Boom Bang-a-Bang

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"Boom Bang-a-Bang" was the British entry to the Eurovision Song Contest in 1969

It was sung by Lulu, and written by Peter Warne and Alan Moorhouse.

It was the joint winner with three other entries. These entries were Salomé singing "Vivo Cantando" for Spain, Lenny Kuhr singing "De Troubadour" for the Netherlands and Frida Boccara singing "Un Jour, Un Enfant" for France.

The song was the second entry with a nonsense title to win (after Massiel's previous triumph with "La La La"), and became infamous in the comedy world - most notably inspiring Monty Python's Flying Circus to parody it with "Bing Tiddle-Tiddle Bong" (Python precursor I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again had previously had Bill Oddie do something similar with a song for which the title was rendered entirely in sound effects).

Lyrically, the song is a plea from the singer to her lover to "cuddle me tight". She then goes on to explain that "my heart goes boom bang-a-bang boom bang-a-bang when you are near", complete with appropriate musical accompaniment.

The song was succeeded as (joint) Contest winner in 1970 by Dana singing "All Kinds Of Everything" for Ireland.


 This 1960s song-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org../../../b/o/o/Boom_Bang-a-Bang_23e5.html"
Advanced Search
Included Web Search Engines


Safe Search

close

Top Matching Results

Occasionally Search.com will highlight specialized results that are based on the context of your query. Examples of specialized results include specific links to news, images, or video.

Top Matching Results may highlight information from other Search.com pages, content from the CNET Network of sites, or third party content. The listings are based purely on relevance. Search.com does not receive payment for listings in this section but our partners that provide this data may get paid for listing these products.

Sponsored Links

This section contains paid listings which have been purchased by companies that want to have their sites appear for specific search terms and related content. These listings are administered, sorted and maintained by a third party and are not endorsed by Search.com.

Search Results

Search.com sends your search query to several search engines at one time and integrates the results into one list which has been sorted by relevance using Search.com's proprietary algorithm. You can customize the list of search engines included in your metasearch from the preferences.

The search engines that are used in your metasearch may allow companies to pay to have their Web sites included within the results. To view the Paid Inclusion policy for a specific search engine, please visit their Web site. Search.com does not accept payment or share revenue with any search engine partner for listings in this section.