David Lee Roth: “Bozedy bozedy bop, ziddee bop” and “Hummily bibily zibily bubily hummily bibily zibily bop”
Guadalcanal Diary Vista.
He was quoting Louis Prima.
Same here. I recall it as “beet billy” rather than “beep belly” but otherwise, it’s the same.
One favorite of my mother when I was very little:
Boop boop diddum wattum dattum CHOO! Boop boop diddum wattum dattum CHOO! Boop boop diddum wattum dattum choo, and dey fim and dey fam right over the dam!
Yes, my mother had a weird sense of humor, but it didn’t affect me at all. So let’s all take a turn on the chortlewort and unshackle the doppleganger while we vorpal the sillabub. And bend on a couple of snarks.
Are we just talking about silly song nonsense words? Or other unforgettable utterances too? Like my 7th grade Electric Shop teacher. Whenever someone did something stupid (especially something potentially dangerous) he’d say (out loud so the whole class could hear):
Okay, silly song nonsense.
Showing yer age alright, and yer memory. It was itsy-bitsy teeny-weeny…
If you’re really old enough, you’ll even remember:
Ooh eee ooh aah aah,
Ting tang walla walla bing bang. (David Seville, 1958).
Another dude who fell into a well was a gent by the name
Eddie Kushi Katchi Kama Tosa Nira Tosa Noka Sama Kama Wacky Brown.
(With variations that everybody sings a little differently.)
Best version I’ve heard was by the folk/gospel singers Joe and Eddie, which, however, I’ve never found on-line anywhere.
Cab Calloway was the King of this kind of stuff.
From “Jumpin Jive”:
Hep-hep!
De-boodle-de-ack, de-boodle-de-ackasaki!
Hep-hep!
Oh, rang-tang, te-dah-dah,
Hep-hep!
Gonna tell you ‘bout the jumpin’ jive,
Hep-hep!
Jim, jam, jump, the jumpin’ jive;
Hep-hep!
Cats gonna beat out this mellow jive;
Hep-hep!
Beat it out on the mellow side.
And in “Minnie the Moocher” he introduced his famous “Hi-dee hi-dee hi-dee hi!” routine:
*Folks, here’s a story about Minnie the Moocher
She was a lowdown hoochie coocher
She was the roughest, toughest frail
But Minnie had a heart as big as a whale
Hidee hidee hidee hi
Hode hode hode ho
Hee dee hee dee hee dee hee
A hidee hidee hidee ho*
(And it just gets worse as the song goes on.)
(ETA: You can find it all on YouTube, including the absurdly surreal Betty Boop cartoons featuring Cab Calloway songs [there were three of them], which included rotoscoped characters doing Cab Calloway dancing.)
That was Andy Devine saying " plunk your magic twanger Froggy"
hmm, seems I was ninja’d several years ago…
“Well…shucky ducky!”
Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn.
But for some reason it doesn’t go over at campfires.
Regards,
Shodan
I think the song you’re wanting is Flea Fly.
My kids were watching this on Netflix the other day.
It is not good.
Not so much an utterance as a song:
Hut-Sut Rawlson on the rillerah and a brawla, brawla sooit
I also remember the Waddley atcha song that Scribble mentioned when this thread was originally alive. God how I hated that stupid song. I clearly remember being in second grade and Mrs Miller would lead us in a rousing rendition, complete with hand gestures. I had a hand gesture for her :dubious:
Also also, slightly off topic but many years ago when David Lee Roth had a hit with* Just a Gigolo* I was getting pleasantly toasted with my then karaoke loving boyfriend who wanted to sing it but couldn’t get his drunken mind around the little scat part:
Hummala bebhuhla zeebuhla boobuhla
Hummala bebhuhla zeebuhla bop
There I was, solemnly, earnestly teaching it to him like I was playing Annie Sullivan to his Helen Keller.
Two from 10th grade Chemistry class:
Lie Bee Buh Cuh Nof Nee
Nah Mig Al Sip Sklar
What are they?
Li Be B C N O F Ne
Na Mg Al Si P S Cl Ar
Pogo’s version of Deck the Halls:
Deck us all with Boston Charlie,
Walla Walla, Wash., an’ Kalamazoo!
Nora’s freezin’ on the trolley,
Swaller dollar cauliflower alley-garoo!!
The Master has all 6 verses here.
I seriously need to get all you folks together in one room and record this conversation.
I always hated that song – in the break, they sing:
If the words sound queer and funny to your ear,
A little bit jumbled and jivey,
Sing “Mairzey Doats, and Dozy Doats,
And little lambsy dive-y.”
WTF?
Did anybody else play a game called “Stella” as a kid? Bunch of kids stand in a circle with one hand on top of the hand of the kid beside them. Point was so that you’d move your other arm and whack the kid’s hand beside you which was on top of your other hand. While singing a song that goes:
Stella ella ola quack quack quack
Es chico chico, cheeky cheeky chack chack
Es chico chico…velo, velo, velo velo velo now
ONE TWO THREE FOUR FIVE!
…and on FIVE the person whose hand is about to be hit has to pull away. If they pull away in time they’re still in, if they get smacked they’re out. Continue until 2 people are left and then those two arm-wrestle for the win.
“The woman piaba and the man piaba
and the Ton Ton call baka lemon grass,
The lily root, gully root, belly root uhmm,
And the famous grandy scratch scratch.”