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"Don't Bring Lulu" was first published by Jerome H. Remick, based in Detroit and New York City, United States, in 1925. [3] It is the 63rd most covered song from 1925. [2] "Lulu" in the song is a 1920s flapper. The song lyrics include a reference to the traditional nursery rhyme and singing game for parties, "London Bridge Is Falling Down".
Little Lulu is a comic strip created in 1935 by American author Marjorie Henderson Buell. [1] The character, Lulu Moppet, debuted in The Saturday Evening Post on February 23, 1935, in a single panel, appearing as a flower girl at a wedding and mischievously strewing the aisle with banana peels.
Bang Bang Lulu" is a traditional American song with many variations. It derives from older songs most commonly known as "Bang Bang Rosie" in Ireland, "Bang Away Lulu" in Appalachia, [1] and "My Lula Gal" in the West. [2] [6] The form "Bang Bang Lulu" became widespread in the United States from its use as a cadence during the World Wars.
This song is sometimes combined or confused with "Miss Lucy had a baby", which is sung to the same tune and also served as a jump-rope song. That song developed from verses of much older (and cruder) songs which were most commonly known as "Bang Bang Rosie" in Britain, "Bang Away Lulu" in Appalachia, [10] and "My Lula Gal" in the West. [11]
Lulu would later opine of Atlantic Record honchos Jerry Wexler, Tom Dowd and Arif Mardin, the producers of her album New Routes: "I don't think they knew what to do with me, and the only big hit I got [off the album] was a song that I [brought in] with me" [1] - referring to "Oh Me Oh My ...", which had been written by Jim Doris who – as Jimmy Doris – had been vocalist-guitarist for the ...
Davis claimed that he wrote the song with Gene Vincent after listening to the song "Don't Bring Lulu". Vincent himself sometimes claimed that he wrote the words inspired by the comic strip, "Little Lulu": "I come in dead drunk and stumble over the bed. And me and Don Graves were looking at this bloody book; it was called Little Lulu. And I said ...
Dion covered the song in 1962 on his album Lovers Who Wander. In 1964, in the U.K., a version by Scottish pop singer Lulu reached number 7 (attributed to Lulu and the Luvvers). [8] She re-recorded the song in 1986, and it reached number 8. [8] The Shangri-Las included a version of the song in their debut LP Leader of the Pack [9] in 1965.
Little Lulu and Her Little Friends (リトル・ルルとちっちゃい仲間, Ritoru Ruru to Chitchai Nakama) is a Japanese anime television series produced by Nippon Animation, based on Little Lulu comic by US cartoonist Marjorie Henderson Buell (Marge). The series was animated and directed by Fumio Kurokawa.