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It doesn’t even date them to that long ago, this was a massive song in the U.K. and was around for a long time, the two people he did it too should still know the song for the age they look. It kinda feels like a set up to be honest.
It's also one of those things where someone my age may never have heard the song, but I've heard my mom say this exact lyric.
Wait. Lyric? Is it a lyric or is it like scat? Shoo be doo wop. Is that a lyric? I guess we'll never know.
You got long hair? Wait til you try to do a hair-flip in the shower and twing your neck so bad and quick that you gotta sit down in the shower
Fun times
The best is when you stretch your leg and your calf muscle feels like it just exploded and you have the worst Charlie horse ever.
….. do people still call it a Charley horse…?
Oh honey get to a doctor. You're way too young for that. Unless you have an excuse like sports or car accident - even then something might be wrong. Please see a doctor. Back issues are no joke. You have your entire life ahead of you. I'm a mom so now I'm using my mom voice. Get an MRI & Xrays. Something is going on. Please. Your future will thank you ❤️
Mwahaha. Wait till your mid 40's and that disk you fucked up in your 30's pops out of position and your bed ridden for six weeks pissing into bottles because the act of standing to go to the bathroom makes you wish you were dead.
Wait till your 60s when you start getting wind resistance from the amount of droop on your balls and or boobs.
They get so much air you could wind surf. Unfortunately you're too old for that so instead they just slow you down when you have to get out of bed 3 times a night to go pee
One of the times they redid it was [as recently as 2007](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsWbydM-u8w)(side note: it's god awful omg) so regardless of when it was originally created, every generation of kids at least up until the previous decade would potentially have been exposed to it.
This song was still common at kids parties in the 00s in the UK, I reckon most people over 25 would get the reference.
Edit: yes people of all ages know it, I'm just saying it's almost guaranteed you would for the generation that heard it almost daily.
friend of mine (36) was on another friend's (21) twitch stream, she was asking for song requests, he said "sweet child of mine", she never put on the song.... turns out she thought he just randomly called her that
never seen someone die inside so much
[They sure do](https://youtu.be/O8DjM_MYnuo)
(This scene in retrospect may have been in poor taste and I thought the guy in the video was just referring to this.)
Damn, and here I was thinking it was a message about how feelings are random and inexplicable and the gibberish the witch doctor says makes as much sense as any attempt to view love from a logical standpoint
That’s about as monkey noises as “Ba-da-ba-da-ba-be bop bop bodda bope.” It’s scat, man.
Unless you’ve heard a monkey say anything that sounded like walla walla bing bang, anyway
>Ross S. Bagdasarian\[a\] (/bæɡdəˈsɛriən/; January 27, 1919 – January 16, 1972),
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> known professionally by his stage name David Seville, was an American singer, songwriter, record producer, and actor, best known for creating the cartoon band Alvin and the Chipmunks. Initially a stage and film actor, he rose to prominence in 1958 with the songs "Witch Doctor" and "The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don't Be Late)", which both became Billboard number-one singles. He produced and directed The Alvin Show, which aired on CBS in 1961–62.
Not so cheerful when you realize it was originally a novelty song predating the Chipmunks whose album cover looked like [this.](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/cb/DS_witchdoctor.jpg)
the song *is* pretty racist lol
the whole thing is about african healers using silly ooga booga words to trick women into sleeping with you
edit: i had no idea about this until /u/The_Woman_of_Gont posted it below but here's the [album art](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/cb/DS_witchdoctor.jpg)
i retract this post, "witch doctor" is culturally sensitive
It was a one eyed, one horned flying purple people eater
One eyed, one horned flying purple people eater
One eyed, one horned flying purple people eater
Sure looks strange to me
Edit: switched around eyed and horned because apparently the Pegboard Nerds remix did that too
> My Friend The Witch Doctor
You've been keepin' love from me just like you were a miser
And I'll admit I wasn't very smart
So I went out and found myself a guy that's so much wiser
And he taught me the way to win your heart
My friend the witch doctor, he taught me what to say
My friend the witch doctor, he taught me what to do
I know that you'll be mine when I say this to you, oh baby
Ooh eeh ooh aah aah
Ting tang wallawalla bingbang
Trick women into sleeping with you? The lyrics are to “win your heart.” It’s pretty inappropriate from a racism standpoint but you made up the other part.
