‘Hooked on a Feeling’ by the Blue Swede.
I had never heard this.
I walked in the store with Ivy and it was on the radio they were playing.
I thought I was gonna have a seizure.
I have laughed so much over this, Ivy told me to “shut-up”
There must be more fillers like this.
Heck, that was practically an anthem when it came out. Everybody knew that song.
I’ve led a sheltered life. 
A sheltered life on a different planet, apparently. Or in a very different timeline. I would repeat my friends opinion, but I would probably get screamed at for being racist…
Maybe you’re not quite the right age. It came out in 1974. I was a high school sophomore. Which was the ideal age to chant along with the silly.
And to save everybody else having to hunt it up as I just did:
Those were some groovy hairstyles and clothes we wore back then.
The best song to sing to yourself when you are cycling up a steep hill. (well, at least the ‘Oogha Chaka’ part).
The BJ Thomas version I grew up with does not have the Ooga-Chakas.
Ahhhh…the 70’s, a time of…ummm…odd things in songs.
I present to you Muskat Love by Captain and Tennille at includes muskrat love calls;
I hesitate a bit in posting this, as it will c confirm everyone’s idea about Sweden, Swedish music and the Swedish chef, But Beck asked and I have to share.
Hey, @Beckdawrek this song has only ‘song filler thingys’ and no lyrics at all. It was released by the group Caramba which never was a group at all. In the real world, it was made by Michael Tretow who was engineer on all of ABBA’s records in the 70’s. He did this as a lark, collecting silly sounds and finally deciding to release it. It was just a joke thing, he never took it seriously, neither did the audience. And yet, it is kinda catchy. Hubba Hubba.
That’s going on the play list.
How about the yodeling in “Hocus Pocus” by Focus?
Well, we enter a different world alltogether here. That song is like an audio version of a three ring circus, with absolutely everything that is physically possible happening at one point or another. They are to be forgiven for the yodeling – which really is quite daring and at least a little catchy all on its own.
Na, na, na, nanana na, nanana na, Hey Jude.
My favorite video of Hooked On a Feeling is the fabulous off-the-wall version by The Hoff:
A-wimoweh, a-wimoweh.
Had to look that up.
Doesn’t sound like what they’re singing. At all.
Oh my god! I think that’s the version I heard in the store.
Of more recent vintage, I read that the end of Guns N’ Roses’ “Sweet Child Of Mine” was all filler based on a question asked in rehearsal about how to end the song: “Where do we go now?”
There are tons of songs with nonsense lyrics out there, of course. Blue Swede’s version of the B.J. Thomas hit was a killer, though.
Michael Jackson’s “Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’” features the filler lyrics, “Ma ma se, ma ma sa, ma ma koo sa,” which my old roommate mis-heard as “I’ve been saved by the sound of mambo sauce.” My wife and I still refer to unintelligible lyrics as “mambo sauce.”
Phil Collins’ “Sussidio” is a filler lyric, from when Collins was initially writing the song, that never got replaced by a real word.
I am suddenly feeling ancient.
Speaking of song filler-ins, have you ever heard Good morning Starshine
“Gliddy glup gloopy
Nibby nabby noopy la la la lo lo
Sabba sibby sabba
Nooby abba nabba le le lo lo
Tooby ooby walla nooby abba nabba”
This is most odd. This morning my wife woke me up by playing the Blue Swede song on the kitchen speakers. We’d never discussed the tune before. Within the next hour we’d listened to the BJ Thomas ‘sitar’ version and researched the song’s release sequence — a Jamaican group released a version with the Oogga Chukkas about a year after Thomas, and two years before Blue Swede.
Then we watched a Wonderful Cover Version From 1997 By David Hasselhoff. It was so great we texted the story of our audio morning to two other couples. One of those people has been in a physical and emotional health funk for months. Her partner texted my wife saying the infirm woman was cruising the house singing Oogga Chuckka!
Then I open SDMB and see this thread.
My wife says she remembers no trigger event; she just thought of the song and typed it into the Youtube search engine this a.m.