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Okay, geniuses -- What Frank Sinatra hit starts with the sax section playing the following lick:
Deedle-DEE-deedle-DEE-deedle-DEE-deedle-dee DAP diddle dee dooo daaaaaaaahhh...
Ying ying YING ying ying, YING ying ying, YING ying ying, YING ying ying dooo BEE doo daaaah, dip dibble dabble DAT!
Anyone? Anyone at all? Guesses?
Out.
Hey! Pass those pills over here.
In
NO SOUP FOR YOU TODAY!
I'll bet Glen figures this one out first....
ough ough ough, I know! I know! "Stardust!"
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73 from Jim
k7dlx
03-05-2004, 05:32 PM
Reminds me of the "Most Intellectual Lyrics" contest we held on another board I'm a member of.
The winner there was "Dee doo doo doo, Dee da da da" by the Police.
Sure the song you're looking for isn't "Doo Wah Diddy Diddy Dum Diddy Doo?"
HAW right back!
Check out this site!
http://www.mrcranky.com/movies/glitter/88/1.html
And then of course the "rim shot" is "Do Bee Do Bee Do" Sinatra !
"Haw!" right back atcha, SY ! #http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif #http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif #http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif
73 from Jim
Nope, ALL of you are dead wrong. Sinatra, baby! Chairman of the Board! Come on you cats!
And for the record, the dumbest song lyrics, next to "Shake your groove thing," are "Bawm-ba-ba-bawm, ba-bawm-ba-bawm-bawm, ba-ba-bawm-ba-ba-bawm, a-dang-a-dang-dang, a-ding-a-dong-ding BLUUUUUE MOOOOOON!"
Party on.
Aww, come on Steve, you are showing your age ( or lack of it , perhaps ! ) # When I was a kid, "Mairsie Dotes and Dosie Dotes ! " was pretty high on the list of stupid song lyrics!
Then there's the strangest melody ever attached to a song. #Remember the "One Note Samba" ?
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Oh, and BTW, who IS that strange looking guy that took over your picture ? ? ?
73 from Jim
ai4ep
03-05-2004, 08:48 PM
....craziest song I ever heard was WIERD AL YANKOVIC singing " dead puppies " ( dont think it was a parody of another song )....only part I remember of it was
" dead puppies dont sit or stand
they dont leave a pile of dog poop
in the palm of your hand
dead puppies arent much fun "
but then that was the mid 1980 s when music was not as high class as it is today !! http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/confused.gif
K4JSR
03-05-2004, 09:00 PM
I KNOW! I KNOW! It's the beginning of that new Ecumenical
hymn written by the Jews and the Catholics, "THE OY VEY
MARIA"! http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif
Cal K4JSR
Nope, there's no sax section in "Oy Vey Maria."
Geh kocken auffen Yam!
Haw!!!
"I did it MY WAY!!"
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Dave
KC8QMU
03-05-2004, 10:32 PM
Sinatra? Didn't they tour with Smashing Pumpkins back in the 90s? http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif
KM5FL
03-06-2004, 07:32 AM
This has to be the dumbest, most useless po......
OH! Wait!!! Somebody already said that!!!!
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SY, never stop posting here.. Your sense of humor is??? Well... Better than having Hanukkah and Rosh Hashanna on the same day!!
KM5FL
Let's see....
Hut sut raw sat on da ridda wah enna dupert dupert suey
Popular in the early 40s......Andrews Sisters?
How about the lyrics to the 60s hit The Isrealite by Desmond Decker?
I think that some casette tape manufacturer (Maxell?) in the 80s advertised that their tape was so good that you might be able to make out all the lyrics if you used their tape to record the song.
The Sinatra number....Strangers In The Night?
73
George
K3UD
kf7qq
03-06-2004, 02:53 PM
you , work, ina cubical, dont you?
KB1GYQ
03-06-2004, 03:07 PM
Purim not till tomorow, shouldn't you wait to start drinking..?
