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Aba daba Honeymoon - wikipedia Aba daba Honeymoon Jump to : navigation , search This article needs additional citations for verification . Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed . ( May 2015 ) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message ) <Th_colspan="2"> `` Aba Daba Honeymoon '' <Td_colspan="2"> Sheet music cover , 1914 <Th_colspan="2"> Song Published 1914 Songwriter ( s ) Arthur Fields , Walter Donovan `` Aba Daba Honeymoon '' is a popular song written and published by Arthur Fields and Walter Donovan in 1914 . Known through its chorus , `` Aba daba daba daba daba daba dab , Said the chimpie to the monk ; Baba daba daba daba daba daba dab , Said the monkey to the chimp , '' the first recording of `` Aba Daba Honeymoon '' was made in 1914 by the comic duo team of Collins & Harlan . The song has had many cover versions over the years . In 1951 a version by Debbie Reynolds and Carleton Carpenter was a top five hit on the Billboard pop chart . Richard Hayes and Kitty Kallen also recorded the song and scored a top ten hit of their own . Contents ( hide ) 1 Debbie Reynolds and Carleton Carpenter version 2 Other versions 3 In popular culture 4 References Debbie Reynolds and Carleton Carpenter version ( edit ) Debbie Reynolds and Carleton Carpenter performing the song in Two Weeks With Love ( 1950 ) A cover of the song `` Aba Daba Honeymoon '' was featured in the 1950 film , Two Weeks with Love . The single released from that film was recorded by Debbie Reynolds and Carleton Carpenter on August 4 , 1950 , and issued as a single by MGM Records as catalog number 30282 . It reached number 3 on the Billboard charts in 1951 . M-G-M sent the pair on a multicity personal appearance tour of Loews theaters to capitalize on its success , beginning in Washington , D.C. Other versions ( edit ) Richard Hayes and Kitty Kallen recorded the song for Mercury Records in 1951 . It peaked at number 9 on the Billboard magazine chart . The Freddy Martin Ork with Merv Griffin also succeeded with the song on RCA Victor Records . Cass Daley and Hoagy Carmichael recorded a version for Decca Records . `` Aba Daba Honeymoon '' was featured on the 1959 soundtrack to Have Rocket , Will Travel , the first feature film to star the Three Stooges after their 1959 resurgence in popularity . On a 1978 ( 3rd season ) episode of Laverne & Shirley , the leads performed at a talent show singing `` Aba Daba Honeymoon '' in chimp suits on roller skates . Ronald McDonald and some kids covered this song in the 1995 McDonald 's cassette tape `` Silly Sing Along '' . In popular culture ( edit ) This section indiscriminately collects miscellaneous information . Please compress this material to remove any irrelevant or unimportant information . ( June 2017 ) American novelist Thomas Pynchon referred to the song in a 1964 letter to a friend as `` the nadir of all American expression '' : `` Our souls ( the world ) leaves to whatever obsolescenses , bigotries , theories of education workable and un , parental wisdom or lack of it , happen to get in its more or less Brownian ( your phrase ) pilgrimage between the cord - cutting ceremony and the time they slide you down the chute into the oven , while the guy on the Wurlitzer plays ' Aba Daba Honeymoon ' because you had once told somebody it was the nadir of all American expression ; only they did n't know what nadir meant but it must be good because of the vehemence with which you expressed yourself . '' In the late 1970s and early 1980s , Fritos corn chips used the tune as the melody of their commercial jingle `` Muncha buncha , muncha buncha , muncha buncha , muncha buncha , Fritos goes with lunch '' . The Houston , TX jewelry chain The Diamond Jewelry Factory used the melody in their TV advertisements . Ballpark organists used the song to introduce relief pitcher and , later , pitching coach Bob Apodaca References ( edit ) Jump up ^ Herder , Ronald ( October 1998 ) . 500 Best - Loved Song Lyrics . Courier Dover Publications . p. 1 . ISBN 0 - 486 - 29725 - X . Jump up ^ Reynolds , Debbie ( 2013 ) . Unsinkable : A Memoir . HarperCollins Publishers . p. 201 . ISBN 978 - 0 - 06 - 221365 - 5 . Jump up ^ Maurer , Joan Howard ; Jeff Lenburg ; Norman Maurer ; Greg Lenburg ( 1985 ) . The Three Stooges Scrapbook . Citadel Press . p. 187 . ISBN 0 - 8065 - 0946 - 5 . Jump up ^ `` The World is at Fault '' . Pynchon Wiki . Retrieved 3 March 2013 . Jump up ^ Miller , Doug ( 8 December 2008 ) . `` Baseball organist opens the playbook '' . Major League Baseball website . Retrieved 29 December 2016 . <Th_colspan="2"> ( hide ) Kitty Kallen Singles `` Aba Daba Honeymoon '' `` Little Things Mean a Lot '' `` In the Chapel in the Moonlight '' `` Go on with the Wedding '' `` If I Give My Heart to You '' `` That Old Feeling '' `` My Coloring Book '' Related articles Jonathan Granoff <Td_colspan="2"> Book : Kitty Kallen Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Aba_Daba_Honeymoon&oldid=785971984 '' Categories : Debbie Reynolds songs 1914 songs 1950 songs MGM Records singles Novelty songs Songs with lyrics by Arthur Fields Hidden categories : Articles needing additional references from May 2015 All articles needing additional references Articles with trivia sections from June 2017 All articles with trivia sections Talk Contents About Wikipedia Add links This page was last edited on 16 June 2017 , at 14 : 16 . Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution - ShareAlike License ; additional terms may apply . 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