Who Put the Bomp (in the Bomp, Bomp, Bomp)© is a Doo Wop novelty song from 1961, written by Barry Mann and Gerry Goffin and recorded by Mann.
Doo Wop is a genre of rhythm and blues music that features group harmony with an engaging melody; a simple beat with little instrumentation; and nonsense syllables. It was born after World War II in the African-American neighborhoods of New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Baltimore, Newark, Detroit, and Washington, DC.
Teenagers who couldn’t afford musical instruments formed Doo Wop groups that sang a cappella. They rehearsed on street corners and apartment stoops, under bridges, and in high school washrooms and hallways. Any place with echoes to provide amazing acoustics!
Who Put the Bomp is funny and sweet and makes you want to grab a microphone and Doo Wop your heart out.
I’d like to thank the guy
Who wrote the song
That made my baby
Fall in love with me
Who put the bomp in the bomp bah bomp bah bomp
Who put the ram in the rama lama ding dong
Who put the bop in the bop shoo bop shoo bop
Who put the dip in the dip da dip da dip
Who was that man
I’d like to shake his hand
He made my baby fall in love with me (yeah)
When my baby heard
“Bomp bah bah bomp bah bomp bah bomp bah bomp bomp”
Every word went right into her heart
And when she heard them singin’
“Rama lama lama lama, rama ding dong”
She said we’d never have to part
So
Who put the bomp in the bomp bah bomp bah bomp
Who put the ram in the rama lama ding dong
Who put the bop in the bop shoo bop shoo bop Who put the dip in the dip da dip da dip
Who was that man
I’d like to shake his hand
He made my baby fall in love with me (yeah)
Each time that we’re alone
Boogity boogity boogity boogity boogity boogity shoo
Sets my baby’s heart all aglow
And every time we dance to
Dip da dip da dip dip da dip da dip
She always says she loves me
So
Who put the bomp in the bomp bah bomp bah bomp
Who put the ram in the rama lama ding dong
Who put the bop in the bop shoo bop shoo bop
Who put the dip in the dip da dip da dip
Who was that man
I’d like to shake his hand
He made my baby fall in love with me (yeah)
Source: Lyric Find
Songwriters: Barry Mann/Gerry Goffin
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, DYAD Music Ltd.
With lots of thanks to Wikipedia
Now, while you’re catching your breath, ask yourself, “What’s New Pussycat?” Then gather your pets around you and sing them this love song.
Or, take a break “Up on the Roof” or in your backyard, on your porch or your stoop, or, even under the boardwalk.
