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DADDY DEWDROP

“CHICK-A-BOOM (DON’T YA JES’ LOVE IT)”

(Janis Lee Guinn, Linda Martin)

Sunflower 105

No. 9   May 8, 1971

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The “original” Daddy Dewdrop was Dick Monda. Pub­licity handouts from Dick’s long-deceased record label

would have us believe that he was born in Cleveland in 1952.  Reportedly, at the ripe age of 19, Dewdrop

turned to music, and was hired as a songwriter and producer for a CBS cartoon series, unveiled for the fall

of 1970, “Sabrina & The Groovy Ghoulies.” “Sabrina, the Teenage Witch,” as the show was soon billed, had

been introduced on the successful “Archie’s Show.”  The pub­licity releases fail to mention Monda’s

previously unsuccessful waxings for Verve and Moonglow.

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“Chick-a-boom, Chick-a-boom/Don’t Ya Jes’ Love It”–it was fluff, all right, but catchy to the ear, for a spin

or two. As performed by the Groovy Ghoulies on the Saturday-morning cartoon show, this novelty num­ber

began attracting much notice.  In an effort to beat out the Ghoulie “group’s” release of the tune for RCA, Dick

Monda assembled a studioful of sessioneers, whom he called the Torrance Cookers (Larry “Boom Boom”

Brown, Tom “The Hen” Hensley, Bill “Ma Brutha” Perry, and Steve “Atom Bomb” Rillera).  They ran through

many other noxious numbers like “John Jacob Jingle Heimer Smith” and “Abracadabra Alakazam.”

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More efforts at public-pleasing pabulum appeared under the “Daddy Dewdrop” name, but fared poorly.  In

the late ’70s, another entity calling itself “Daddy Dewdrop” surfaced with more 45s, but none of these

efforts–not even “Nanu Nanu (I Wanna Get Funky With You)”–received much of a response.

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P.S. The Groovie Ghoulies–without Sabrina­ moved into the Horrible Hall, where they continued making

weekend musiclike noises on ABC TV, through September 1976.  Word is that Dickie “the Drewdrop Daddy”

Monda was involved.  Sabrina was later reunit­ed with Archie and crew on “The Archie Comedy Hour” and

“The New Archie Sabrina Hour.”  In the fall of 1977, she resurfaced with her own series again, “Super

Witch.”

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Ah, listen closer to those “Chick-A-Boom” lyrics.  There is a suggestive side, ah yea.  This thing was written,

reportedly, by two young ladies?