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Is this the best 'Novelty' song ever?
Posted by Gramsci on 29 September 2009 - 4:54pm.
Or is there such a thing?
I say yes to both questions?
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wasn't it oddly
the theme music for a porn film too?
Not quite Porn
but
"Mah Nà Mah Nà" debuted as part of Umiliani's soundtrack for the Italian mondo film Svezia, inferno e paradiso (Sweden: Heaven and Hell) (1968), a pseudo-documentary about wild sexual activity and other behavior in Sweden. The song accompanied a scene in the film set in a sauna."
from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mah_N%C3%A0_Mah_N%C3%A0
It's on YouTube
Here is Mah Na Mah Na as featured in Svezia, inferno e paradiso
Jim Henson
and his work is just about as close to perfect as you can get
Buddy Rich vs Animal
Can't resist posting this again. The only extended drum solo I'll listen to throughout:
Jim Henson was one of the good people of this world...
he gave so much genuine pleasure to people. I wish he was still around.
can you imagine
a) an itv kids programme and B) and one that had Dizzie Gillespie or Rudolf Nureyev on it now a days (or their equivalent).
Novelty Songs
Have a large collection - some strange desire to own as many as possible.
Favourites include:
Mah Na Mah Na
Captain Beaky & His Band
Right Said Fred (Bernard Cribbins)
My Brother (Terry Scott)
Star Trekkin (Firm)
Arthur Daley (E's Alright)(Firm)
Floral Dance (Terry Wogan)
Bucket of Water Song (Tiswas)
Best (in my opinion at the moment) is John Shuttleworth I Can't Go Back To Savoury Now
Quite sad my life really!
I occasionally,
and for no reason other than I'm an idiot, put an extra sylla-ma-ble into words at random, just to get a laugh, or (more often) a strange look.
Thus, for example, Avocado becomes ava-ma-cado
Education becomes edu-ma-cation, and
Vegetarian becomes vege-ma-tarian. I'm sure you've all heard some wacky individual do this at some point.
Anyway, best of all is when I do it to the word Banana...
Edu-ma-cation
is a phrase I've used myself (nicked it from Popeye).
The adding of an extra, unnecessary 'ma' in the middle of words is absolutely fan-ma-tastic.
Tmesis without swearing, which is what I usually hear (at least where I used to work - f***ing was used as a pro-noun, verb, in the middle of words and also as a pause marker)
So Popeye started it all!
Now I know. And I abso-bloody-lutely love Tmesis!