Let's give a shout out to all the great lyricists both past and present.

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Paula Abdul Srtaight Up

“A bop-pa-ba-ba bop-pa-bop-pa-pa”

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The end of Journey’s Lovin’, Touchin’, Squeezin’:

Nah nah, nah naaah nah, nah nah, nah naaah nah, nah nah, nah naaaah nah, nah naah nah naah nah naaah.

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Na na na na,
Na na NA nA
Hey Hey-ey,
Good-bye.

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Eep. Op. Ork. Ah Ah. That means I love you.

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Beep-beep 'm beep-beep, yeah!

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Ooh ee ooh ah ah ting tang walla walla bing bang

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Hey, Duran Duran was eclectic:

First Album (Planet Earth):
Bop bop bop ba ba ba ba bop

Rio (Hungry Like the Wolf et al):
Do do do do do do do…

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"Lolliepop,lolliepop,oohh lollielolliepop,lolliepop, POP!

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Don’t worry if it’s not good enough …

la la la la la
la la la la la
la la la la la la la
la la la la la
la la la la la
la la la la la la la

( I had a Sesame Street album with all the lyrics written out, in case I forgot them)
Trio’s ‘da da da’ actually had a lot more words to it than just the one. Heck, there’s more words in the title : “da da da Ich Lieb Dich Nicht du Liebst Mich Nicht Aha Aha Aha”
They don’t write 'em like that anymore …
uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh

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I would like to shake his hand, but I don’t know who he is. I’m talking about the guy who comes up with the brilliant lyrics for all those foxy little R&B divas I hear on the local Top 40 station. Who can forget classic lines like:

OoooooooOOOOOOooooo, baaaaaaaaby baaaaby, baaby, oh ooooooh oooooooh uh-huh, yeah yeeeeaaaah… aaaaaaaaah ah ah aaah aaaay-yeeaaah…

Actually, that line wasn’t from any specific song. But you know the type I mean. The R&B songs where the backup singers seem to actually have more lines to sing than the foxy diva? There are two variations on the style:

  1. The backup singers do the actual singing while the foxy diva goes really high and provides a steady stream of obligattoes over the top.

  2. The music uses the “call and response” technique, except that the backup singers do the “call” part and the foxy diva provides the “response”.

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and unless i missed it, Sting’s
Da Doo Doo Doo Di Dah Dah Dah

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I don’t think do wop songs should count. The non-words serve a purpose. They are there to show off the beautiful harmonies.
And I hate to rag on a Guest, but Lollipop, lollipop oh, lolly lollipop are actual words. Stupid words but words nontheless.

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look what the google ads were (are?) right now:
Download Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm
Listen to Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm
Yahoo! Music Unlimited
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No-no, no, no, no, no-no-no, no, no-no, no, no-no
Na-no, no, na-no, no-no, na-no, no-no, no, no-no, no

…that will show those “yeahs”.

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MMMBop, ba duba dop ba do bop,
Ba duba dop ba do bop,
Ba duba dop ba do. Oh yeah,
MMMBop ba duba dop ba do bop,
Ba duba dop ba do bop,
Ba duba dop ba do

Oh yeah, in an MMMBop they’re gone. Yeah.

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Keep looking. In a ‘Great singles of Rock’ book by (I think) Dave Marsh he reveals that the whole intro section was improvised by the band in one take.

Now that’s genius.

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I love all those Esquivel “space-age bachelor pad” songs with the backcup singers going “zu zu zuuuuu zu zu zu zu zuuuuuu…”

And don’t forget Hasil Adkins’s “She Said” (memorably covered by The Cramps):
**
Oo! Ee! Ah-ah!
Oo! Ee! Ah-ah!
Oo! Ee! Ah-ah!
OOOOOoooooooo… ahhhhhhhh**

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I love all those Esquivel “space-age bachelor pad” songs with the backcup singers going “zu zu zuuuuu zu zu zu zu zuuuuuu…”

And don’t forget Hasil Adkins’s “She Said” (memorably covered by The Cramps):
**
Oo! Ee! Ah-ah!
Oo! Ee! Ah-ah!
Oo! Ee! Ah-ah!
OOOOOoooooooo… ahhhhhhhh**

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Didn’t Kylie Minogue have a huge hit in which the chorus consisted of:

?

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:smack: And the Google ads, once again, have switched to “Mailing Lists”. How the hell does that almost invariably happen?

Have we ever talked about mailing lists here, except maybe in GQ threads about how to get off of them?