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The Trashmen / Surfin Bird
Scatman John / Scatman
EDIT:
Found another good one:
Claude McLin / Jambo
dhol82
(9,353 posts)Also, the Trololo Man Song
rogerashton
(3,920 posts)Cab Calloway, the heidy-ho guy.
hlthe2b
(102,562 posts)Somebody call out my name (John)
As it started to rain
Two spirits dancing so strange
Ah! Bowakawa, pousse pousse
Ah! Bowakawa, pousse pousse
Ah! Bowakawa, pousse pousse
(When asked what the latter meant, Lennon said it meant nothing but that it came to him in a dream).
chuckstevens
(1,201 posts)hlthe2b
(102,562 posts)Can you refresh my memory?
MiltonBrown
(322 posts)no_hypocrisy
(46,312 posts)YvonneCa
(10,117 posts)...trip down memory lane. 😄
unc70
(6,129 posts)Thought of it and Witch Doctor together
MiltonBrown
(322 posts)Have loved 'Lion Sleeps Tonight' since I was a kid in the 1970s.
NBachers
(17,191 posts)unc70
(6,129 posts)dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)yankeepants
(1,979 posts)Gliddy Glop Gloopy Nibby Nobby Nooby...(or something like that)...
sarge43
(28,946 posts)MiltonBrown
(322 posts)sarge43
(28,946 posts)Well, the OP wanted gibberish.
MiltonBrown
(322 posts)Always loved that ending song for WKRP- a real rocker!
Shrek
(3,986 posts)NRaleighLiberal
(60,038 posts)dawg
(10,626 posts)At first, I thought she was just being very, very Scottish.
sl8
(14,037 posts)TlalocW
(15,394 posts)Curly's Pants by Corky and the Juice Pigs.
TlalocW
samnsara
(17,665 posts)mahatmakanejeeves
(57,756 posts)Sorry, I didn't see yours first.
Doc_Technical
(3,530 posts)MiltonBrown
(322 posts)I read that when recording this song, the lyric sheet blew away and Louis had to improvise vocals to the rest of the song. Not sure if true but he does turn to gibberish at the end.
malthaussen
(17,241 posts)Pope George Ringo II
(1,896 posts)MissMillie
(38,611 posts)"bup bup ba bup bup bup bup ba ba"
sl8
(14,037 posts)Original:
And a cover:
redstateblues
(10,565 posts)MiltonBrown
(322 posts)Hilarious!
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,756 posts)MiltonBrown
(322 posts)Last time I tried to find that clip it wasn't on there. Thanks for posting truly laughed and laughed.
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,756 posts)red dog 1
(27,935 posts)I think it was the old Tonight Show, but it could have been The Steve Allen Show, which Steve did after he left The Tonight Show (Syndicated show in the 1960s)
John1956PA
(2,675 posts)BarbaRosa
(2,685 posts)shanny
(6,709 posts)MiltonBrown
(322 posts)MiltonBrown
(322 posts)Meant to post this one
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,756 posts)RandomAccess
(5,210 posts)catrose
(5,079 posts)hey hey hey
good-bye
[link:
Elgin
(10 posts)By Iron Butterfly
Codeine
(25,586 posts)TlalocW
(15,394 posts)TlalocW
Glorfindel
(9,747 posts)Dulcinea
(6,692 posts)DBoon
(22,430 posts)Jefferson airplane
Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)There was this period in Italian culture when they would go nuts over any kind of American music, despite the fact that much of the country wasnt proficient in English.
So one artist got the idea to make a song that sounded as if it was in English to untrained Italian ears, but instead was completely gibberish.
He did this to prove a point, of course, which he did. The song shot up the Italian pop charts like a rocket.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)I'll let Dr. John do the honors:
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Take it away, Meters:
red dog 1
(27,935 posts)"Goo goo g'joob"
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,756 posts)mahatmakanejeeves
(57,756 posts)I mean, compared to that, what else is there?
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,756 posts)hurl
(939 posts)Ross Bagdasarian, creator of the Chipmunks, was the songwriter/piano player character in Hitchcock's Rear Window.
hurl
(939 posts)Mike Patton vocals
hurl
(939 posts)Vocals by Yamantaka Eye of the Boredoms
DemocracyMouse
(2,275 posts)NO TIME
The Monkees
[Ode to Trump!!!]
(Sung by the brilliant Mickey Dolenz)
Hober reeber sabasoben
Hobaseeba snick
Seeberraber hobosoben
What did you expect?
No time, no time for you
I got no time, baby
Got lots of better things to do
Runnin' from the risin' heat
To find a place to hide
The grass is always greener
Growin' on the other side
No time, no time for you
I got no time, baby
Got lots of better things to do
No time, no time for you
I got no time, baby
Got lots of better things to do
No time, no time for you
I got no time, baby
Got lots of better things to do
(RIP Davey Jones!)
https://m.
hurl
(939 posts)More vocals by Yamantake Eye. If you don't have the patience to sit through 8 minutes that start slow, at least pick up at about 4:15 for an epic groove.
rickford66
(5,534 posts)Random gibberish to me.
Brother Buzz
(36,505 posts)Leo Killion, an attorney from my childhood town, wrote this song on a lark. It was his only venture into music. He received a royalty check for it for over seventy years, some times a whopping ten, twelve dollars a year.
bobbieinok
(12,858 posts)Popular in 40s. Think people (like my older cousins) sang this as a parody of some pop song.
llmart
(15,569 posts)She was born in 1911. I thought it was a play on "Mares eat oats, and does eat oats, but little lambs eat ivy. A kid will eat ivy too, wouldn't you?"
bobbieinok
(12,858 posts)lisa58
(5,755 posts)DFW
(54,506 posts)As I understand the story, he had the melody but hadn't made up lyrics yet. He just started singing nonsense to the instrumental track of the tune to see how it sounded with a vocal. It sounded so good, they just went with the lines he made up.
Pretty creative nonsense!
I got two strong arms
Blessings of Babylon
Time to carry on and try
For sins and false alarms
So to America the brave
Wise men save
Near a tree by a river
There's a hole in the ground
Where an old man of iron
Goes around and around
And his mind is a beacon
In the veil of the night
For a strange kind of fashion
There's a wrong and a right
But he'll never, never fight over you
lkinwi
(1,477 posts)longship
(40,416 posts)Mahna, Mahna!
(The Sesame Street original.)
Inspired lunacy from the genius of Jim Henson's troup.
sakabatou
(42,204 posts)Proud Liberal Dem
(24,460 posts)lpbk2713
(42,775 posts)Lie la lie, lie la la la lie lie
Lie la lie, lie la la la la lie la la lie
llmart
(15,569 posts)Oooh, eeee, oooh ah ah, bing, bang, walla, walla bing bang
Oooh, eeee, oooh ah ah, bing bang, walla walla, bing bang.
llmart
(15,569 posts)but in the '60's we came up with our own words for one part of the Stones" "I Can't Get No Satisfaction"
LuvLoogie
(7,078 posts)LisaM
(27,863 posts)I've never, ever gone to the bar and ordered a "tonic and gin" (and I never will).
LuvLoogie
(7,078 posts)LuvLoogie
(7,078 posts)LiberalLoner
(9,762 posts)Eyeore like a donkey...
LuvLoogie
(7,078 posts)MyOwnPeace
(16,955 posts)"Strangers in the Night!"
"do-be-do-be-doooooo, da-do-be-do-do.............etc, etc!!!!!!