"La-La Means I Love You" by The Delfonics is the only one I can think of, at the moment. (Although whether that says a lot about the moment, or very little about my memory ... well, it depends.) https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,60779,60779#msg-60779 Sat, 07 Mar 2026 21:24:20 +0000 Phorum 5.2.23 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,60779,60817#msg-60817 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,60779,60817#msg-60817 ne plus ultra of songs with vocables in the title is Piero Umiliani's "Mah Nà Mah Nà."]]> Middle C Trouser Press Fri, 31 Jul 2020 14:10:31 +0000 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,60779,60815#msg-60815 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,60779,60815#msg-60815
and how could I have forgotten Brenton Wood’s “Oogum Boogum”?]]> MrFab Trouser Press Fri, 31 Jul 2020 09:08:18 +0000 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,60779,60813#msg-60813 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,60779,60813#msg-60813 locutor Trouser Press Fri, 31 Jul 2020 05:54:46 +0000 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,60779,60811#msg-60811 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,60779,60811#msg-60811 Rhythm Bounder Trouser Press Wed, 29 Jul 2020 20:43:34 +0000 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,60779,60806#msg-60806 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,60779,60806#msg-60806 Bip Trouser Press Tue, 28 Jul 2020 21:28:36 +0000 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,60779,60804#msg-60804 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,60779,60804#msg-60804 “Uh-Huh, Oh Yeh!” - Paul Weller]]> the 801 Trouser Press Tue, 28 Jul 2020 03:01:47 +0000 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,60779,60800#msg-60800 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,60779,60800#msg-60800 "Boing Boom Tschak" - Kraftwerk
"Ooh La La" - Faces (and seemingly everyone else, for that matter)]]> Middle C Trouser Press Mon, 27 Jul 2020 13:57:59 +0000 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,60779,60797#msg-60797 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,60779,60797#msg-60797
Here

Pretty wild rockabilly]]> Bip Trouser Press Mon, 27 Jul 2020 02:31:18 +0000 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,60779,60790#msg-60790 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,60779,60790#msg-60790 Be-Bop-a-Lula
Goo-Goo Muck
(album title from a song lyric) Too-Rye-Ay]]> ira Trouser Press Sun, 26 Jul 2020 11:42:04 +0000 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,60779,60787#msg-60787 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,60779,60787#msg-60787 "De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da" - The Police
"Hey! Ba-Ba-Re-Bop" - Lionel Hampton
"Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa" - Otis Redding
"Bama Lama Bama Loo" - Little Richard
"Sh-Boom" - The Chords
"Arula Mata Gali" - The Neanderthals
"Who put the Bomp (In the bomp bah bomp bah bomp)" - Barry Mann]]> MrFab Trouser Press Sun, 26 Jul 2020 01:05:29 +0000 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,60779,60785#msg-60785 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,60779,60785#msg-60785 Bip Trouser Press Sat, 25 Jul 2020 23:28:28 +0000 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,60779,60784#msg-60784 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,60779,60784#msg-60784
That is a vocable... no? Have to admit I had to look the word up...]]> Bip Trouser Press Sat, 25 Jul 2020 23:12:21 +0000 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,60779,60783#msg-60783 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,60779,60783#msg-60783
Edit: correction, it's just called "Shoop." There is, however, "The Shoop Shoop Song," written by Rudy "Got My Mind Set On You" Clark and recorded by Merry Clayton, Betty Everett and Cher.]]> Michael Toland Trouser Press Sat, 25 Jul 2020 22:25:36 +0000 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,60779,60779#msg-60779 https://trouserpress.com/forum/read.php?1,60779,60779#msg-60779 Delvin Trouser Press Sat, 25 Jul 2020 20:43:01 +0000