A treasure from my childhood! I was eleven when this "old chestnut" came out. Never did find out what was in the box but that's what made it so much fun. Phil Harris was great! 👍🏼😂 💕
just wanna let you know. I'm 47, and first heard this song last year. There's a radio station here that plays some of the old (and great) radio stuff on saturday nights. Phil Harris & Alice Faye are one of my favourites. I especially love it whenever Walter Tetley (Julius) or Grogan show up!
@@sandykatz5401 Oh, yes! It was one of my Mother's fsvourites. She was in charge of the Book Room at the High School at that time and used to let the boys who worked for her there listen to the radio while they worked. As a result, she learned all the pop tunes of the time and she sang that one all the time! The kids sure loved her! 😉
I was born in 1954. When I was around 4 years old I drove my mom nuts playing this song over and over. I loved that song and still come to hear it every now and then.
At 60 I remember my dad teaching me to play this song on the mandolin. Was 11 then. Never knew the name of it and had been searching for it for a long time. I just remembered a small line in the song. Punch that in and it finally came up. Memories
My mother use to sing us this song when we were kids. IT SCARED THE HELL OUT OF ME and all my siblings. She (in my memory) sang it in a creepy way. I'd never OPEN THAT BOX! Nightmare
Im only 21, but I grew up listening to the phill harris/alice faye show every single night to help me fall asleep. My grandfather was raised in the golden age of radio, then played shows for my father in the 60's who then passed on the love for old radio programs to me. Falling in love with the voice of phil harris, the humor of the jack benny program, the dramma of dragnet. Phils music and voice will always put a smile on my face and remind me of childhood and family. I never met my grandfather, if he were alive hed be 108, but I feel closer to him through the radio ❤
I was a kid in the 90s, listening to old time radio to help me fall asleep. Now I want to pass down the tradition to my kids. The goal is for them to be the only kids in 1st grade who know Abbott & Costello, Jack Benny, and George Burns.
My mother was born in 1915 and she died only a few years back in 2016 (yes, she was 101 and 10 days old). I can still remember her being on her hands and knees scrubbing the floors on a Saturday morning singing two songs "The Shrimp Boats Are Coming, There's Dancing Tonight" and this "Get Out Of Here With That Boom Boom Boom Before I Call The Cops". She was married in 1951 and these two songs came out in 1950 and 1951 not that I'd remember. I was born in 1952.
Thank you! My parents liked this song and desperately tried to explain to me (at age three) that it was ok not to know what the object was. Hard for a three year old to get that concept... haha.
A wonderful, happy song. I remember it from childhood. I was born in 1944. I always liked Phil Harris raspy voice. This is such a fun song. How can anyone listen to it & not smile.
He's the voice actor for him. It sounds like Baloo giving Mowgli the man cub some sage advice or in his case "The Bear Necessities" of life and one of them is to get rid of the *boom boom boom* Maybe that'll scare Shere Khan away.
This hit by Phil Harris was the #1 song played on the radio and in jukeboxes for the week ending December 31, 1950. The Tennessee Waltz by Patti Page was #1 on the record charts.
I was born in 1972 and I still remember learning Greek mythology and my fourth grade teacher using this song as a learning tool she was an awesome teacher
My mum had the record of this and quite a few of his other songs and used to play them to us kids when we were little. I loved this and I loved him in The Junglebook.
When I was in school, we went to another school as a field trip, the kids performed this song for us. I always wanted to hear this song again. Thank you for sharing.
I remember this from the Vhs "Kidsongs: Very Silly Songs" It was also used as part of the variety show at Midwest Furfest 2009, where the three stomps were replaced by "Great Big Fox" and a fox fursuiter kept popping out of a giant box
This is the perfect song to perform at children's birthday parties if your character was a comedic pirate. Also, I played this song when I was playing guitar as a kid. Shame I didn't keep up with it.
