# ShabuppShabupp? (I only have eyes for you)

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [June 26, 2004, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shabuppshabupp-i-only-have-eyes-for-you/252343 "2004-06-26T18:56:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2004, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shabuppshabupp-i-only-have-eyes-for-you/252343/1 "2004-06-26T18:56:23Z")

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In the 1950s-era dance song “I Only Have Eyes for You” (I think the band was the Flamingoes), are the background singers singing any intelligible words or are they just doing “ShabuppShabupp”?

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**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2004, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shabuppshabupp-i-only-have-eyes-for-you/252343/2 "2004-06-26T21:14:40Z")

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Just “shabupp shabupp”. That’s why this style of music is called “do-wop”.