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Be-Bop-a-Lula

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Now this is the first record I ever bought when I was a kid, and I saved up my pocket money for months, and then I took the bus down-town to the record shop, and I remember going into the back of the shop and listening to the record and loving it. It was just very early days of rock’n’roll, so it was
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The writing of the song is credited to Gene Vincent and his manager, Bill "Sheriff Tex" Davis. Evidently the song originated in 1955, when Vincent was recuperating from a motorcycle accident at the
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The original demo for the song, probably recorded at radio station WCMS, has never been located and is presumed lost. The song drew comparisons to Presley and is listed as No. 103 on
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The song was released in June 1956 on Capitol Records' single F3450, and immediately sold well. The song was successful on three American singles charts: it peaked at No. 7 on the US
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Italian DJ and TV personality Red Ronnie (a.k.a. Gabriele Anzaloni) named his first and long-running TV show after the song, also using Vincent's performance in the film
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peaking at No. 5. In the UK, it peaked at No. 16 in August 1956. In April 1957, the record company announced that over 2 million copies had been sold to date.
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just such a thrill, and then I got back on the bus, went home and played it endlessly, and these memories, of Gene Vincent and the Blue Caps singing
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mocked the lyrics to the song by reading them in a pseudo-serious tone accompanied by light piano background music in a September 1957 broadcast of
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style, and possibly being ultimately derived from the shout of "Arriba! Arriba!" used by Latin American bandleaders to encourage band members.
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as "Hey! Ba-Ba-Re-Bop." This phrase, or something very similar, was widely used in jazz circles in the 1940s, giving its name to the
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Vincent recorded a new version of the song in 1963 which appeared on the flip-side of the single "The King of Fools".
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called "Rocky", which bore on its face the one-word slogan "Bebopalula". The song is name-checked in the opening of
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Vincent's original version of the song is featured in the soundtracks of several films including
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The song features in the soundtrack of Jack Smith's infamous avant-garde film,
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The phrase "Be-Bop-a-Lula" is similar to "Be-Baba-Leba", the title of a No. 3
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The Fender Stratocaster: The Life & Times of the World's Greatest Guitar
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A cover version of the song by Chris Cawte appears in the animated film
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In early 1956, Gene Vincent performed the song on a radio show in
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released a version only two years after Vincent's, on their 1958
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on April 7, 2023, named after this song. The album-opening song
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TV-a-Go-Go: Rock on TV from American Bandstand to American Idol
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as the signature tune of the show (accompanied by cartoonist
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Christmas with the Everly Brothers and the Boys Town Choir
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performed an acoustic version on the 1991 live album
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in 1945, which became a bigger hit when recorded by
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Single
Gene Vincent and His Blue Caps
B-side
Bradley Studios
Genre
Rockabilly
Label
Capitol
Songwriter(s)
Gene Vincent
Gene Vincent and His Blue Caps
"Be-Bop-a-Lula"
YouTube
rockabilly
Gene Vincent and His Blue Caps
US Naval Hospital in Portsmouth, Virginia
Don't Bring Lulu
Little Lulu
R&B
Helen Humes
Lionel Hampton
bebop
Norfolk, Virginia
demo
Capitol Records
Elvis Presley
Bradley Studios
Nashville, Tennessee
Cliff Gallup

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