"This would have been a good intro song for the Jumanji sequel "While I was walkin' down the beach One bright and sunny day I saw a great big wooden box A-floatin' in the bay"
I heard this song on a classic radio show a couple weeks ago. Born in 1954, it seemed very familiar to me. I looked it up here and can't stop playing it. Unlike many singers, Phil takes care to make his words understood. Great singer and funny man.
Thanks for posting this song which was top when I was a youngster. There was great speculation at the time over wha the thing was, and I was told it was a secret. And I never found out, and it was infurating. Lovely memories - a happy song.
As an avid listener to Phil Harris I was fortunate enough to hear the song that tells what is in the wooden box, now being one who does not give stuff away I would say that you all need to find it and listen you will not only be surprised but will laugh about it.
This song has an especially personal and warm meaning to me, I am a singer songwriter, musician, both of my younger brothers likewise, we toured the world preforming our concerts, lounges, bars you name it. But my younger brother Mike a fine musician who doubled more than a half dozen instruments but memorized the comedy we did his sense of humor was overly pointed and he viewed things mostly literally, but one of the best and long lingering laughs I had came from him and still gets me. I played this song for him telling him I was looking to maybe learn it for the shows, he listened, and listened for a few days and finally I see him coming to me down the hall at the Holiday Inn with that look on his face when he said ""OK big brother, you always got the meaning of songs to me when I didn't get it, so I gotta know why would anyone be scared of a bass drum?" My brother Mike is gone now, he passed a few years back, but we still live up on UA-cam and in my memories and I still get a chuckle when I hear this piece, see ya Mike when we open that box together and look to see what the thing is.
For some reason I envision the Thing as having two enormous feet sticking out of the wooden box the guy found it in, and the BOOM-BAM-BOOM is simply the Thing stomping its huge, hairy feet, BAM-BOOM! Now it follows the poor guy around like a puppy.
I played this while I was gardening with my brother (11) and he was surprisingly quiet the whole time. When the song ended he looked at me and with the most serious face asked, "But what IS the 'boom boom boom'?" "That's the point kid, it's whatever you want it to be!" Then he proceeded to thousand yard stare while imagining whatever he could😅
I'm happy to hear the genuine song,I'm from Greece-Hellas and I was a small kid(46 now) when I heard it first from Harry Klynn a greek artist sing in my language with the same words,so he respected the song.Amazing....
Lol I had this on 8-track when I was a kid. Then in HS we got it in Chorus and I got in trouble for not looking at the music... Teacher made me prove I knew the words... So I sang it in front of the other kids... She got mad.
This is based on an Irish song called "The Chandler's Wife," what might be called a "dirty" song. The BOOM BOOM BOOM covers up the naughty part. Here's a sample - "So all you married men take heed whenever you come to town/ If you should leave your wife at home be sure and tie her down/ Or if you would be kind to her, just sit her on the floor/ And give her so much of that (BOOM BOOM BOOM) she doesn't want anymore!"
Thank you William Craig. I did not realize that about this song. I just found “The Chandler’s Wife” on UA-cam and listened to it. Absolutely fantastic!!☘️
I want this played at my funeral.
there better be a second speaker playing the knocks from within the casket
Haha omg this gives me an idea! Thanks 😊
Lolol! 😄
Closed casket? 😂😂😂😂
@@Zoras88 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
This song never gets old!!!!!
Right because as the years go by this thing becomes more and more horrible!
Funny think is my grandpa always sang the first verse to us kids and changed the rest I never knew it was a real song 😂😂😂
I love it
@@TVFREAKMAN Heresy
I agree.
Turns out what was in the box was an embarrassing snapshot of Spongebob at the Christmas party.
Lol
my ex-wife's son
It’s a drum, not feet
SpongeBob is overrated
@Jake Shattuck But the clap is easy enough to get rid of, though.
