I believe this was a “scat” song. Sid Ceaser once sang this song in a skit about a man who alternates between frenetic activity and deep sleep. I believe that Bugs Bunny also once sang this song as part of a “magical incantation”
I don’t have the name, but is it the thing Bugs Bunny says when he’s “magically” giving Ali Baba’s treasure to Daffy Duck? It goes something like
Zibbity zabbity zoom eep eep
Bibbity babbity boom eep eep
Flibbity floom
Pibbity poom
Zibbity zabbity zoom…it’s yours.
I love the Internet. I just had this video out of the library, one of those “Best of Your Show of Shows” collections.
The song’s called “Piccolo Pete”. “When Piccolo Pete plays tweet, tweet, tweet on his piccolo…” and that’s all I know about it, because that’s all Sid Caesar sings when he jumps out of bed.
http://www.garlic.com/~tgracyk/fields.htm
It’s on one of Perry Como’s albums. As for the actual lyrics, I can’t find them offhand on the Web.
Damn! I was thinking of two different songs! The one I remember Bugs Bunny singing went something like “Hooten, hooten,hooten,hay” As he sang he went through some really wild contortions.
The song that came to my mind when I read the description was the one of those “bookshop comes alive” Looney Tunes cartoons, where Daffy Duck dressed up as some long-dead Latin-type singer in a zoot suit (and blonde wig). He started out singing “La Cucaracha” and then segued into some wild scat singing in an effort to warn Little Red Riding Hood that her grandmother was actually the big bad wolf. Or did I just hallucinate that?
Whoooooooah! Babe! What are you on and why aren’t you sharing?
Just to prove that I didn’t hallucinate:
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OK, so got a few details out of place, but if anything, this description seems even weirder . . .