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Who Put the Bomp (in the Bomp, Bomp, Bomp)

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It fits into the category of "self-referential" songs, in that it is a song about the genre it belongs to, in this case doo-wop. This is accentuated by the fact that Mann is a songwriter singing about songwriters.
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includes the song, "You Did (Bomp Shooby Dooby Bomp)", which contains the lyric, "Who put the bomp in the bomp shooby dooby bomp? Who put the ram in the ram a lama ding dong? You did, you did".
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selected the track as one of his favourite ever songs (along with the theme tune to the BBC sports show
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put the bomp...", and opens the song with the "Oo-wah, oo-wah" that opened his hit song with
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reached #21 there in September 1961. The Viscounts' record was in turn covered by comedians
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music, and how his girl fell in love with him after listening to several such songs.
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At the restaurant Gadgets, which had a show featuring animatronics of the
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had a track called "Who Put the Bom in the Bom Bom Diddleye Bom" on their
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episode "Joey Goes Hollywood" (Season 4, episode 23), the song is sung by
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In this song, Mann sings about the frequent use of nonsense lyrics in
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reciting the first two lines of the chorus of "Who Put the Bomp".
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A parody, "Who Put the Mush", was written and performed by
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as "Who Put the Stump?" on his fourth Christmas album
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Index


Single
Barry Mann
B-side
1961
Studio
Brill Building
Genre
Doo-wop
Novelty song
Label
ABC-Paramount
Songwriter(s)
Gerry Goffin
Producer(s)
Al Nevins
Don Kirshner
doo-wop
novelty song
Barry Mann
Gerry Goffin
ABC-Paramount
doo-wop
The Marcels'
Blue Moon
The Edsels
Little Darlin'
the Diamonds
Pony Time
Chubby Checker

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