Oldies scat quiz

Subject: RE: Oldies scat quiz
From: keberoxu
Date: 05 Dec 19 - 09:41 PM

Dear heaven, this is a HOOT.

Worth refreshing.

And yes,
some of these
I have never heard of in all my born days.

I did, however, recognize
Chanson d'A- mou ou our   RRRRRRRAH ta-da, ta-da!

Subject: RE: Oldies scat quiz
From: Cool Beans
Date: 01 Sep 04 - 10:32 AM

The Royal Teens sang "Short Shorts."

Subject: RE: Oldies scat quiz
From:
Date: 31 Aug 04 - 04:24 PM

who wears short shorts who sang?

Subject: RE: Oldies scat quiz
From: rick-APX4a
Date: 07 Aug 04 - 07:26 PM

RangerSteve.
Who sang it? (Originally, I've still got the original recording! Isn't that sad?)

Subject: RE: Oldies scat quiz
From: Cool Beans
Date: 07 Aug 04 - 11:37 AM

Then you won't be wanting to e-mail your friend about any reruns of "Leave It To Beaver".

Subject: RE: Oldies scat quiz
From: Roger the Skiffler
Date: 07 Aug 04 - 06:44 AM

I tried to emial the answers to a friend in local govt. Rejected by their offensive word software! Either Little Darling or Seven Little Girls were the problem, I suspect!

RtS

Subject: RE: Oldies scat quiz
From: Cool Beans
Date: 04 Aug 04 - 10:48 AM

Yes, Tig, some are purely American; most were radio hits, a couple were pretty obscure. "Link Ting Tong" was a sort of undergbround hit because its refrain -- "eye simoke-um boon-dye yay" was in some quarteres misheard or interpreted as "I smoke-um boo all day."

Subject: RE: Oldies scat quiz
From: Tig
Date: 04 Aug 04 - 07:52 AM

Glad you put the answers up! I only managed an odd couple, The Badger took the quiz to his local and drove them mad with it as they argued about the possible answers.

Just one question - are some of them purely American in release as I had never even heard of them?

Subject: RE: Oldies scat quiz
From: Metchosin
Date: 03 Aug 04 - 10:40 AM

Oh dear....I got way too many of them. I also believe that #5 could be Purple People Eater, as well as Tutti Frutti, as I'm pretty certain that is what the little fellow says in the last line of the song as it fades out.

Subject: RE: Oldies scat quiz
From: PoppaGator
Date: 02 Aug 04 - 01:01 PM

Thanks for the answers. I had sent in my best guesses via PM -- only got a little more than half of 'em.

Jerry's right; despite the good job Cool Beans did in spelling out these nonsense syllables, there's no way to "read" the correct rhythm. Now that I see the answers for the ones I missed, a couple are songs I never knew or had forgotten, but more of them are songs I know well enopugh, but I didn't have the imagination to read the sylllables in the cortrect rhythm -- for example, # 10 Little Staar and #23 Speedo.

Well, it sure was fun, and I'm glad the the author made szome money on this endeavor elsewhere. (Sure wasn't going to make a profit here!)

Subject: RE: Oldies scat quiz
From: Cool Beans
Date: 02 Aug 04 - 11:20 AM

Here are the answers to the Oldies Scat Quiz.


1.        Oohwah Oohwah Oo-oo wa-ah Oohwah
                   "Why Do Fools Fall in Love?"
   
2.        Oo ee oo-ah-ah, ting tang walla-walla bing bang
                     "The Witch Doctor"

3.        Comma comma comma, comma com com a comma
                      "Handyman"
   
4.        Poppa umma mau mau
                      "Surfing Bird"

5.        A-BOP bop a loobop, ba lop bam boom
                   "Tutti Frutti"
   
6.        Be-doowee doowee doo, Be-dowee dowee doo, Be-doowee doowee doowee doo
             "Seven Little girls Sitting in the Back Seat"

