# Uno, dos, tres, catorce?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uno-dos-tres-catorce/274723>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [November 14, 2004, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uno-dos-tres-catorce/274723 "2004-11-14T17:24:53Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 2004, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uno-dos-tres-catorce/274723/21 "2004-11-18T15:43:08Z")

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That song seems like such a direct ripoff of Diana Ross’ _You Just Keep Me Hanging On_ that I’m really surprised she’s not sued.

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**Author:** ![brianjedi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@brianjedi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brianjedi)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2004, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uno-dos-tres-catorce/274723/22 "2004-11-21T05:51:22Z")

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> [@WordMan](#):
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> I think it is simply considered “cool” to mess up count-ins, nothing more…especially in Spanish…  
> **Peter Gabriel** , Games Without Frontiers - “a 1, 2 - 1, 2, 4”
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> **The Offspring** , Pretty Fly - “Uno, Dos, Tres, Cuatro, Cinco Cinco, Seis…”
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> Unless you’re the Ramones, in which a superfast “1-2-3-4!” starts most songs…

James Hetfield starts “Whiplash” on the Live Sh\*t concert album with “1, 2… 4, 3, 2 and a half!”

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**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2004, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uno-dos-tres-catorce/274723/23 "2004-11-21T18:20:50Z")

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> [@lieu](#):
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> That song seems like such a direct ripoff of Diana Ross’ _You Just Keep Me Hanging On_ that I’m really surprised she’s not sued.

She can’t because she had nothing to do with the song except sing it.

As far as I can determine, the Supremes weren’t even the first to put the song out. Jackie Wilson was.

It was written by the Motown team of Eddie Holland, Lamont Dozier and Brian Holland. They’re the ones with the rights, unless they signed them away to Motown.

Writers rights!

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