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His first appearance, on October 10, 1981, was in a commercial parody for an album titled, Buh-Weet Sings. Right before each song, subtitles on the screen would list the title, spelled phonetically exactly as Buckwheat would say it (example: "Lookin' for Love" became "Wookin' Pa Nub" and "Three Times a Lady" became "Fee Tines a Mady").
The song is featured in the Saturday Night Live sketch Buh-Weet Sings, in which Buckwheat from Our Gang (played by Eddie Murphy) sings the song as "Wookin' Pa Nub". The Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode " Looking for par'Mach in All the Wrong Places " is titled in tribute to this song (" par'Mach " is defined in the episode as "the Klingon ...
Buh-Weet Sings – All grown up, Buckwheat (Eddie Murphy) from the Our Gang/Little Rascals films has recorded a compilation of songs sung in his own and very personal style, such as "Fee Tines a Mady", "Una Panoonah Banka", "Wookin' Pa Nub" and, in a dedication to his friend Alfalfa, "Barbah ob Dabill". [106]
"Bette Davis Eyes" is a song written and composed by Donna Weiss and Jackie DeShannon in 1974. It was recorded by DeShannon that year but made popular by Kim Carnes in 1981 when it spent nine non-consecutive weeks at the top of the U.S. Billboard Hot 100.
On a 1975 episode of Saturday Night Live, guest host Madeline Kahn plays the Bride of Frankenstein, who rises from the slab and sings this song. In the Friends episode "The One with Chandler's Dad", Charles Bing ( Kathleen Turner ) sings the movie version of the song, with the lyrics "I feel pretty, and witty and gay ".
Billie Thomas first appeared in the 1934 Our Gang shorts For Pete's Sake!, The First Round-Up, and Washee Ironee as a background player. The "Buckwheat" character was a girl at this time, portrayed by Our Gang kid Matthew "Stymie" Beard's younger sister Carlena in For Pete's Sake!, and by Willie Mae Walton in three other shorts.
Neil Diamond has provided different explanations for the song's origins. In a 2007 interview, he stated the inspiration for the song was John F. Kennedy's daughter, Caroline Kennedy, who was 11 years old at the time it was released.
The official music video for the song, directed by Andy Hylton, is a take on classic silent film comedies and features a Chaplinesque Italian protagonist in 1910s New York City, in a bid to raise some quick cash to propose to the young woman that he met earlier in the video.