Who Put The Bomp - Barry Mann

The single debuted on Billboard's Hot 100 on August 7, 1961, and remained for twelve weeks, peaking at # 7[3]. Mann's version did not chart in the UK, though a cover version by the Viscounts reached # 21 there in September, 1961, and another version by Showaddywaddy charted at # 37 in August, 1982.

"Who Put the Bomp (in the Bomp, Bomp, Bomp)" is a Doo-wop style hit song from 1961 co-written (with Gerry Goffin) and recorded by Barry Mann. He was backed up by The Halos, who had previously backed up Curtis Lee on the song "Pretty Little Angel Eyes". The song was originally released as a single on the ABC-Paramount label (10237).

In this song, Mann sings about the frequent use of nonsense lyrics in Doo-Wop music, and how his girl fell in love with him after listening to several of such songs.

Examples of the type of song referred to include the Marcels' version of "Blue Moon" (in which they sing "Bomp bomp ba bomp, ba bomp ba bomp bomp" and "dip-de-dip-de-dip") and the Edsels' "Rama-Lama-Ding-Dong", both of which charted earlier the same year.

The song inspired the title of a music magazine, called "Who Put the Bomp".

The song fits into the category of "self-referential" songs. Rock songs are often about rock (We're gonna rock around the clock), reggae songs about reggae, rap songs about rap, etc. In this particular song that aspect is accentuated by the fact that Mann is a songwriter singing about songwriters.

It is also an ironic, lightly self-mocking song. This is a frequent phenomenon in popular music, M's "Pop Muzik" being an example (Wikipedia).

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[pilchardman101]

Do deaf people actually sit at a computer reading lyrics like these ? haha weird, go and watch a movie with subtitles instead

[deafsubtitles]

@pilchardman101 DO YOU speak from experience or ignorance? You don't have much of a social life do you?

STOP watching cartoons.

[pilchardman101]

@deafsubtitles Ignorance

[deafsubtitles]

@pilchardman101 WHEN ONE asks a question ONE is NO LONGER ignorant. Enlightened now.

No question, when honest, IS wrong.

[jeff62rey]

July 1962, Burlington's, "Diggity Dog Drive Inn." Date of the night: Sara Jane. Very long Brunette hair, Hazel eyes. Sweet smile; endless chatterer. Her: Pearl White skirt and pink fuzzy lamb sweater. Me: Tan slacks, green short sleeve and hushpuppy loafers. Her: A lovely waft of sugary, vanilla like perfume. We: Sharing Two Diggity Dogs with chili, rootbeers and Crazy fries smothered in cheese. Afterwards, warm, tingly feelings of anxious teen puppy love, sated at Lake Krill.

[deafsubtitles]

@jeff62rey COOL! "...and they called it puppy love-ove-ove-ove."

Did you marry the girl?

[deafsubtitles]

@musicbox193 AH, no man. Before Grease there was Bomp.

[deafsubtitles]

@Hammdozer IT'S NEVER too late. :)

[aceinco]

boogity, boogity, boogity!!!... who put the gigg in the giggity, giggity, giggity?

[Factnotfictionpeople]

@pilchardman101 Funny, these lyrics - and others like them I suppose - seem to annoy you so much; yet you seem to be hanging around this 'page'. Are you SURE you've got a social life? :-)

[pilchardman101]

@deafsubtitles I can hear.

[wllmlos]

Funny thing. Mann wrote a lot of those doowpop songs back then. So I guess he was 'that man' who put the bop in the........well you know.

[pilchardman101]

@KiteSwift Also read the first thing it says onscreen when you watch it.

[pilchardman101]

@KiteSwift The video been uploaded by a person called deafsubtitles, the tags include: deaf and hard of hearing . . . that's why I'm asking if deaf people actually read this for enjoyment.

[KiteSwift]

@pilchardman101 LOL i think the lyrics are there for karaoke purposes more so than as a deaf aid xD

[TXmikaelaH]

Why can't today's music be as polite and heartfelt as this song and others like it!!!