.

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  • Daddy Dewdrop is a pseudonym for an American songwriter named Dick Monda, backed up by some studio musicians, including Tom Hensley who later became the musical director for Neil Diamond and Butch Rillera who later became a member of the group Redbone. Monda had written the song "Chick-A-Boom" for the cartoon, Sabrina and the Groovie Goolies. The song was re-recorded and distributed by Sunflower Records, and released a full album of novelty based tunes, including "Chick-A-Boom" and was retitled "Chick-A-Boom (Don't Ya Jes' Love It)". The tune was a hit in the US, peaking on the Billboard Pop Singles chart at #9 in 1971, and #3 on Cashbox. A second single, "Fox Huntin'/The March of the White Corpuscles" and also his further release, "Nanu Nanu (I Wanna' Get Funky With You)" from 1978. Richard Monda had earlier also founded and worked with a popular Los Angeles band the Novells back in the mid to late 1960s, who later recorded an album on Mothers Records under the supervision of H.B. Barnum. The album, "That Did It!" contains a song on it titled "Age of Innocence," which was written and produced by Richard Monda. Therefore, Richard Monda [Daddy Dewdrop], despite rumors to the contrary, discovered the Novells before H.B. Barnum did. Monda went on to write hits for other artists such as Ringo Starr, Kenny Rogers, Tom Jones, Englebert Humperdinck, Sammy Davis Jr. , and many others. The Novells in 1968 recorded the album "That Did It!," which contained Richard Monda's "Age of Innocence. " The album, "That Did It!" was never promoted by Barnum during the 1960s. Then 40-years later "That Did It!" was re-released in the United Kingdom in July 2005 and again in December 2007. Monda continues to record, recently releasing a CD entitled This Time under his real name M. Richard Monda and also continues to record as Daddy Dewdrop.
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  • Daddy Dewdrop is a pseudonym for an American songwriter named Dick Monda, backed up by some studio musicians, including Tom Hensley who later became the musical director for Neil Diamond and Butch Rillera who later became a member of the group Redbone. Monda had written the song "Chick-A-Boom" for the cartoon, Sabrina and the Groovie Goolies.
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