Onka's Big Moka is an album released in 1999 by the pop rock

Pop rock

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 band Toploader

Toploader

Toploader are an English band from Eastbourne who formed in 1997, with over two million album sales to their name and a string of top 20 hits both home and abroad. Their debut album, Onka's Big Moka, sold over 1 million units and remained in the Top 5 of the UK album chart for over six months...

. The album reached #4 on the UK charts, and a song from the album, "Dancing in the Moonlight

Dancing in the Moonlight

"Dancing In The Moonlight" is the title song on the 1973 King Harvest album. The track was released as a single in 1972 and it reached #13 on the Billboard Hot 100. They released other singles but these were never able to match the success of "Dancing in the Moonlight"...

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King Harvest

King Harvest was a 1970s American rock band, best known for their 1973 hit single, "Dancing in the Moonlight".-Background:Formed by a group of four American expatriates in Paris in 1970, King Harvest was best known for its one US hit single, "Dancing In The Moonlight," which was released in 1972...

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 for supermarket chain Sainsbury's.

The title is a reference to a 1976 anthropological documentary Ongka's Big Moka: The Kawelka of Papua New Guinea

Ongka's Big Moka

Ongka's Big Moka: The Kawelka of Papua New Guinea is a 1976 documentary film, part of Granada Television's Disappearing World Series which ran from 1969-1993.In Ongka's Big Moka Ongka, a New Guinea Big man, is seen preparing a Moka exchange...

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It was being much played in university anthropology departments in the mid-1990s, around when the band members would have been attending.

Track listing

1. "Let the People Know" – 3:54
2. "Dancing in the Moonlight
   Dancing in the Moonlight
   "Dancing In The Moonlight" is the title song on the 1973 King Harvest album. The track was released as a single in 1972 and it reached #13 on the Billboard Hot 100. They released other singles but these were never able to match the success of "Dancing in the Moonlight"...
   
   " – 3:52
3. "Achilles Heel" – 4:18
4. "Breathe" – 3:56
5. "Do You Know What Your Future Will Be?" – 4:24
6. "Only for a While" – 4:13
7. "Just Hold On" - 4:01
8. "Higher State" – 3:11
9. "High Flying Bird" – 4:10
10. "Summer Cycle" – 4:38
11. "Just About Living" - 4:01
12. "Floating Away (In the Bath Tub)" - 3:22

Singles

• 1999 "Achilles Heel" #64 UK
• 1999 "Let the People Know" #52 UK
• 2000 "Dancing in the Moonlight
  Dancing in the Moonlight
  "Dancing In The Moonlight" is the title song on the 1973 King Harvest album. The track was released as a single in 1972 and it reached #13 on the Billboard Hot 100. They released other singles but these were never able to match the success of "Dancing in the Moonlight"...
  
  " #19 UK (King Harvest
  King Harvest
  King Harvest was a 1970s American rock band, best known for their 1973 hit single, "Dancing in the Moonlight".-Background:Formed by a group of four American expatriates in Paris in 1970, King Harvest was best known for its one US hit single, "Dancing In The Moonlight," which was released in 1972...
  
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  Cover version
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• 2000 "Achilles Heel" (re-release) #8 UK
• 2000 "Just Hold On" #20 UK
• 2000 "Dancing in the Moonlight" (remix) #7 UK
• 2001 "Only for a While" #19 UK

The album was given a mention in MTV's Top 100, but was not in the top 100