KA8NCR
03-06-2004, 04:12 PM
</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (w3sy @ Mar. 05 2004,10:38)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">And for the record, the dumbest song lyrics, next to "Shake your groove thing," are "Bawm-ba-ba-bawm, ba-bawm-ba-bawm-bawm, ba-ba-bawm-ba-ba-bawm, a-dang-a-dang-dang, a-ding-a-dong-ding BLUUUUUE MOOOOOON!"
Party on.[/QUOTE]<span id='postcolor'>
What is "Shake yer groove thing by Peaches and Herb".
I'll take Music Trivia for $200, Alex.
k7dlx
03-06-2004, 05:45 PM
</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">To be is to do. --Socrates[/QUOTE]<span id='postcolor'></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">To do is to be. --Plato[/QUOTE]<span id='postcolor'></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Do be do be do. --Sinatra[/QUOTE]<span id='postcolor'>
Nope! Nobody has guessed it yet!
By the way, what's green and sings? FRANK SNOT-RA!
HINT HINT HINT --- This song was a hit in the early 60's I do believe. Long after Francis was with the Dorsey band.
And the "Ying ying YING ying ying YING ying ying..." part could also be heard as "Yee yee YEE yee yee YEE yee yee..." etc.
Mares eat oats and DOEs eat oats and little lambs eat ivy! A kid'll eat ivy too, wouldn't you?
Life is dull
It's nothing but one big lull
Then presto you do a skull
And find that you're reeling
She sighs and you're feeling
Like a toy on a string
And your heart goes: "Ring-a-ding ding, ring-a-ding ding, ring-a-ding ding"
How could that funny face
That seemed to be common place
Project you right in to space
Without any warning
Don't know if its morning, night-time, winter or spring
What's the difference
Ring-a-ding ding, ring-a-ding ding, ring-a-ding ding
She takes (grabs) your hand - this captivating creature
And like its planned - you're in the phone book
Looking (Hunting) for the nearest preacher
Life is swell
You're off to that small hotel
And somewhere a village bell
Will sound in the steeple
Announcing to people
Love's the loveliest thing
And the bell goes: "Ring-a-ding ding, ring-a-ding ding, ring-a-ding ding"
Is it that old Italian favorite "A Horse's Head is in my Bed"?
Hmmmm, maybe that intro was with a concertina.
Marty WB2RJR/7
"And the "Ying ying YING ying ying YING ying ying..." part could also be heard as "Yee yee YEE yee yee YEE yee yee..." etc." W3SY
I always thought the Juilliard School was a little pricey for what they taught.
73, Marty WB2RJR/7
KA4DPO
03-07-2004, 02:06 AM
</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (w3sy @ Mar. 05 2004,09:53)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Okay, geniuses -- What Frank Sinatra hit starts with the sax section playing the following lick:
Deedle-DEE-deedle-DEE-deedle-DEE-deedle-dee DAP diddle dee dooo daaaaaaaahhh...
Ying ying YING ying ying, YING ying ying, YING ying ying, YING ying ying dooo BEE doo daaaah, dip dibble dabble DAT!
Anyone? Anyone at all? Guesses?
Out.[/QUOTE]<span id='postcolor'>
You need therapy AND Jesus!!![B]
Frank Sinatra was a nobody compared to Banjo Patterson.
73, Marty WB2RJR/7
w5alt
03-07-2004, 03:07 AM
</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Music Trivia,My dumbest, most useless post - EVAH![/QUOTE]<span id='postcolor'>
I agree with you, Steve ...
73,
kd7eze
03-07-2004, 02:51 PM
W3SY---
FYI...What's green and sings? Elvis Parsley
ai4ep
03-07-2004, 05:44 PM
http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif ...KERMIT the frog sings too !!! http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif
OM KA4DPO,
It was Jesus who TOLD me to post this message in the first place! He digs jazz almost as much as I do.
I'll bet you dang hippies didn't know that W3SY is a professional Sax Man. Looking forward to sharing many, many more sax licks with you in the future.
I think I'll spill the beans on this one sometime this week. I was holding off because I was SURE someone would pull out a Sinatra album or CD and figure it out. Again, I think this tune is from about 1964 or so.
