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What was the first song to feature the "Put your hands in the air and wave 'em like you just don't care" lyrics?

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Just curious.

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 01:16 (twenty years ago)

Like 56.7% of all recent music trends, it can be traced back to Mark E. Smith and the Fall.

― Cunga (Cunga), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 01:30 (twenty years ago)

As I am familiar with maybe one-and-a-half Fall songs total, I can't even tell if you're being serious or not.

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 01:48 (twenty years ago)

It's in Cameo's "Word Up" (1986), but surely that wasn't the first.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 02:05 (twenty years ago)

Some Sugarhill Records rap act perhaps.

― curmudgeon (Steve K), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 02:17 (twenty years ago)

Or maybe Kurtis Blow.

― funkycurmudgeonplusone (Steve K), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 02:20 (twenty years ago)

This is a great question, and I have nothing to offer. :(

― Cameron Octigan (Cameron Octigan), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 02:27 (twenty years ago)

This was discussed in another thread recently, but there are several instances of this on the new comp Big Apple Rappin', which goes back to 1979/1980. It appears in "Funkbox Party" by Masterdon Committee, and one other one on the album at least (can't remember which track).

See: Who was the first person to say "tick tock ya don't stop"

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 02:31 (twenty years ago)

You can't get much more earlier than Rapper's Delight, widely regarded as the second commerically released rap song, um, ever.

"Just throw your hands up in the air/and party hardy like you just dont care"

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 04:09 (twenty years ago)

That line coming as it does from Big Bank Hank was most likely written by Grandmaster Caz of the Cold Crush Brothers...

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 04:26 (twenty years ago)

which means that the cold crush dudes had been saying it at parties in the bronx for several year by then, right?

― theghostrobot (theghostrobot), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 05:39 (twenty years ago)

The phrase was being used by barn/line dance callers as early as 1957.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 08:09 (twenty years ago)

paraphrase w/diff inflection & accent: "dosey-do yes yes y'all"


xpost -- word!!

― buffalo gals go round the outside (lovebug starski), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 08:52 (twenty years ago)

It was part of the chorus of "Ooh Mr Bank Robber, That's A Big Gun (But Be Careful Where You Point It)" by the renowned music hall performer Flossie Wilkins, "The Shepherd's Bush Starling".

http://www.rfwilmut.clara.net/musichll/mhpics/forde2.jpg

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 09:38 (twenty years ago)

Earliest extant version, or ur-version if you like, is The Hokey Pokey.

obv.

― Roy Kasten (Roy Kasten), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 11:19 (twenty years ago)

"The fairnesse of that lady, that I see
Yond in the gardyn romen to and fro,
Is cause of al my criyng and my wo.
I noot wher she be womman or goddesse,
But Venus is it, soothly as I gesse."
And therwithal, on knees doun he fil,
wivving hands above and curing nil
-Chaucer

― A|ex P@reene (Pareene), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 11:38 (twenty years ago)

I think it was an early live version of "Faith" by the Cure.

― flowersdie (flowersdie), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 11:44 (twenty years ago)

Alex pwns.

― Masked Gazza, Wednesday, 12 April 2006 11:49 (twenty years ago)

Put your motherfuckin hands in the air!

http://www.geocities.com/aaronbcaldwell/200123.jpg

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 12:03 (twenty years ago)

I reckon prehistoric aboriginies probably had a song that went with this pictures, even if it was just banging two rocks together.

http://colophon.com/gallery/minsky/jpegs/austral.jpg

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 12:49 (twenty years ago)

SAY WOA-OH!

http://www.kidcyber.com.au/IMAGES/dinopterofossil.jpg

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 13:23 (twenty years ago)

Like 56.7% of all recent music trends, it can be traced back to Mark E. Smith and the Fall.

It's in Cameo's "Word Up" (1986), but surely that wasn't the first.

Like 56.7% of all recent music trends, it can be traced back to Cameo's "Word Up" (1986).

― Edward Bax (EdBax), Thursday, 13 April 2006 13:23 (twenty years ago)

Oh if only modern music were more influenced by the gents of Cameo...

― Confounded (Confounded), Thursday, 13 April 2006 14:15 (twenty years ago)


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