# Can you ID this old jazz song? \[solved\] **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** music\ **Created:** [November 6, 2022, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-id-this-old-jazz-song-solved/974451 "2022-11-06T02:58:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2022, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-id-this-old-jazz-song-solved/974451/21 "2022-11-07T16:59:31Z")
Gets my vote, too. It’s more of a boogie-woogie version, though. ---
**Author:** ![Crane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crane/32/3495_2.png) [@Crane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crane)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2022, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-id-this-old-jazz-song-solved/974451/22 "2022-11-07T17:25:41Z")
It kind of follows [“Because My Baby Don’t Mean Maybe Now”](https://r.search.yahoo.com/_ylt=AwrFRDymPmljoNQ0CsFXNyoA;_ylu=Y29sbwNiZjEEcG9zAzEEdnRpZAMEc2VjA3Ny/RV=2/RE=1667870502/RO=10/RU=https%3a%2f%2fwww.youtube.com%2fwatch%3fv%3d00s68leWzds/RK=2/RS=V8TnoAgSKxyd3bZs_h.71CXYVds-) ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2022, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-id-this-old-jazz-song-solved/974451/23 "2022-11-07T17:31:23Z")
I played it for my wife, who is the jazzmaster in this house and she also identified it as “Frim Fram Sauce”. ---
**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2022, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-id-this-old-jazz-song-solved/974451/24 "2022-11-07T17:52:10Z")
My related bona fides don’t really matter, so I omitted them before, but FWIW I’m a jazz singer who has been deep into the Great American Songbook — and active in the DC jazz scene — for the past 13 years. 🙂 I’m actually 100% sure that I’m correct, but was allowing for the chance that there’s a song I don’t know yet that sounds exactly like “Frim-Fram Sauce” but isn’t. Because that’s not impossible… ---
**Author:** ![Baal\_Houtham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baal_houtham/32/13604_2.png) [@Baal\_Houtham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baal_Houtham)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2022, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-id-this-old-jazz-song-solved/974451/25 "2022-11-07T18:00:44Z")
Nevermind ---
**Author:** ![Peanuthead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peanuthead/32/360_2.png) [@Peanuthead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peanuthead)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2022, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-id-this-old-jazz-song-solved/974451/26 "2022-11-07T19:12:03Z")
It’s still bouncing around my head and I’m getting everything from Don’t Fence Me In, to Nice Work If You Can Get It. I gotta find me a new earworm. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2022, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-id-this-old-jazz-song-solved/974451/27 "2022-11-07T19:26:21Z")
With shifafa on the side? ---
**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2022, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-id-this-old-jazz-song-solved/974451/28 "2022-11-07T19:37:25Z")
Spellings vary, but indeed. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2022, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-id-this-old-jazz-song-solved/974451/29 "2022-11-07T20:06:33Z")
Yeah, I’ve heard it as “shi-bumpa”. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_S](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/46a35a/32.png) [@Max\_S](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_S)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2022, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-id-this-old-jazz-song-solved/974451/30 "2022-11-07T21:40:07Z")
> [@Misnomer](#): > > ’m 95% sure that is a standard called “Frim-Fram Sauce.” 🙂 > > Here is a slower version from [Nat King Cole](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KG2IojSam_U), and something at your tempo by [Diana Krall](https://youtu.be/ZS_6vtAGTE0). That’s it! Thanks! ~Max ---
**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2022, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-id-this-old-jazz-song-solved/974451/31 "2022-11-07T22:00:14Z")
You’re welcome! And you were spot on when you said “I have a vague feeling the lyrics have made up words about some mundane thing. Not scat, but like a few nonsense words.” 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2022, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-id-this-old-jazz-song-solved/974451/32 "2022-11-07T22:31:43Z")
It sounds only vaguely like the version of “Frim Fram Sauce” that I’m familiar with, but then, maybe the version I’ve heard is just an unusual arrangement. Oh, and I added [solved] to the title. ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2022, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-id-this-old-jazz-song-solved/974451/33 "2022-11-11T22:30:09Z")
It also reminds me of this tune (Groove Merchant) :- [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/fAi7IeJG-6Y/maxresdefault.jpg "Herb Ellis & Remo Palmier ‎– Windflower (1978)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAi7IeJG-6Y) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-id-this-old-jazz-song-solved/974451.md?page=1)