Las Ketchup's "The Ketchup Song": Classic or Dud

Cause Ketchup loves Potatoes.

There was a guy from P.E.I. they used to call potato
He met this young Leemington Ontario tomato
But he had eyes for other girls and she was a little mushy
And so they said well let's get wed there's no sense being buzzy

Chorus:
Baked size french fries how they loved tomatos
So dress them up with Heinz ketchup
Ketchup loves potatos
Ketchup loves potatos

So he went down to Windsor town to buy a ring on Monday
Saturday they said o.k. we'll cut the cake on Sunday
But Sunday came & what a shame they had no one to fetch it
Without a cake they just sat & ate potato chips & ketchup

**Chorus

And so this guy from P.E.I. they used to call potato
He's got to boys & a little girl, Two spuds & one tomato
They romp & run around Leemington. And boy when they get hungry
The bottle drips all over the chips, Way down in ketchup country

Mira lo que se avecina
a la vuelta de la esquina
viene Diego rumbeando.
Con la luna en las pupilas
y su traje de agua marina
parece de contrabando.
Y donde más no cabe un alma
allí se mete a darse caña
poseido por el ritmo ragatanga.
Y el dj que lo conoce
toca el himno de las doce
para Diego la canción más deseada
Y la baila, y la goza y la canta...

Aserejé, ja deje tejebe tude jebere
sebiunouba majabi an de bugui an de buididipí (x3)

No es cosa de brujería
que lo encuentre tos los días
por donde voy caminando.
Diego tiene chulería
y ese punto de alegría
rastafari afrogitano
Y donde más no cabe un alma
allí se mete a darse caña
poseido por el ritmo ragatanga.
Y el dj que lo conoce
toca el himno de las doce
para Diego la canción más deseada
Y la baila, y la goza y la canta...

Aserejé, ja deje tejebe tude jebere
sebiunouba majabi an de bugui an de buididipí (x3)

Sight which is approached around the corner comes Diego plotting a course.
With the moon in the pupils and their marine wetsuit it seems of contraband.
And where it does not fit more a soul there puts to occur to cane poseido by the rate ragatanga.
And dj that knows headress the hymn the twelve for Diego the wished song more and dances it, and it enjoys it and it sings it...

Aserejé, ja leaves tejebe tude jebere sebiunouba majabi an of bugui an of buididipí (x3)

It is not witchcraft thing that finds cough the days by where I am walking.
Diego has insolence and that point of afrogitano joy rastafari and where a soul does not fit more there puts to occur to cane poseido by the rate ragatanga.
And dj that knows headress the hymn the twelve for Diego the wished song more and dances it, and it enjoys it and it sings it...

Aserejé, ja leaves tejebe tude jebere sebiunouba majabi an of bugui an of buididipí

That wasn't a subtle aim at implying that the Ets are equally incoonsequential: qed I am a hypocrite ? Or am I just paranoid...

oddly enough, if it's the same Darren I think it is, he used to defend Britain from accusations of universal thuggery and anti-intellectualism going around on the Momus guestbook.

(I have a copy, if not)

I think its described as a novelty because its a spanish language song in the english language chart and its by 'les ketchup' (which is prob a one off group though i don't know the facts).

Try "Gabriel o Pensador - 2345meia78"

He's a Brzilian rapper (kinda)

You'll see the REAL Rappers Delight beat, straight out from the track.

As for Las Ketchup, hell, it's just a funny sing/dance-along song
(it's quite popular in Portugal, for the moment).

Btw, what about "Dj Bobo - Chiahaua"?

It's the song from a Coca-Cola ad.
Another summer/autumn hit in the Iberian Peninsula.

Sounds like a Yes lyric! BTW, the song is great fun. Perhaps the Rapper's Delight-chorus contributes to it's novelty.

It's a peculiarly Brit phenomenon I think, a regular feature of the UK charts since c.1969-70. Doesn't have to be in another language of course - anything out of the ordinary, esp. by one- or two-hit wonder acts gets dubbed a 'novelty' song.

In this case, the fact that the song's got a 'silly' dance-routine/actions, and that it was a summer smash which lots of Brits probably heard on their hols in Spain this year, only adds to the impression (September and Christmas are the peak times for 'novelty' records in the UK charts). Possibly in Spain it's not seen as a novelty record at all. As it happens, 'The Ketchup Song' is a corking pop record - as was 'Macarena' for that matter - but that doesn't usually overcome the novelty tag.

heh, what Siegbran says is amusing because the UK Spitting Image crew once tried to embarrass us Brits into killing off the summer holiday novelty song phenomenon, with their (not very funny, but quite catchy) pastiche "The Chicken Song".

Celtic fans in Seville to thread!

(Las Ketchup were the pre-match entertainment and they were showing them on the big screens but cut away to all the Celtic fans dancing to it instead as they were more coordinated than the band)

Re: The "Grease" connection. There's more: the dance steps are borrowed from the last coreography of the movie ("We Go Together"?)

Unfortunately, it also fucking sucks.

My favourite is actully the spanglish version. I think they were smart in leaving a few phrases in spanish to mantain the song's flow and meaning:

Friday night it's party time
feeling ready looking fine,
viene diego rumbeando,
with the magic in his eyes
checking every girl in sight,
grooving like he does the mambo
And he's the man all en la disco,
playing sexy feeling hotter,
he's the king bailando el ritmo ragatanga,
and the DJ that he knows well,
on the spot always around twelve,
plays the mix that diego mezcla con la salsa,
y la baila and he dances y la canta

[Chorus:]
asereje ja de je de jebe tu de jebere seibiunouva,
majavi an de bugui an de buididipi,
asereje ja de je de jebe tu de jebere seibiunouva,
majavi an de bugui an de buididipi

Many think it's brujeria,
how he comes and disappears,
every move will hypnotize you,
some will call it chuleria,
others say that its the real,
rastafari afrogitano

And he's the man alla en la disco,
playing sexy feeling hotter,
he's the king bailando el ritmo ragatanga,
and the DJ that he knows well,
on the spot always around twelve,
plays the mix that diego mezcla con la salsa,
y la baila and he dances y la canta

I think this is even better than 'Macarena'!

Even I like it, and I listen to real Latin music.

Was this a very old song? The "Rapper's Delight" seems a reference to it, rather than the other way around.

how high did this shit even chart in america?

5 years pass...

Did not chart but was a big record on Radio Disney.

dag, tough break, las ketchup

i remember seeing this on MTV and was all waiting for this to be hueg.

Apparently number 1 in like 19 countries and America was having NONE OF THAT SHIT

rastafari afrogbsitano

I'd still quite like to know why the line turns up in "Rappers Delight"