7.        Hot dog dooley wah
             "Hot Dog Dooley Wah"

8.        Fe fe, fi fi, fo fo, fum
               "Charlie Brown"

9.        Lincoln Lincoln bo Bincoln, banana fana fo Fincoln
                "The Name Game"


10.        Woe-oh-oo-oh-woe, Rata tata tata too-oo-ooh
                  "Little Star"

11.        Eye simoke-um Boon dye yay, eye simoke-um boo.
                   "Ling Ting Tong"

12.        RAH ta-da, ta-da
                   "Chanson D'amour"

13.        Bahh ba-ba-bahh, ba ooomdap oomdap um wa-wa-wa
                     "Baby Talk"

14.        Doo-run-di, Rundi rundi, baba doo run
                   "I Met Him on Sunday"

15.        Ooh-wah, ooh-wah, cool cool kitty
                   "Boy From New York City"

16.        Umbah-ookah, Umbah-ookah
                      "Running Bear"

17.        Dom dom dom dom, dom-de-doody dom, wah wa wa wa-ah
                   "Come and Go With Me"

18.        Bum bum, hup-doo-waddy-waddy, Bum bum, hup-doo-waddy-waddy,
                   "Little Darlin' "

19.        Yip yip yip-yip-yip-yip-yip-yip, boom-oom-oom-oom-oom-oom
                     "Get a Job"

20.        Nee-nee nah-nah nah-nah noo-noo
                   "Nee Nee Na Na Na Na Nu Nu"

21.        Hey nonny ding-dong, a-ling a-ling a-ling
                   "Sh-Boom"

22.        BAH bu-bu-bah, Bu-BAH-bu-bu-bah, Buh dang-a-dong dang, Buh ding-a-dong ding
                      "Blue Moon"
                        
23.        Ba ba oom, ba ba Diddidip
                     "Speedoo"

24.        Doo-Lang, Doo-Lang Doo-Lang
                      "He's So Fine"

25.    Dom doobie doo dom dom, comma comma
                      "Breaking Up is Hard to Do"

26. Puppa Oom-mee-mee, Puppa Oom-mee-mee, Puppa Oom-mee-mee, Puppa Oom-mee-mee
                  "The Martian Hop"

27.        Imminy maa-maa-maa, Imminy maa-maa-maa
                   "Imagination"

Subject: RE: Oldies scat quiz
From: Tracey Dragonsfriend
Date: 02 Aug 04 - 04:00 AM

It's got our office making the most peculiar noises! Can't wait for the answers...

Subject: RE: Oldies scat quiz
From: Jeremiah McCaw
Date: 01 Aug 04 - 05:56 PM

You fergot:

ooh mau mau, ah-ah-ma ooh mau mau!

Lord, we are pitiful!

Subject: RE: Oldies scat quiz
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 01 Aug 04 - 04:02 AM

I'll get me coat
eric

Subject: RE: Oldies scat quiz
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 01 Aug 04 - 04:01 AM

Talking World War Three Blues ?

' Tell yer ma tell yer pa, our loves gonna grow owaa owaa '

Subject: RE: Oldies scat quiz
From: SINSULL
Date: 31 Jul 04 - 11:35 AM

Eric - How old are you? #1 is NOT Dylan but Frankie Lyman and the Teenagers.

Subject: RE: Oldies scat quiz
From: saulgoldie
Date: 31 Jul 04 - 10:49 AM

Great quiz! I can only get a few of them, but I am sure I will slap forehead (D'oh!) when I read the answers.

Subject: RE: Oldies scat quiz
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 31 Jul 04 - 10:28 AM

1. Bob Dylan
2....errrrrrr

bollocks to it, eric

Subject: RE: Oldies scat quiz
From: Cool Beans
Date: 31 Jul 04 - 10:25 AM

Mainly, have fun. There are no grades. I'll post the answers in a few days.
I sold this quiz to Games Magazine some years ago, but they published only 10 or 12 of the questions, then reprinted the 10-12 questions in a couple of their anthologies; it was also re-published in an airline magazine. I got paid every time so I'm not complaining. I stumbled upon it in my computer the other day; this is the first time the quiz has appeared in its entirety.

Subject: RE: Oldies scat quiz
From: SINSULL
Date: 31 Jul 04 - 09:05 AM

My favorite?
Shudupandshobydo
shudupandshobywo
shudupandshobywo
shudupandshobywooooo

In the still of ther night....



And:
Whoooo -ooo-ooo-ooo
ooo-ooo-ooo
bedupidooo

Desiree

Subject: RE: Oldies scat quiz
From: fat B****rd
Date: 31 Jul 04 - 04:24 AM

A Rubber Biscuit !?!?

Subject: RE: Oldies scat quiz
From: Joe Offer
Date: 30 Jul 04 - 10:30 PM

Gee, I'm amazed at how many of these I know.
-Joe Offer, who believes his real calling is doo-wop-

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Subject: RE: Oldies scat quiz
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 30 Jul 04 - 10:06 PM

Hey, jimmy! Between us, we should be able to get all of these... I can only get half, or a little over, by myself..

Jerry

Subject: RE: Oldies scat quiz
From: jimmyt
Date: 30 Jul 04 - 09:42 PM

As a bassman in a do-wop group, I get to sing most of these!!! But darn, it sure beats memorising all those words you folk singers have to contend with!

Subject: RE: Oldies scat quiz
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 30 Jul 04 - 09:18 PM

Well, Hoola-poppa cow pa pa!

I PM'd you Cool. Some of these I find hard because without the rhythm (which sometimes is inherent in the nonsense syllables, some of these babies go right over my head. I can get about half of them.

Jerry

Subject: RE: Oldies scat quiz
From: nutty
Date: 30 Jul 04 - 08:11 PM

I must have led a very sheltered life .... the only one I know for sure is number 2.

