What Was It About "The March Of The Winkies" In 1987-88?

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You know, the chant from The Wizard Of Oz: "Oh-wee-oh, wee-oh-oh"? It shows up in three wildly different songs from 1987/88:

- Prince's "It's Gonna Be A Beautiful Night" from Sign O' the Times
- LL Cool J's "I'm That Type of Guy" from Walking With a Panther
- Metallica's "The Frayed Ends of Sanity" from ...And Justice for All

And then...that was it! Three songs in the space of a year, and then (as far as I know, post other examples below if you've got 'em) nothing else.

WTF? And are there other examples of similar phenomena, where a single pop cultural reference caught the pop zeitgeist, decades later, for a short time and then faded back into obscurity again?

Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Sunday, 8 September 2024 17:22 (one year ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZlxvn_jWgM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGKh0TVJ2Bs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6wxm0POHBE

Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Sunday, 8 September 2024 17:29 (one year ago)

I recently picked up on this in another pop song, possibly from the late 80s or early 90s, and had a similar thought.

peace, man, Sunday, 8 September 2024 17:56 (one year ago)

Never mind. I had been thinking of "If You're Tarzan, I'm Jane" by Martika, and it's an "oh-wee-oh-wee-oh" a la Jungle Love by The Time. Close, but no cigar.

peace, man, Sunday, 8 September 2024 17:59 (one year ago)


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