Ku Ku Kachoo: What does it mean?

[Bryan_Ekers]

@njtt

That is a fact, is it? :rolleyes:

Singers (and songwriters) have been using nonsense syllables in songs since time immemorial. Hey nonny nonny no, folderol da diddle.

“Give peace a chance…”

[Lukeinva]

Provocative question Hottius Maximus btw I love your name, btw2 way I hope you’re a girl

[Ranger_Jeff]

Ku Ku Kachoo means the walrus has an allergy, you know?

[Hazle_Weatherfield]

Su sussudio!

[Flywheel]

Gabba gabba hey!

[OtisCampbellWasRight]

As several have stated, it seems to be a form of psychedelic skat.

Bands like Steely Dan and even Yes would use words (lyrics) for their sonic merit, and the lines didn’t have to make sense. Just one more example of the Beatles trying innovative ideas.

[Sternvogel]

@Sam_A.Robrin

Lennon later regretted making the walrus the focus of the song, as he was going for a somewhat sinister vibe, and the carpenter was the real badguy of the duo. Though after his infamous remarks about Jesus a year or so previously, if he’d written a song called “I Am the Carpenter,” you can just imagine the controversy!

You must be misremembering. According to this Playboy interview excerpt:

@John Lennon

It’s from “The Walrus and the Carpenter.” “Alice in Wonderland.” To me, it was a beautiful poem. It never dawned on me that Lewis Carroll was commenting on the capitalist and social system. I never went into that bit about what he really meant, like people are doing with the Beatles’ work. Later, I went back and looked at it and realized that the walrus was the bad guy in the story and the carpenter was the good guy. I thought, Oh, shit, I picked the wrong guy. I should have said, “I am the carpenter.” But that wouldn’t have been the same, would it? [Singing] “I am the carpenter…”"

[Hottius_Maximus]

@Lukeinva

Provocative question Hottius Maximus btw I love your name, btw2 way I hope you’re a girl

I am a man.

[Spoke]

It’s Lithuanian for Boop Boop Be Doop

[Greg_Charles]

@Lukeinva

Provocative question Hottius Maximus btw I love your name, btw2 way I hope you’re a girl

Wouldn’t that be Hottia Maxima?

(That’s actually a genuine question. I have no idea.)

[Hottius_Maximus]

@Greg_Charles

Wouldn’t that be Hottia Maxima?

(That’s actually a genuine question. I have no idea.)

LOL! Perhaps my female counterpart would be either what you said or Hottia Maximette!

[CalMeacham]

It means they stutter when they sneeze.

[TBG]

Ku ku kachoo rhymes with 23 skidoo, which I also have no idea what it means.

[_3Bill]

@njtt

That is a fact, is it? :rolleyes:

Singers (and songwriters) have been using nonsense syllables in songs since time immemorial. Hey nonny nonny no, folderol da diddle.

It is a fact that koo koo kachoo is an allusion to Walrus. As far as drugs go, “It’s a little secret, just the Robinson’s affair, Most of all you’ve got to hide it from the kids.” A lot of free-floating paranoia bait in that song. You had to be there.

[Sam_A.Robrin]

@_3Bill

It is a fact that koo koo kachoo is an allusion to Walrus. As far as drugs go, “It’s a little secret, just the Robinson’s affair, Most of all you’ve got to hide it from the kids.” A lot of free-floating paranoia bait in that song. You had to be there.

I don’t know if it helps, but “Mrs. Robinson” was originally “Mrs. Roosevelt.” When Paul Simon got the commission for The Graduate, he used the song as is, changing only the name.