FW: Antedating of "Yada Yada"

[Baker, John]

The difference is that in Sh-Boom these are just nonsense words, while in the Allegro song and Jim Dandy "yatata yatata yatata" has the same meaning as the modern "yada yada."
 
 
John Baker
 

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Subject: Antedating of "Yada Yada"



"Shhh-Boom," a popular Crew Cuts (?) song of the early 1950s, had the lyrics, "yadada yadada yadada yadada boom shi-boom, life could be a dream, sweetheart!" (Who says rap lyrics are a sign that modern youth are brain dead?)
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