By the way, did you know that the Jersey Bouce starts off with ba-doobee-doot dooee-doo-dat... ba-doobee-doot DOOee-doo-dat... ba-doobee-doot DOOee-doo-dat... ba-doobeedoot doo ba-da-doodle-oodle-dooweee
Jazz is all in the PHRASING, man.
Out. Way out, daddy-o.
"I was SURE someone would pull out a Sinatra album or CD and figure it out." W3SY
Since most of Frank's albums were sold by someone coming up to you and saying, "Buy this, or I'll break your legs." people haven't hung onto his "famous hits".
Face it lots of people had more talent and sang better than Frank. George Burns is one. And Hey!, Janis Joplin is another!
"Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz......."
Basically jazz would be dead if NPR, also known as National Communist Radio, didn't exist.
I'm off, down the hall singing one of my favorites....
"There’s buckwheat cakes and Injun batter,
# # # #Makes you fat or a little fatter,
# # # #Look Away, Look Away........."
73, Marty WB2RJR/7
P.S. Frank never had the range that Janis did doing "Ball And Chain". When I worked in electronics we used that album to test out stereo systems we repaired. Volume on 10.
kc9esf
03-08-2004, 04:59 AM
</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (w7wwb @ Mar. 05 2004,04:32)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Reminds me of the "Most Intellectual Lyrics" contest we held on another board I'm a member of.
The winner there was "Dee doo doo doo, Dee da da da" by the Police.
Sure the song you're looking for isn't "Doo Wah Diddy Diddy Dum Diddy Doo?"[/QUOTE]<span id='postcolor'>
what about
Ooo eee, ooo ah ah ting tang Walla walla, bing bang
gotta love that one!
k7dlx
03-08-2004, 04:27 PM
</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (WB2RJR @ Mar. 07 2004,19:10)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">When I worked in electronics we used that album to test out stereo systems we repaired. Volume on 10.[/QUOTE]<span id='postcolor'>
<obligatory Spinal Tap reference>
HA!
Mine goes to "11."
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Marty RJR....
National Palestinian Radio (NPR) isn't the only place you hear jazz. And tell my BANK ACCOUNT jazz is dead, so that it's not confused about the money I have made playing music of that idiom. Haw! Not a TON of cash, but enough "FU" money to make it worthwhile.
Zibbidy zobbidy zim zim didda BAP!
Out.
KD7WHQ
03-09-2004, 12:41 AM
Tater: Chipmunks with David Seville. Witch Doctor.
Gotta love it http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif
flyslow
03-09-2004, 01:59 AM
Um, is it Witchcraft?
And for useless lyrics, we cant forget my favourite . . .
MMMbop ba duba dop da dooo dop da doooo . . . .
Haw!
KB9YCO
03-09-2004, 04:44 PM
If I may quote Phil Hartman as Frank Sinatra on SNL -
"I got chunks of guy's like you in my stool!"
And also, Deap Puppies was not a Weird Al song, can't remember right now who it was but they were featured on Doctor Demento quite often.
Either way, as my piano teacher used to tell me, close enough for jazz. http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif
Flyslow dood.... nope. Witchcraft starts with " doodle-doot, doodle-doot, doodle-a-doooo, doodle-doot, doodle-doot, doodle-a-doooo..."
AND NOW THE ANSWER:
"That's Life."
Get a recording and you'll hear exactly what I mean.
Damn, figured you hippies would never get this one! HAW!!!
and for the ONE song that has absolutely ZERO redeeming social value for the lack of lyrics BUT the melody - once heard - will infect your mind and you'll hum it for DAYS.
is.. OMMA POW POW.
starts with a guy with a bass voice going
'buhhhhhhh buppa bah bah ooohma oom pow pow' for a couple of lines and then a ladies voice on an upscale set of triplets. goes 'boop-boop-boop BOOP BOOP!'
Then it repeats for a cuple of stanza's.
Some of the lyrics are ''The funniest sound I've ever heard......" (music bridge) "..and I can't believe a single word I've heard!" (music bridge)
and it continues... I believe it was written by David DePoy, a Baltimore (Timonium) MD guy I went to school with.
