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"Two Princes"
Song
B-side"Off My Line"

"Two Princes" is a song by the New York City-based pop rock band Spin Doctors. As a single, it reached #7 in the United States, #2 in Canada, and #3 in the United Kingdom. It was the band's highest-charting single internationally.

The song has divided retrospective critical opinion. It was ranked #41 on VH1's "100 Greatest Songs of the 90s"; conversely, it was ranked #21 on Blender magazine's "50 Worst Songs Ever". [1]

Cover versions

The group sang a "modified" version of this song on Sesame Street that emphasized the importance of sharing. They told Zoe she did not have to choose between playing with Elmo and Telly, but rather she could play with both of them. It was also remade in a parody on Bill Nye the Science Guy as "Two Eyes by the Eye Doctors".

The song appears on The Moldy Peaches album Unreleased Cutz And Live Jamz as a live version. British boy band Son of Dork covered this song in 2006 on one of their singles. Boston-based a cappella group, Overboard recorded a version of this song on their 2007 album, "Stranded".

Legacy

The song gained fame in Israel as the ending song of the popular TV show Ha-Comedy Store, airing between 1994 and 1996. The song was also included in the 2005 movie Pooh's Heffalump Movie's soundtrack, and was featured in Futurama as an example of 'college rock' as opposed to 'alternative rock'. Also was used in a Peugeot 307 Spot called "Demands Attention" in Australia, Argentina, Brazil and the United Kingdom.

It was also featured in the pilot episode of the CW's Life Unexpected, an episode of The Sarah Silverman Program ("Maid to Border") and the films Love and Other Drugs and So I Married an Axe Murderer.

The song is one of 45 playable tracks in the 2009 music video game, Lego Rock Band.[2]

It was also featured in the comedy rock musical Grandma and the F-Yous, which ran at Upright Citizens Brigade theater in 2009. Several characters idly sang or hummed it.

The song was played after wins in the clubhouse by the 1993 Philadelphia Phillies. The scat part of the song was used as the jingle for Kmart Australia for numerous years.

Track listings

CD single
  1. "Two Princes" (album version) – 4:16
  2. "Off My Line" (live) – 5:30
CD maxi
  1. "Two Princes" (album version) – 4:16
  2. "Off My Line" (live) – 5:30
  3. "Rosetta Stone" (live) – 8:07
7" single
  1. "Two Princes" (album version) – 4:16
  2. "Off My Line" (live) – 5:30

Charts and sales

Chart successions

Preceded by Swedish number-one single
June 2, 1993 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Top 40 Mainstream number-one single
April 10, 1993 - May 22, 1993 		Succeeded by

References

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  2. ^ Lego Rock Band tracks revealed, transferable to Rock Band from Joystiq.com (Retrieved October 30, 2009)
  3. ^ "Spin Doctors – Two Princes". ARIA Top 50 Singles.
  4. ^ "Spin Doctors – Two Princes" (in German). Ö3 Austria Top 40.
  5. ^ "Two princes in Belgian Chart". Ultratop and Hung Medien. Retrieved 15 June 2013.
  6. ^ "Two princes in Canadian Singles Chart". Library and Archives Canada. Retrieved 15 June 2013.
  7. ^ Nyman, Jake (2005). Suomi soi 4: Suuri suomalainen listakirja (in Finnish) (1st ed.). Helsinki: Tammi. ISBN 951-31-2503-3.
  8. ^ "Spin Doctors – Two Princes" (in French). Les classement single.
  9. ^ Irish Single Chart Irishcharts.ie (Retrieved April 3, 2008)
  10. ^ "Nederlandse Top 40 – Spin Doctors" (in Dutch). Dutch Top 40.
  11. ^ Hung Medien. "Two princes in New Zealand Chart". Retrieved 15 June 2013.
  12. ^ "Spin Doctors – Two Princes". VG-lista.
  13. ^ "Spin Doctors – Two Princes". Singles Top 100.
  14. ^ "Spin Doctors – Two Princes". Swiss Singles Chart.
  15. ^ UK Singles Chart Chartstats.com (Retrieved April 3, 2008)
  16. ^ a b c d Billboard Allmusic.com (Retrieved April 3, 2008)
  17. ^ "1993 Australian Singles Chart". aria. Retrieved 15 April 2010.
  18. ^ "1993 Austrian Singles Chart" (in German). Austriancharts. Retrieved 15 April 2010.
  19. ^ "Single top 100 over 1993" (pdf) (in Dutch). Top40. Retrieved 15 April 2010.
  20. ^ "1993 Swiss Singles Chart" (in German). Swisscharts. Retrieved 15 April 2010.
  21. ^ "Billboard Top 100 - 1993". Retrieved 2010-08-27.
  22. ^ "Gold-/Platin-Datenbank ('Two Princes')" (in German). Bundesverband Musikindustrie. Retrieved April 20, 2009.
  23. ^ "UK certifications, database". Bpi. Retrieved 15 April 2010.
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