A treasure from my childhood! I was eleven when this "old chestnut" came out. Never did find out what was in the box but that's what made it so much fun. Phil Harris was great! 👍🏼😂 💕
just wanna let you know. I'm 47, and first heard this song last year. There's a radio station here that plays some of the old (and great) radio stuff on saturday nights. Phil Harris & Alice Faye are one of my favourites. I especially love it whenever Walter Tetley (Julius) or Grogan show up!
Hello Carol, how is everything going with you?
Yep Carol, a long time ago for me I was about 10 living in gueens, remember Purple people eater?
@@sandykatz5401 Oh, yes! It was one of my Mother's fsvourites. She was in charge of the Book Room at the High School at that time and used to let the boys who worked for her there listen to the radio while they worked. As a result, she learned all the pop tunes of the time and she sang that one all the time! The kids sure loved her! 😉
@@sandykatz5401 Hey Sandy how are you doing?
I was born in 1954. When I was around 4 years old I drove my mom nuts playing this song over and over. I loved that song and still come to hear it every now and then.
cool richard, greetings from germany, nice story :)
Re:comment: 👆That’s cute! 😄
At 63 years old I well recall my mother singing this to me as a child. Thanks for the great memory!
I’d never heard it to recently
At 60 I remember my dad teaching me to play this song on the mandolin. Was 11 then. Never knew the name of it and had been searching for it for a long time. I just remembered a small line in the song. Punch that in and it finally came up. Memories
Good for you
Fun fact: Harris was the voice of Baloo in Disney's "The Jungle Book"
Also Thomas O'Malley in The Aristocats and Little John in Robin Hood.
R.i.p Thomas O'Malley
He's one of my favorite Disney voices, but the best for me would be Sterling "Pooh" Holloway, the most legendary Disney voice.
@@JaredGriffiths2000 and Patou from Rock a Doodle
@@kylebastian9809I was wondering if Phil Harris also voiced Tigger but I guess not.
My mother use to sing us this song when we were kids. IT SCARED THE HELL OUT OF ME and all my siblings. She (in my memory) sang it in a creepy way. I'd never OPEN THAT BOX! Nightmare
+taahism Similar to the "The Crate" segment from the first Creepshow movie eh?
😂 that’s funny, I think I also wouldn’t open the box tho 🙈
IT scared the hell outta me to.
Me too - scary song
They should make a horror movie spoof with the Thing as its main character. The Thing could even have its own personality like Rubber.
The most interesting question you want to ask this guy is "why is everyone freaked out by this thing except yourself?"
57beachboy Excellent question!
Knowing Phil Harris or at least his radio persona, he must be too drunk to notice how ugly it is.
It's his dick in a box
His dick, yes, and also the horrible disease that it harbors.
Or why wud I ask a stupid question, jus to make as comment??
These old songs are so fun.
Hello Sue, how is everything going with you?
@@JamesS001hi James what’s going on with you?
WE USED TO SING THIS SONG ALL THE TIME IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL! THIS WAS MY FAVORITE
Im only 21, but I grew up listening to the phill harris/alice faye show every single night to help me fall asleep. My grandfather was raised in the golden age of radio, then played shows for my father in the 60's who then passed on the love for old radio programs to me. Falling in love with the voice of phil harris, the humor of the jack benny program, the dramma of dragnet. Phils music and voice will always put a smile on my face and remind me of childhood and family. I never met my grandfather, if he were alive hed be 108, but I feel closer to him through the radio ❤
I was a kid in the 90s, listening to old time radio to help me fall asleep. Now I want to pass down the tradition to my kids. The goal is for them to be the only kids in 1st grade who know Abbott & Costello, Jack Benny, and George Burns.
Heard this on 50's on 5 xm radio. Just great. Thanks!
1mespud me to
Just heard it for the first time today on xm 5
It still plays on there today!
@@kylenicholson8485 first time still does..
Me too
I LOVE Phil Harris!! I wish he were still here among us. Love this song! So much fun!
among us
73 years has gone by and no one has told us what was “The Thing” inside that box.
Probably kiddie p**n
It was sexual, lol.
