The Pied Piper (song)


"The Pied Piper" is a pop song written by the duo The Changin' Times consisting of Steve Duboff and Artie Kornfeld, who first recorded it in 1965, their version reached #87 on the Billboard Hot 100. However when British pop singer Crispian St. Peters recorded it he scored a major hit with the single during the summer of 1966 when it went to #4 in the United States, #5 in the United Kingdom, and #1 in Canada.
The song's title came from the German folklore fairy tale, whose titular character is The Pied Piper of Hamelin.

Chart history

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Later uses

An advertisement for the first-generation Toyota Echo in Australia and New Zealand.
The song has been used in three episodes of the HBO series Silicon Valley, where it is sung karaoke by Dinesh.

Other versions