Little Richard in Tutti Frutti: A-Wop-Bop-A-Loo-Bop-A-Lop-Bop-Bop.Barry Mann in Who Put the Bomp: Bomp Bah Bomp Bah Bomp, Rama Lama Ding Dong, Bop Shoo Bop Shoo Bop, and Dip Da Dip Da Dip.
Nonsense syllables, known in musicological circles as non-lexical vocables, have long been a part of music, having been used in second century AD Greek and Byzantine music 3 and manifesting more recently in such forms as yodeling, scat singing, beatboxing, and doo-wop.Ī few examples of popular songs featuring nonsense syllables follow: More about that in a moment.ĭo Dum Dum Dum, De Do Dum Dum – Nonsense Syllables In Leonard Cohen’s Tower Of Song While the above photo, taken in Montreal by Leslie Py Wener, makes a case for a confectionery theory of the genesis of those syllables, 2 Mr Cohen himself attributes that phrase to another singer-songwriter. Echoing Barry Mann’s metaphysical query, “Who Put the Bomp (in the Bomp, Bomp, Bomp),” 1 is the question of the origin of the “Dum Dum” – an essential component in the key “Do Dum Dum Dum, De Do Dum Dum” refrain of Leonard Cohen’s Tower Of Song.
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