It was Jumanji
@@AmericanIdolz2011 ?
it's...literally anything you want it to be, that's the point
I love Phil Harris, he's hysterical.
My mother was born in 1915 and she died only a few years back in 2016 (yes, she was 101 and 10 days old). I can still remember her being on her hands and knees scrubbing the floors on a Saturday morning singing two songs "The Shrimp Boats Are Coming, There's Dancing Tonight" and this "Get Out Of Here With That Boom Boom Boom Before I Call The Cops". She was married in 1951 and these two songs came out in 1950 and 1951 not that I'd remember. I was born in 1952.
We need more real humans such as your deliteful mom hope to meet her some day, heaven or earth!
Nothing like a bit of gothic horror delivered in a cheery, friendly way.
My favorite song as a little kid in the 50's.
I remember this song from when I was a kid still love it!
I remember this also. My father had this song on a 45rpm. He played it over and over.
Great song! Never realized it was so old.
So after ca. 70 years, this song enters my brain as though no time had passed. I found it on YT in 5 seconds or so. Incredible!
Took me ages to find it cause I didn’t know the title.. lol
This song is hilarious. A local DJ played this song on the radio years ago and I have never forgotten it.
For some reason every time i here this, i think of Patrick and the box containing a pic of spongebobs embarrassing moment at a christmas party
Thank you! My parents liked this song and desperately tried to explain to me (at age three) that it was ok not to know what the object was. Hard for a three year old to get that concept... haha.
One of the greatest novelty songs of all time and even now in 2024 it still sounds fantastic!!!!!
Omg, my niece and nephew would listen to the over and over when they were little! Good memories,little kids dancing on the kitchen table to oldies!
What an awesome voice!
A wonderful, happy song. I remember it from childhood. I was born in 1944. I always liked Phil Harris raspy voice. This is such a fun song. How can anyone listen to it & not smile.
I'm 70 years old and never heard that song before until a couple of months😂
i keep picturing Baloo from the jungle book singing this.
brad vinci brad vinci LOL and I can only imagine how he angered and offended either Rebecca or Bagheera after giving whatever was in that box! XD
brad vinci yeah I could totally see it
It is baloo
He's the voice actor for him. It sounds like Baloo giving Mowgli the man cub some sage advice or in his case "The Bear Necessities" of life and one of them is to get rid of the *boom boom boom* Maybe that'll scare Shere Khan away.
I picture Thomas O’Malley
I love it. My father used to sing this when I was a kid; hadn't heard it in decades! :-)
This hit by Phil Harris was the #1 song played on the radio and in jukeboxes for the week ending December 31, 1950. The Tennessee Waltz by Patti Page was #1 on the record charts.
Thanks James
Doing ok and wishing everyone to be well and happy
Face book is a good venue
I was born in 1972 and I still remember learning Greek mythology and my fourth grade teacher using this song as a learning tool she was an awesome teacher
What does this song have to do with Greek mythology???
@@r.p.mcmurphy6623 Pandora's box
@@r.p.mcmurphy6623 Pandora's box
My mom had this 45; I used to listen to to over and over. The flipside, "Goofus" is great too!
My favorite 50s song
Hello Sarah, how is everything going with you?
I've always liked this song!
Two bears, one cat, one dog...one legendary man.
Who was the dog?
@@nthgth Patou from Rock-A-Doodle.
My mum had the record of this and quite a few of his other songs and used to play them to us kids when we were little. I loved this and I loved him in The Junglebook.
A favorite song from my childhood.
He has a wonderful strong voice.
# 1 song in 1950-A certifiable classic!
When I was in school, we went to another school as a field trip, the kids performed this song for us. I always wanted to hear this song again. Thank you for sharing.
I remember this from the Vhs "Kidsongs: Very Silly Songs"
It was also used as part of the variety show at Midwest Furfest 2009, where the three stomps were replaced by "Great Big Fox" and a fox fursuiter kept popping out of a giant box
When I first saw the song in "Kidsongs: Very Silly Songs", I thought it was too depressing and very out of place for a Kidsongs song.
