"Chantilly Lace" is a 1958 Rock & Roll song by The Big Bopper The song reached #6 on the Billboard Hot 100 and spent 22 weeks on the national Top 40. It was the third most played song in 1958. On the Cash Box chart, Chantilly Lace reached number four. The song depicts a young man flirting with his girlfriend on the telephone and listing things about her that he likes including:
And a pony tail hangin' down
A wiggle in her walk and a giggle in her talk
Make the world go round
The song, which includes and the very suggestive lyric "Make me feel real loose like a long necked goose" begins with the sound of a telephone ringing, and is answered by the Big Bopper shouting:
"HELLO BABY"
The "Hello Baby" motif reappears in the Big Bopper's follow-up song "Big Bopper's Wedding," in which the singer is so distracted by the bridesmaids that the impatient preacher demands, "Do you or don't you take this woman?"
The phrase "Oh, baby, you know what I like" was sampled by Jive Bunny and the Mastermixers in the music collage track "That's What I Like", which also included samples from Jerry Lee Lewis, Chubby Checker, The Surfaris, The Ventures, and other rock and roll singers and bands from late 1950s to early 1960s scene.
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