[78-L] Yummy, yummy, yummy [cont]

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"Yummy Yummy Yummy" (the song's actual name) did appear in a Monty Python episode, but despite the credit in that episode to "Jackie Charlton and the Tonettes", that group doesn't exist; it is actually by The Ohio Express, who had the major hit with it. It was written (and sung) by Joey Levine, who worked on a lot of records for the Kasenetz-Katz production team that made so many bubblegum hits.

Bubblegum gets little respect today but was an important force in sixties pop, and the genre encompasses a ton of great records, as good as or bettern than a lot of the "serious" music by "real groups" (many of whom used similar assemblages of studio musicians and songwriters too).



----- Original Message -----
From: "Steven C. Barr" <stevenc at interlinks.net>
To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Sent: Saturday, June 6, 2009 7:09:42 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific
Subject: Re: [78-L] Yummy, yummy, yummy [cont]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Harkin" <harkinmike at yahoo.com>
> I  THOUGHT Yummy Yummy Yummy was Monty Python -- local Bulgarian channel 
> is running MPFC, and it was in yesterday's episode, along with How not to 
> be seen, Crackpot Religions, and Conquistador Coffee....  'Twas backdrop 
> for end titles, perfomred by a groupd of various-sized packing cases.  Be
> "interesting" to know what they are parodying....  Except that in the case 
> of Rock and Roll it would be hard to parody somehing that's already a
> travesty, or so bad it's a parody of itself.
>
The only "Yummy, Yummy, "Yummy" I know of was actually titled "...Yummy, I 
Got Love In My Tummy"
and was part of a dubious rock genre known as "Bubblegum" (named after the 
favourite treat of its rather-
young fans...?!)!! Keep in mind that EVERY musical genre has its 
embarrassments; the only possible use
for "Bubblegum" music would be as a soundtrack for a parody! Even the "Swing 
Era" gave us "Mairzy
Doats" and "Three Little Fishies"...?!

...stevenc 

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