What do you prefer?

I was having coffee with friends the other night/morning, and a song came on that struck up the question, "What do you prefer, Na Na's, Da da's, Bow bow's, or La la's?" Or is there another one that you prefer to hear in music?

"da va da va da"s. :)

(says the vocal jazz singer)

the occasional "skwee-bop" or "bowwww...." (it's gotta trail off at the end!)

I think I'm a na na person. Sometimes la la. Da das do noting for me.

I've often wanted to make a little snippet sound file stringing all the "na na"s and "la la"s I knew together. I was compiling a song list for a long time. But I got distracted and it never happened and now I've lost my song lists. :)

I prefer to hear words, myself. I leave the utterances to boy bands and beatniks.

The "Swingle Singers" might have resented that remark. But then, Bach might have given you the thumbs up for it and referred it to the swingle singers.

The blues singer says
oO yeah yeah yeah Oo
and a "da va" here and there!
~J~

Of the ones you mentioned, I'm definitely a na na person... however, were I to choose on my own, I tend to go with dai dai or lai lai.

rai di dai.

i hate you guys. :)

I like shik-a na na, shik-a na nas personally! And shalalalala, an old favorite. Don't forget heidy-heidy hos!!!

i dunno, i'm not opposed to the occasional fiddle dee dee di dee...
however, give me some bowm-chicka bow bowmp any day
;)

o/` heidi-heidi-heidi-heidi-heidi-heidi-hi....
(heidi-heidi-heidi-heidi-heidi-heidi-hi....)
hodi-hodi-hodi-hodi-hodi-hodi-ho...
(hodi-hodi-hodi-hodi-hodi-hodi-ho...)
skoodley-boo, skoodley-boo, skoodley-boodley-boodley-boo...
(skoodley-boo, skoodley-boo, skoodley-boodley-boodley-boo...)

(sorry, I don't think I can translate the last line into words without a day or so to work on it... which makes an otherwise interesting post look kinda lame... ok, I'm done :-P)

-- Pauley

brain fart. what the heck is that from?

Damn you, you earwormed me. Whats worse, I can't find the song. I know its on one of my reel to reel tapes, somewhere. Came out somewhere in the early sixties.

I bet I could get it for you, Pauley. ;)

ya dai dai
lai dai dai
and a chiri-biri-bim

I'm a chim-chim-cheree man myself...

good little Jewgirls that we are :)

Eric Cartman: Kyle, all those times I called you a stupid Jew, I didn't mean it. You're not a Jew.

Kyle Broflovski: Yes I am, Cartman! I AM a Jew!

Eric Cartman: No, no, don't be so hard on yourself.

hehehehe... south park movie ;)

frankly, most of us preferred the piranhas.

heh. it depends. usually it's doo-doo-doo's or ba-da's or something similar, but if i'm singing opera and i can't remember the words, i make up italian phonetic sounds or something. y'know. nonsense that *sounds* italian :D

that's kinda what the french do too.. they call it "french".
they think it's, like, an actual language or something.

sheesh.

Those silly Frenchies. :^P

See Nate, I think its actually more sinister than that. See, they *know* that it's not a language, but they can't let on because they have to maintain the illusion that they are smarter than the anglophones. It's a conspiracy!
As for the Canadians, I suspect that they are not in on the French conspiracy and actually believe that it is a language, but they don't understand it... yet they can't let on because they have to maintain the image that they are smarter than Americans, so they speak "French" to each other when Americans are around, and when we're not in earshot they explain what they meant to each other in English because they have no idea what they've just said.

oi. don't diss the french, yo ;)

Ahh.. that explains a lot.
I didn't know the conspiracy went so deep!

Ahh the french.... what can't you say about the french? My family was french way way back, but as an American, I'm sure they spoke English, just as everyone else in the world does. :D I love being an American just so I can make fun of us, we really are close minded bastards sometimes. *Sigh* I wish I was Canadian. I should write a song about wishing I was Canadian... except then someone from the FBI will probably show up and think I'm a Canadian terrorist... Yes, never mind. OHH! Dave Foley on News Radio. "I didn't tell anyone I was from Canada because.. I thought they'd think I was a Canadian spy...."

OMG! Gella's caught on to us, fellow Canadians. This is serious. Alert the Prime Minister. You may have to wake him up, but alert him anyway. Or alert his wife. She's the only one who knows what's going on anyway. We'll have to stop speaking "French" to each other and pick a new second language. Any ideas?

I'm partial to Esperanto.

Also, Gella's theory explains why I can no longer communicate with my family except through grunting and vulgar gesturing! Thank you, Gella! :D

We can make up our own language, it really doesn't matter just so long as we can look smarter than Americans:)

That shouldn't be too hard... speaking as an american.

What do you think of "Dun dum da dum da, da, da?"

Or Bum bada, bahdy bahdy, boom?

"Na Na Na..." for Hey Jude

"la la la..." for backing vocals

most other "da da" "do do" la la"s  that are actually part of the main vocals of a song i think of as just a lame excuse not to write lyics or a good intrumental solo...case in point...that one song of Jian's with the "la la la" after the chorus (can't think of the title at the moment). I do emphasize MOST becasue i'm sure there are some great exceptions...but my brain just farted....