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Yakety Yak, Take it Back is a 1991 celebrity charity music video film aimed at encouraging recycling using a combination of live action rock stars, rappers, and animated Warner Bros. characters. [1] The film originally aired on MTV in a shortened music video form and was released in an extended version on home video.
Song [1] Original artist [1] U.S. Pop [2] U.S. R&B [3] UK Singles Chart [4] Other charting versions, and notes [1] 1956 "My Happiness Forever" LaVern Baker - 13 - Written by Doc Pomus "Lonely Avenue" Ray Charles - 6 - Written by Pomus: 1957 "Young Blood" The Coasters: 8 1 - Written by Pomus, Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller 1976: Bad Company, #20 pop
Yakety Yak" is a song written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller and originally performed by the Coasters in 1958. Yakety Yak (or similar phrases) may also refer to: Yakety Yak, Take It Back, a 1991 music video using a recycling-themed version of the song; Yakkety Yak, the name of version 16.10 of the Ubuntu operating system
In addition to revealing to the show's judges, Luke Bryan, Katy Perry, and Lionel Richie, that her father wrote "Great Balls of Fire", she also claimed that he wrote "Yakety Yak". [10] However, Hammer actually wrote a song with a similar title, "Yakkity Yak", which was issued as a B-side by the Markeys (not to be confused with The Mar-Keys ).
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The song is a "playlet," a word Stoller used for the glimpses into teenage life that characterized the songs he and Lieber wrote and produced. [4] The lyrics describe the listing of household chores to a kid, presumably a teenager, the teenager's response ("yakety yak") and the parents' retort ("don't talk back") — an experience very familiar to a middle-class teenager of the day.
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