Balla Balla

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Balla Balla
  DE 3 11/01/1965 (10 weeks)
  AT 10 January 15, 1966 (8 weeks)

Balla Balla (also: My Baby Baby Balla Balla ) is a song from 1965 that is best known in the version of the German beat band Rainbows . For the English-speaking world, the song was recorded by Chubby Checker . Its version was also released in 1965 on the Cameo-Parkway label. The song was written by Horst Lippok (* 1941), the bassist of the Rainbows, and Klaus Lippok (* 1942).

Text and music

The text of the version of the Rainbows published in German-speaking countries shows very few variations. It consists only of repetitions of the word sequences balla balla and My baby baby balla balla . The word Balla is sung a total of 64 times in the text. There are also guitar solos .

Structure of the song:

  1. Verse: 5 × "My Baby Baby Balla Balla", ended with "Huh - Balla Balla", followed by an instrumental part
  2. Verse: 15 × "Balla", short pause, again 15 × "Balla", ended with a drawn out "Aahhh"
  3. and 4th stanza: see 1st stanza (in the 4th stanza at the end just "Huh")

On their first single the song was still called: Balla Balla , today it is called: My Baby Baby Balla Balla . According to the cover imprint of the record by CBS 2117, the song was written by Horst Lippok, the bassist of Rainbows. This is also indicated on the Chubby Checkers record.

The Rainbows did not succeed in legally protecting their song, so many other interpreters took advantage of this and appeared on the record market with their own versions of this briefly popular song.

Chubby Checkers Version has longer text with more variations. The additional texts were written by Checker and Lodewijk Post .

The chords follow the twelve bar blues scheme .

success

The Rainbows single reached chart positions in Germany and Austria. In the Christmas business of 1965 alone, 300,000 copies of the single were sold. The single also sold well in Switzerland (charts only from 1968). The single made it onto the Billboard charts in the Philippines and Japan .

The adjective ballaballa

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Charts DE Charts AT
  2. ^ Bonn CBS 'Mikulski The Master Builder in: Billboard of April 9, 1966, page 49
  3. ↑ Music Capitals of the World in: Billboard January 29, 1966, p. 28
  4. ↑ His hit hit the world , accessed August 12, 2017
  5. ^ Music Capitals of the World in: Billboard January 22, 1966, p. 28
  6. ^ Bonn CBS Seeks Huge Sale Gains of Export in Europe in: Billboard of November 5, 1966, page 40
  7. ^ Hits of the world in: Billboard January 22, 1966, p. 32
  8. ^ Hits of the world in: Billboard, April 15, 1967, p. 58