Beep Beep (song)
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| "Beep Beep" | ||||
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| Single by The Playmates | ||||
| from the album At Play with the Playmates | ||||
| B-side | "Your Love" | |||
| Released | 1958 | |||
| Format | 7" | |||
| Genre | Pop | |||
| Length | 2:20 | |||
| Label | Roulette | |||
| Writer(s) | Carl Cicchetti, Donald Claps | |||
| The Playmates singles chronology | ||||
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"Beep Beep" is a novelty song by The Playmates. It describes an apparent competition between the drivers of a Cadillac and a Nash Rambler on the road, leading to a surprise revelation as to why the Rambler is racing the Cadillac.
The song is an example of accelerando, in which the tempo of the song gradually increases throughout the song.[1]
Charts
The song was on the Billboard Top 40 charts for twelve weeks, and peaked at #4.[2] It sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc.[3] The Playmates appeared on the Milton Berle Show televised December 3, 1958, at the height of the song's popularity.[4][5]
Concurrently with this song, American Motors (AMC) was setting production and sales records for the Rambler models.[6] The "Beep Beep" song was also popular with the workers building the Rambler cars on AMC's assembly lines in Kenosha, Wisconsin.[7]
Because of a directive by the BBC that songs not include brand names in their lyrics, a UK re-recorded version of "Beep Beep" was recorded for the European market replacing the Cadillac and Nash Rambler with the generic terms the Limousine and Bubble car.
In Popular Culture
Homage is made to the "Beep Beep" in the 1959 hit song "Jo Jo The Dog Faced Boy" with the line, "Where in the world was the little Nash Rambler?". "Jo Jo The Dog Faced Boy" was sung by featured Mickey Mouse Club singer, Annette Funicello and written by Bob & Dick Sherman and Bob Roberts.[8]
The song is sampled in the Marilyn Manson song "Misery Machine", which appears on the 1994 album Portrait of an American Family.[9][10]
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