<Li> While the song was a minor hit in the United States all three times it was released, it reached the Top Ten on the Canadian charts, and Top Twenty in Australia in 1970 for Davis . It was his first charting single release . </Li> <Li> "A Little Bit of Soap" was a huge hit in southeast Asia when the Hong Kong - based group Cliff Foenander and The Fabulous Echoes released it as a single . It spent 25 weeks at number 1 in top ten charts in 1963 in southeast Asia . Foenander and The Fabulous Echoes also sang the hit in Las Vegas, USA, in 1964 . It made Cliff Foenander a household name in South Asia: Radio Ceylon, the oldest radio station in South Asia, played the number one hit across the Indian subcontinent . </Li> <Li> Daniel Johnston also covered it, while De La Soul sampled it for a different song with the same name . </Li>

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