Once you hear it, you can't get itout of your head..
(THE VOICES!! THE VOICES!http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif
k3ft
What was the song that sounded like a bunch of Bass Indians, going "Shucka Uma Mow Mow, a Shucka Uma Mow Mow " or something close to that?
Oh, that reminds me. I used to do a "records by request" type of program for a local radio station, and one night a well known area Pastor called in and requested "Oh perfect Love - - - Or something close to it ! "
I about fell out of my chair laughing !
73 from Jiim
And then there are.
"Dead Puppies" (already mentioned)
"FISH HEADS"
"THEY'RE COMING TO TAKE ME AWAY!"
(real trivia question - Name the group that did it!http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif
"COCKTAILS FOR TWO" (Jim Backus was one of the players in this bit)
"EARACHE, MY EYE!" (Oh, my fanny!http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif
"PIGEONS IN THE PARK" (and what did YOU feed your birds today, HMMMM?)
"DER FUHERER'S FACE!" (right IN der fuherer's face!http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif
"STAR TREKIN'!" (they STILL can't find reverse!http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif
"THE BIRD" (It's still the word!http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif
"TAE KWON LEAP!" (Don't tip the vessel of knowledge!http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif
"The Ballad of Irving" (he always took 2 sets of dishes on a trail ride!http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif
these are some of the neatest satire/parody songs that you can find #- and you can SING to them too!
AND OF COURSE>> the granddaddy of them all!
"CAMP GRANADA" with Allen Sherman. (Did they EVER find Jeffrey Hardy?)
73
Chuck K3FT
KD7WHQ
03-10-2004, 01:59 AM
FT:
Napoleon XIV http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif
The B side was "Photogenic Schizophrenic You," which sounded like an off-center record on the refrain. http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif
Are you guys talking about the old DOCTOR DEMENTO SHOW? Man, I never used to miss it! It was on one of the AM radio stations on Sunday nights. The guy who ran that show had THOUSANDS of funny "novelty" songs dating back to Spike Jones, and earlier. Many of Tom Lehrer's songs (Poisoning Pidgeons in the Park, So Long Mom - I'm Off To Drop The Bomb, and others) were played. That was also where I heard Weird Al Yankovic for the first time. I wonder if The Good Doctor is still around....
Loved the National Lampoon Radio Hour too...
If you want to see where "Larry Kroger" came from for "Animal House", see if you can find the old National Lampoon (highschool) Yearbook Parody.
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Pidgeons?
Walter Pidgeon(s)?
Doctor Demento is still alive and well in LA. Weird Al's first song That got extensive radio play was "My Bologna" to the tune of The Knack's "My Sharona", which was also morphed by Steve Dahl into "Ayatollah" in 1980.
Dumb song lyrics?
How about "Teenage Enema Nurse (In bondage!http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif" or
Ian Dury's "Hit me with your rhythm stick" (hit me, hit me)
Tom Lehrer is alive and well and living in Santa Cruz, CA...Thank you for "The Vatican Rag"
WX7B
Weird Al's "Eat It" takeoff on Jacko's "Beat It" was hilarious -- But the video he made to go with it was slap-nuts funny. No lie.
Didn't Weird Al also do "Another One Rides the Bus: as a spoof on "Another One Bites the Dust?"
Glad Tom Lehrer is not "on the other side of the dirt" yet. The guy was a magician with song parody lyrics. I have the "An Evening (wasted) With Tom Lehrer" album on CD, AND a Tom Lehrer songbook. How he worked the Periodic Table of the Elements into the Major General's song from The Pirates of Penzance, I'll never know!
