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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.
Yakety Yak Yak Yak: Yakety Yak always talks and never listens. Zip Goes Zebra : Zany Zebra is not afraid to be different, which really annoys Alligator, Dog, and Kangaroo. A poster and a plastic book case (which included a personalized decal set) was included with the subscription.
Yakkity Yak : A preteen yak student in Onion Falls High School and the school's mascot who wishes to be a comedian. Yakkity works as the school mascot since his grandfather also served as mascot when the football team won the state championship in 1925. The football team, instead of the mascot, got all the glory (despite not winning a match in ...
From the 1950s until the mid-1960s, he worked as a session musician, recording under his own name and with others such as The Coasters, with whom he recorded "Yakety Yak" and "Charlie Brown", among others. Buddy Holly hired him for session work, during which they recorded "Reminiscing." Holly wrote this song, but gave Curtis the songwriting ...
The Coasters recorded many songs that were released as two-song ... Yakety Yak I Fought Back - My ... 2007, ISBN 978-1-4259-8981-1) Bill Millar – The Coasters (Star ...
A multi-day lake effect snow event off Lake Erie is ongoing, making travel "very difficult" throughout the Great Lakes region as a total of 3-12 inches of new snow was produced near Cleveland ...
A Bhutanese teacher who dreams of music stardom is assigned to a remote school in director Pawo Choyning Dorji's touching drama, "Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom."
In 1955 he released a single, "Yakety Yak" (not the same tune as "Yakety Yak" by The Coasters), on competitor Meteor Records. The record was released under the name Mac Sales and the Esquire Trio so as to avoid legal action by Phillips, to whom he was still contractually obliged. In 1956, Yelvington recorded again with Sun, releasing the ...