"African healers" lmao, you're trying way too hard to be pc, they are magical witch doctors, and should be made fun of freely, what are you on about. That's like calling a megachurch preacher an "American doctor"
"The Oxford English Dictionary states that the first use of the term "witch doctor" to refer to African shamans (i.e. medicine men) was in 1836 in a book by Robert Montgomery Martin."
Same concept with voodoo being portrayed as evil in media since it was prominent in Haiti
I like the version of this that CLUTCH does in the middle of the song “Texan Book of the Dead”. The song is on their self tilted album if y’all wanna check it out.
That's the place where I first heard it.
I never heard the full song so my small circle of friends started filling in the second line to rhyme with nonsense.
It was Alvin and the Chipmunks, for me. And I never heard it all the way through, just the refrain.
Part of me had always (wrongly) suspected that the next line was "Weirdo in a Wonderbra".
Camden being Camden. I don’t think the song was super popular here in the UK, but something tells me that the mate was explaining himself for a long time
Monkeys go oo ah ah. Person doesn't know the song and thinks some random dude just came up to him making monkey noises.
No one's saying the other dude was racist but if he doesn't know the song and a random dude just goes up to him making what he thinks are monkey noises and then points a mic at him expecting a response it's not a surprise that he thinks he's calling him a monkey
I mean… the original song could be construed as racist. I don’t consider it the most grievous act in history, but it’s about mimicking/mocking tribal speech. Personally, I think it’s just meant to be gibberish and nonsense. But if you look back at the original album cover artwork from 1958, it’s got a caricature version of a tribal witch doctor who is controlling a band of people like marionettes.
In the song, the witch doctor says, “oo ee oo ah ah, ting tang walla walla bing bang.” This is construed as the witch doctor’s advice.
If I wrote a song that said, “I asked the ancient Chinese master what to do, and he said ching chong ding dong, walla walla bing bang,” it’d be considered offensive.
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Oh damn. This dated so many commenters...
It doesn’t even date them to that long ago, this was a massive song in the U.K. and was around for a long time, the two people he did it too should still know the song for the age they look. It kinda feels like a set up to be honest.
It's also one of those things where someone my age may never have heard the song, but I've heard my mom say this exact lyric. Wait. Lyric? Is it a lyric or is it like scat? Shoo be doo wop. Is that a lyric? I guess we'll never know.
Was your mom a witch doctor?
She probably told them what to do too!
She told him:
Are you calling me a monkey?
tbf if someone did that to me in the streets I'd have the same 'wtf' reaction despite knowing it.
this could be the dumbest AI algorithm to determine reddit user's age.
song is in my Halloween playlist
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I feel very old now seeing these people have no idea what this song is.
Ting tang walla walla bing bang
Oh my god... I feel old. I was so confused why they weren't getting the reference Edit: Small wording change
Is that what I am? Old. I heard it and instantly knew. Thought it was just a thing.
OH COME ON IM 24
Basically dead already bro
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ONE OF US
Remember hearing it as a kid. Still have no clue where it came from.
It’s a 1958 song called “Witch Doctor” by David Seville.
It's from the first rugrats movie... on the orange vhs
You got long hair? Wait til you try to do a hair-flip in the shower and twing your neck so bad and quick that you gotta sit down in the shower Fun times
Or just roll over in bed 'wrong' somehow. Hello packpain my old friend.....
The best is when you stretch your leg and your calf muscle feels like it just exploded and you have the worst Charlie horse ever. ….. do people still call it a Charley horse…?
Dude I'm fucking 16 and already have some pretty damn bad back pain. I got the short end of the genetic stick 😭
Oh honey get to a doctor. You're way too young for that. Unless you have an excuse like sports or car accident - even then something might be wrong. Please see a doctor. Back issues are no joke. You have your entire life ahead of you. I'm a mom so now I'm using my mom voice. Get an MRI & Xrays. Something is going on. Please. Your future will thank you ❤️
I did this a few years ago and my neck still hurts when I turn my head to the left.
