Get Out Of Here With That Boom Boom Boom?
Hillary Brown
In article <5jlc10$n...@bmdhh222.bnr.ca>, ker...@nortel.ca wrote:
> Does anyone remember a song (say, mid-70's) that had, as the chorus,
> "Get out of here with that boom boom boom, and don't come back no
> more!"?
>
> Who sang it? Is it available on any current releases, compilations,
> etc?
It's on the Dr. Demento 1950s compilation, but I don't remember who sang
it. I've also seen it done on the PBS kiddie show "Kidsongs."
Kerry Yackoboski
Joseph C Fineman
ker...@bnr.ca (Kerry Yackoboski) writes:
>Does anyone remember a song (say, mid-70's) that had, as the chorus,
>"Get out of here with that boom boom boom, and don't come back no
>more!"?
I think it was called "The Thing", and I know it was popular in the
early 1950s. It is a cleaned-up version of "The Chandler's Wife", in
which the booms are knocks & their meaning is made entirely clear.
>Who sang it? Is it available on any current releases, compilations,
>etc?
Can't help you there.
--- Joe Fineman j...@world.std.com
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||: crumbs. :||
Larry Byler
Kerry Yackoboski (ker...@bnr.ca) wrote:
: Does anyone remember a song (say, mid-70's) that had, as the chorus,
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Say, 1951.
: "Get out of here with that boom boom boom, and don't come back no
: more!"?
: Who sang it?
Phil Harris. Title: The Thing. Inspired by (but in no way related
to) the 1951 movie _The Thing (From Outer Space), with (a then unknown)
James Arness in the title role.
: Is it available on any current releases, compilations,
: etc?
Can't help you there. I own an original 78 of it.
-Larry "taking it down below" Byler-
Kathy O'Connell
Don't know if anyone recorded it in the '70's, but this is a Phil Harris
song.
He was an old time radio guy. I believe the song is called "The Thing."
My father had it on a 78.
Kerry Yackoboski (ker...@bnr.ca) wrote:
: Does anyone remember a song (say, mid-70's) that had, as the chorus,
: "Get out of here with that boom boom boom, and don't come back no
: more!"?
: Who sang it? Is it available on any current releases, compilations,
: etc?
Jackie Lee Mowery
On 23 Apr 1997 16:05:52 GMT, ker...@bnr.ca (Kerry Yackoboski) wrote:
>Does anyone remember a song (say, mid-70's) that had, as the chorus,
>"Get out of here with that boom boom boom, and don't come back no
>more!"?
>
>Who sang it? Is it available on any current releases, compilations,
>etc?
Not sure who "originally" did it or who wrote, it, but my earliest
encounter was recorded by Phil Harris, done MUCH earlier than mid-70s.
I think the gene pool needs a little chlorine.
David Marston
In article <5jlc10$n...@bmdhh222.bnr.ca>,
Kerry Yackoboski <ker...@nortel.ca> wrote:
>
>Does anyone remember a song (say, mid-70's) that had, as the chorus,
>"Get out of here with that boom boom boom, and don't come back no
>more!"?
>
That would be "The Thing" by Phil Harris, which went all the way to #1
on the pop charts in late 1950 (or early 1951). It was issued on both
45 and 78 as RCA Victor 3968.
To find a CD reissue, use the above information at a record-store kiosk.
.................David Marston
Kerry Yackoboski
Thanks to all who posted the answer - now that I know the title I will
at least recognize it if I find it.
Mary Creasey
Kerry Yackoboski wrote:
>
> Thanks to all who posted the answer - now that I know the title I will
> at least recognize it if I find it.
I've also heard the title referenced as "The Riddle of the Box"; you
might check there, too.
Mary the Filker
(who learned it from my singing partner IN the mid-'70s)
mcca...@polaris.net
Kerry Yackoboski (ker...@bnr.ca) wrote:
: Does anyone remember a song (say, mid-70's) that had, as the chorus,
: "Get out of here with that boom boom boom, and don't come back no
: more!"?
: Who sang it? Is it available on any current releases, compilations,
: etc?
Phil Harris's "The Thing"
I am not sure if someone did a remake in the 70s but Phil Harris did his
(the one played more often on Dr. D) back in the 50's I believe.
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>>Who sang it? Is it available on any current releases, compilations,
>>etc?
"The Thing" was recorded by Phil Harris. I'm sure the Dr. has played
it at least once.
Daniel L Ream
Mary Creasey <cre...@worldnet.att.net> writes:
I have this song on an old 7 inch vinyl single. It's called
"The Thing" and is performed by Rolf Harris. Came out in the
mid-1960s. My single is on EPIC Records, if I remember right.
I'm not sure if Rolf wrote it or not, but it sure sounds like his
style.
--Dan Ream
dr...@gems.vcu.edu
J.D. Zack
The sing "The Thing" is currently available on the RCA label's "Nipper's
Greatest Hits" series...
It's on "The '50's - Volume 2" (Catalog number 8467-2-R)
(C) 1988 BMG Music.
The song first charted on Billboard on November 25, 1950.
-- Zack
SCarras
The song is written by Charles Grean,a songwriter,based on an old
Rabelasian ditty called "The Tailor's Boy".
