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To: Kathy in Alaska

"Yakety Yak" - The Coasters

53 posted on 05/02/2024 7:30:32 PM PDT by Songcraft ( )
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To: Songcraft
This is the German version of "Yakety Yak." The lyrics have nothing in common with the Coasters' version. I haven't been able to translate the whole song because I can't make out all of the words, but the first verse takes place in Madrid, Spain and the second in Zermatt Switzerland. In the third, the singer goes to a show and sees a girl who resembles the French actress Brigitte Bardot.

The song illustrates how young Germans were picking up English expressions in the late 1950s.

Jakety Jak--Billy Sanders (1958)

75 posted on 05/02/2024 8:48:30 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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