Swingin' School

Album

Single

Label

Cameo

Genre

Stage & Screen

Composer(s)

Kal Mann;Bernie Lowe;Dave Appell

Entered Chart

May 9, 1960

Peak Date

Jun 20, 1960

Released

1960

Recorded

Unknown

Catalog #

Cameo 175

B-Side

Ding-A-Ling

"Swingin' School" is a song released in 1960 by Bobby Rydell. The song was from the film Because They're Young.[2] "Swingin' School" spent 12 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, peaking at No. 5,[3] while reaching No. 11 in Flanders,[4] No. 18 in Wallonia,[5] and No. 44 in the UK's Record Retailer chart.[6] Paired with its flip-side, "Ding-A-Ling", "Swingin' School" reached No. 1 in Australia,[7] and No. 2 on Canada's CHUM Hit Parade, co-charting with Ding-A-Ling.[8] Paul McCartney reportedly credited “Swinging School” as the inspiration behind the Beatles’ “She Loves You” — specifically the lyric “yeah yeah yeah”

Chicks, kicks, cats, cool, yeah school!

Yeah, yeah, yeah I go a swingin' school
Where the chicks are kicks and the cats are cool.
Well we dance the greatest and we dress the latest
Wo, wo, wo I go a swingin' school.

Ah, Bobby Ah! Uh huh! Everythings cool, thats cool
We're glad you go to a swingin' school.

My little chick is my heart's desire
Well the way we kiss it puts the school on fire.

Ah chicks, kicks, cats, cool, yeah school!
Yeah yeah yeah wail!

After school we have to rendezvous
Gonna plan all the things that we're gonna do.
Trade bookin' for cookin' and I'll quit my lookin'
When our days at the school are through.

Ah, Bobby Ah! Ah hah! Everythings cool, thats cool
We're glad you go to a swingin' school.

We live and love by the golden rule
We're gonna settle down at a swingin' school.
Well have a house and car, a swimmin' pool
Wo, wo, wo I go a swingin' school.

I said a wo, wo, wo I go a swingin' school.