As I was walking down the beach one bright and sunny day
I saw a great big wooden box a-floatin' in the bay
I took it ashore and opened it up,and much to my surprise
What I saw was a boom-boom-boom,right before my eyes
(Chorus:OH,what he saw was a (boom boom boom) right before his eyes!)
I picked it up and ran to town,as happy as a king.
I took it to a guy I knew. He'd buy most anything.
But this is what he hollered at me when I walked in his shop:
"GET OUTTA HERE WITH THAT BOOM BOOM BOOM BEFORE I CALL A COP
GET OUTTA HERE WITH THAT BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BEFORE I CALL A COP!"
I took it out and got right out,a-runnin'for my life!
Then I took it home with me to give it to me wife.
But THIS is what she hollered at me when I walked in the door----
"OOOhhGet outta here with that boom-boom-boom----and don't come back no
more!Oh,get outta here with that boom boom boom and don't come back no
more".
(Brief brass instrumental break)
I took it out and roudn the town until I chanced to meet
a hobo who was lookin for a handout on the street.
He said he'd take most any old thing.He was a desperate man.
But when I showed him the boom-boom-boom he turned around and ran.
Oh when I showed him the boom-boom-boom-----he turned around and ran.
I wandered on for many years a victim of my fate
until one day I came upon Saint Peter at the gate.
But when I tried to take it inside he told me where to go,
"Get outta here with that boom,boom,boom,and take it down below.
Get outta here with that boom,boom,boom,and take it down below".
(Slow down)
The moral of this story.............is when you're out on the beach,
and you should find a great big box,and it's within your reach,
don't EVER try and open it up-that's my advice to you,
CAUUSE (speed up here) you'll never get rid of the boom boom boom no
matter watcha do.Oh,you'll NEVER get rid of the boom boom boom,no matter
watcha do.
(end of song)
Great song,released on RCA and available on a 1972 album I have called
"This is the decade of the 1950s"(code words:This is the decade of the 50s
before RCA's own Elvis Presley's music or ANY rock,and continuing with the
old guard sounnd,but that's too long!:))
Walter Scharf, music director for,among other movies,and plays,WILLIE
WONKA AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY (1971),and the cowriter of Michael
Jackson's first solo hit,BEN (1972,from BEN),was music director for Phil
Harris on the song in question,THE THING even though Phil Harris HIMSELF
was already a big band leader in his own right.Phil was a veteran of many
years on Jack Benny. He latger did the original Baloo in JUNGLE BOOK.He
died in 1995.
SCarras
To Joe Fineman..:
Phil Harris does the 1950/51 novelty sensation called THE THING. It's
based on a "Rabelasian ditty" called THE TAILOR's BOY (as well as what
seems to be another inspirastion,the one you,Joe,mentioned.)
It was a 2:17 big band novelty,but without Phil's,but with Walter Scharf's
band,and released on RCA Victor records,and reaching number 1 in the fall
of 1950.Not to be confused with the movie.:)
I have it on an RCA compilation from 1972.
Joseph C Fineman
sca...@aol.com (SCarras) writes:
>To Joe Fineman..:
>Phil Harris does the 1950/51 novelty sensation called THE THING. It's
>based on a "Rabelasian ditty" called THE TAILOR's BOY (as well as what
>seems to be another inspirastion,the one you,Joe,mentioned.)
I don't know "The Tailor's Boy", but it may well be another version of
"The Chandler's Wife". The latter appears in Oscar Brand's collection
_Bawdy Songs & Backroom Ballads_ (Dorchester Press, New York, 1960, p.
24). Brand comments:
A few years ago a novelty song called "The Thing" appeared "from
nowhere" and achieved the top rating for juke-box sales. "Nowhere"
included the old British protest song, "The Lincolnshire Poacher,"
and "The Chandler's Wife."
"The Lincolnshire Poacher" is not bawdy & contains no booms or knocks,
but has the same tune.
Brand sings "The Chandler's Wife" on one of his series of records,
also called _Bawdy Songs..._ (Vol. 1, AFLP 1906, dated 1955). The
jacket note also mentions "The Thing".
To give you the idea, the first stanza goes:
I went into the chandler's shop, some matches for to buy,
But when I went into the shop, nobody did I spy.
Well, I was disappointed, so some angry words I said,
When I heard the sound of a [knock-knock-knock] right above my head.
--- Joe Fineman j...@world.std.com
||: The higher the monkey climbs, the more he shows his rear. :||
Mary Creasey
SCarras wrote:
>
> The song is written by Charles Grean,a songwriter,based on an old
> Rabelasian ditty called "The Tailor's Boy".
in the '70s with "Shadows of the Night (Quentin's Theme)" from the
Gothic soap TV show "Dark Shadows"? (On a Ranwood 45; artist credit
is to the "Charles Randolph Grean Sounde"; composer credit is to
Robert Cobert.)
Mary the Filker
(who has that 45)
SCarras
Oscar Brand adapted some song for A GUY IS A GUY (sea chanty:A GOB IS A
GOB) for Doris Day,produced by the one and only Mitch Miller.(Demented in
his own way.)
