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- From: gottloeb@gumby.dsd.TRW.COM (Jeffrey R. Gottloeb)
- Subject: Re: Witchdoctor song?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.015546.1478@gumby.dsd.trw.com>
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- Organization: TRW Space & Electronics Group
- References: <93025.160643U21187@uicvm.uic.edu>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 01:55:46 GMT
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- In article <93025.160643U21187@uicvm.uic.edu>, John Schulien <U21187@uicvm.uic.edu> writes:
- |> Heard this song on the radio ... "My friend the witchdoctor ..."
- |> The chorus was a bunch of nonsense words. Anyone know what I'm
- |> talking about? Who's the author? What's the title? Thanks! - John
- |>
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- This is from a song called the Witchdoctor. It was released in
- December 1958 by Ross Bagdasarian (sp?) (aka David Seville). It was his
- first record.
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- BTW, Ross Bagdasarian's cousin was William Saroyan, the playwright.
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- Jeff Gottloeb
- gottloeb@gumby.dsd.trw.com
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