Hoop-Dee-Doo

"Hoop-Dee-Doo" is a popular song published in 1950 with music by Milton Delugg and lyrics by Frank Loesser.

The lyrics of this song are sometimes cited for their use of the phrase "soup and fish", meaning a man's formal dinner suit.

This phrase is commonly thought to have originated with P. G. Wodehouse's "Bertie Wooster" stories, but according to the website World Wide Words, there was an earlier American usage.

[1] The most popular recording of the song was made by Perry Como and The Fontane Sisters, with Mitchell Ayres' Orchestra.

The Starr recording was also issued by Capitol in the United Kingdom in 1950 as catalog number CL-13309, with the flip side "Poor Papa".