Yep, that'll do it alright...
Is he Baloo from Jungle Book and Little John from Robin Hood?
Yes, he is.
Yes indeedy he was, and also Patou from Rock a Doodle.
Josh Freilich And he was also Thomas O'Malley in "The Aristocats."
And Thomas o'malley
Thomas O'Malley the alley cat
i love this song it reminds me of when me my grandparents,uncles,and sister used to go on vacation this song always came on.
Just One of the greatest singles of 1950 as it is by Phil Harris as it was Called Thing such a great hit song from 1950
Bro this song lit and never gets old
This is what they used to call a 'novelty tune'. Fun and harmless.
Hello Donna, how is everything going with you?
Kind of like “ the flying purple people eater”.
@@janethaagenstad8380 Hello Janet how are things going with you?
My 7th grade teacher used this as a learning tool for Pandora's box it really stuck with me
Hello Jeannine, how is everything going with you?
I still remember my fourth grade teacher playing this song when we learned about Pandora's box she was an awesome teacher
This is the perfect song to perform at children's birthday parties if your character was a comedic pirate.
Also, I played this song when I was playing guitar as a kid. Shame I didn't keep up with it.
I love this song and I heard it on WJIB 740 on the AM Dial in Boston.
"This would have been a good intro song for the Jumanji sequel
"While I was walkin' down the beach
One bright and sunny day
I saw a great big wooden box
A-floatin' in the bay"
That's great, I just heard Phil Harris sing this on the Jack Benny Program, 1945 radio show, and what do you know, it's on You Tube!
Close your eyes and imagine Baloo singing it!
that's because it is. Phil Harris is the voice of Balloo
Now that would be good!!
Oh wow! Yeah that is him!
My forth grade teacher used this song as a learning tool when we were learning about Pandora's box
Apparently your teacher didn't teach you how to spell Fourth
@@overkillslay3r-_-489 hey
@@overkillslay3r-_-489 I was probably drinking when I posted this not my teachers fault
@@overkillslay3r-_-489 it was a typo I'm not perfect give me a break
I first heard this as a child and still ponder the size of the box.
I'd forgotten about this silly song! I love novelty songs.
Loved the song very entertaining
Just love his songs. My dad used to play them lol
Hello Joan, how is everything going with you?
I heard this song on a classic radio show a couple weeks ago. Born in 1954, it seemed very familiar to me. I looked it up here and can't stop playing it. Unlike many singers, Phil takes care to make his words understood. Great singer and funny man.
Thanks for posting this song which was top when I was a youngster. There was great speculation at the time over wha the thing was, and I was told it was a secret. And I never found out, and it was infurating. Lovely memories - a happy song.
Heard this on XM the other day. Have not heard this in years on Dr Demento.
It's on a couple times a year on the Radio Classics channel
I've been looking for this song of a long time..
RV
brings back some fond memories of the good old days.
Hello Alice, how is everything going with you?
The oldest song I know word for word. Thanks grandpa 😊
I thank my mom. She's 83. Still around.
@@sirloinofbeef3862Is she still here
As an avid listener to Phil Harris I was fortunate enough to hear the song that tells what is in the wooden box, now being one who does not give stuff away I would say that you all need to find it and listen you will not only be surprised but will laugh about it.
TELL US WHAT IT WAS, PLEASE!!
Wait, I bet it's a pic of Hillary Clinton!!
What song should we listen to?
This song has an especially personal and warm meaning to me, I am a singer songwriter, musician, both of my younger brothers likewise, we toured the world preforming our concerts, lounges, bars you name it. But my younger brother Mike a fine musician who doubled more than a half dozen instruments but memorized the comedy we did his sense of humor was overly pointed and he viewed things mostly literally, but one of the best and long lingering laughs I had came from him and still gets me. I played this song for him telling him I was looking to maybe learn it for the shows, he listened, and listened for a few days and finally I see him coming to me down the hall at the Holiday Inn with that look on his face when he said ""OK big brother, you always got the meaning of songs to me when I didn't get it, so I gotta know why would anyone be scared of a bass drum?" My brother Mike is gone now, he passed a few years back, but we still live up on UA-cam and in my memories and I still get a chuckle when I hear this piece, see ya Mike when we open that box together and look to see what the thing is.
