# Quick! ID the "oh-ee-oh" disco earworm before we both have to shoot ourselves! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 5, 2008, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-id-the-oh-ee-oh-disco-earworm-before-we-both-have-to-shoot-ourselves/444071 "2008-04-05T13:09:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![ExVoxMachina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/59ef9b/32.png) [@ExVoxMachina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ExVoxMachina)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2008, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-id-the-oh-ee-oh-disco-earworm-before-we-both-have-to-shoot-ourselves/444071/21 "2008-04-06T04:01:50Z")
Morris Day and the Time: Jungle Love? Mid 80’s? Just finished watching Jay and Silent Bob strike back…I feel so dirty. ---
**Author:** ![TWDuke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e495f1/32.png) [@TWDuke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TWDuke)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2008, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-id-the-oh-ee-oh-disco-earworm-before-we-both-have-to-shoot-ourselves/444071/22 "2008-04-06T04:43:06Z")
**It’s Gonna Be a Beautiful Night** by Prince. Falsetto, disco beat. (oh-we-oh-ooh) Say it (oh-we-oh-ooh) Say it louder, y’all (oh-we-oh-ooh) Say it louder, y’all (oh-we-oh-ooh) Miko, miko, hit me in the back with funk And yes, the “oh-we-oh-ooh” recalls the guards in The Wizard of Oz. ---
**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2008, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-id-the-oh-ee-oh-disco-earworm-before-we-both-have-to-shoot-ourselves/444071/23 "2008-04-06T05:16:26Z")
If you don’t have it yet, what about [“September”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfLEc09tTjI) by Earth, Wind & Fire? ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2008, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-id-the-oh-ee-oh-disco-earworm-before-we-both-have-to-shoot-ourselves/444071/24 "2008-04-06T06:05:57Z")
[QUOTE=It’s Not Rocket Surgery!] If you don’t have it yet, what about [“September”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfLEc09tTjI) by Earth, Wind & Fire? [/QUOTE] Dude, I bet that’s it! Good call. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2008, 8:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-id-the-oh-ee-oh-disco-earworm-before-we-both-have-to-shoot-ourselves/444071/25 "2008-04-06T08:09:39Z")
Complete WAG, the last ~40 seconds of [_Cherchez La Femme/C’est Si Bon_](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CK-f-Hhij4) - Dr. Buzzard’s Original Savannah Band - 1976 (number twenty-seven on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 in 1977) Right era, disco, female lead, huge radio airplay in the day. CMC +fnord! BTW Ya didn’t answer **Boyo Jim** ’s question, 'cause if there ain’t no actual lyrics, then … 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2008, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-id-the-oh-ee-oh-disco-earworm-before-we-both-have-to-shoot-ourselves/444071/26 "2008-04-06T13:54:06Z")
[QUOTE=It’s Not Rocket Surgery!] If you don’t have it yet, what about [“September”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfLEc09tTjI) by Earth, Wind & Fire? [/QUOTE] You beat me to it. I could hear it in my head, and thought it was EWF but didn’t know the name of the song. I sampled a bunch of their songs on iTunes, but gave up before I got to that one. Good call! Incidentally, before I opened the thread, I thought it was going to be about Lene Lovich’s “New Toy.” ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2008, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-id-the-oh-ee-oh-disco-earworm-before-we-both-have-to-shoot-ourselves/444071/27 "2008-04-06T14:21:47Z")
I played the notes on a virtual piano and I think _September_ has to be it because they match up very well. Which is good; I was freaking out that nobody had answered this one yet. **Goose**? ---
**Author:** ![Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2008, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-id-the-oh-ee-oh-disco-earworm-before-we-both-have-to-shoot-ourselves/444071/28 "2008-04-06T18:38:21Z")
[QUOTE=It’s Not Rocket Surgery!] If you don’t have it yet, what about [“September”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfLEc09tTjI) by Earth, Wind & Fire? [/QUOTE] I’m sitting here crying. Seriously. Because I’m SOOO relieved. I don’t have to spend the rest of my life listening to it on the tape loop but never knowing what it is. Bless you. Bless you. And now to the nitty-gritty: what the HELL is he singing? “Ba-de-ya”? Humph. Might as well be “oh-ee-oh”… How on earth do they expect people to know what their song is called if they’re not going to sing the title? Like “Mandy”, see. You know where you are with _that_ one… And then there’s the “Blue Awning” song, but I don’t feel like getting into _that_ right now, better quit while you’re ahead, is my motto. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2008, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-id-the-oh-ee-oh-disco-earworm-before-we-both-have-to-shoot-ourselves/444071/29 "2008-04-06T18:46:59Z")
According to [this site](http://www.stlyrics.com/lyrics/soulfood/september.htm) they’re singing “ba de ya.” ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2008, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-id-the-oh-ee-oh-disco-earworm-before-we-both-have-to-shoot-ourselves/444071/30 "2008-04-06T19:05:16Z")
I have the song on my iPod, and I can confirm the chorus as (phonetically) Bah dee yah, someday you’ll remember Bah dee yah, dancing in September Bah dee yah, never was a cloudy day Maybe you just heard the ind of the song, which repeats Bah dee yah dee yah dee yah several times ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2008, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-id-the-oh-ee-oh-disco-earworm-before-we-both-have-to-shoot-ourselves/444071/31 "2008-04-06T19:07:20Z")
Well I never would have been any help because I’ve never heard that song before in my life. ---
**Author:** ![Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brown_eyed_girl/32/3574_2.png) [@Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brown_Eyed_Girl)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2008, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-id-the-oh-ee-oh-disco-earworm-before-we-both-have-to-shoot-ourselves/444071/32 "2008-04-06T19:13:08Z")
What a great song…haven’t heard that in ages. Thanks **Goose** and **Rocket**! ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2008, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-id-the-oh-ee-oh-disco-earworm-before-we-both-have-to-shoot-ourselves/444071/33 "2008-04-06T21:43:28Z")
**DDG** , seriously - oh-ee-oh? :rolleyes: They are CLEARLY singing ba-dee-ya!! Glad you got that all sorted out, tho 😉 ---
**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2008, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-id-the-oh-ee-oh-disco-earworm-before-we-both-have-to-shoot-ourselves/444071/34 "2008-04-07T04:30:47Z")
[QUOTE=Duck Duck Goose] I’m sitting here crying. Seriously. Because I’m SOOO relieved. I don’t have to spend the rest of my life listening to it on the tape loop but never knowing what it is. Bless you. Bless you. [/QUOTE] You’re welcome. Hey, I finally made a Doper cry! ---
**Author:** ![TWDuke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e495f1/32.png) [@TWDuke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TWDuke)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2008, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-id-the-oh-ee-oh-disco-earworm-before-we-both-have-to-shoot-ourselves/444071/35 "2008-04-07T05:10:40Z")
[QUOTE=Duck Duck Goose] How on earth do they expect people to know what their song is called if they’re not going to sing the title? [/QUOTE] It’s the eighth word in the first verse, not to mention being part of the chorus. Oh-ee-oh? Really? Oh, well, at least we got all the way through the thread without anyone mentioning Rio by Duran Duran. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-id-the-oh-ee-oh-disco-earworm-before-we-both-have-to-shoot-ourselves/444071.md?page=1)