The Combine Harvester - Wikipedia The Combine Harvester `` The Combine Harvester '' Single by Brendan Grace, The Wurzels Released 1975, 1976 Format Single Genre Novelty, scrumpy and Western Length 3 : 03 Label Solo, EMI Producer ( s ) Tommy Ellis, Bob Barratt `` The Combine Harvester '' is a novelty song which was a number - one hit for Brendan Grace in Ireland in 1975 and then The Wurzels in the UK in 1976. The song is a parody of Melanie Safka 's 1971 hit, Brand New Key, with rustic lyrics replacing the original theme of roller - skating. In the UK, the song was released by The Wurzels, an act from Somerset with a rustic West Country style which they called `` Scrumpy and Western ''. It reached number one on 12 June 1976 and stayed there for two weeks. Charts Chart Peak position Irish Singles Chart UK Singles Chart References ^ Jump up to : Jon Kutner ( 2010 ), 1000 UK Number One Hits ( 390 ), Omnibus Press, ISBN 9780857123602 Jump up ^ Audrey Healy ( 2002 ), Dubliners : What 's the Story ?, Currach Press, p. 67, ISBN 9781856079006 Preceded by `` No Charge '' by J.J. Barrie UK Singles Chart number - one single 1976 Succeeded by `` You to Me Are Everything '' by The Real Thing This 1970s single -- related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Combine_Harvester&oldid=815466158 '' Categories : 1975 songs 1975 singles 1976 singles Novelty songs UK Singles Chart number - one singles EMI Records singles 1970s single stubs Hidden categories : Articles with hAudio microformats Song articles with missing songwriters All stub articles Talk About Wikipedia Nederlands Edit links This page was last edited on 15 December 2017, at 00 : 17. About Wikipedia

Question: who sang i got a brand new combine harvester
Answer: Brendan Grace