Chevrolet Impala Ads

Listening to Yahoo Radio one day, I came across a song that I just couldn’t get out of my head. It was Peter Gunn, performed by Sarah Vaughn. But since it’s Yahoo Radio, there is no repeating or re-listening – hard for me to get my fix! Later that week I walked by the TV in my office suite and heard the song minus the vocals. I immediately stopped to watch and was surprised to see it was an ad for the Chevy Impala (my co-workers were confused by me adding lyrics to a Chevy commercial). I’ve heard it in at least two different Impala ads. You can recognize it by the female vocal at the end singing “I’m going bye, bye…”

I started a two-week Napster trial and the first song I searched for was Peter Gunn. Two weeks later, I still can’t get enough. 1:53 seconds of pure fun.

Peter Gunn
Music by Henry Mancini
Lyrics by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans

Every night your line is busy
All that buzzing makes me dizzy
Couldn’t count on all my fingers
All the dates you had with swingers

Bye, bye
Bye, baby
I’m gonna kiss you goodbye and go right through that doorway

So long
I’m leaving
This is the last time we’ll meet on the street going your way

Don’t look surprised
You know you buttered your bread
So now it’s fair you should stare at the back of my head

If you write a letter to me
My former friend don’t you end with an R.S.V.P.

I’m going bye, bye
I’m moving
Tomorrow I may be splittin’ to Britain or Norway

I’m saying bye, bye
Bye, baby

Now that I heard all that jazzing
Whereas I have had it
I’ve had it
I’m through now
With you now

So baby it’s au revouir
Adios
Ciao ciao
Goodbye!

I transposed these from Sarah Vaughn’s performance, since I couldn’t find the full lyrics anywhere and really wanted to know them all. Thanks to SpaceAgePop.com for deciphering the line about buttered bread – I never would have gotten that.