I love this song😁 Thank You Phil Harris and Alice MGBY! ❤️
Love this song !
For some reason I envision the Thing as having two enormous feet sticking out of the wooden box the guy found it in, and the BOOM-BAM-BOOM is simply the Thing stomping its huge, hairy feet, BAM-BOOM! Now it follows the poor guy around like a puppy.
Wow. Can I steal that idea? I might animate it lol
My cousin, rest his soul, use to play this on one of his novelty song albums and it scared me so I couldn't sleep.
Based on the English Folk Tune "The Lincolnshire Poacher",a 17th Century Ballad!
My Dad played this and many other great songs for us when we were kids. Just played it for my granddaughter
Hello Lisa, how is everything going with you?
Phil Harris my man you did good
As a bagpipe player, I know what he found in that wooden box.
What was it?
@@lrfcarreviews2570 an accordion.
@@lotowner7240 I thought it was something like an alien
Dad told me about this song back in the 80s, he never knew who sang it, I love the song
I played this while I was gardening with my brother (11) and he was surprisingly quiet the whole time. When the song ended he looked at me and with the most serious face asked, "But what IS the 'boom boom boom'?"
"That's the point kid, it's whatever you want it to be!"
Then he proceeded to thousand yard stare while imagining whatever he could😅
I'm happy to hear the genuine song,I'm from Greece-Hellas and I was a small kid(46 now) when I heard it first from Harry Klynn a greek artist sing in my language with the same words,so he respected the song.Amazing....
My pawpaw just passed away and all of us grandkids know this song. Many times driving cross country with him singing this song from memory
Love it. So much fun.
Couldn't stop singing "ohhh, aye-dee-di-dee-di-dee-di-dee-di-dee-di! " with the tune.
Lol I had this on 8-track when I was a kid. Then in HS we got it in Chorus and I got in trouble for not looking at the music... Teacher made me prove I knew the words... So I sang it in front of the other kids... She got mad.
Hello Ann, how is everything going with you?
First song on the radio that I remember liking.
the humming from the mind electric would go PERFECT with this
Shit
@@Thestuffdoer it just sounded good in my head
Its been 10 years and I finally found this. 10 long years
I have always loved this song!!!!
My grandma made me listen to this back when I was younger.
my class sang this in elementary school 😪 i miss this
I remember this song but also I remember a film in 51 called The Thing from Another world that scared me silly.
So light hearted, it's scary.
This is based on an Irish song called "The Chandler's Wife," what might be called a "dirty" song. The BOOM BOOM BOOM covers up the naughty part. Here's a sample -
"So all you married men take heed whenever you come to town/
If you should leave your wife at home be sure and tie her down/
Or if you would be kind to her, just sit her on the floor/
And give her so much of that (BOOM BOOM BOOM) she doesn't want anymore!"
Thank you William Craig. I did not realize that about this song. I just found “The Chandler’s Wife” on UA-cam and listened to it. Absolutely fantastic!!☘️
I was wondering if anyone else got this. This song came up in a 50's music quiz, and I was like "is that the 'Chandler's Wife' tune?"
My Grandad used to sing this to us when we were little, still remember it now hahaha!
He has a great voice
Hello Danielle, how is everything going with you?
I heard this song for the first time two days ago, on my way to work. I can't help what the 'thing' was. A skull, maybe? An old, cursed ring, perhaps?
Love it.
I had this album when i was a kid.... the songs are still blasted into my brain!
An all time favorite :-))
Hello Nancy, how is everything going with you?
This is so true and is now basically my THEME SONG....that stuff he found is just what has happened to me