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Yabba Dabba Doo!
Yabba Dabba Doo! is a winged word in American colloquial language. The exclamation is mostly used to express feelings of joy.
The term has its origin in the American cartoon series Flintstones (English: The Flintstones ) from the 1960s. There it was incorporated as a routinely recurring trademark of the Stone Age man Fred Feuerstein. This was one of the main characters in the series and always used the exclamation when he was particularly happy.
When recording the dubbing voices for the first season of the Flintstones , actor Alan Reed, the dubbing voice for Fred Flintstone, was dissatisfied with a script passage in which his character should exclaim “yahoo” to express joy . When Reed pointed out that this exclamation did not suit Fred, the producer Josef Barbera asked him what Fred Feuerstein should say instead to express his enthusiasm. Reed replied:
- "I don't know how about yabba dabba doo?"
Yankee Doodle
Yankee Doodle is the title of a well-known American song, the first verse of which is mostly sung today:
- “Yankee Doodle went to town,
A-riding on a pony;
Stuck a feather in his hat,
And called it macaroni. "
Originally it was a mockery song by British officers to mock the Yankees , who were subordinate to them and who in their eyes were undisciplined , with whom they fought together in the French and Indian War. Already during the American Revolutionary War , the residents of the USA recorded the song and gave it a positive rating.
The term Yankee is originally a descriptive term used by the southerners for a Northerner. It probably has its origins in the nickname Jan Käs (German Hans cheese), which was used in New York for the Dutch immigrants.
Yes we can.
Yes We Can (Yes, we can.) Is a song by a speech by Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama after the area code in the US state of New Hampshire was inspired 8 January 2008. The song begins with the following verses:
- "It was a creed written into the founding documents that declared the destiny of a nation.
Yes we can.
It was whispered by slaves and abolitionists as they blazed a trail toward freedom.
Yes we can. "
Obama's campaign slogan is modeled on the union call Yes we can , which the agricultural workers' unionists César Chávez and Dolores Huerta coined in 1972 as “Sí se puede” .
Regarding Obama's visit as a presidential candidate in July 2008, the Tagesschau website said:
- "Two hours earlier, Barack Obama had greeted Berlin with the two words 'thank you' until an audience choir interrupted him with his slogan 'Yes we can'."
In the magazine Focus, however, it says:
- "His battle cry 'Yes, we can!' he left it out completely - too great a risk that there will be no response from the audience. "
German versions of Obama's slogan were also circulated. When Cem Özdemir was elected party leader of the Greens in 2008, the headlines read:
- "Yes, we Cem."
In the late autumn of the same year, a Hessian slogan was circulated by strangers on the Internet for the Hessian SPD top candidate Thorsten Schäfer-Gümbel :
- "Yo can."
When the Marburg SPD adopted this slogan for its website, it was disapproved of by the party leadership.
Yesterday all my troubles seemed so far away.
Yesterday is the title of asong writtenby Paul McCartney in 1965and featured on the Beatles' album Help! has been published. The melancholy ballad is considered the most played song in history and begins with the following verse:
- "Yesterday
All my troubles seemed so far away
Now it looks as though they're here to stay
Oh, I believe
In yesterday" - "Yesterday all my problems seemed so far away
Now it seems like they'll stay here
Oh, I believe in yesterday"
According to McCartney, he woke up one morning with the complete melody of the song in his head. Until a correct text was completed, McCartney used a nonsense verse:
- "Scrambled eggs, oh, my baby, how I love your legs."
- "Scrambled eggs, oh my darling, how do I love your legs."
McCartney wrote the final text in 1965 while on vacation in Portugal.
You'll Never Walk Alone.
You'll Never Walk Alone (You'll never walk alone.) Is a music piece that was composed by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II in 1945. It was written for the Broadway musical Carousel and had a binding effect on many who had relatives during World War II.
The song became famous worldwide in football thanks to the Liverpool fan block, the Kop . Before a game, the sound system at the stadium on Anfield Road failed while You'll Never Walk Alone was playing. The fan block intoned the song itself at full strength. Since that day, before the start of the game in Liverpool, the audience has started singing the song as a kind of anthem for the club. Other clubs followed this example. Today it is considered the football song par excellence, as it is sung by many fan blocks around the world. The most famous stadiums where the song is sung are Anfield , home of Liverpool FC , and Celtic Park , home of Celtic Glasgow .
"Walk on, walk on with hope in your heart,
And you'll never walk alone,
You'll never walk alone"
And you will never walk alone
You will never walk alone.
Individual evidence
- ^ Tim Lawson, Alisa Persons: The Magic Behinder the Voices. A Who's Who of Cartoon Voice Actors , 2004, p. 289. The original says “I don't know. How about yabba dabba doo. "
- ↑ US election: Obama is the favorite of the stars . On: Laut.de, February 5, 2008.
- ↑ Quoted from magistrix.de
- ↑ tagesschau.de ( Memento from December 6, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Article in: Focus
- ↑ Schaefer-Guembel in the footsteps of Obama . ( Memento from January 31, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) in rp-online.de
- ↑ Quoted from lyricsdomain.com ( Memento from September 7, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Quoted from magistrix.de