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I have a tune in my head. Trying to find out what it's name is and who recorded it is driving me nuts. So far, all internet searches have come up empty.
The song is about a guy who discovers he is dating a striper. No! It's not just some old fantasy of mine. I can remember most of the words but the artist's idenity escapes me, I was sure it was Engelbert Humperdinck, or possibly Tom Jones. I even looked at Mac Davis. So far no luck.
Here's how the song goes.
She was dancing the bump, bump, bumity bump The audience was going wild She looked at me, and blew me a kiss As I came stumbling down the aisle
With every bump bump bumpity bump My heart started bumping too Now every night you'll see me in the front row seat Cheering with the rest of them And stomping my feet I knew she was the girl for me When she danced that bumpity bump...oh yeah She danced danced danced That bumpity bump, bump, bumty bump
I'll send a gift off to whoever comes up with the right answer first.
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Nope. It's not a Zappa tune. More lyrics are coming back.
I met a girl. She told me she was a dancer. A prettier girl I'd never seen before She asked me to the theatre to see her What a shock, when I opened up the door.
She was dancing the bump, bump, bumity bump The audience was going wild She looked at me, and blew me a kiss As I came stumbling down the aisle
With every bump bump bumpity bump My heart started bumping too Now every night you'll see me in the front row seat Cheering with the rest of them And stomping my feet I knew she was the girl for me When she danced that bumpity bump...oh yeah She danced danced danced That bumpity bump, bump, bumty bump
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The Jimmy Dewrance Blues Band and Adrian Belew both do a song called Bumpity Bump. Don't know if it's what you are looking for. Also Jumpin' Juba had an album by that name.
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Could it be "The Jimmy Castor Bunch" who put out such classics as "the Bertha Butt Boogie"?
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Bertha Butt and the Butt Sisters Harris??? Like in the "Troglodite" song???
"Gotta get a woman, Gotta get a woman"
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"Tha party was jumpin when Bertha got offa her stump" "Bump Bump Bumpadump."
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I thought you had it for a second Fergie. It seemed like the right era, but the song Smiley recorded is different.
For some reason, I think this had to be a song recorded before 1968. We never had that many records around the house when I was a kid, but my Mom did have a thing for a "new" singer called Engelbert Humperdinck. No sign of it so far.
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It was a minor hit for a duo called Eddie & Dutch, and the song name was "My wife the dancer"
Now for the kicker... According to the AMG, Engelbert Humperdinck recorded "My Wife The Dancer" on We Made It Happen (1970) and Live At The Riviera, Las Vegas (1972).
So there you have it!
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Maybe I should have a new thread for this, but as a kid I used to listen to two little 45 rpm records- "Men of Steek & Ships of Wood" & "Visions of Sugar Plums" both by a singer called Cornelia were on one record, and "Master Jack" & "I Looked Back" both by Four Jacks & a Jill were on the other.
We lost the records in the early 1970s when we came from South Africa to Australia, but have been able to refind the 4 Jacks & A Jill songs but not the other.
I'd love to just get the words to those first two songs, but 'net searches have got me zilch so far.
Has anyone here heard of them? ( I even posted on a South African forum a while back but was met with 'never heard of them' or 'you've got me stumped' etc!
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I'm tempted to break out some old 45's here, Stewey, but i can't remember where I left my "Close and Play" record player. I'll bet it's somewhere packed up with my aluminum Christmas tree, "Creepy Crawlers" and "Johhny Lighning" set...
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When I want to drop out of reality I cop out To the memory of things that you and I did My mind is a projection As I gaze in recollection At the cinerama screen inside my eyelids
And visions of sugarplums race through my head You and I drinkin' yesterday’s wine But soon the mornin' sun of today will touch my bed And burst the pretty bubble in my mind
Now my eyes are open, reminiscent dreams are broken By the lips of one mistake I made a while back For I chose her in place of you So when I need a taste of you I look into my mind and see you smile back
And visions of sugarplums race through my head You and I drinkin' yesterday’s wine But soon the mornin' sun of today will touch my bed And burst the pretty bubble in my mind
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Wow Laura- where/how did you get that, or do you just have a great memory, in which case who sung the version you know? That IS 'Visions of Sugar Plums'
THANK YOU VERY MUCH
just 'Men of Steel & Ships of Wood' togo...!
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Never heard it before. I just GOOGLED. Now I have to look to see where I found it. Some other singer like glenn Campbell or someone like that sang it. I was sure I would remember. NOT.
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In a bar, in a port Where sailors cavort Sat a man with one arm and one leg And around him were those, In seafaring clothes, Who were pouring dark rum from a keg.
His red vesseled face Stood out with some grace From the crowd, that gathered round. They were egging him on by singing a song and swaying back and forth to the sound.
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Laura, it's not that one. The words which are familiar are something like:
Men of steel & ships of wood, ah but that's all changed now, And it's done no good... ...can't remember the next lot...then Ships of steel destroy what the wooden ships once found.
(thanks for trying, though!)
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