Name a song where the lyrics include random gibberish.

[DetlefK]

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The Trashmen / Surfin Bird

Scatman John / Scatman

EDIT:
Found another good one:
Claude McLin / Jambo

[dhol82]

1. Louie, Louie

Also, the Trololo Man Song

[rogerashton]

2. Minnie the Moocher

Cab Calloway, the heidy-ho guy.

[hlthe2b]

3. John Lennon: Dream

Somebody call out my name (John)
As it started to rain
Two spirits dancing so strange
Ah! Bowakawa, pousse pousse
Ah! Bowakawa, pousse pousse
Ah! Bowakawa, pousse pousse


(When asked what the latter meant, Lennon said it meant nothing but that it came to him in a dream).

[chuckstevens]

4. It's the End of the World: REM

[hlthe2b]

11. Maybe I am remembering it wrong, but I don't remember a "jibberish" segment

Can you refresh my memory?

[MiltonBrown]

5. Most every doo wop song has giberish lyrics. This is among the earliest:

[no_hypocrisy]

6. Witch Doctor

[YvonneCa]

64. Thanks for the ...

...trip down memory lane. 😄

[unc70]

7. Lion Sleeps Tonight

Thought of it and Witch Doctor together

[MiltonBrown]

8. Going to see (what's left of) this group in about a week. Jay Siegel's Tokens anyway.

Have loved 'Lion Sleeps Tonight' since I was a kid in the 1970s.

[NBachers]

9. And of course, the pompitus of love.

[unc70]

10. Tutti Frutti

[dewsgirl]

12. JJ Fad Supersonic

[yankeepants]

13. Good Morning Starshine by Oliver

Gliddy Glop Gloopy Nibby Nobby Nooby...(or something like that)...

[sarge43]

14. WKRP credit song

[MiltonBrown]

19. Really good one!

[sarge43]

20. Thanks

Well, the OP wanted gibberish.

[MiltonBrown]

21. It almost sounds like words lol

Always loved that ending song for WKRP- a real rocker!

[Shrek]

15. "The Name Game"

[NRaleighLiberal]

16. Most any song by Cocteau Twins, esp early career

[dawg]

66. Took me a few listens to Treasure to realize she was singing gibberish.

At first, I thought she was just being very, very Scottish.

[sl8]

17. Swingin' The Alphabet

[TlalocW]

37. Three Stooges - Curly - Sounds that Curly made fits the bill, hence

Curly's Pants by Corky and the Juice Pigs.

TlalocW

[samnsara]

18. (I met the) witchdoctor...

[mahatmakanejeeves]

52. See post #50.

Sorry, I didn't see yours first.

[Doc_Technical]

22. Cab Calloway- Minnie the Moocher

[MiltonBrown]

23. Louis Armstrong Heebie Jeebies

I read that when recording this song, the lyric sheet blew away and Louis had to improvise vocals to the rest of the song. Not sure if true but he does turn to gibberish at the end.

[malthaussen]

24. Donald Trump singing the National Anthem. n/t

[Pope George Ringo II]

81. Sad, but true.

[MissMillie]

25. Straight Up -- Paula Abdul

"bup bup ba bup bup bup bup ba ba"

[sl8]

26. Eep Opp Ork Ah-Ah

Original:

And a cover:

[redstateblues]

27. Be Bop a Lula- Gene Vincent

[MiltonBrown]

28. Somewhere there is video footage of Steve Allen reciting this song as a poem.

Hilarious!

[mahatmakanejeeves]

47. Right here:

[MiltonBrown]

67. ROFL!!!

Last time I tried to find that clip it wasn't on there. Thanks for posting truly laughed and laughed.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

69. Steve Allen had a good TV show. My pleasure. NT

[red dog 1]

48. I remember watching that show (possibly a re-run)

I think it was the old Tonight Show, but it could have been The Steve Allen Show, which Steve did after he left The Tonight Show (Syndicated show in the 1960s)

[John1956PA]

29. Blue Swede's 1974 cover of "Hooked on a Feeling" gave us "Uga Chaka." n/t

[BarbaRosa]

30. Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo

[shanny]

31. Obla di obla da

[MiltonBrown]

32. Here are 2 where the lyrics are almost all gibberish

[MiltonBrown]

33. Ooops on the first one!

Meant to post this one

[mahatmakanejeeves]

53. Yeah, I was wondering about that. I had no problem listening to Bob Wills. NT

[RandomAccess]

85. LOL -- Yeah, I was going to tell you to get the peanut butter out of your ears

[catrose]

34. Na na na na

hey hey hey
good-bye

]

[Elgin]

35. IN A GADDA DA VIDA

By Iron Butterfly

[Codeine]

36. The entire Cocteau Twins catalog. nt

[TlalocW]

38. Uncle Bonsai's, "Cheerleaders on Drugs"

TlalocW

[Glorfindel]

39. Here's a favorite of mine

[Dulcinea]

40. The Police - De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da

[DBoon]

41. a small package of considerable value will come to you shortly

Jefferson airplane

[Dave Starsky]

42. Hocus Pocus by Focus

[MrScorpio]

43. Funny story:

There was this period in Italian culture when they would go nuts over any kind of American music, despite the fact that much of the country wasn’t proficient in English.

