Can anything better this though? I mean it’s not just chaka it’s
Chacaron
In other words, ABBA. 
The end of “Rag Doll” has scat. Watching Steve Tyler do scat is … interesting.
Plus, the literal video version.
I can’t believe this hasn’t been mentioned yet – including by me – but how about Bill Withers’ 26 "I know"s in a row, a whole verse of “Ain’t No Sunshine”?
The Guardians of the Galaxy franchise would have us believe it has been carried outside the solar system, so a very obscure, backwater planet. Like Earth, only different.
The musicians were drunk. Very, very drunk. It’s supposed to be “In the garden of Eden”. Apparently the muddled version turned out better than the sober one. And… ninja’d.
The song Marty Feldman Eyes, a parody of Bette Davis Eyes, contains Ooga-Chaka Ooga-Ooga in a couple places.
True. But Jonathan King’s version does, and it came about before Blue Swede’s version.
According to Wikipedia, BJ Thomas’ version was the first, in 1968.
A Jamaican reggae band called the Twinkle Brothers covered it in 1971, and introduced the “oogah-chaka”.
British singer Jonathan King covered it in 1971, and copied the “oogah-chaka”.
Swedish band Blue Suede covered in in 1974.
Must make honorable mention of the closing-credits theme for WKRP in Cincinatti
Actually it was the opposite of ABBA. The singers in ABBA perhaps didn’t speak English very well. Their songs had real English words and sentences in them. Perhaps not very deep meanings, but real ones. They thus sang English with a strong Swedish accent.
How about Ministry’s “Jesus Built My Hotrod”?
Now excuse as I dingadingdang my dangalonglinglong.
Agreed. I should have said something closer to “sorta like ABBA inside out.”
As I understood it, back in the early days of their rise to popularity they spoke no English at all. So to them they were singing gibberish phonetically, even though to us it sounded like Swedish-accented English delivering typical pop lyrics.
I recently saw a video interview with all four of them talking about the virtual ABBA revival tour going on now-ish. In the interview they all spoke English skillfully. I can’t say whether they got better at English over the ~50 years since, whether the story from their early days was just puffery to increase their perceived exoticness, or whether I’ve just been confused all these years.
Hooked on a Feeling (Blue Swede) was one of my favorite songs as a kid. It was years and years before I realized it was Blue SWEDE and not Blue SUEDE!
Can we have a subcategory for “shortest song fillers” as well?
If so, I nominate ELO’s “Don’t Bring me Down.” One nonsense word made up by Lynne, who now often goes with the flow and sings it as “Bruce.”
Another oldie that deserves acknowledgment:
My favorite riff on it is from the animated TV version of “Horton Hears a Who”, where the elephant is bounding along in the jungle, singing “Hut Sut, val sind on a rinerah, Hut Sut val and so on, so forth” and after a couple iterations of that, breaks the third wall to look at the audience: “well, I keep forgetting the words”.
All of this raises the question, Who Put the Bomp in the Bomp-Bomp-Bomp?
Who was that man?
Whoever he was, I’d like to shake his hand.
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Lisa Gerard from Dead Can Dance should be here. No actual words in this song, which is still utterly lovely:
This song is just four minutes of “Hey, hey, na, na.”
Ooga chucka ooga chucka sounded like a great opening to a song. We would hear it on an AM radio and start bopping to the beat… and then it turned into some stupid love song. Then we’d turn down the sound and wait for Cover of the Rolling Stone to come along so we could join in and sing that one.