zipadeedoodah
 

My wife asked about this song and I said immediately it came from the Disney film 'Pinnochio'. It seems it didn't but why do I remember that? And I'm not the only one.

Wrong movie, right producer. It's from Song of the South, which I saw in a drive-in when I was little. A somewhat problematic film now.

Now, *there's* an understatement! ;)

Yes, I know it's from 'Song of the South' but where did I hear it? I've never seen 'Song of the South'.

Well, it won an Academy Award for "Best Song," and I'm sure its use has been disambiguated from the film many times (commercials etc.). I saw Song of the South when I was quite young -- probably on its re-release in 1986 -- but I'm sure I knew the song even before that.

The song was ubiquitous when I was a kid, in the 1950's and early 1960's, John.

Nemo

You heard it at a party at somebody else's house in the late 80's - I'm not exactly sure of the time - and hummed it, and did little else, for several weeks.

Anything else of similar nature I can help you with, just ask.

You could have heard any number of renditions on the radio. The Wikipedia entry on the song lists more that 30 performers who have recorded it, from Louis Armstrong to Miley Cyrus. The Hollies, Freddy and the Dreamers, and the Dave Clark Five all did versions back in the Sixties.

The song is here.

— Woody

Somehow the idea of The Dave Clark Five doing Zipadeedoodah is exquisitely ludicrous. But it has to be one of the more insidiously catchy tunes ever perpetrated on impressionable young minds.

The old guy in movie clip sounds like he’s lip-synching Bing Crosby.

The Dave Clark Five were themselves exquisitely ludicrous with their ridiculous suits and minimal talents. What became of them? No. I don't want to know.

Best not.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T46jDHiGhF0

But at least they replaced "satisfactual" with "satisfactory".

Ann, that is truly vile. What was that stuff about Brits leading the world in pop back then?

Love the hmmmming birds in the original!

Nemo

The Lennon Sisters
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Soj1Kin1bcs

The Shirelles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2mfdBxKANo

The Easternaires
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kacnlH-Pckg

Toots and The Maytals
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLeKUMQcBRA

Sun Ra
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVR5sFIPbg0

Music Box
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHYDOt2GLds

It seems to have been covered from every imaginable angle!

Nemo

Sun Ra did a cover?!? There are days when I listen to nothing but Sun Ra.

(BTW, he ties Wallace Stevens in the Best Titles category.)

But he was a nattier dresser.

Nemo