I believe you are right, Steve. #If I remember the story correctly, "Another One Rides the Bus" was the first song Al sang, live!, on the good Doctor's show, and since his drummer, "Bermuda" Swartz did not have his drum set, he ( Swartz, that is ) beat out the rhythm on the bottom of a suitcase ! # http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wow.gif #http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif
http://www.weirdal.com/082303.htm
73 from Jim
KL7FZ
03-12-2004, 12:10 AM
</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (w3sy @ Mar. 10 2004,11:26)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Are you guys talking about the old DOCTOR DEMENTO SHOW? Man, I never used to miss it! It was on one of the AM radio stations on Sunday nights. The guy who ran that show had THOUSANDS of funny "novelty" songs dating back to Spike Jones, and earlier. Many of Tom Lehrer's songs (Poisoning Pidgeons in the Park, So Long Mom - I'm Off To Drop The Bomb, and others) were played. That was also where I heard Weird Al Yankovic for the first time. I wonder if The Good Doctor is still around....[/QUOTE]<span id='postcolor'>
The Good Doctor is alive and well. Still does a weekly show. Used to be able to listen to it online but the Napster/copyright thing kinda killed it. Only a couple of stations still webcast. Lots of on-air radio stations still do though.
A great site is: http://www.krellan.com/demento/
The best site for info is: http://www.drdemento.com/
There is even a newsgroup for him: rec.music.dementia
Absolutely the neatest stuff around.
BTW: Dead Puppies was done by The Ogden Edsl Wahalia Blues Ensemble Mondo Bizzario Band.
Fish Heads is another great one. Done by Barnes & Barnes.
But some of my favorites are:
The Scotsman - Bryan Bowers
Da Turdy Point Buck - Bananas at Large
Cows With Guns - Dana Lyons
Wet Dream - Kip Addotta
Existential Blues - Tom "T-Bone" Stankus
Viagra In The Waters - Camille West
Bulbous Bouffant - Radio Free Vestibule
7-Eleven - Led Slurpee
Second Week of Deer Camp - Da Yoopers
Junk Food Junkie - Larry Groce
Car Phone - Sheeler & Sheeler
Pencil Neck Geek - Fred Blassie
Werecow - Flippy T. Fishead
Moose Turd Pie - Utah Phillips
OK That's enough. I could go on a long time on this list. The humor and satire found in this type of music is truly entertaining.
#BUT, my all time favorite musician is Frank Zappa. His satire was both outrageous and sublime. And the music was far above what most other contempory musicians are capable of.
And he died far too soon and young.
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Look up the doc. It is still a gas.
Actually, reading your posts I would have thought you knew about this little piece of subculture heaven.
Steve #KL7FZ
KL7FZ
03-12-2004, 12:25 AM
And why is it so many blues singers/songs start with "Oh, I woke up this morning"? Would they be writing or singing if they didn't?
My favorite blues song is the "Rich Man's Blues" or I think that was the name of it. I am not sure but it may have been done by Steve Martin.
Kinda goes like this:
Oh I woke up this morning
And the Cadillac was gone.
Oh I woke up this morning
And the Lincoln was gone too.
I got so depressed
I threw my martini into the pool.
Now that's some real blues! http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif
Steve #KL7FZ
wd5kca
03-12-2004, 01:52 AM
</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (w7wwb @ Mar. 08 2004,09:27)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (WB2RJR @ Mar. 07 2004,19:10)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">When I worked in electronics we used that album to test out stereo systems we repaired. Volume on 10.[/QUOTE]<span id='postcolor'>
<obligatory Spinal Tap reference>
HA!
Mine goes to "11."
</ostr>[/QUOTE]<span id='postcolor'>
I missed it the first time around in the theater, but while watching the DVD at home I nocticed in the movie "Country Bears" they had an amp that went to 12.
Definitely one louder.
</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">And why is it so many blues singers/songs start with "Oh, I woke up this morning"? Would they be writing or singing if they didn't?
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Oh, Steve, you remind me of the old Smothers Brothers Show, and a Thanksgiving special.
Guy comes out in a turkey suit ( like little kid in Church play ) and starts singing in the standard blues riff:
Well, I woke up this mornin' (harmonica plays ba bau de bump )
Was told it would be my Lass ( ba bau de bump )
Their gonna chop my head off
and stick stuffin' up my . . . .
About that time, he was cut off ! http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif
Man, you didn't even have to say it to get in trouble in those days ! http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif
73 from Jim
Do not forget to write your anti-BPL letters,
encourage new amateur radio participation and generally be nice
to one another. That is all.