Shirley Ellis 'The Name Game' live + The Supremes, etc

Bonana Fo-Fana! Shirley Ellis shows George Hamilton, Nancy Ames, The Supremes and the Hullabaloos how to play it. On Hullabaloo in 1965. From Wikipedia: -
"The Name Game" is a song co-written and performed by Shirley Ellis as a rhyming game that creates variations on a person's name. She explains through speaking and singing how to play the game. The first verse is done using Ellis's first name; the other names used in the original version of the song are Lincoln, Arnold, Tony, Billy, Marsha, and Nick.
Rules: Using the name Katie as an example, the song follows this pattern:
Katie, Katie, bo-batie,
Bonana-fanna fo-fatie
Mee mi mo-matie
Katie!
A verse can be created for any name with stress on the first syllable, with X as the name and Y as the name without the first consonant sound (if it begins with a consonant), as follows:
(X), (X), bo-b (Y)
Bonana-fanna fo-f (Y)
Mee mi mo-m (Y)
(X)!
If the name starts with a b, f, or m, that sound simply is not repeated. For example: Billy becomes "Billy Billy bo-illy"; Fred becomes "bonana fanna fo-red"; Martha becomes "mee mi mo-artha"
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[@michaelfigulla1366]

Hat mich schon als 16jähriger begeistert. Weiterer Hit "the nitty gritty". Es gibt eine CD (nicht billig) mit 24 Songs

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Ganz vergessen: the clapping Song

[@GazelyGaze]

That was the big hit! And later covered by the Belle Stars, amongst others. Here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/i6epZHqOfNBmd5o

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In terms of instrumentation and arrangement it is not comparable to the original. different with “imagine”. I like the version from the “Herbie Hankock Project” much better