The Da Da Da Post

[muckefuck]

1. The Numa Numa Song
2. The Shoop-Shoop Song
3. The "Umlaut" Song
4. The Whumpa-Whumpa Song
5. The Yip Song

How many of these can you give the full actual titles for? How many more examples can you add?

Comments

[bitterlawngnome.livejournal.com]

Does "Germn Bold Italic" fit?

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

What's its nickname?

[snowy-owlet.livejournal.com]

Hey, I know The Umlaut Song! I even remember having an entire conversation about it with you. And yet, because of my mighty Song Forgetting Skills, I cannot name the full title.

[niemandsrose.livejournal.com]

"M-na M-na!"

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

Doot doo doo doot-doot!

(The actual full title is, of course, "Mnah Mnah".)

[my-tallest.livejournal.com]

I've found it as Mahna Mahna. But stories (http://www.livejournal.com/talkread.bml?journal=my_tallest&itemid=106792) vary. ITunes has it as Mahna Mahna off of albums, so you'd think they'd get it right.

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

Isn't the data in iTunes a mix of what was encoded into albums and what was input by users for albums without such data? Even that supplied by the CD manufacturers themselves is hardly perfectly trustworthy. (For instance, I apparently own a disc by C&W legend "jhonny cash".)

[my-tallest.livejournal.com]

Ah, GraceNote (tm). A step up from the old ugliness of Napster Naming, but it's certainly no IMDB.

Why the Internet eventually gave us one IMDB, but ten thousand lyric services, I'd like to know.

[owenthomas.livejournal.com]

#2 is "It's In His Kiss," but doesn't every gay man know that?

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

Thanks to cpratt, you have your answer and it is "No".

[juniperesque.livejournal.com]

The actual title for that one is "The Shoop Shoop Song." Isn't that truth in marketing at its best?

[owenthomas.livejournal.com]

It's been released under both titles, actually.

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

Tell me about it! Web searches brought up "It's In His Kiss (The Shoop-Shoop Song)" and "The Shoop-Shoop Song (It's In His Kiss)" in about equal measure. The earliest attestations (i.e. Billboard hit charts from 1964) seem to favour the latter, but short of finding a piece of sheet music in Rudy Clark's handwriting, I don't think I can give a definitive answer.

[cpratt.livejournal.com]

#1 is Dragostea din tei, Moldova's only Western pop hit that I'm aware of. The others... I've never heard of. German Bold Italic is Kylie Minogue with Towa Tei, though.

[juniperesque.livejournal.com]

And what about the Da Da Da song?

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

That song is actually titled "Da Da Da".

..that's all I want to say to you.

[my-tallest.livejournal.com]

As was "De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da" by the Police.

[bunj.livejournal.com]

Here's an easy one: "Boing, boom-chack".

Most of your list I either haven't heard, or, sadly, can't decipher.

[cpratt.livejournal.com]

Or, rather, Boing Boom Tschak. :)

[bunj.livejournal.com]

Oh sure, make it easy for everybody. I was translating it into English.