# Chicka Boom

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This article is about the Bob Merrill song. For the Daddy Dewdrop song, see [Chick-A-Boom (Don't Ya Jes' Love It)](/source/Chick-A-Boom_(Don't_Ya_Jes'_Love_It)). For the Tami Neilson album, see [Chickaboom!](/source/Chickaboom!).

"**Chicka Boom**" is a [popular](/source/Popular_music) [song](/source/Song) written by [Bob Merrill](/source/Bob_Merrill). The song was published in 1953 and appeared in the 1953 film, *[Those Redheads From Seattle](/source/Those_Redheads_From_Seattle).*

This was one of a number of Merrill's songs recorded by [Guy Mitchell](/source/Guy_Mitchell) which were hits for him in 1953. The song went to number 16 on the [Cashbox](/source/Cashbox_(magazine)) charts in August 1953, staying there for 13 weeks. The song went to number 4 on the [UK Singles Chart](/source/UK_Singles_Chart) in November 1953, staying there for 15 weeks.[1]

## Other songs

Not to be confused with either of two songs of a similar name called "Chick-A-Boom", or with the instrumental tune "Boom-Chicka-Boom" (sometimes written as "Boom Chicka Boom"). "Chick-A-Boom" (Berns, Morrison) was by the Irish singer [Van Morrison](/source/Van_Morrison) in the mid-1960s, and as featured on the *Midnight Special* collection (and *[Bang Masters](/source/Bang_Masters)*) of early and/or unreleased Van Morrison recordings. Morrison's "Chick-A-Boom" was a songwriting collaboration with [Bert Berns](/source/Bert_Berns). The other, "[Chick-A-Boom (Don't Ya Jes' Love It)](/source/Chick-A-Boom_(Don't_Ya_Jes'_Love_It))", was by Richard Monda aka [Daddy Dewdrop](/source/Daddy_Dewdrop) in 1971. One of the songs from the play/movie, *[Godspell](/source/Godspell)*, "We Beseech Thee," included a chorus that includes the phrase, "Boom chicka boom chicka boom chick chick, chicka booma chicka booma chicka boom chick chick." Lastly, Sandy Nelson's instrumental "Boom-Chicka-Boom" appears on the album "Sandy Nelson Plays Teen Beat" (Imperial, LP 9105), released in 1960.

## References

1. ["Song artist 182 - Guy Mitchell"](http://tsort.info/music/rwsp4m.htm). *Tsort.info*. Retrieved 1 May 2021.

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