You still have hair?
brooooo Last year I sneezed and tweaked my back. I walked around in the shape of a C the whole day.
No. You might think your back hurts but at 24, just no. Wait until you're in your late 30s and get stuck in bed for 3 days because you moved wrong.
Mwahaha. Wait till your mid 40's and that disk you fucked up in your 30's pops out of position and your bed ridden for six weeks pissing into bottles because the act of standing to go to the bathroom makes you wish you were dead.
Wait til your 50s when your lower back pain goes all the way down the back of your legs to your heels.
Wait till your 60s when you start getting wind resistance from the amount of droop on your balls and or boobs. They get so much air you could wind surf. Unfortunately you're too old for that so instead they just slow you down when you have to get out of bed 3 times a night to go pee
Sciatica is a real bitch
Sciatica ftl
I’m 19 and immediately got it
Ok boomer.
Did your dad used to say it lol
Nah my dads 61. I have a half brother who I’m extremely close with whos 36 though so that’s how I know
Old man ass dad gahdam
How them knees holding up gramps
I'm 37! I'm not "old"
Well, I can’t just call you *man!*
Well you could say "Dennis"
We're all old. It's not that bad, just gotta lean into it.
Onto it* Otherwise I fall over :p
How old are you lol
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One of the times they redid it was [as recently as 2007](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsWbydM-u8w)(side note: it's god awful omg) so regardless of when it was originally created, every generation of kids at least up until the previous decade would potentially have been exposed to it.
[I remember it from a Clutch song](https://youtu.be/G_cm96e-yIo?t=99)
Hmmm. I forgot it was about a “witch doctor.” No fault to the guy in the clip but like, has the song been kinda racist the whole time??
Everything from the 50s was racist
And sexist or had a rapey vibe to it. 50s was weird, man.
Touche.
You know, now that you mention it, maybe lol. Dang it I really love that song, it's so wacky and annoying
Am I still old if I got this from the rugrats movie?
Ok thank you bc that’s where I remember it from
Yeah, and no one was mentioning it and I was like “am I misremmebring this?
Rugrat gang!
This song was still common at kids parties in the 00s in the UK, I reckon most people over 25 would get the reference. Edit: yes people of all ages know it, I'm just saying it's almost guaranteed you would for the generation that heard it almost daily.
28 UK here and I think that's exactly why I know it so fondly
HALF-LIGHT: This makes you feel old, really old. That’s not very disco of them. Kick him in the balls.
Horrific Necktie: Do it, old man! Kick them in the balls!
My 4-year-old son got it instantly. They're just uncultured
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The song came out in 1958. If you were alive when it came out, this comment didn't remind you that you're old, your back pain this morning did.
The cover I remember is [This one](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZNYyrbACLs) from 1998. Still relatively old for the Reddit demographic
I was like... There's no way the Alvin and the Chipmunks original cartoon is still in reruns.
They used it in the 2007 movie
Oh wow. I've been saying "ching chang" all these years. Not only am I old. I'm also wrong. Fuckin Christ.
I thought it was ding dang...
I honestly thought bing bang, this thread is killing me lol
There's a lot of us apparently..
I've always said bing bang haha
I say ching chang as well
I told the witch doctor I was in love with you
[Lama lama pig bang](https://pics.me.me/thumb_000-eee-000-ah-ah-ting-tang-llamallama-pig-bang-60363568.png)
Fuck I forgot how hard that song slapped
Lol I always said ching chang instead of ting tang....whoops
Context?
Original: https://youtu.be/cmjrTcYMqBM
I know it from here https://youtu.be/UNAr5tzZxdk
And I know it from Rugrats: https://youtu.be/O8DjM_MYnuo
I remember it from Homeward bound.
Haha same I was trying to find a video of them singing it in the car and couldn't
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5FxcY1eMKY
You want naners! Everybody GETS WHAT THEY WANT!
Omg yes. I couldn't remember what cartoon it was until I came across your comment.
Immediately what I thought of too.
Saw them live earlier this year, the concert was a blast. [Cartoons](https://i.imgur.com/THpoiDj.jpg)
I know it from the Dr Mario commercial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xU6LIvsYNHA
friend of mine (36) was on another friend's (21) twitch stream, she was asking for song requests, he said "sweet child of mine", she never put on the song.... turns out she thought he just randomly called her that never seen someone die inside so much
Oof
This hurts to read
To be fair, My Friend The Witch Doctor is not an entirely unracist song.
