Who put the bop

[ChrisPBacon]

Who put the bop in the bop shoo bop shoo bop? Who put the ram in the rama lama ding dong?

[Numbers]

I know! I know! It was the same person who took the P out of Chris Bacon. I'd continue in similar vein, but as my ex-wife's family really do come from Scunthorpe I'd better let it lie.

[sft42]

Wasn't it Rocky Sharpe and the Replays?

[mikewith]

I'd say it was Don Kirshner, the man who ran the Brill Building and hired Gerry Goffin, Carole King, Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil to write hit songs for him. Goffin married King, Mann married Weil. Then Goffin and Mann wrote "Who Put the Bomp (In the Bomp, Bomp, Bomp)" ("... he made my baby fall in love with me"). Kirschner it was who created the optimum conditions for the bomp to be put in the the bop sh-bop sh-bop.

[darth vader]

Oi tink you'll foind it was "bop shoo wop shoo wop".... apparently the Ramones did. http://www.punkbands.com/lyrics/bands/ramones/drea
ms.htm

[David H]

Original performers were the Viscounts in 1961

[mikewith]

Shurely the original was Barry Mann? After all, he wrote and had a hit with it. The Viscounts were a UK group who covered it and took it into the charts over 'ere only.

[David H]

I'll give you that one Mike. The main point was to mention the Viscounts did it- I have a copy. I've never heard the other version though I accept there is one now, and I've been into rock and roll since it was current!

[mikewith]

David H - I doff my cap to you, sir!