Nice one Cyril - wikipedia Nice one Cyril `` Nice One Cyril '' Single by Cockerel Chorus B - side `` Cyril Marches On '' Released February 1973 Format 7 '' Single Genre Singalong, Football Label Young Blood International Songwriter ( s ) Harold Spiro, Helen Clarke Producer ( s ) Martin Clarke `` Nice One Cyril '' is a single by Cockerel Chorus written by Harold Spiro and Helen Clarke. The song title is a reference to Cyril Knowles, a left back who played for Tottenham Hotspur. It was released before the 1973 Football League Cup Final where Tottenham played Norwich City. It reached No. 14 on the British single chart after Tottenham won, and its writers Spiro and Clarke received an Ivor Novello Award for Best Novel or Unusual Song in 1974. Contents 1 Origin 2 Chart performance 3 Popular culture 4 References Origin In 1972, Wonderloaf Bread created a television advertising campaign written by Peter Mayle with the slogan `` Nice one, Cyril '', where the slogan was used to congratulate a baker named Cyril for making a good loaf of bread. The slogan was picked by fans of the football club Tottenham Hotspur, who chanted `` Nice one Cyril '' to praise a Tottenham player named Cyril Knowles. Harold Spiro, a fan of the club, wrote the song with Helen Clarke based on the chant. The following year in 1973, Tottenham reached the League Cup Final, and the song was released. The song was performed by the Cockerel Chorus ( the cockerel is the emblem of Tottenham Hotspur ) fronted by Spiro, with Jamie Phillips singing the opening operatic part. Chart performance The song was released before the League Cup Final, and entered the chart at No. 43 on 24 February 1973. It peaked at No. 14 a month later after Tottenham had won the League Cup 1 -- 0 against Norwich on 3 March 1973. Popular culture Due to the popularity of the TV slogan and the song, `` Nice one Cyril '' became a popular catchphrase in the 1970s used to praise someone. In Cockney rhyming slang it was adopted to mean `` squirrel '', and it was the title of the autobiography of Cyril Fletcher, The phrase continued to be used in later decades, but limited to those named Cyril or similar ; the refrain of the song `` Nice one Cyril, nice one son '' was used as a tribute to another footballer Cyrille Regis in 2018. References Jump up ^ `` Cockerel Chorus - Nice One Cyril ''. Discogs. Jump up ^ `` Two in U.K. Get Writer Novellos ''. Billboard. 1 June 1974. Jump up ^ `` The Ivors 1974 ''. The Ivors. Jump up ^ Parkinson, Judy ( 1 October 2003 ). Catchphrase, Slogan and Cliche. Michael O'Mara Books Ltd. ISBN 978 - 1843170631. Jump up ^ Newland, Francesca ( 1 October 1999 ). `` Martin Reavley, the co-creator of `` Nice one Cyril '', dies at 51 ``. Campaign. ^ Jump up to : Seddon, Peter ( 1 August 2004 ). Football Talk : The Language & Folklore of the World 's Greatest Game. Robson Books Ltd. ISBN 978 - 1861056832. Jump up ^ Elizabeth Knowles, ed. ( 23 August 2007 ). Oxford Dictionary of Modern Quotations. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978 - 0199208951. Jump up ^ Hilliard, Ernie ( 29 October 2013 ). `` The Cockerel Chorus ''. Spurs Web. Jump up ^ `` Cockerel Chorus ''. The Official Charts Company. Jump up ^ Tom Dalzell, Terry Victor, eds. ( 5 December 2005 ). The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English : J-Z ( 9th ed. ). Routledge. p. 1366. ISBN 978 - 0415259385. CS1 maint : Uses editors parameter ( link ) Jump up ^ Partridge, Eric. A Dictionary of Catch Phrases. Routledge. ISBN 9781134929986. Jump up ^ Smith, Daniel. The Language of London : Cockney Rhyming Slang. Jump up ^ Fletcher, Cyril ( 1978 ). Nice One Cyril : Being the Odd Odessey and the Anecdotage of a Comedian. Random House. ISBN 0 - 214 - 20581 - 9. Jump up ^ White, Jim ( 30 January 2018 ). `` Cyrille Regis memorial service : ' He helped to change hearts and minds ' ''. The Daily Telegraph. Hit singles recorded by Tottenham Hotspur Football Club `` Ossie 's Dream ( Spurs Are on Their Way to Wembley ) '' ( 1981 ) `` Tottenham, Tottenham '' ( 1982 ) `` Hot Shot Tottenham ! '' ( 1987 ) `` When the Year Ends in One '' ( 1991 ) See also : All UK hit singles by footballers Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nice_One_Cyril&oldid=834486208 '' Categories : 1973 singles Tottenham Hotspur F.C. songs Football songs and chants 1973 songs Songs about sportspeople Hidden categories : CS1 maint : Uses editors parameter Talk Contents About Wikipedia Add links This page was last edited on 6 April 2018, at 00 : 09. About Wikipedia

Question: who sang nice one cyril nice one son
Answer: Cockerel Chorus