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“Splish Splash” is a 1958 song performed and co-written by Bobby Darin. It was written with DJ Murray the K (Murray Kaufman), who bet that Darin couldn’t write a song that began with the words, “Splish Splash, I was takin’ a bath”, as suggested by Murray’s mother, Jean Kaufman. The song was credited to Darin and “Jean Murray” (a combination of their names) to avoid any hint of payola.http://nfo.net/calendar/may14.htm The song helped to give Darin a major boost in his career, reaching No. 3 on the U.S. pop singles charts. It was recorded in a session at New York’s Atlantic Studios on the evening of April 10, 1958. Original copies of “Splish Splash” (Atco 6117) feature echo in the song. For the reissue (Atlantic Oldies Series 13055), the echo is filtered... Read on...