SPLISH
SPLASH
BOBBY
DARIN
SONGWRITERS: BOBBY DARIN; JEAN MURRAY & MURRAY THE
K KAUFMAN
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: SPLISH SPLASH
LABEL: ATCO RECORDS
GENRE: ROCK
YEAR: 1958
Bobby Darin(born Walden Robert Cassotto; May
14, 1936–December 20, 1973) was an American singer, songwriter,
multi-instrumentalist, impressionist, and actor in film and television. He performed jazz, pop, rock and
roll, folk, swing, and country music.
He started his career as a songwriter for Connie Francis. He recorded his first
million-selling single, "Splish Splash", in 1958. That was
followed by "Dream Lover", "Mack the Knife", and "Beyond the Sea", which brought him
worldwide fame. In 1962 he won a Golden Globe Award for his first film, Come September,
co-starring his first wife, actress Sandra Dee.
During the 1960s, he became more politically
active and worked on Robert F. Kennedy's
Democratic presidential campaign. He was present on the night of June 4/5,
1968, at the Ambassador
Hotel in Los Angeles at the time of Kennedy's
assassination. During the same year, he discovered the woman who
had raised him was his grandmother, not his mother as he thought, and learned
that the woman he thought was his sister was actually his mother. Those events
deeply affected Darin and sent him into a long period of seclusion.
Although he made a successful comeback (in
television) in the early 1970s, his health was beginning to fail, as he had
always expected, following bouts of rheumatic fever in childhood. The knowledge of his vulnerability had always spurred him
on to use his musical talent while still young. He died at the age of 37 after
a heart operation in Los Angeles.
"Splish Splash" is a 1958 novelty rock song performed and
co-written by Bobby Darin. It was
written with DJ Murray the K(Murray
Kaufman), who bet that Darin could not write a song that began with the words,
"Splish Splash, I was takin' a bath", as suggested by Murray's
mother, Jean Kaufman. The song was credited to Darin and "Jean
Murray" (a combination of their names) to avoid any hint of payola. It was Darin's first hit
and the song helped to give him a major boost in his career, reaching No. 3 on
the U.S. pop singles chart and No. 2 on the R&B Best
Sellers chart. "Splish Splash" was
Darin's only entry on the C&W Best Sellers in Stores chart, where it peaked at No. 14. In a 1967 interview, Darin claimed
that he was so happy about having his first hit that his skin condition cleared
up.
Splish, splash
I was takin' a bath
Long about a Saturday night … yeah!
Rub-a-dub
Just relaxin' in the tub
Thinkin' everything was all right.
Well … I stepped out
the tub
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 going on.
They was a splishin'
and a splashin'
Reelin' with the feelin'
Moving and a groovin'
Rockin' and a rollin' … 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' bug.
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… yea!
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'... woo!
We was a reelin' with the feelin'… ha!
We was a rollin' and a strollin'
Movin' with the groovin'
Splish, splash … yeah!
I was a splishin' and a splashin'… one time…
I was a splishin' and a splashin'… woo-woo!
I was a movin' and a-groovin'…
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