sentences:  Glenn Miller recorded sound-alike "WHAM (Re-Bop-Boom-Bam)" on August 1, 1941, and prior to this it appeared as a repeated six-note instrumental phrase played on piano by Count Basie on his July 2, 1941 recording of "Basie Boogie".Basie also played it in a recorded live performance at Cafe Society later that year.The refrain also appears in the song "Five Salted Peanuts" by Charlie Abbott and Bert Wheeler which was recorded by both Tony Pastor & His Orchestra and The Counts & The Countess in 1945.