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

[David Lennick]

Well put! Now where's my copy of that great Lawrence Welk cover version of 
"Green Tambourine".......

dl

fnarf at comcast.net wrote:
> "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).
> 
> 
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Steven C. Barr" <stevenc at interlinks.net>
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> ----- 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 
>