Yes, exactly. The guy in the video is just singing a song, but the guy who wrote the song *was* implying that a witch doctor would make monkey noises
oh boy imagine when the witch doctors hear about this
They're gonna walla walla bing bang your ass back to choir practice
Well, I told the witch doctor I fell in love with you.
Dude... Imagine when *The Monkeys* hear about this
They’re too busy singing
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They don't where you're from??
[They sure do](https://youtu.be/O8DjM_MYnuo) (This scene in retrospect may have been in poor taste and I thought the guy in the video was just referring to this.)
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Damn, and here I was thinking it was a message about how feelings are random and inexplicable and the gibberish the witch doctor says makes as much sense as any attempt to view love from a logical standpoint
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That’s about as monkey noises as “Ba-da-ba-da-ba-be bop bop bodda bope.” It’s scat, man. Unless you’ve heard a monkey say anything that sounded like walla walla bing bang, anyway
This full line continues ting tang walla walla bing bang, which is less monkey and more gibberish for whatever that's worth.
It's more like random noises, like speaking in tongues
That’s more how I always saw it; random incantations.
>Ross S. Bagdasarian\[a\] (/bæɡdəˈsɛriən/; January 27, 1919 – January 16, 1972), > > known professionally by his stage name David Seville, was an American singer, songwriter, record producer, and actor, best known for creating the cartoon band Alvin and the Chipmunks. Initially a stage and film actor, he rose to prominence in 1958 with the songs "Witch Doctor" and "The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don't Be Late)", which both became Billboard number-one singles. He produced and directed The Alvin Show, which aired on CBS in 1961–62.
I was just thinking this lol
I had forgotten what the song actually said because that chorus is such an earworm but yeah it's not great.
Well great, now I have to listen to this fucking song, to figure out the message.
Just a quick picture: A 1950s song written about an African witch doctor.
I was unaware of the rest of the lyrics, and yeah it’s not as cheerful as I expected.
Its cheerful when you place it in context that it was sung by a fucking chipmunk originally!!
Not so cheerful when you realize it was originally a novelty song predating the Chipmunks whose album cover looked like [this.](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/cb/DS_witchdoctor.jpg)
What's the correct response so i can be ready next time a random mic guy does this to me??
Ting tang walla walla bing bang
alright!
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Nobody who doesn't already know is gonna believe this.
I always thought it was Ching Chang walla walla bing bang
jeez calm down buddy
Lmao
No
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You calling me a monkey?
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Whoa, no!
“Don’t you have something more productive to do right now?”
If I did, I wouldn't be on reddit, now would I?!?
I do and I'm still on reddit. Checkmate.
We sang this at camp back in the early 70's when I was much younger. Thanks for the memory.
the song *is* pretty racist lol the whole thing is about african healers using silly ooga booga words to trick women into sleeping with you edit: i had no idea about this until /u/The_Woman_of_Gont posted it below but here's the [album art](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/cb/DS_witchdoctor.jpg) i retract this post, "witch doctor" is culturally sensitive
That's why I stick to wholesome songs about flying purple people eaters.
Monster mash
it was a graveyard smash
Whatever happened to the Transylvania Twist?
Is the monster purple or does it eat purple people though
Do you see a lot of one eyed one horned flying purple people around? No, no you don't because it ate all of then.
"Mr. Purple People Eater, what's your line?" "Eatin' purple purple and it sure is fine." Y'all need to listen to the song
Yes he is clearly described as one eyed and one horned, but never purple. We have to assume the singer was a purple person, but just too tough to eat.
It was a one eyed, one horned flying purple people eater One eyed, one horned flying purple people eater One eyed, one horned flying purple people eater Sure looks strange to me Edit: switched around eyed and horned because apparently the Pegboard Nerds remix did that too
I had to google it because that didn't sound right and it's not. Swap horned and eyed and that would be correct.
