Li'l Red Riding Hood - wikipedia Li'l Red Riding Hood For other uses, see Little Red Riding Hood ( disambiguation ). `` Li'l Red Riding Hood '' Cover artwork from the album Li'l Red Riding Hood Single by Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs from the album Li'l Red Riding Hood B - side `` Love Me Like Before '' Released June 1966 ( 1966 ) Genre Garage rock Length 2 : 35 Label MGM Songwriter ( s ) Ron Blackwell `` Li'l Red Riding Hood '' is a 1966 song performed by Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs. It was the group 's second top - 10 hit, reaching No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 in August 1966 and No. 2 on the Canadian RPM Magazine charts. It was certified gold by the RIAA on August 11, 1966. It is a prominent plot element in the 1993 film Striking Distance with Bruce Willis, and is featured in the film Wild Country in 2005 and a cover by Laura Gibson in a 2012 Volvo commercial for its S60T5. The song appeared in the TV show Grimm where it was played at the beginning of the season 3 episode `` Red Menace '' that aired in 2014. Contents 1 Premise 2 Attribution 3 Cover versions 4 References 5 External links Premise The song is built around Charles Perrault 's fairy tale `` Little Red Riding Hood '', adapted by ending before the grandmother makes her entrance, and explicitly using the ambiguity of modern English between `` wolf '', the carnivore, and `` wolf '', a man with concealed sexual intentions. The effect, whether intentional or incidental, is to strip away the fairy tale 's metaphorical device and present the relationship between the two characters without literary pretense. The singer remarks on `` what big eyes '' and `` what full lips '' Red has, and eventually on `` what a big heart '' he himself has. An added element is that he says ( presumably aside, to the song 's audience ) that he is disguised in a `` sheep suit '' until he can demonstrate his good intentions, but he seems to be having a hard time suppressing his wolf call in the form of a howl, in favor of the baa - ing of a sheep, at the very end of the song when Sam repeats the word `` BAAHED '' a few times during the song 's fade. One of its signature lines is `` you 're ev'rything that a big bad wolf could want ''. The song begins with a howl, and a spoken recitation that goes : `` Who 's that I see walkin ' in these woods ? / Why it 's Little Red Riding Hood ''. Attribution The song whose lyrics are described just above is widely attributed to Ronald Blackwell. There seems to be no controversy ( although various titles are occasionally used ) that one with a similar title was earlier written and recorded by the Big Bopper, and released as `` Little Red Riding Hood '' ( N.B. : with `` little '' spelled out ) late in 1958 as the B - side of his second hit. The searchable sites with its complete lyrics as text seem to constitute no more than a handful, but a recording, purported to be of his voice and thus presumably as being authoritative as to lyrics, exists online. Though related in concept to the later Blackwell song, these differ in : Conflating into one the wolves of Red Riding Hood and The Three Little Pigs ( and implying he is on good terms with the pigs ) Having the singer call himself both the Big Bopper and the Big Bad Wolf Encountering Red from outside her locked door, where he knocks seeking entrance Being apparently more frank, in saying `` you 're the swingin'est and that 's no lie '', and insisting on being let in promptly lest the rest of the household return first Foregoing mentioning any fairy - tale - wolfish characteristics or behavior except a Three - Pigs - wolfish threat to blow the house down ( unless one counts cackling laughter ). However, at least one site, which ignores the Bopper - recorded lyrics in listing his work, attributes the Blackwell / Pharaohs lyrics to the Big Bopper. Cover versions Subsequent recordings of the Blackwell composition include : a cover by The Royal Guardsmen in 1967, on their album Snoopy vs. the Red Baron ; a cover by punk pioneers 999, released as a single in 1981 ; a cover by The Bobs on their 1987 album My, I 'm Large ; a cover by The Smashing Pumpkins, released in their Live Smashing Pumpkins album series ; a cover version of the song on the Voodoo Glow Skulls 2002 album Steady as She Goes, listed as ' Untitled Hidden Track ' ; a version by pop - punk band Bowling for Soup on their 2005 album Bowling for Soup Goes to the Movies ; a version by experimental rock