"yakety sax" [aka the benny hill theme music]: C or D?

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whenever i'm having a boring day i just imagine this song playing in the background and whatever i'm doing automatically seems WACKY!

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, 5 December 2005 14:08 (nineteen years ago)

jamie bunny imagines a show where i drive a clown car around in tight circles while ropes of intestine spill out the tiny doors and i accidentally run over it..all set to that music..it was also used this summer for sum videos made in a cornfield with two girls but thats another story..great tune

― dan bunnybrain (dan bunnybrain), Monday, 5 December 2005 14:49 (nineteen years ago)

Man, after reading both saddest lyric threads right through, I needed to open this one :)

― Mädchen (Madchen), Monday, 5 December 2005 14:57 (nineteen years ago)

Total classic. Anytime you play it, it makes whatever you are doing hilarious.

Is there a "funniest background music" thread?

― A|ex P@reene (Pareene), Monday, 5 December 2005 15:16 (nineteen years ago)

I hope they played it at Benny's funeral while the coffin-bearers ran round the graveyard in double-time.

― Amity Wong (noodle vague), Monday, 5 December 2005 15:18 (nineteen years ago)

Wreckless Eric's "Rags and Tatters" to thread.

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 5 December 2005 15:29 (nineteen years ago)

didn't some guys dig up benny hill's coffin because they'd heard he was buried with a fortune in jewels or something?

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, 5 December 2005 15:41 (nineteen years ago)

Amity: Yeah, then the coffin opened up and Benny was making out with some chick in a merrywidow. Then the mourners all chased him around, at which point he had a heart attack and the tragic feeling of the day returned.

(This has become a shorthand for hijinks between my girlfriend and I, whenever something goofy or clumsy happens we just hum a bit of it and bust out laughing.)

CLASSIC

― js (honestengine), Monday, 5 December 2005 15:41 (nineteen years ago)

they should do a movie based on that story, and show them digging the coffin up in hilarious-looking triple-time, then just run the film backwards to show them burying it again.

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, 5 December 2005 15:43 (nineteen years ago)

how weird, i was just grimacing at this new benny hill riddim that's come out!

http://s65.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0ADTEN920FICX03Y8RAJ7KHBFY

― hold tight the private caller (mwah), Monday, 5 December 2005 16:25 (nineteen years ago)

"Yakkity Sax" is one of the greatest songs ever written.

― vartman (novaheat), Monday, 5 December 2005 17:36 (nineteen years ago)

Classic.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 5 December 2005 17:38 (nineteen years ago)

Boots Randolph vs. Boots Riley

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Monday, 5 December 2005 18:24 (nineteen years ago)

does anyone know the Muppet's song "Manah Manah"?

does anyone know what this song is really called or who wrote it? i was watching Benny Hill and they played this song.

― jaxon (jaxon), Monday, 5 December 2005 18:54 (nineteen years ago)

I was going to mention that I actually preferred "Ma-na Ma-na"! (And I think that's the proper spelling.) It was written, I believe, by some Italian film-composer whose name escapes me. I believe there's an ILX thread dedicated to it.

I was rarely so grateful for the existence of the Internet as I was 5 years ago when I finally found out the title of that song. (As opposed to "Yakkety Sax", which title I knew 'cause I owned the 45 as a child.)

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Monday, 5 December 2005 19:15 (nineteen years ago)

Pietro Umiliani wrote it. I can't find any title other than "Mah-Na Mah-Na".

― Amity Wong (noodle vague), Monday, 5 December 2005 19:15 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.paroles.net/chansons/34185.htm

― Yawn (Wintermute), Monday, 5 December 2005 19:17 (nineteen years ago)

Hehehe cool. I used to have a couple of Henri Salvador mp3s, I never knew he wrote the original lyrics to that song.

― Amity Wong (noodle vague), Monday, 5 December 2005 19:23 (nineteen years ago)

Total classic. I have it as a ringtone. Yep.

I worked in the online department of a newspaper, and we had salesperson who was really sweet but really ditzy.

When she would come in our office, we'd play Yakety Sax. It set the mood perfectly.

A question: did this song exist well before Benny Hill, or was the song written for the show? Because i can't imagine someone writing and performing Yakety Sax as a stand-alone piece of music; it simply can't exist in my mind apart from the images it invokes.

― Justin, Monday, 5 December 2005 19:39 (nineteen years ago)

Benny Hill vs 50 Cent.mp3

― John Cocktolstoy (John Cocktolstoy), Monday, 5 December 2005 19:44 (nineteen years ago)

Benny Hill vs 50 Cent.mp3

― John Cocktolstoy (John Cocktolstoy), Monday, 5 December 2005 19:44 (nineteen years ago)

that riddim has truly made my day

― manuel (manuel), Monday, 5 December 2005 23:17 (nineteen years ago)

Apparently Yakety Sax was recorded in 1961, which was before Benny Hill.

― vartman (novaheat), Monday, 5 December 2005 23:36 (nineteen years ago)

It's just a souped-up instrumental version of "Yakety Yak" by The Coasters(?) isn't it?

― Amity Wong (noodle vague), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 00:18 (nineteen years ago)

It's got no official relationship to "Yakety Yak" other than the similarity of the title, which I think is coincidental. OTOH, now that you mention it, I can see how it might conceivably have been composed using the Coasters tune (specifically its sax solo) as a basis, bebop fashion.

Either way, I never thought of that before!

Oh, and since I didn't say so upthread: Classic! (Enough so that I managed to work up my own terrible approximation of it during my ill-conceived early/mid '90s attempt at self-taught alto sax playing.)

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 00:31 (nineteen years ago)

one year passes...

"Live With Me" by the Rolling Stones is Yakety Sax with lyrics.

― PhilK, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 13:53 (eighteen years ago)

lol

― max r, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 13:57 (eighteen years ago)

"Rags and Tatters" by Wreckless Eric really is Yakety Sax with lyrics.

― Mark G, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 14:00 (eighteen years ago)

I once saw a Bernhard Günter show where, as a prank, someone had replaced his CD with "Yakety Sax." Needless to say, it was the greatest Bernhard Günter show that ever was. Or ever will be.

― Sara Sara Sara, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 14:37 (eighteen years ago)

"yakety sax" is the song i want played at my funeral.

― max r, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 14:43 (eighteen years ago)

Sara that is the best thing ever!

― Jena, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 15:19 (eighteen years ago)

Maybe it should be the music for the 2007 New York Mets "highlight" reel.

― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 15:35 (eighteen years ago)

Search youtube for "Shrimp Yakety Sax" or "Shining Yakety Sax". Receive funtime.

― Jon Lewis, Tuesday, 2 October 2007 15:44 (eighteen years ago)

three years pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnHmskwqCCQ&feature=related

― jumpskins, Friday, 17 June 2011 01:26 (fourteen years ago)