When I heard this, it took me a bit to recall what it reminded me of. Then I realized that it was "Pipeline" by The Chantays. The songs are similar enough that I am reasonably certain that The Chantays' song was inspired by this one.
"Bumble Boogie" was a swing jazz adaptation of "Flight Of The Bumblebee" and was first recorded in 1946 by Freddy Martin and his orchestra. The B. Bumble & The Stingers version was recorded by a group of session musicians and reached #21 on the Billboard charts. Since the musicians who recorded it were too busy with studio dates to tour, a group of teenagers from Ada, Oklahoma, was recruited to perform it live.
B. Bumble & The Stingers (the studio version) reached #1 in the UK and #23 on the Billboard chart in 1962 with "Nut Rocker", which was an adaptation of a march from the ballet The Nutcracker. They recorded some other singles after that without any success and then went back to being musicians for hire.
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