I Wanna 1-2-1 With You

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"I Wanna 1-2-1 With You"
Single by Solid Gold Chartbusters
Released	1999[1]
Format	12" CDS CS
Recorded	1999[1]
Genre	Novelty[2]
Label	Virgin[1]
Writer(s)	Guy Pratt Jimmy Cauty Lloyd Stanton[2]

"I Wanna 1-2-1 With You" is a mobile telephone-themed novelty-pop song by Solid Gold Chartbusters, written by Guy Pratt, Jimmy Cauty, and Lloyd Stanton.^[3] It was released as competition for the Christmas Number One, but only got to #62.^[1]

The release of this song prevented the Super Furry Animals from releasing their song "Wherever I Lay My Phone (That's My Home)", on the grounds that it was "based on the same Nokia ringtone".^[4][5]

Costumes from its music video were later used in an unusual advertising campaign in which online film clips purportedly showed pranksters stealing the cellphones of unsuspecting passersby.^[6]

Track listings[edit]

CD single – EU "I Wanna 1-2-1 With You (radio edit)" "I Wanna 1-2-1 With You (extended club mix)" 12" single – UK "I Wanna 1-2-1 With You (extended club version)" "I Wanna 1-2-1 With You (radio edit)"

CC single – EU Side one "I Wanna 1-2-1 With You (radio edit)" "I Wanna 1-2-1 With You (extended club version)" "Philler #004" Side two "I Wanna 1-2-1 With You (radio edit)" "I Wanna 1-2-1 With You (extended club version)" "Philler #004"