Hey! Ba-Ba-Re-Bop

"Hey! Ba-Ba-Re-Bop" is a 1946 song by Lionel Hampton and His Orchestra. The song's lead vocals were performed by Lionel Hampton himself and the recording featured Herbie Fields on alto sax. The song went to number one on the R&B Juke Box chart for sixteen non-consecutive weeks and reached number nine on the national pop charts.

"Hey! Ba-Ba-Re-Bop"
Single by Lionel Hampton and his Orchestra
B-side"Slide, Hamp, Slide"
ReleasedJanuary 1946 (1946-01)
RecordedLate 1945
GenreSwing, jump blues
Length2:57
LabelDecca (18754)
Songwriter(s)Lionel Hampton, Curley Hamner
Lionel Hampton and his Orchestra singles chronology
"Beulah's Boogie"
(1945)
"Hey! Ba-Ba-Re-Bop"
(1946)
"Hamp's Salty Blues"
(1946)

Although the writing of "Hey! Ba-Ba-Re-Bop" was credited to Hampton and his drummer Curley Hamner, it was essentially a partial rewriting of Helen Humes' 1945 R&B hit "Be-Baba-Leba", which in turn was closely related to "Ee-Bobaliba" by Jim Wynn.

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