So one artist got the idea to make a song that sounded as if it was in English to untrained Italian ears, but instead was completely gibberish.

He did this to prove a point, of course, which he did. The song shot up the Italian pop charts like a rocket.

[gratuitous]

44. Torn on which version to post, but Iko Iko

I'll let Dr. John do the honors:

[gratuitous]

72. Or some other New Orleans-flavored funk gibberish

Take it away, Meters:

[red dog 1]

45. I Am the Walrus - The Beatles

"Goo goo g'joob"

[mahatmakanejeeves]

46. Spike Jones, "Hawaiian War Chant"

[mahatmakanejeeves]

49. You pretty much have to end the thread with Surfin' Bird.

I mean, compared to that, what else is there?

[mahatmakanejeeves]

50. Witch Doctor

[hurl]

83. Fun trivia

Ross Bagdasarian, creator of the Chipmunks, was the songwriter/piano player character in Hitchcock's Rear Window.

[hurl]

51. Fantomas - Book 1: Page 11

Mike Patton vocals

[hurl]

54. New Jersey Scum Swamp - Naked City

Vocals by Yamantaka Eye of the Boredoms

[DemocracyMouse]

55. No Time by The Monkees

NO TIME
The Monkees

[Ode to Trump!!!]

(Sung by the brilliant Mickey Dolenz)

Hober reeber sabasoben
Hobaseeba snick
Seeberraber hobosoben
What did you expect?

No time, no time for you
I got no time, baby
Got lots of better things to do

Runnin' from the risin' heat
To find a place to hide
The grass is always greener
Growin' on the other side

No time, no time for you
I got no time, baby
Got lots of better things to do

No time, no time for you
I got no time, baby
Got lots of better things to do

No time, no time for you
I got no time, baby
Got lots of better things to do

(RIP Davey Jones!)

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[hurl]

56. Sundome - Battles

More vocals by Yamantake Eye. If you don't have the patience to sit through 8 minutes that start slow, at least pick up at about 4:15 for an epic groove.

[rickford66]

57. Most vocal music has unintelligible words today.

Random gibberish to me.

[Brother Buzz]

58. The Hut Sut Song

Leo Killion, an attorney from my childhood town, wrote this song on a lark. It was his only venture into music. He received a royalty check for it for over seventy years, some times a whopping ten, twelve dollars a year.

[bobbieinok]

59. Maizy dotes and dozy dotes

Popular in 40s. Think people (like my older cousins) sang this as a parody of some pop song.

[llmart]

74. My mother used to sing this to me.

She was born in 1911. I thought it was a play on "Mares eat oats, and does eat oats, but little lambs eat ivy. A kid will eat ivy too, wouldn't you?"

[bobbieinok]

86. Yes. That was the song I heard it was a parody of

[lisa58]

60. The Beatles - Across the Universe

[DFW]

61. The Riddle--Nik Kershaw

As I understand the story, he had the melody but hadn't made up lyrics yet. He just started singing nonsense to the instrumental track of the tune to see how it sounded with a vocal. It sounded so good, they just went with the lines he made up.

Pretty creative nonsense!

I got two strong arms
Blessings of Babylon
Time to carry on and try
For sins and false alarms
So to America the brave
Wise men save

Near a tree by a river
There's a hole in the ground
Where an old man of iron
Goes around and around
And his mind is a beacon
In the veil of the night
For a strange kind of fashion
There's a wrong and a right
But he'll never, never fight over you

[lkinwi]

62. Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

https://m.

[longship]

63. Come on DUers, you cannot forget this one.

Mahna, Mahna!

(The Sesame Street original.)

Inspired lunacy from the genius of Jim Henson's troup.

[jpak]

65. ...

[sakabatou]

68. LIVE in Baghdad

[Proud Liberal Dem]

70. She-Bop by Cyndi Lauper

[lpbk2713]

71. The Boxer -- Simon & Garfunkel

Lie la lie, lie la la la lie lie
Lie la lie, lie la la la la lie la la lie

[llmart]

73. I have absolutely no idea what the song is or who sang it but these are true gibberish!

Oooh, eeee, oooh ah ah, bing, bang, walla, walla bing bang
Oooh, eeee, oooh ah ah, bing bang, walla walla, bing bang.

[llmart]

75. I don't know if this is gibberish...

but in the '60's we came up with our own words for one part of the Stones" "I Can't Get No Satisfaction"

[LuvLoogie]

76. Las Ketchup!

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[LisaM]

77. Yeah, so for me, it would be "Piano Man".

I've never, ever gone to the bar and ordered a "tonic and gin" (and I never will).

[LuvLoogie]

78. I gotta beep a gunk a chucha...

[LuvLoogie]

79. I wanna kiss you on your...

[LiberalLoner]

80. Get Out of My House - Kate Bush

Eyeore like a donkey...

[LuvLoogie]

82. What are words worth?...

[MyOwnPeace]

84. The legend - Frank Sinatra!

"Strangers in the Night!"

"do-be-do-be-doooooo, da-do-be-do-do.............etc, etc!!!!!!