I totally forgot Sam Cooke.
Bring it on home to me
Yeah (yeah) yeah (yeah) yeah (yeah)
South Park’s parody of Bono:
You too can be a skinhead.
A common Zappaism was the deep-voiced ‘yeah’.
Sixteen Little Red Noses And A Horse That Sweats
When I’ve seen him do this on TV, he jokes that the first minute is a song called, I Can’t Make Up My Mind, and it goes on for hours. Catch the very end “Yeah” – he holds it so long that he fakes passing out and falling off his stool.
PS Yeah (ahem) they misspelled his name. Bueller…
As a somewhat adjunct to my recent mallet thread, decided to post here instead, despite it being the most Terrible Song Beginning Ever, which is a very malletable thing.
Kind of a torturous song ID here, because I have no clue who the (probably 70’s) recording artist (or group) is, nor the lyrics, except the word “yeah”.
Pretty sure it just starts off with a basic pop rock beat, (no other instruments, yet) (and keep in mind it’s been decades since I last heard it, hence my vagueness).
Then the singer comes in with:
“[unremembered word],
yeah,
[unremembered word],
yeah,
[unremembered word],
yeah,
[unremembered word],
yeah…”
By then IIRC the band kicks in with something so obliterated, so crushed, so re-emulsifyed into something yet more amoebic, from my memory, thanks to that beginning.
The way “yeah” is said, with this trying-to-be-snotty-like-their-likely-counterparts-Sweet sorta way, but more flaccid, yet. Featherwieght.
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I want so, so much to believe that you’re thinking of mock (yeah) ing (yeah) bird (yeah)…
Well then, upon some googling of your phrase, I came across this Inez and Charlei Foxx recording that is exactly bang-on what we’re taking about.
Kudos to your song-find.
Crazy memory - I thought it was more how I remembered it, as opposed to this soulful, not-too-problematic offing.
Me four.
Not the first thing, but I was assaulted by this tonight at about 140 db. It’s an “Oh Yeah”. I thought, “Hey, this guy is on my Death List, I wonder how he’s doing?” and then I thought “Hey, there is a thread about the Yeah I can post to when I go online and see if he is dead yet”.
So here I am. Too lazy to see if he is dead. Probably would have heard about it if he was. But watch the video and see why I put him on the list.
The Billy Idol version? That’s what jumped up first for me.
There’s a good chance you are remembering the 1974 remake by Carly Simon and James Taylor, which was a Top 10 hit in the U.S.
Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, by The Pogues
@ 1:03
I’m showing my age by throwing in with the “She Loves You,” by the Beatles.
My second choice, also by the Beatles, I think it’s on The Early Beatles album.
“I’ll Get You in the End,” which starts off and also finishes with mucho repetitions of “Oh, Yeah!”
Such eloquence! Such poetry!
~VOW
Every Rob Zombie song.