band Patife Band on their 1987 album Corredor Polonês. a version by Psychobilly band The Meteors released in 1985 as the B - side to Stampede Trout Fishing in America 's song The Window contains some lyrics from the song. ApologetiX parodied this song as `` Little - Read Bible Book '' on their 2004 album, Adam Up. To promote her movie Red Riding Hood, star Amanda Seyfried performed a cover of the song. References Jump up ^ `` Top Music Charts -- Hot 100 ''. Billboard Magazine. Archived from the original on June 22, 2014. Retrieved 2008 - 09 - 24. Jump up ^ `` RIAA Gold & Platinum Search ''. RIAA. Retrieved 2008 - 09 - 24. Jump up ^ `` Soundtracks for Striking Distance ''. IMDb.com. Retrieved 2016 - 09 - 29. Jump up ^ `` '' Soundtracks for Wild Country ``. IMDb.com. Retrieved 2016 - 09 - 29. Jump up ^ `` Billboard ''. 1 October 1966. p. 52. Retrieved 10 October 2016. Jump up ^ `` Read expert reviews on Electronics, Cars, Books, Movies, Music and More ''. Epinions.com. Archived from the original on 2012 - 08 - 25. Retrieved 2016 - 09 - 29. Jump up ^ `` Mediaaccess Bt. - English Language Studies - Students ' Corner - Young Students ' Corner ''. Mediaaccess.hu. 2015 - 11 - 21. Retrieved 2016 - 09 - 29. Jump up ^ `` www.lyricsvault.net ''. Lyricsvault.info. Retrieved 2016 - 09 - 29. Jump up ^ `` Internet Pop Song Database Billboard Top 40 Hot 100 Charts Hits Lyrics ''. Song-database.com. Retrieved 2016 - 09 - 29. Jump up ^ `` Lyrics : Lil ' Red Riding Hood by The Big Bopper ''. Top40db.net. Retrieved 2016 - 09 - 29. Jump up ^ The Big Bopper -- `` Little Red Riding Hood '' on YouTube Jump up ^ `` The Meteors ( 2 ) - Stampede ( Vinyl ) ''. Discogs.com. Retrieved 2016 - 09 - 29. Jump up ^ `` The Window by Charley Weaver ''. Madmusic.com. Retrieved 2016 - 09 - 29. Jump up ^ `` Breaking Celeb News, Entertainment News, and Celebrity Gossip E ! News ''. Eonline.com. Retrieved 2016 - 09 - 29. External links Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics `` Little Red Riding Hood '' by Charles Perrault and the Brothers Grimm Film Red Riding Hood ( 1901 ) Little Red Riding Hood ( 1920 ) Little Red Riding Hood ( 1954 ) Rotkäppchen ( 1962 ) About the Little Red Riding Hood ( 1977 ) Red Riding Hood ( 1989 ) Little Red Riding Hood ( 1997 ) Red Riding Hood ( 2003 ) Red Riding Hood ( 2006 ) Red Riding Hood ( 2011 ) Animation Little Red Riding Hood ( 1922 cartoon ) Dizzy Red Riding Hood ( 1931 film ) Little Red Walking Hood ( 1937 cartoon ) The Big Bad Wolf ( 1934 cartoon ) Red Hot Riding Hood ( 1943 cartoon ) Little Red Riding Rabbit ( 1944 cartoon ) Little Rural Riding Hood ( 1949 cartoon ) Little Red Rodent Hood ( 1952 cartoon ) Red Riding Hoodwinked ( 1955 cartoon ) Red Riding Hoodlum ( 1957 cartoon ) Little Red Riding Hood ( 1995 film ) Redux Riding Hood ( 1997 film ) Hoodwinked ! ( 2005 film ) Hoodwinked Too ! Hood vs. Evil ( 2011 film ) Video games Little Red Riding Hood 's Zombie BBQ ( 2008 ) The Path ( 2009 ) Overlord : Dark Legend ( 2009 ) Dragon Fin Soup ( 2015 ) Stage adaptations Little Red Riding Hood ( 1911 opera ) Grimm ( 2014 musical ) Literary adaptations The Tale of Jemima Puddle - Duck ( 1908 ) Anguish Languish ( 1956 ) Flossie & the Fox ( 1986 ) Lon Po Po : A Red - Riding Hood Story from China ( 1989 ) Wolf ( 1990 ) Little Red Cap ( 1999 ) Scarlet ( 2013 ) Other adaptations Li'l Red Riding Hood ( 1966 ) The Company of Wolves ( 1984 ) The Red Spectacles ( 1987 ) Freeway ( 1996 ) Black XXX - Mas ( 1999 ) Jin - Roh : The Wolf Brigade ( 1999 ) Tokyo Red Hood ( 2003 ) A Wicked Tale ( 2005 ) `` Red - Handed '' ( 2012 ) `` Child of the Moon '' ( 2012 ) Related Once Upon a Time ( TV series ) Akazukin Chacha ( 1994 anime series ) Goldilocks and the Jivin ' Bears Now Hare This Deadtime Stories Baby Bear and the Big, Bad Wolf Big Bad Wolf ( character ) Red ( character ) Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Li%27l_Red_Riding_Hood&oldid=830106595 '' Categories : 1966 singles Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs songs Bowling for Soup songs Works based on Little Red Riding Hood Songs about wolves Songs about women Songs about children Songs based on fairy tales MGM Records singles 1966 songs Hidden categories : Articles with hAudio microformats Talk Contents About Wikipedia Norsk Suomi Svenska Edit links This page was last edited on 12 March 2018, at 19 : 57. 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Question: who sang hey there little red riding hood
Answer: Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs