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Babs Gonzales, the hepster from ‘Oo-poo-pa-doo’

Babs Gonzalez by William P Goettlieb, late 1940s

Babs Gonzales (1919-80)

Bab’s Three Bips and a Bop (1946-49) recorded the earliest version of ‘oop-pop-a-da’ for Blue Note in 1947 (made famous later by Dizzy Gillespie).

‘Professor Bop’ 1949 & ‘be-bop Santa Claus’ 1954 (by Lloyd Williams)

Babs Gonzales was a featured artist in Alan Freed’s ‘Rock’n’roll Ball’ held at the Saint Nicholas Arena, New York, on January 14, 1955.

‘all about this rock’n’roll’ 1955, rockin’ and rollin’ the blues’ 1955 (Crazy 1002), ‘rock’n’roll Santa Claus’ 1957

He was also a Beat poet. Performed at Ronnie Scott’s in London in 1962.

Gonzales, Babs (1963). Be-bop dictionary and history of its famous stars. Expubidence Publishing Corporation.

Betty Boop ‘boop-[b]oop-a-doop’ 1932, her catchphrase, led to Marilyn Monroe’s famous throwaway scat ‘boop-boop-bee-doo(p)’ ‘ in ‘I wanna be loved by you’

POSTED February 2018.

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