# Song ID **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 16, 2005, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-id/322011 "2005-09-16T18:15:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![The\_Hamster\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8edcca/32.png) [@The\_Hamster\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Hamster_King)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2005, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-id/322011/1 "2005-09-16T18:15:35Z")
Not much to go on. My wife and I remember hearing it on top 40 radio in the late 80’s or early 90’s. The most memorable part was soaring melody with a guy singing “Oh Wah” over and over again. (or maybe it was pure instrumental and it just sounded like “Oh Wah”?) ohwah … OhWah-OhWah-OhWahhhh … OHWAH! A little help here? ---
**Author:** ![panamajack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/47e85d/32.png) [@panamajack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panamajack)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2005, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-id/322011/2 "2005-09-16T18:28:01Z")
Was it a chorus singing it? Sounds almost like “Adiemus” from the group of the same name. [This album](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000000WCD/102-3596680-5428932?v=glance) has it and the listening sample could be it (though it’s not all ‘Wah’, it’s words). What’s the rhythm? Is it a quick tempo or slow? Can you describe the melody or its contour (up, down, the same?) ---
**Author:** ![The\_Hamster\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8edcca/32.png) [@The\_Hamster\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Hamster_King)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2005, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-id/322011/3 "2005-09-16T18:55:29Z")
No, it’s not New Age-y or Enya-like. And I don’t think it was a chorus singing. It’s more like stadium rock, the sort of thing they might play over the sound system at a football game. Very upbeat. The melody I think is just two notes: Oh = low & Wah = high. But the rhythm varies: oh - wah - oh-wa-oh-wah-oh-wah – OH – WAH! ---
**Author:** ![Sean\_Factotum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Sean\_Factotum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sean_Factotum)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2005, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-id/322011/4 "2005-09-16T19:13:12Z")
It’s that Australian drinking/soccer song. “O-lay O-lay O-lay O-lay” It was sampled/used by a rock band. I just don’t know the name of the song it was in or the band’s name. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Hamster\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8edcca/32.png) [@The\_Hamster\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Hamster_King)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2005, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-id/322011/5 "2005-09-16T19:16:57Z")
> [@Sean Factotum](#): > > It’s that Australian drinking/soccer song. “O-lay O-lay O-lay O-lay” > It was sampled/used by a rock band. > I just don’t know the name of the song it was in or the band’s name. No, I know that one too and it’s not that. That has a melody under it. This is just two notes. ---
**Author:** ![RadioWave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/91b2a8/32.png) [@RadioWave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RadioWave)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2005, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-id/322011/6 "2005-09-16T19:22:20Z")
I think I know the one you’re talking about. All I remember is that the first word was “jungle” ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2005, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-id/322011/7 "2005-09-16T19:25:08Z")
I’m starting to channel viking music, humming out what you’ve written. So you’re saying it was some sort of instrumental? No words at all? I can’t believe I wouldn’t know it; in the late 80s and early 90s I knew every song and musician out there. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Hamster\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8edcca/32.png) [@The\_Hamster\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Hamster_King)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2005, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-id/322011/8 "2005-09-16T19:25:35Z")
> [@RadioWave](#): > > I think I know the one you’re talking about. All I remember is that the first word was “jungle” Yes … that’s on the right track. A woman I work with said “it’s like tarzan swinging through the jungle or something.” ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2005, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-id/322011/9 "2005-09-16T19:27:00Z")
“Jungle Love” by the Time? “My jungle love, oh-ee-oh-ee-oh” Lyrics here: [http://www.80smusiclyrics.com/artists/thetime.htm](http://www.80smusiclyrics.com/artists/thetime.htm) ---
**Author:** ![The\_Hamster\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8edcca/32.png) [@The\_Hamster\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Hamster_King)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2005, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-id/322011/10 "2005-09-16T19:40:36Z")
[“Tarzan Boy” by Baltimora!](http://www.80smusiclyrics.com/artists/baltimora.htm) A woman I work with figured it out! Thanks all. ---
**Author:** ![Zabali\_Clawbane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ecd19e/32.png) [@Zabali\_Clawbane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zabali_Clawbane)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2005, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-id/322011/11 "2005-09-16T19:42:56Z")
[Tarzan Boy](http://www.lyricsxp.com/lyrics/t/tarzan_boy_baltimora.html) by **[Baltimora](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarzan_Boy)**? You can watch the video[here](http://www.wopvideos.com/videos/230.htm). I can’t find a song sample on Amazon. ---
**Author:** ![Zabali\_Clawbane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ecd19e/32.png) [@Zabali\_Clawbane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zabali_Clawbane)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2005, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-id/322011/12 "2005-09-16T19:44:34Z")
Two minutes too late… _sigh_ ---
**Author:** ![The\_Hamster\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8edcca/32.png) [@The\_Hamster\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Hamster_King)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2005, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-id/322011/13 "2005-09-16T19:48:39Z")
Here’s a [sample](http://www.content.loudeye.com/scripts/hurl.exe?clipid=012545101110006900&cid=600111) from Amazon. Thanks, Zabali. ---
**Author:** ![JSexton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@JSexton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JSexton)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2005, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-id/322011/14 "2005-09-16T22:01:52Z")
Dang. I knew this one, too. You might also remember it from a Listerine commercial featuring the Listerine bottle swinging through a jungle. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Hamster\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8edcca/32.png) [@The\_Hamster\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Hamster_King)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2005, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-id/322011/15 "2005-09-16T22:12:00Z")
> [@JSexton](#): > > Dang. I knew this one, too. You might also remember it from a Listerine commercial featuring the Listerine bottle swinging through a jungle. Yeah, now that you mention it, I remember that ad. But I also remember the song from its initial run as a minor club hit. My wife started all this two nights ago. She sang the oh-wah bit and asked me what it was. I instantly could hear the song in my head, but the other lyrics are so forgettable that I couldn’t remember anything else. Even now, I don’t think I ever knew that it was called “Tarzan Boy” or that it performed by Baltimora(!?). I just knew the vocals.