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"Pure Imagination" † / "Grandpa Joe" (Reprise) - Willy Wonka, Charlie Bucket, Grandpa Joe, and the Golden Ticket Winners "The Oompa Loompa Song" † - Oompa Loompas "Auf Wiedersehen Augustus Gloop" - Willy Wonka and the Oompa Loompas "When Willy Met Oompa" - Willy Wonka and the Oompa-Loompas "Veruca's Nutcracker Sweet" – The Squirrels
"Bad Feeling (Oompa Loompa)" is a 2023 alternative rock song released by Jagwar Twin (Roy English) under the Big Loud Rock label. The song utilizes the lyrics and melody from the refrain of the Oompa Loompa songs in the 1971 film Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory . [ 4 ]
Oompa started rapping in middle school, competing in battle rap in the cafeteria for lunch money. As a kid, she played basketball at Washington Park in Roxbury, where she was given the nickname, "Oompa Loompa" because she was short and speedy. This inspired her stage name. [3] [4] In high school, Oompa's sister, Nicky, died from lupus. [2]
This was the source of controversy, and in 1970 the NAACP criticised the story and stated the Oompa-Loompas had overtones of slavery. Dahl insisted the Oompa-Loompas had no racist intent, and rewrote the book, changing the Oompa-Loompa's skin colour to white and changing the origin of the Oompa-Loompas from Africa to the made-up "Loompaland". [1]
"Oom-Pah-Pah" is a show tune with music and lyrics by Lionel Bart which appeared in the 1960 musical Oliver!, in which it is sung by Nancy and the crowd at the "Three Cripples" tavern. Although not an original music hall song, it recalls that genre. [ 1 ]
The musical Oliver! contains a song named "Oom-Pah-Pah", which is named after the oom-pah. A more modern variation is the playing of contemporary pop and rock songs in an Oompah style, by bands such as Global Kryner (Austria), Oompah Brass (UK) (who dubbed the style "Oompop"), [ 3 ] and Brumpah (UK, West Midlands). [ 4 ]
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The song is sung in Fagin's lair in a scene based on the section of Dickens's book where Fagin (played by Ron Moody in the film) teaches Oliver Twist and the rest of the boys how to pick the pockets of gentlemen so as to be able to steal their handkerchiefs, etc., without being detected. It is the first song in Act I Scene VI.