Loop de Loop

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"Loop de Loop"
Single by Johnny Thunder
from the album Loop de Loop
B-side "Don't Be Ashamed"
ReleasedDecember 1962 (1962-12)
Genre R&B
Length2:12
Label Diamond
Songwriter(s) Teddy Vann, Joe Dong
Producer(s) Teddy Vann
Johnny Thunder singles chronology
"Tell Her"
(1962)
"Loop de Loop"
(1962)
"Rock-A-Bye My Darling"
(1963)

"Loop de Loop" is a song written by Teddy Vann and Joe Dong and performed by Johnny Thunder featuring The Bobbettes. It reached No. 4 on the U.S. pop chart and No. 6 on the U.S. R&B chart in 1963. [1] It was featured on his 1963 album Loop De Loop. [2] In Canada it reached No. 14 in 2 separate weeks. [3] [4]

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The recording was produced by Teddy Vann, and it was Thunder's only Top 40 hit. [5]

The chorus is taken almost in whole from the popular folk song or children's song, known by various names, including "Here we go Loop de Loop." A version of the folk song appeared as early as 1849 in James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps' Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales, as "Dancing Looby."

Other charting versions

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