From: vanover@bcsaic.UUCP (Jann VanOver)
Newsgroups: misc.kids
Subject: Re: Walla walla bing bang (was Re: Worm song?)
Date: 8 Apr 92 22:51:07 GMT
Organization: Boeing Computer Services AI Center, Seattle

In article <1992Apr2.152235.7448@ohsu.edu> lawder@ohsu3b2.ohsu.EDU (Kathryn Lawder) writes:
>In article <shirley.702198337@ipc3> shirley@swanee.ee.uwa.oz.au (Glenn Shirley) writes:
>>ceb@dbrus.Unify.Com (Caroline E. Bryan) writes:
>>
>>>Always liked this one better:  Ooh, ee, ooh-ah-ah, bing, bang, walla-walla
>>>	bing-bang / Oo-ee, ooh-ah-ah, bing-bang walla-walla bing-bang!
>>
>>Wasn't this song something to do with a guy talking to a Witchdoctor
>>about the girl he loved or something like that?
>>

  Yes - it's called "The Witchdoctor Song"

>
>
>Yeah!  Alvin, Simon, Theodore* and Dave Seville used to sing this one and
>it was firmly entrenched in my childhood memories!
> 		I told the witchdoctor I was in love with you
>		I told the witchdoctor I was in love with you
>		And then the witchdoctor he told me what to do
>		He said to
>				ooh ee ooh-ah-ah
>				bing, bang, walla-walla bing-bang
>				(repeat)
> 
>...or was it ting-tang?

   Yes, it WAS ting-tang

>
>*aka The Chipmunks
>

  Just to set the record perfectly straight - this song pre-dates "the
Chipmunks"  Their creator, Ross Bagdasarian (Sr) recorded the
Witchdoctor song first, then looked for characters who would have this
type of "speedy" voices.  Later, the Chipmunks DID perform it on "The
Alvin Show"

  Just being picky!
----- News saved at 8 Apr 92 22:49:24 GMT
In article <92094.085253ICLNM@ASUACAD.BITNET> ICLNM@ASUACAD.BITNET writes:
>In article <1992Apr2.152235.7448@ohsu.edu>, lawder@ohsu3b2.ohsu.EDU (Kathryn
>Lawder) says:
>>
>>Yeah!  Alvin, Simon, Theodore* and Dave Seville used to sing this one and
>>
>>*aka The Chipmunks
>>
>David Seville, yes; the Chipmunks, no.  This was a minor hit in the late
>50's.  I think it pre-dates the Chipmunks by a couple of years.  David
>Seville and the chipmunks are the subject of one of my favorite stories and
>possibly a UL.  Seville was an assumed name (I forget the real name), but he
                                      Ross Bagdasarian
>was a cousin of William Saroyan.  He made more money off the first recording
>of Alvin and the Chipmunks than Pulitzer Prize winner Saroyan made in his
>entire career.  Saroyan was bitter about this the rest of his life. Both are
>dead now; the current revival of Alvin and company was brought about by a
>nephew (I believe.  It could be a grandson).  The rights to the idea were
      no - son                        Ross Bagdasarian Jr.

>kept in the family for possible future use.

Ross Jr. was a guest on Dr. Demento many years ago.  He said he didn't
pay ANY attention to his dad when the Chipmunks were big in the 60's, he
just thought they were stupid.  After his dad died, he was going through
his things and gained a new appreciation.  Soon thereafter, he produced
"Urban Chipmunk" and started it all up again.

BTW, Ross Sr. wrote the song "Come on-a My House, My House, I'm gonna
give you candy..."  

Just some Chipmunk Trivia!
Jann
VanOver@atc.boeing.com
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In article <92094.085253ICLNM@ASUACAD.BITNET> ICLNM@ASUACAD.BITNET writes:
>In article <1992Apr2.152235.7448@ohsu.edu>, lawder@ohsu3b2.ohsu.EDU (Kathryn
>Lawder) says:
>>
>>Yeah!  Alvin, Simon, Theodore* and Dave Seville used to sing this one and
>>
>>*aka The Chipmunks
>>
>David Seville, yes; the Chipmunks, no.  This was a minor hit in the late
>50's.  I think it pre-dates the Chipmunks by a couple of years.  David
>Seville and the chipmunks are the subject of one of my favorite stories and
>possibly a UL.  Seville was an assumed name (I forget the real name), but he
                                      Ross Bagdasarian
>was a cousin of William Saroyan.  He made more money off the first recording
>of Alvin and the Chipmunks than Pulitzer Prize winner Saroyan made in his
>entire career.  Saroyan was bitter about this the rest of his life. Both are
>dead now; the current revival of Alvin and company was brought about by a
>nephew (I believe.  It could be a grandson).  The rights to the idea were
      no - son                        Ross Bagdasarian Jr.

>kept in the family for possible future use.

Ross Jr. was a guest on Dr. Demento many years ago.  He said he didn't
pay ANY attention to his dad when the Chipmunks were big in the 60's, he
just thought they were stupid.  After his dad died, he was going through
his things and gained a new appreciation.  Soon thereafter, he produced
"Urban Chipmunk" and started it all up again.

BTW, Ross Sr. wrote the song "Come on-a My House, My House, I'm gonna
give you candy..."  

Just some Chipmunk Trivia!
Jann
VanOver@atc.boeing.com