“Double Dutch” by Malcolm McLaren

"Double Dutch" was Malcolm McLaren's 1983 follow-up to his hit debut single "Buffalo Gals", taken from his first album, Duck Rock, and it climbed to number 3 in Britain, the highest any of his singles went. It's a song about the skipping game itself, with McLaren narrating and calling out New York double Dutch troupes by name, the Ebonettes most of all, whose name becomes the chant of the chorus. The composer credit, first McLaren and Trevor Horn alone, has since been widened to take in four more writers.

The video puts him in a school gymnasium with troupes from the American Double Dutch League, jumping away. On Duck Rock it appears in a slightly re-edited form, with a chunk of the single's middle eight moved to the close.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.