Bing! Bang! Bong!
1958


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Highlights
  • Written for the 1958 Paramount Pictures film Houseboat starring Cary Grant and Sophia Loren.
  • Tom Winston, a widower, is trying to understand and raise three precocious children alone. He gets a little unexpected help from Cinzia, when the children decide she is to be the new maid. She is actually an Italian socialite trying to get away from her overprotective father.

WRITTEN BY RAY EVANS & JAY LIVINGSTON
COPYRIGHT 1958


Recording History
Sophia Loren, The Great American Composers, Jay Livingston & Ray Evans, Columbia House, #8651
Lyrics

Prego*, prego
Anywhere you may go
Make each day be a  day full of fun;
If there’s a game or a girl to be won
{If there’s a prize or a game to be won} (alternate verse)
Do it with a Bing! Bang! Bong! (A Bing! Bang! Bong!)
A Bing! Bang! Bong! 

Presto, presto
Do your very best, oh.
Don’t hang back like a shy little kid;
You’ll be so glad that you did what you did,
If you do it with a Bing! Bang! Bong! (A Bing! Bang! Bong!)
A Bing! Bang! Bong! 

Be like Crostofo Columbo,
Take a chance! Take a chance!
Don’t be a dopey or a dumbo
Goin’ ‘round in a trance! 

One step, two step,
Step into a new step,
Live your life with a zip and a zing.
You’ll have the world on the end of a string,
If you do it with a Bing! Bang! Bong! (A Bing! Bang! Bong!)
A Bing! Bang! Bong! 

(musical interlude)

Prego*, prego
Anywhere you may go
Make each day be a  day full of fun;
If there’s a game or a girl to be won
{If there’s a prize or a game to be won} (alternate verse)
Do it with a Bing! Bang! Bong! (A Bing! Bang! Bong!)
A Bing! Bang! Bong!

Be like Crostofo Columbo,
Take a chance! Take a chance!
Don’t be a dopey or a dumbo
Goin’ ‘round in a trance! 

One step, two step,
Step into a new step,
Live your life with a zip and a zing.
You’ll have the world on the end of a string,
If you do it with a Bing! Bang! Bong! (A Bing! Bang! Bong!)
A Bing! Bang! Bong!

 

*pronounced: Pray-go

 
BING! BANG! BONG! As sung in the Paramount film Houseboat starring Cary Grant and Sophia Loren. Paramount Music Corporation, 1958. Words and Music by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans (Special Picture Release)