Help identify a song...

[Tide n True]

My wife and I were watching "The Best of APT" (we're not losers, I swear) tonight and there was a 50s quintet in concert. They sang a song with the popular "ramma-lamma-ding-dong" in it, and it brought up a discussion of 50s music being no better than today's rap music in regards to making up words to fit in a song.

Then I asked her if she had ever heard one particular 50s song. I cannot and have never been able to understand a word the guy in the song says. I do know that there is a high pitched, background vocal that consistently repeats "aye-yay-yay-yay-yay-yaaay" after the lead singer mumbles whatever the heck it is he's singing. I thought I had this song on my computer, but I can't locate it, and since I don't know any of the lyrics (other than the background syllables previously mentioned) or the name of the song, I'm having a hard time finding it.

Thanks in advance...

 

[FitToBeTide]

Google....nothing like it!

Here you go on the first song you mentioned:

http://lyricsplayground.com/alpha/songs/r/ramalamadingdong.shtml

 

[Tide n True]

Thanks, but the song I'm looking for doesn't have "Ramma-lamma-ding-dong" in it. That simply prompted our discussion of the mystery song. I'm looking for a song with no discernible lyrics other than the background vocals singing, "aye-yay-yay-yay-yay-yaaay."

 

[Bamaro]

There was an instrumental from the late 50s or early 60s called Wipe Out and recorded by the Sufaris that started something like that, went into drumming then guitars but no more lyrics.
Also, there was a doo wop song by the Knights from the 50s called Little Darling that started something like that.

 

[dvldog]

Try this. http://lyricsplayground.com/alpha/songs/w/witchdoctor.shtml

 

[Tide n True]

There was an instrumental from the late 50s or early 60s called Wipe Out and recorded by the Sufaris that started something like that, went into drumming then guitars but no more lyrics.
Also, there was a doo wop song by the Knights from the 50s called Little Darling that started something like that.

That's IT! Little Darlin' by the Diamonds.

You rock...

 

[Bamaro]

I guess I was 1/2 right. I was thinking it was the Knights but you are right it was the Diamonds

Here is the rest of it:
Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Ya-ya-ya, yaaaaaaaaaaa
Ya-ya-ya, yaaaaaaaaaaa
Ya-ya-yaaaaaaaaaaa-aaaah

Oh, little darlin'
Oh, little darlin
Oh-oh-oh where ar-are you
My love-a
I was wrong-a
To-oo try
To lo-ove two
A-hoopa, a-hoopa, hoopa
Kno-ow well-a
That my love-a
Wa-as just fo-or you
Ooooonly yoooooooooooou

([Spoken])
My darlin'
I NEED you
To call my own
And NEVER do wrong
To hold in mine
Your little hand
I'll know too soon
That ALL is so grand
PLEASE, hold my hand

My dear-a
I-I was wrong-a
To-oo try
To lo-ove two
A-hoopa, a-hoopa, hoopa
Know well-a
That my love-a
Wa-as just for you
Ooooonly yoooooooooooou

http://www.oldielyrics.com/lyrics/the_diamonds/little_darlin.html

 

[CrimsonNan]

I guess I was 1/2 right. I was thinking it was the Knights but you are right it was the Diamonds

Here is the rest of it:
Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Ya-ya-ya, yaaaaaaaaaaa
Ya-ya-ya, yaaaaaaaaaaa
Ya-ya-yaaaaaaaaaaa-aaaah

Oh, little darlin'
Oh, little darlin
Oh-oh-oh where ar-are you
My love-a
I was wrong-a
To-oo try
To lo-ove two
A-hoopa, a-hoopa, hoopa
Kno-ow well-a
That my love-a
Wa-as just fo-or you
Ooooonly yoooooooooooou

([Spoken])
My darlin'
I NEED you
To call my own
And NEVER do wrong
To hold in mine
Your little hand
I'll know too soon
That ALL is so grand
PLEASE, hold my hand

My dear-a
I-I was wrong-a
To-oo try
To lo-ove two
A-hoopa, a-hoopa, hoopa
Know well-a
That my love-a
Wa-as just for you
Ooooonly yoooooooooooou

http://www.oldielyrics.com/lyrics/the_diamonds/little_darlin.html

Hey...you have a pretty good voice...lol!!!:biggrin::biggrin2: