I guess it’s originally from a Chuck Berry song, but I seem to recall it being used in a commercial when I was a kid. No luck searching… Anyone else remember this? What was the commercial?
IIRC, it was from a song called “The Popcorn Song”, and I heard it in Tulsa in the mid 60s. That’s all I got.
Sorry, I have no info about the commercial.
I question that the origin of “too pooped to pop” was Chuck Berry’s song. I believe the phrase was in usage before then, but I can’t say I’m certain. Does anyone know?
Wasn’t that part to Lucy’s Megameetavegamin spiel?
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That was “do you poop out at parties,” IIRC.
And then however she mangled it when she got vit-faced.
ETA: Mangled version: “Do you pop out at parties? Are you un-poopular?”
I sort of remember this as part of a song: Too pooped to pop, too old to stroll, hips getting weaker when he tries to do the something something… Maybe from the 60’s?
Yes, the song referred to in the OP, “Too Pooped to Pop” by Chuck Berry (1960).
I recall listening to a 78rpm record when I was a youngster, probably the mid to late 1950s with the lines:
Too pooped to pop, and I ain’t lyin’
Too pooped to pop, just layin’ here fryin’.
My mama and my papa were the cream of the crop
but I’m just layin here, too pooped to pop.
No idea who it was but it must have predated the Chuck Berry style of music. It was more like a children’s tune.
It was called The Pop Corn Song by Cliffie Stone. 1955