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"Blue (Da Ba Dee)" is a song by Italian music group Eiffel 65. It was first released in October 1998 in Italy by Skooby Records and became internationally successful the following year. [ 3 ] It is the lead single of the group's 1999 debut album, Europop .
The album peaked at number four on the Billboard 200 in the United States, and the song "Blue (Da Ba Dee)" peaked at number six on the Billboard Hot 100, impressive for an EDM song at the time of its release.
In 1998, at the end of a typical working day at Bliss Corporation, Maury composed a tune mostly out of boredom and asked BlissCo. colleague Jeffrey Jey to invent some strange lyrics to complete the song. Within a few days, 'Blue (Da Ba Dee)' was composed, arranged, produced, recorded and released on vinyl in Italian stores.
The character of Desmond in the lyrics, from the opening line "Desmond has a barrow in the market-place", was a reference to reggae singer Desmond Dekker, who had recently toured the UK. [11] The tag line "Ob-la-di, ob-la-da, life goes on, brah" was an expression used by Nigerian conga player Jimmy Scott-Emuakpor, an acquaintance of McCartney.
The song interpolates Eiffel 65's 1998 song, "Blue (Da Ba Dee)". [3] Lyrically, it sees Nea singing about an unrequited love and is inspired by events experienced by a friend of hers. [4] Nea describes that "the song is about love that you can't attain but that you can't give up on". [4]
"Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah" is a song composed by Allie Wrubel with lyrics by Ray Gilbert for the Disney 1946 live action and animated movie Song of the South, sung by James Baskett. [1] For "Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah", the film won the Academy Award for Best Original Song [ 1 ] and was the second Disney song to win this award, after " When You Wish upon a ...
Lyrics from “Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah” have been quietly removed from the set list of Disneyland’s Magic Happens parade. The melody originates from the 1946 feature “Song of the South,” which ...
"Blue (Da Ba Dee)", a song by Eiffel 65 "I'm Blue (The Gong-Gong Song), an Ike Turner song recorded in 1961; I'm Blue, Skies, a 2013 album by Cheyenne Jackson