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“Snoopy Vs. The Red Baron” by The Royal Guardsmen
From the album Snoopy vs. The Red Baron (1966)
“Snoopy Vs. The Red Baron” by The Royal Guardsmen appears on 7 radio countdowns from 1 station between 1999 and 2005. It was first released in 1966 on the album Snoopy vs. The Red Baron. Its best result is #1354 on the CD101 Top 2005 Songs of All-Time (December 2004). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #3,002 alternative song of all time.
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"Snoopy vs. the Red Baron" is a novelty record and proud of it, cooked up by writers Phil Gernhard and Dick Holler and cut in 1966 by the Royal Guardsmen, a pop outfit out of Florida, at the Charles Fuller Productions studio in Tampa. Laurie Records put it out as a single, and the gag, Snoopy squaring off against the Red Baron, turned into a runaway smash.
In America it climbed all the way to number two and then sat there for weeks, locked out of the top spot by the Monkees' "I'm a Believer"; Australia gave it five weeks at number one and Canada three, and it sold close to three million copies. The Guardsmen knew a good thing when they had one and kept Snoopy flying on "The Return of the Red Baron", "Snoopy's Christmas" and "Snoopy for President".
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 1367 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2000 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) | 2000 |
| 2000 | 1367 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2001 Songs of All-Time (December 2000) | 2001 |
| 2001 | 1369 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (December 2001) | 2002 |
| 2002 | 1368 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2003 Songs of All-Time (December 2002) | 2003 |
| 2003 | 1354 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2004 Songs of All-Time (December 2003) | 2004 |
| 2004 | 1354 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2005 Songs of All-Time (December 2004) | 2005 |
| 2005 | 1354 | CD101 | CD101 Top 2006 Songs of All-Time (December 2005) | 1994 |
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