And there’s the band The Yeah Yeah Yeahs. But I’m not familiar enough with their catalog to know if they sing any self-referential songs.
“Sweet Soul Music” by Arthur Conley has a lot of yeahs also.
This is a painful thread to read. It was my Uncle Max who wrote “Yeah, yeah, yeah” but never got a penny of royalties. (Just a year before his untimely death he met the guy who wrote “Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah” and only made a flat $250, but that’s another story)
So, when I followed in his footsteps, I made sure to copyright my musical snippets. I now make $0.0000025 each time a band starts a song “One, two, a-one, two, three, four!”
Don’t forget “Yeah!” by Usher.
I was going to nominate “Lithium” by Nirvana, but to my hearing, the yeahs are in groups of two. I count 12 in a row for each chorus.
“Man on the Moon” by R.E.M. flouts the triple yeah by putting four in a row after every line in each verse.
Brand New’s “Sowing Season (Yeah)” unsurprisingly has a lot of Yeahs in it. Kind of like Yeah, Yeah…Yeah!..Yeah!..Yeah! So does “Yeah” by the Meices.
As a DJ, I liked to segue from the B-52’s “Dance This Mess Around” to “Uncontrollable Urge”… something like 58 “Yeah’s” in a row.
Louis Prima did a song entitled “Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!”. Possibly the earliest instance of this as a pop song title.
If you ever feel like wasting some time, try to figure out how many Beatles songs contain the words “yeah yeah yeah” (i.e., at least 3 “yeah”'s in a row with no other words between them).
And it sure wasn’t their ya-ya’s :eek:
In the Jerry Lewis movie The Patsy (1964), it features a scene where some backup singers (all played by Lewis) sing “Yeah, yeah, yeah!”
Roger Daltrey in Baba O’Riley.
I don’t need to be forgiven.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. yeah, yeah
Ghostbustershas “yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah” at 2.20