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( May 2009 ) `` Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye '' Single by Steam from the album Steam B - side `` It 's the Magic in You Girl '' Released November 1969 Format 7 '' single Recorded 1969 in New York at Mercury Sound Studios Genre Pop, psychedelic pop, pop rock Length 4 : 08 ( LP version ) 6 : 20 ( Long version ) 3 : 45 ( 45 version ) 2 : 59 ( 45 radio version ) Label Fontana F 1667 ( U.S. ) Songwriter ( s ) Paul Leka, Gary DeCarlo, Dale Frashuer Producer ( s ) Paul Leka Steam singles chronology `` Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye '' ( 1969 ) `` I 've Gotta Make You Love Me '' ( 1970 ) `` Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye '' ( 1969 ) `` I 've Gotta Make You Love Me '' ( 1970 ) `` Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye '' Single by Bananarama from the album Deep Sea Skiving B - side `` Tell Tale Signs '' Released February 1983 Format 7 '' single, 12 '' single Recorded 1982 Genre New wave Length 3 : 30 Label London Records Songwriter ( s ) Gary DeCarlo, Dale Frashuer, Paul Leka Producer ( s ) Jolley & Swain Bananarama singles chronology `` He 's Got Tact '' ( 1982 ) `` Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye '' ( 1983 ) `` Cruel Summer '' ( 1983 ) `` He 's Got Tact '' ( 1982 ) `` Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye '' ( 1983 ) `` Cruel Summer '' ( 1983 ) `` Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye '' is a song written and recorded by Paul Leka, Gary DeCarlo and Dale Frashuer, attributed to a then - fictitious band they named `` Steam ''. It was released under the Mercury subsidiary label Fontana and became a number one pop single on the Billboard Hot 100 in late 1969, and remained on the charts in early 1970. In 1977, Chicago White Sox organist Nancy Faust began playing the song when White Sox sluggers knocked out the opposing pitcher. The fans would sing and a sports ritual was born. The song 's chorus remains well - known, and is still frequently used as a crowd chant at many sporting events. It is generally directed at the losing side in an elimination contest when the outcome is all but certain or when an individual player is ejected or disqualified. It has also been observed by crowds in political rallies to drown out and mock disruptive protesters who are being escorted out by security. Contents 1 Original version 2 Covers 2.1 Bananarama 2.1. 1 Track listing 2.1. 2 Music video 3 In popular culture 4 References 5 External links Original version Paul Leka, Gary DeCarlo and Dale Frashuer wrote a blues shuffle version of the song in the early 1960s when they were members of a doo - wop group from Bridgeport, Connecticut, called the Glenwoods, the Citations, and the Chateaus, of which Leka was the piano player. The group disbanded when Leka talked Frashuer into going into New York City with him to write and possibly produce. In 1968, DeCarlo recorded four songs at Mercury Records in New York with Leka as producer. The singles impressed the company 's executives, who wanted to issue all of them as A-side singles. In need of a B - side, Leka and DeCarlo resurrected an old song from their days as the Glenwoods, `` Kiss Him Goodbye '', with their old bandmate, Frashuer. With DeCarlo as lead vocalist, they recorded the song in one recording session. Instead of using a full band, Leka played keyboards himself and had engineer Warren Dewey splice together a drum track from one of DeCarlo 's four singles and a conga drum solo by Ange DiGeronimo recorded in Mr. Leka 's Bridgeport, Conn. studio for an entirely different session. `` I said we should put a chorus to it ( to make it longer ) '', Leka told Fred Bronson in The Billboard Book of Number One Hits. `` I started writing while I was sitting at the piano going ' na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na '... Everything was ' na na ' when you did n't have a lyric. '' Gary added `` hey hey ''. The group that is seen on the album cover and in the old black and white video was a road group that had nothing to do with the recording. The road group was lip syncing to DeCarlo 's vocal in the video. `` Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye '' reached number one in the United States for two weeks, on December 6 and 13, 1969 ; it was Billboard 's final multi-week number 1 hit of the 1960s and also peaked at number twenty on the soul chart. In Canada, the song reached number six. By the beginning of the 21st century, sales of `` Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye '' had exceeded 6.5 million records, attaining gold record status. Covers The Supremes included a cover of the song on their 1970 album New Ways but Love Stays. The Belmonts recorded an acappella version, which can be found as a track on their 1972 album Cigars, Acappella, Candy. Dave Clark & Friends released the song in October 1973 under the title `` Sha - Na - Na - Na ( Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye ) '' ( EMI 2082 ), but the single did n't chart. In 1987, Canadian quartet The Nylons released an a cappella version of this song as a single under the shortened title `` Kiss Him Goodbye ''. It became their biggest hit on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at number twelve that summer. The Donna Summer compilation album Gold ( a 1995 release exclusively for the Netherlands ) contains a 3 : 42 disco cover of the song. In 2014 the Norwegian artist Adelén used the chorus line of the song on her World Cup song `` Olé. '' The song was one of the tracks on the One Love, One Rhythm - The 2014 FIFA World Cup Official Album. The song peaked at number # 3 in Norway. The song `` Chillin '' by rapper Wale featuring singer Lady Gaga samples the chorus. `` Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye '' bears a resemblance to the coda of the 1968 Beatles ' `` Na Na Hey Jude ''. Bananarama In February 1983, UK girl group Bananarama released the song as a single from their album Deep Sea Skiving. This version became a top ten hit in the United Kingdom ( # 5 ), but only a minor hit in the US ( Billboard # 101 ) later that year. This was the fifth single released from their first album in 1983. It peaked at number five in the UK singles chart, and number 38 in Australia on the Kent Music Report chart. Track listing UK & USA 7 '' vinyl single UK : London Records NANA 4 ; USA : London Records 810 115 - 7 `` Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye '' 3 : 22 `` Tell Tale Signs '' 2 : 58 UK 12 '' vinyl single London Records NANX 4 `` Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye '' ( Extended Version ) 4 : 52 `` Na Na Hey Hey Na ( Dub ) Hey '' 4 : 12 `` Tell Tale Signs '' ( Extended Version ) 4 : 46 Music video The music video features the band playing in a school playground and then being made to move by a group of lads. They then decide to join a boxing club so the video features them singing the song whilst boxing. By the end of the video they return to the playground wearing leathers and this time make the group of lads move away. They then ride off into the night on motorbikes. In popular culture The song is sang acapella by the crowd in hockey games in Canada ( specially in Montreal ) by the end of games in order to say goodbye to the losing team. On January 23, 2006, Paul Martin was defeated by Stephen Harper as Prime Minister of Canada. Martin had acceded to the prime ministry following the ouster of Jean Chrétien. The next day 's issue of La Voix de l'Est, a French newspaper in Granby, Quebec, included a cartoon by Paquette showing Chrétien calling Martin and singing Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye. This cartoon demonstrates that the impact of the song did not stop at the U.S. border, and its impact also went beyond the English - speaking world. The Paquette cartoon shows Jean Chrétien taunting Paul Martin by singing Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye At the 2009 and 2017 Presidential Inaugurations, some audiences were chanting ' Na na na na ' to the departing Presidents, respectively George W. Bush and Barack Obama. On May 4, 2017, after the House of Representatives voted to pass the American Health Care Act which partially repealed Obamacare, Democratic representatives chanted `` Na na na na, hey hey, goodbye '' to Republican representatives, implying that in voting for the bill, they would lose their House seats in the next election. DeCarlo was happy to hear of the song getting renewed exposure, but said he opposed Obamacare. It was not the first time the song had been sung in Congress ; in 1993, after Democrats voted for then - President Bill Clinton 's tax bill, House Republicans sung `` Goodbye ''. References Jump up ^ `` Steam Biography ''. Pandora Internet Radio. Retrieved May 16, 2011. Jump up ^ Paul Leka confirmed some months before his death that the conga solo was in fact Mr. DiGeronimo 's. It had been recorded in Bridgeport as part of a session with the band `` Yazoo Fraud, '' then under contract with Mr. Leka 's production company. Jump up ^ Bronson, Fred ( 2003 ). The Billboard Book of Number One Hits. Jump up ^ Whitburn, Joel ( 2004 ). Top R&B / Hip - Hop Singles : 1942 -- 2004. Record Research. p. 550. Jump up ^ `` RPM100 '' ( PDF ). Collectionscanada.gc.ca. 1969 - 12 - 27. Retrieved 2017 - 07 - 01. Jump up ^ `` Steam 's Gary DeCarlo of ' Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye ' Fame Dead at 75 ''. Rolling Stone. Retrieved 2017 - 10 - 10. Jump up ^ Whitburn, Joel ( 2004 ). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits ( 8th edition ). Record Research. p. 464. Jump up ^ Kent, David ( 1993 ). Australian Chart Book 1970 -- 1992 ( Illustrated ed. ). Sydney : Australian Chart Book. p. 25. ISBN 0 - 646 - 11917 - 6. Jump up ^ `` Flashback : Bush booed, mocked by ' Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye ' song at ' 09 Obama inaugural ''. The Blaze. January 20, 2017. Jump up ^ Ken Stone. `` ' Hey Hey, Goodbye ' songman liked Dems ' House chant, not Obamacare ''. MyNewsLA.com. May 4, 2017. Jump up ^ Haag, Matthew ( May 4, 2017 ). `` Democrats Taunt Republicans With ' Hey, Hey, Hey, Goodbye ' During Health Vote '' -- via NYTimes.com. External links Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics Video on YouTube Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye on theoriginals ( nl ) Preceded by `` Something / Come Together '' by The Beatles Billboard Hot 100 number one single December 6, 1969 ( two weeks ) Succeeded by `` Leaving on a Jet Plane '' by Peter, Paul, and Mary Bananarama Sara Dallin Keren Woodward Siobhan Fahey Jacquie O'Sullivan Studio albums Deep Sea Skiving Bananarama True Confessions Wow ! Pop Life Please Yourself Ultra Violet / I Found Love Exotica Drama Viva Extended plays Now or Never Compilations Greatest Hits Collection Bunch of Hits The Very Best of Bananarama Venus and Other Hits Really Saying Something : The Platinum Collection Greatest Hits and More More More 30 Years of Bananarama Remix albums 12 '' Mixes The Greatest Remixes Collection The Twelve Inches of Bananarama Drama Remixes, Vol. 1 Other albums The Works Master Series The Essentials Singles `` Aie a Mwana '' `` It Ai n't What You Do ( It 's the Way That You Do It ) '' `` Really Saying Something '' `` Shy Boy '' `` Cheers Then '' `` He 's Got Tact '' `` Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye '' `` Cruel Summer '' `` Robert De Niro 's Waiting... 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Question: who wrote na na na na hey hey hey goodbye lyrics
Answer: Paul Leka