Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo

Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo

"Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo" (also called "The Magic Song") is a novelty song, written in 1948 by Al Hoffman, Mack David, and Jerry Livingston. It was introduced in the movie "Cinderella" in 1950.

A recording by Perry Como and The Fontane Sisters was the most popular. It was recorded on November 7, 1949 and released by RCA Victor Records as a 78 rpm single (catalog number 20-3607-B) and as a 45rpm single (catalog number 47-3113-B). The flip side was "A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes". The recording reached #14 on the Billboard chart. cite book
last = Whitburn
first = Joel
authorlink = Joel Whitburn
title = Top Pop Records 1940-1955
publisher = Record Research
year = 1973 ] The same single was released in the United Kingdom by HMV as a 78rpm single (catalog number B-9961).

Another recording, by Jo Stafford and Gordon MacRae, was released by Capitol Records as catalog number 782. The record first reached the "Billboard" charts on December 16, 1949 and lasted 7 weeks on the chart, peaking at #19. It was backed with "Echoes" on the flip side.

On the "Cash Box" Best-Selling Record charts, where all versions were combined, the song reached #7.

Lyrics

The lyrics of the song, as with the title, are composed nearly entirely of nonsense, featuring the title of the song. The 1948 recording, however, has several extra English lines that were not used in the 1950 Disney version, including: "If your mind is in a dither, and your heart is in a haze, I'll haze your dither, and dither your haze, with a magic phrase.", and "if you're chased around by trouble, and followed by a jinx, I'll jinx your trouble, and trouble your jinx, in less than forty winks." The tempo of the various recordings also differs widely.

Parodies and puns

Akira Toriyama, creator of the popular anime and manga franchise "Dragon Ball" has stated that he is a fan of Disney films. As a result of his fanaticism, Toriyama has created three characters in his "Dragon Ball" series named after this song. The characters names were an evil wizard named Bibidi, his son Babidi, and the powerful demon they created, Buu.

The song is also parodied on the "Pinky, Elmyra & the Brain" episode "Narfily Ever After", a parody of "Cinderella".

ee also

* Non-lexical vocables in music

References


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