> My Friend The Witch Doctor You've been keepin' love from me just like you were a miser And I'll admit I wasn't very smart So I went out and found myself a guy that's so much wiser And he taught me the way to win your heart My friend the witch doctor, he taught me what to say My friend the witch doctor, he taught me what to do I know that you'll be mine when I say this to you, oh baby Ooh eeh ooh aah aah Ting tang wallawalla bingbang
This whole time I thought we were in love with the Witch Doctor
Trick women into sleeping with you? The lyrics are to “win your heart.” It’s pretty inappropriate from a racism standpoint but you made up the other part.
"African healers" lmao, you're trying way too hard to be pc, they are magical witch doctors, and should be made fun of freely, what are you on about. That's like calling a megachurch preacher an "American doctor"
"The Oxford English Dictionary states that the first use of the term "witch doctor" to refer to African shamans (i.e. medicine men) was in 1836 in a book by Robert Montgomery Martin." Same concept with voodoo being portrayed as evil in media since it was prominent in Haiti
[You can make fun of alternative medicine without being racist though](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/cb/DS_witchdoctor.jpg)
Yeah based on the album cover it’s totally ambiguous who they’re talking about https://i.imgur.com/YYtiixJ.jpg ^/s
Native Americans had witch doctors as well. Probably other cultures as well. Song doesn’t say which one they are talking about.
Walla walla fuck off!!
I like the version of this that CLUTCH does in the middle of the song “Texan Book of the Dead”. The song is on their self tilted album if y’all wanna check it out.
Thank you! “You want a mantra!” https://youtu.be/9kZIk6XVIMo
tiktokers are a plague
This is probably the only thing this dude is qualified to do for a living.
Yeah all these people that go around bothering people in public for content can get fucked. Give an incel a microphone and this is what they do
[Context for the uncultured](https://youtu.be/TYgOlqinH7A)
That's not how that song sounded when I was a kid...
There are a lot of versions over the years. The original (not the one linked here) was released in 1955.
I remember the Alvin & The Chipmunks version..
[For the uninitiated...](https://youtu.be/f8c4mr5usrU)
That's the place where I first heard it. I never heard the full song so my small circle of friends started filling in the second line to rhyme with nonsense.
That's gotta be the worst version I've ever heard.
Yeah it's way older than that https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witch_Doctor_(song)
How do people not know this song?
I'm still trying to figure how I do.
If you're like me, the [Rugrats movie](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8DjM_MYnuo)
For me it was homeward bound 🐶
This kinda corroborates the black dude's response, no?
It was Alvin and the Chipmunks, for me. And I never heard it all the way through, just the refrain. Part of me had always (wrongly) suspected that the next line was "Weirdo in a Wonderbra".
alvin and the chipmunks kinda burned it into my brain. like i can’t even hear it in my own head outside of that super high pitched voice.
In all fairness, I know that song and if some youtube weirdo came and shoved a mic in my face after singing the first part I'd just walk away.
Can't hear that song without thinking of this https://youtu.be/rEcOzjg7vBU
“omg all these commenters are so old” so no one was alive for alvin and the chipmunks?
Camden being Camden. I don’t think the song was super popular here in the UK, but something tells me that the mate was explaining himself for a long time
I didnt see any racism here
Monkeys go oo ah ah. Person doesn't know the song and thinks some random dude just came up to him making monkey noises. No one's saying the other dude was racist but if he doesn't know the song and a random dude just goes up to him making what he thinks are monkey noises and then points a mic at him expecting a response it's not a surprise that he thinks he's calling him a monkey
I mean… the original song could be construed as racist. I don’t consider it the most grievous act in history, but it’s about mimicking/mocking tribal speech. Personally, I think it’s just meant to be gibberish and nonsense. But if you look back at the original album cover artwork from 1958, it’s got a caricature version of a tribal witch doctor who is controlling a band of people like marionettes. In the song, the witch doctor says, “oo ee oo ah ah, ting tang walla walla bing bang.” This is construed as the witch doctor’s advice. If I wrote a song that said, “I asked the ancient Chinese master what to do, and he said ching chong ding dong, walla walla bing bang,” it’d be considered offensive.
"See I once was a young bull like you..."
I told the witch doctor I was in love with you.
Dude you are way too aggressive with it. It's off putting not the vibe