[dayglored]

> Ah ha! Does it have something to do with a ‘’boy from New York City?’’ :-)

Yes! As a matter of fact, the related compound "Ooh Wah, Ooh Wah, C'mon Kitty", with the musichemical formula (OW)₂CK, was discovered in 1965 by researchers in New Jersey, only one year after the discovery of "Do Wah Diddy Diddy" by the British.

[jmacusa]

Ground breaking stuff! Now perhaps we can find out how or who put the ‘’bop’’ in the ‘’bop shoo bop’’.