ka-ching / ca-ching (1970)

[Victor Steinbok]

OED ka-ching 1980 --> 1970

Only one GB hit for "ca-ching", but it's a good one, complete with a
mental cash register.

http://goo.gl/3OtBD
Billboard. September 26, 1970
Tomorrow. By Ed Ochs. p. 82/1
> I was thinking of calling Crippled Paddy Sanders when this knock on my
> door. "How's the music business!" he yodeled, boasting like a
> wonderful Jewish shopkeeper. Open all day sever days a week fifty-two
> weeks a year. "I know what you mean," he said, part-Irish, part-Yankee
> he is, reading my eyes sympathetically. And already into the hall and
> past the kitchen: "Business is business." Is business, I added inside.
> In his mind, he mournfully greedily fingered the coin of the realm,
> fed the inanimate bread into the machine, a metalic ring--ca-ching! It
> takes up all your time, too busy.

     VS-)

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