# Who put the bop in the bop-she-bop-she-bop? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [November 24, 1999, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-put-the-bop-in-the-bop-she-bop-she-bop/4954 "1999-11-24T11:29:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Kid\_Gilligan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kid\_Gilligan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kid_Gilligan)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 1999, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-put-the-bop-in-the-bop-she-bop-she-bop/4954/1 "1999-11-24T11:29:00Z")
This is an experiment to discover which visitors to the board have WAY TOO MUCH FREE TIME. How many will attempt to answer this question? ---
**Author:** ![Cabbage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@Cabbage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cabbage)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 1999, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-put-the-bop-in-the-bop-she-bop-she-bop/4954/2 "1999-11-24T11:31:00Z")
I don’t know who it was, but he made my baby fall in love with me! ---
**Author:** ![Inky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/d78d45/32.png) [@Inky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inky)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 1999, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-put-the-bop-in-the-bop-she-bop-she-bop/4954/3 "1999-11-24T11:52:00Z")
Who was that man? I’d like to shake his hand. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 1999, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-put-the-bop-in-the-bop-she-bop-she-bop/4954/4 "1999-11-24T12:06:00Z")
**Kid\_Gilligan** According to my sources, “bop” is a colloquially shortened form (originally an intransitive verb) of “bebop”. For example, “Man, can she bop!” Bebop is popularly regarded as the forerunner to modern jazz. Charlie Parker gets the nod from most people as the founder of bebop in the 1940s, with Dizzy Gillespie recognized as a major contributor. Miles Davis, Charles Mingus, and Fats Navarro carried forward this nouveau music style, characterized by complex eighth-note runs and fast tempos, into full-blown modern jazz. * * * “It is lucky for rulers that men do not think.” — Adolf Hitler ---
**Author:** ![funneefarmer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9fc348/32.png) [@funneefarmer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/funneefarmer)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 1999, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-put-the-bop-in-the-bop-she-bop-she-bop/4954/5 "1999-11-24T12:10:00Z")
I imagine the author of the first song to have the bop in it. ---
**Author:** ![whitetho](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whitetho/32/1059_2.png) [@whitetho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whitetho)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 1999, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-put-the-bop-in-the-bop-she-bop-she-bop/4954/6 "1999-11-24T12:48:00Z")
“Who Put The Bomp (In The Bomp, Bomp, Bomp)” was written by Bary Mann and Gerry Goffin. Released as a single by Barry Mann, it reached #7 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart in the fall of 1961. Barry Mann was a prolific writer, co-writing such hits as “Blame It On The Bossa Nova”, “I Love How You Love Me”, “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’”, and many more. Give his prolific songwriting successes, I’ve always though that, through this song, Barry Mann was bragging that "_I’m the one_ who put the bomp etc. etc. ---
**Author:** ![Satan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Satan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satan)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 1999, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-put-the-bop-in-the-bop-she-bop-she-bop/4954/7 "1999-11-24T13:11:00Z")
I imagine the same person who put the wam in the wamma-lamma-ding-dong… * * * Yer pal, Satan ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 1999, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-put-the-bop-in-the-bop-she-bop-she-bop/4954/8 "1999-11-24T14:02:00Z")
Is it true what they say about Dixie? Do you know what it means to miss New Orleans? Have you ever seen a dream walking? Is it at long last love? ---
**Author:** ![metroshane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/aeb1de/32.png) [@metroshane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/metroshane)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 1999, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-put-the-bop-in-the-bop-she-bop-she-bop/4954/9 "1999-11-24T15:17:00Z")
As you know it today, Phil Spector. * * * We live in an age that reads to much to be wise, and thinks too much to be beautiful–Oscar Wilde ---
**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 1999, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-put-the-bop-in-the-bop-she-bop-she-bop/4954/10 "1999-11-24T16:19:00Z")
That’s “bomp _shu_ bomp,” etc. With a long U sound. Boogety, boogety, shoop. ---
