# Name the "Stripper song"

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-stripper-song/75487>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [August 8, 2001, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-stripper-song/75487 "2001-08-08T19:27:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![gonzoron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a6a055/32.png) [@gonzoron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzoron)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2001, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-stripper-song/75487/1 "2001-08-08T19:27:43Z")

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We’ve all heard it a thousand times, on TV and such, it’s that song that people strip to, I’ll try to hum it:

“Baa-da-da-DAA BAH-da-bum-bum…  
(then later…)  
BUM! bum! BUM! buh! etc…”

(Well, that will surely help 😉 ) It’s usually played on brass of some kind (trombone?).

What’s the name of it? Do or did people every actually use it for stripping?

Ideas?

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**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2001, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-stripper-song/75487/2 "2001-08-08T19:40:09Z")

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If you’re talking about the song first performed in the mid- 60’s by David Rose and his Orchestra, I’m pretty sure the title of the tune is “The Stripper.”

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**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2001, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-stripper-song/75487/3 "2001-08-08T20:11:59Z")

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Yep, it actually is called “The Stripper,” and was written by bandleader David Rose.

I think it was written as a parody of all those stripper tunes, but actually morphed into the most famous of them, itself.

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**Author:** ![Papermache\_Prince](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f05b48/32.png) [@Papermache\_Prince](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Papermache_Prince)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2001, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-stripper-song/75487/4 "2001-08-08T20:42:22Z")

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Ok, so what did the strippers dance to before “The Stripper”?