Album: Bobby Darin Story (1958)

Charted: 18 3

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• Splish, splash, I was takin' a bath
  Long about a Saturday night, yeah
  A rub dub, just relaxin' in the tub
  Thinkin' everythin' was alright
  
  Well, I stepped out the tub
  I put my feet on the floor
  I wrapped the towel around me and I
  Opened the door
  
  And then a-splish, splash
  I jumped back in the bath
  Well, how was I to know
  There was a party goin' on?
  
  There was a-splishin' and a-splashin'
  Reelin' with the feelin'
  Movin' and a-groovin'
  Rockin' and a-rollin', yeah, yeah
  
  Bing, bang, I saw the whole gang
  Dancin' on my living room rug, yeah
  Flip, flop, they was doin' the bop
  All the teens had the dancin' but
  
  There was lollipop with a Peggy Sue
  Good golly, Miss Molly was-a even there, too
  A- well-a, splish, splash, I forgot about the bath
  I went and put my dancin' shoes on, yeah
  
  I was a-rollin' and a-strollin'
  Reelin' with the feelin'
  Movin' and a-groovin'
  Splishin' and a-splashin', yeah
  
  Yes, I was a-splishin' and a-splashin'
  I was a-rollin' and a-strollin'
  Yeah, I was a-movin' and a-groovin'
  We was a-reelin' with the feelin'
  We was a-rollin' and a-strollin'
  Movin' with the groovin'
  Splish, splash, yeah
  
  Splishin' and a-splashin'
  One time I was splishin' and a-splashin'
  Ooh, I was movin' and a-groovin'
  Yeah, I was splishin' and a-splashin' Writer/s: Bobby Darin, Jean Murray
  Publisher: Round Hill, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
  Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 11

• Wookie from CanadaHow does he not know that there's a party going on outside his door? Was it a surprise birthday party for him?
• Jennifur Sunthe late Panama Francis was the drummer he also did several of the old Four Seasons recordings among many others
• Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn March 10th 1956, Bobby Darin performed "Rock Island Line" on the CBS-TV program 'The Dorsey Brothers Stage Show', it was his first appearance on TV...
  Two years and three months later his first charted record, "Splish Splash", would entered Billboard's Top 100 on June 8th, 1958 at #51...
  {See next post below}.
• Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn December 17th 1957, Bobby Darin performed a song titled "Don’t Call My Name"* on the ABC-TV program 'American Bandstand'...
  The record did not make any of the national charts; but six months later on June 8th, 1958 he entered Billboard's Top 100 chart for the first time, "Splash Splash" debut at #51 and eventually peaked at #3...
  He would go on to have forty songs make the Top 100 chart between 1958 and 1973; ten would make the Top 10 with one reaching #1, "Mack the Knife" for 9 weeks in 1959...
  He just missed having a second #1 record when "Dream Lover" peaked at #2 {for 1 week} in 1959; the week it was at #2, "The Battle of New Orleans" by Johnny Horton was at #1...
  Mr. Darin, born Walden Robert Cassotto, passed away on December 20th, 1973 at the young age of 37...
  May he R.I.P.
  * Its available on You Tube.
• Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn June 28th 1959, Tina Robin performed covered versions of "Splish Splash" and "Hound Dog" on the CBS-TV program 'The Ed Sullivan Show'...
  Two years later on September 18th, 1961 she entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart with "Dear Mr. DJ, Play It Again"; it stayed on the chart for one week at position #95 (was composed by Gerry Goffin, Carole King and Howard Greenfield and is available of You Tube)...
  It was her only Top 100 entry...
  R.I.P Ms. Robin (1937 - 1996).
• Barry from Sauquoit, NyIn 1958 Dick Clark had a Saturday night TV show on ABC. On one of those shows he introduced Bobby Darin, when Bobby came on camera and started to sing 'Splish Splash' I was shocked. I had assumed that he was a black artist, his singing voice certainly had fooled me!!!!
• Sara from Silver Spring, MdKenny Loggins and Jim Messina covered this on "So Fine" an album of covers of songs that inspired them. It might have partly inspired "Your Mama Don't Dance"
• Pete from Nowra, AustraliaPotsy sang this on Happy Days
• Bob from Wheaton, MiHis life was cut much to short. but then agin he would still be singing not oldies just an old man
  
  Strez
• Jay from New York, NyThis is a strange song. Apparantly, while he was taking a bath, several characters from other songs broke into Bobby Darin's house and began to have a party. After getting over the shock of seeing all these people in his house, he went and put his dancing shoes (and hopefully some pants and a shirt)on and joined the party. Was this a common occurance in 1958?
• Rob from Portage, MiThis song is played in Bobby Darin's "Hits Medely"

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