**Author:** ![Fretful\_Porpentine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fretful_porpentine/32/2873_2.png) [@Fretful\_Porpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fretful_Porpentine)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 1999, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-put-the-bop-in-the-bop-she-bop-she-bop/4954/11 "1999-11-24T16:31:00Z")
I don’t know, but one of my classmates once gave a seminar presentation on this book that purported to be a cultural study of transvestitism. The author, in the inimitable way of academics, saw transvestitism _everywhere_. She even had a chapter on the diphthong, which she claimed was “the linguistic equivalent of a cross-dresser.” (You know, two letters, one sound … no, I don’t get it either.) So, of course, I burst into a rousing chorus of “Who Put the Thong in the Dip-dip-Thong?” Whole class was rolling on the floor. Most fun I’ve ever had in grad school. ---
**Author:** ![WIGGUM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ce7236/32.png) [@WIGGUM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WIGGUM)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 1999, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-put-the-bop-in-the-bop-she-bop-she-bop/4954/12 "1999-11-24T17:37:00Z")
I’ll tell you who put the bop-in-the-bop-she-bop-she-bop. It was those damn Germans. ---
**Author:** ![Gilgamesh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Gilgamesh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gilgamesh)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 1999, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-put-the-bop-in-the-bop-she-bop-she-bop/4954/13 "1999-11-25T06:03:00Z")
Ella Fitzgerald. ---
**Author:** ![BoBettie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@BoBettie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BoBettie)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 1999, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-put-the-bop-in-the-bop-she-bop-she-bop/4954/14 "1999-11-25T06:04:00Z")
He bop, she bop, we bop; I bop, you bop a they bop; be-bop, be-bob-a-loo! She-bop. I hope that clears things up 🙂 Zette * * * [Click here for some GOOD news for a change](http://www.binghamtonpress.com/binghamtonnews/local/Sanews5.html) [Zettecity](http://www.angelfire.com/ny3/zettecity/index.html) ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 1999, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-put-the-bop-in-the-bop-she-bop-she-bop/4954/15 "1999-11-24T19:43:00Z")
And of course the teeny-boppers will go “Mmmm-bop.” 😉 ---
**Author:** ![neuro-trash\_grrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3ab097/32.png) [@neuro-trash\_grrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neuro-trash_grrrl)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 1999, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-put-the-bop-in-the-bop-she-bop-she-bop/4954/16 "1999-11-24T20:33:00Z")
Hey! I’ve been looking for this bop everywhere! What’s it doing in here? No wonder I couldn’t find it! All right, who put the bop in the bop-she-bop-she-bop? Next time, please put the bop where it belongs, and stop leaving things in the bop-she-bop-she-bop. What am I, your mother? * * * “That’s entertainment!” —Vlad the Impaler ---
**Author:** ![neuro-trash\_grrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3ab097/32.png) [@neuro-trash\_grrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neuro-trash_grrrl)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 1999, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-put-the-bop-in-the-bop-she-bop-she-bop/4954/17 "1999-11-24T20:36:00Z")
And while you’re at it, get that ram out of the rama-lama-ding-dong! Sheesh! * * * “That’s entertainment!” —Vlad the Impaler ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 1999, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-put-the-bop-in-the-bop-she-bop-she-bop/4954/18 "1999-11-24T20:52:00Z")
Shortly after that song was first played on the radio, I came up with my own lyrics for its refrain: Who was that man? I’d like to break his hand! He made my baby fall into the well! (I was 12 then.) * * * “If you drive an automobile, please drive carefully–because I walk in my sleep.”–Victor Borge ---
**Author:** ![Drew\_17](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7ea924/32.png) [@Drew\_17](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drew_17)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 1999, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-put-the-bop-in-the-bop-she-bop-she-bop/4954/19 "1999-11-24T22:40:00Z")
I’m pretty sure it was Donna Shalala, in her early years in politics. ---
**Author:** ![moriah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b2d939/32.png) [@moriah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moriah)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 1999, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-put-the-bop-in-the-bop-she-bop-she-bop/4954/20 "1999-11-27T04:15:00Z")
Zette wanted to have fun by saying: > [@](#): > > He bop, she bop, we bop; > I bop, you bop a they bop; > be-bop, be-bob-a-loo! She-bop. So, the answer is Cyndi Lauper did when she sang about female masturbation. And, to greatly annoy Nick and make him puke all over me (before this can be moved to MPSIMS)… HIJAK!! Name your favorite masturbation song (I mean, songs _about_ masturbation… I don’t want to know the other stuff). Peace.