Did the Rivingtons not also release a single that was actually called "The Bird is the Word"?
Thus basically making Surfin' Bird a hybrid of "Bird is the Word" and "Papa-Oom-Mow-Mow"?
(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 17:30, 1 reply, 15 years ago)

You may be correct in this.
EDIT Yes, you are. Your knowledge of ornithological records surpasses mine.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 17:33, Reply)

Poor Crow : (

( girlinthehole, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 17:35, Reply)

Well, a Crow would know, eh?

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 17:41, Reply)

Do you not think so?

( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 17:48, Reply)

I think I may have even heard both of them
And Surfin' Bird gives them the panacea of a more frenetic musical backing and frenzied delivery, which I think does them the world of good.

...youtube comes up trumps once again:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQrQjNNZCAo
www.youtube.com/watch?v=edYQiZxyw0I&feature=related
(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 17:36, Reply)

Both Papa-Oom-Mow-Mow and Surfin' Bird
were staples of my childhood listening thanks to my old man: I cannot recall having heard the other one although, of course, my childhood was A FUCKING LONG TIME AGO.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 17:38, Reply)

Talk of the devil...
Let's get The Trashmen to number one...
www.facebook.com/birdbirdbirdistheword
(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Tue 14 Dec 2010, 19:08, Reply)