Per Rup A Pum Pum, Per Rup A Pum Pum

[Gromit]

What is it ?

Just heard it used on an advert/promo on tv.
I remember it from junior school, and like it.

Choir, young male voices. Something in English (I think) and then the earworm (per rup a pum pum) comes in.

[cashier]

Little drummer boy

[Eleena]

Drummer boy.

[tonyav]

This I think, Gromit.

[Arksided]

The Little Drummer Boy

[Tilly2]

Come they told me
pa-rum-pa-pum-pum
a Newborn King to see
pa-rum-pa-pum-pum
our finest gifts we bring
pa-rum-pa-pum-pum
rum-pa-pum-pum
rum-pa-pum-pum

[Gromit]

Of course it is. I think I have just had a senior moment.

I think the one used on the telly was the version I remember from school 45 years ago.

Reminds me of when I like Tears of a clown by The Beat, and didn’t realise for about a year that it was the Smokey Robinson song.

Anyhow, thanks all for answering. I’ll get mi coat.

[Peter Pedant]

I am a student nurse and I rub-a-bum-bum
that's all I do all day - I rub a bum bum
that's how I earn my pay - I rub a bum bum ( 1980)

that one
Liddle drummer boy -

[shoota]

That's another illusion shattered....

I always thought it was 'Par rumpy pumpy pee, rumpy pumpy pee'....

(Leastways it was in our school.)

[jourdain2]

That was the Christmas song playing in the background whilst Myra Hindley and Ian Bradey tortured their little victims to death. Not one I have been able to sing ever since. (To the annoyance of several musical directors.)

[Tilly2]

Really, Jourdain? How do you know that, please?

[Mamyalynne]

There's an audio recording available explaining it Tilly, don't search for it.

[jourdain2]

No, don't search for it Tilly. I heard an audio recording by accident many, many years ago and I've never got rid of it.

[tonyav]

Yes I heard that a few years ago, Mamya. Don't search for it Tilly.

[Tilly2]

I won't. Thank you.

[Gromit]

jourdain2

Crikey, thanks (not) for sharing that. :-/

[Gromit]

Ironically, I live in Hindley and Brady and Shipman’s town.

[jourdain2]

It's not the tune's fault, gromit. Just the way I associate with it. Sorry to have spoiled your enjoyment of it, not intentional.

[andy-hughes]

This is one of my Top Five All-Time Most Hated Records Ever ...

[shoota]

Sings:
'The ox and ass made love,
Per rumpy pumpy pee etc....'

[Jackdaw33]

You lived in Shipman's town? I was at university when Shipman was briefly the college medical officer. Fortunately I had no need to consult him at the time.