Music fans' worst fears are about to be realised - Agadoo is back.

The cringe-inducing holiday hit which stormed the charts in 1984 is enjoying a revival thanks to a television advert.

And the song, which was taken to number two in the charts by West Yorkshire band Black Lace, will soon be back in the shops to cash in on its new lease of life.

Black Lace spent seven hours at Club Barcelona in Birstall yesterday filming a new video for Agadoo with about 35 pupils from the Chris Beaumont Dance School in Birstall.

Jo Jagger, of the duo's management company NOW Music, based in Scholes, Cleckheaton, said: "We've got people fighting to be able to release it.

"We were already doing a new album and there has been such a lot of new interest in the song because of the advert that we thought we would bring it out again.

"There's a lot of potential for it to do well so we hope we will be able to bug everyone with it all over again.

"It's always played at parties so people automatically assume everyone knows it but in fact there are lots of kids who weren't around when it was a hit before. There is going to be some great computer animation in the video so hopefully we will be able to get it played on children's TV shows."

The song, famous for the actions which go with its lyrics about pushing pineapples and shaking trees, is featured in a new TV commercial for the Peugeot 106.

In it, two girls are about to be tortured by cannibals but their captors run screaming in the face of a different type of torment when Agadoo comes on the radio.

Peugeot spokesman Colin Lewis said: "It's the archetypal naff song which is why we used it. It's interesting to hear that it's still current."

Black Lace, who are made up of founder member Colin Gibb (formerly Colin Routh) and Rob Hopcraft, are currently negotiating with record companies over the re-release of Agadoo.

It is likely to be out on the EMI label and although no date has yet been set for it to go on sale, the band hope the new single will be in the shops in July when the Peugeot advert is still due to be screened.

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