Subject: RE: Oldies scat quiz
From: PoppaGator
Date: 30 Jul 04 - 08:08 PM

Besides "The Shoop Shoop Song," here are a couple of other scat-titles:

"Da Doo Ron Ron" ("Met him on a sunday and my heart stood still")

"Rama Lama Ding Dong" (Two different songs with this title, actually: the original tongue-in-cheek song was uptempo, "I've got a girl named Rama Lama lama lama lama ding-dong..." -- written by one of the Brill Building regulars, a guy who usually wrote with his wife, I'm forgetting their names. And then there's the slow and much more impassioned almost-all-scat RLDD performed by Otis Day and the Knights in the movie "Animal House.")

Subject: RE: Oldies scat quiz
From: RangerSteve
Date: 30 Jul 04 - 07:59 PM

A personal favorite:

shoop shoop shoop shoop shoop shoop shoop}
If you want to know if he loves you so   } it's in his kiss.

it doesn't get much easier than that. Oddly enough, it's called the Shoop Shoop Song.

Subject: RE: Oldies scat quiz
From: BuckMulligan
Date: 30 Jul 04 - 07:39 PM

It is sad indeed, I think I know most of them too, but where's
"Oo-ga-chaka, oo-ga-chaka"?

Subject: RE: Oldies scat quiz
From: Leadfingers
Date: 30 Jul 04 - 07:33 PM

I dont think I will bother as things like this depress me at my age .
I feel a bit like Marvin the paranoid android - The diodes down my left side are really painful tonight . A brain the size of a planet and we get Quizzes on Bloody pop Music !!!

Subject: RE: Oldies scat quiz
From: Amos
Date: 30 Jul 04 - 07:31 PM

Who let us be raised on such nonsense? What irresponsibility!! Ommpowpowmoppa ompowpow!!

A

Subject: RE: Oldies scat quiz
From: PoppaGator
Date: 30 Jul 04 - 07:27 PM

I think the proper procedure is to PM the quizmaster, so as to avoid giving each other our answers. I'm gonna start now.

Subject: RE: Oldies scat quiz
From: PoppaGator
Date: 30 Jul 04 - 06:25 PM

Me too -- are we supposed to keep quiet for a while and not give anything away?

Subject: RE: Oldies scat quiz
From: SINSULL
Date: 30 Jul 04 - 06:01 PM

Sad, isn't it? I think I know most of them.

Subject: RE: Oldies scat quiz
From: greg stephens
Date: 30 Jul 04 - 05:49 PM

Excellent quiz. I'll not answer a lot right away, let everyone have a think. But I guess i6 is Running Bear.

Subject: Oldies scat quiz
From: Cool Beans
Date: 30 Jul 04 - 05:42 PM

With which oldie-but-goodie do we associate the following nonsense phrases:

1. Oohwah Oohwah Oo-oo wa-ah Oohwah
2. Oo ee oo-ah-ah, ting tang walla-walla bing bang
3. Comma comma comma, comma com com a comma   
4. Poppa umma mau mau
5. A-BOP bop a loobop, ba lop bam boom
6. Be-doowee doowee doo, Be-dowee dowee doo, Be-doowee doowee doowee doo
7. Hot dog dooley wah
8. Fe fe, fi fi, fo fo, fum
9. Lincoln Lincoln bo Bincoln, banana fana fo Fincoln
10. Woe-oh-oo-oh-woe, Rata tata tata too-oo-ooh
11. Eye simoke-um Boon dye yay, eye simoke-um boo.
12. RAH ta-da, ta-da
13. Bahh ba-ba-bahh, ba ooomdap oomdap um wa-wa-wa
14. Doo-run-di, Rundi rundi, baba doo run
15. Ooh-wah, ooh-wah, cool cool kitty
16. Umbah-ookah, Umbah-ookah
17. Dom dom dom dom, dom-de-doody dom, wah wa wa wa-ah
18. Bum bum, hup-doo-waddy-waddy, Bum bum, hup-doo-waddy-waddy,
19. Yip yip yip-yip-yip-yip-yip-yip, boom-oom-oom-oom-oom-oom
20. Nee-nee nah-nah nah-nah noo-noo
21. Hey nonny ding-dong, a-ling a-ling a-ling
22. BAH bu-bu-bah, Bu-BAH-bu-bu-bah, Buh dang-a-dong dang, Buh ding-a-dong ding
23. Ba ba oom, ba ba Diddidip
24. Doo-Lang, Doo-Lang Doo-Lang
25. Dom doobie doo dom dom, comma comma
26. Puppa Oom-mee-mee, Puppa Oom-mee-mee, Puppa Oom-mee-mee, Puppa Oom-mee-mee
27. Imminy maa-maa-maa, Imminy maa-maa-maa