What song should I play this week?

[Urb4n]

Originally Posted by DJ_Greg

Probably no show this week. Well, I dunno. I found out this morning that my high school best friend's mom died a few days ago. Funeral is on Friday. So I either won't be doing a show or it'll be a late decision. Probably a somber one, if I end up doing it. I'll keep you guys posted.

Ahh, I'm sorry to hear that man. My condolences go out your friend.

[aFrenchie]

Originally Posted by RMJ

Actually, Youpidou (and Youpidoo) does not exactly mean yippee.

Youpi is French word and means yippee in English. Youpidou is just Mylène's own, made up, word. Why she added the "-dou" (and "-doo" in English version) in the "youpi" is unknown. Prolly because it sounds better in the songs... or maybe some other reason was behind it. It's hard to tell.

You're right, yippee in French is only youpi. The "-dou" Mylène added could be a reference to those old scoubidous (that word sounds exactly the same), thingies that French children knotted with plastic strips in the 60s:
Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scoubidou
Images: http://www.flickr.com/photos/fudgeit/sets/421204/

Furthermore, there was also a well known song about those "toys" by Sacha Distel in 1958.
http://platea.pntic.mec.es/~cvera/ho..._scoubidou.htm
(I warned you, it's old and silly )

[rcs]

Originally Posted by DJ_Greg

Probably no show this week. Well, I dunno. I found out this morning that my high school best friend's mom died a few days ago. Funeral is on Friday. So I either won't be doing a show or it'll be a late decision. Probably a somber one, if I end up doing it. I'll keep you guys posted.

You should play "A quoi reve une jeune fille". I don't know what the english trans is, but the music and her singing is pleasant and may fit the mood since attending the funeral.

[rcs]

[QUOTE=aFrenchie;6869]You're right, yippee in French is only youpi. The "-dou" Mylène added could be a reference to those old scoubidous (that word sounds exactly the same), thingies that French children knotted with plastic strips in the 60s:
Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scoubidou
Images: http://www.flickr.com/photos/fudgeit/sets/421204/

Are there any old timers here that remember Blondie? She had a song called "Denis". She says the word "Youpidou" several times in that song. Blondie sang some lyrics in French in a few of her songs. I don't know if she was part French, but I'd really like Lili to cover one of her songs. I'm sure Lili would make those old songs sizzle with her voice and stage presence.

BTW, "Youpidou" being a made up word or not, is really a surprise to me since the song "Denis" came out in 1978. At least, that's what is printed in my CD. Frenchie, could you look into this. Maybe Blondie was singing another word that sounds like "Youpidou".

[riva2model64]

thanks for the clearup on youpidou guys

and I really sorry to hear that greg

[aFrenchie]

Originally Posted by rcs

Frenchie, could you look into this. Maybe Blondie was singing another word that sounds like "Youpidou".

Just found the lyrics here:
http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/blondie/denis.html
You're right about the part in the middle that is in French. But the "doo-be-do" things are in the English sections (and "spelled" in an English way).

[DJ_Greg]

Originally Posted by bt_bird_90

I finally caught the show this week, that was way cool. Great stuff DJ_Greg!

...but you aren't fooling anyone, we can all tell you are an Alizée fan and used Moe as an excuse to play her. You know what Yupidoo means, I bet you prolly could have sang along to the whole song too

I hung out with a bunch of friends last night, and one of them basically said the same thing...

Jon: "I call bullshit. I might believe that someone from UAE requested a song, but how convenient that it just happened to be Alizée."

[DJ_Greg]

Originally Posted by aFrenchie

You're right, yippee in French is only youpi. The "-dou" Mylène added could be a reference to those old scoubidous (that word sounds exactly the same), thingies that French children knotted with plastic strips in the 60s:
Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scoubidou
Images: http://www.flickr.com/photos/fudgeit/sets/421204/

Furthermore, there was also a well known song about those "toys" by Sacha Distel in 1958.
http://platea.pntic.mec.es/~cvera/ho..._scoubidou.htm
(I warned you, it's old and silly )

Scooby Doo?


I wonder if there's a connection.


It looks like scoubidous are the same as "lanyards" (or laniard), which we used to make at camp when I was a kid.

[DJ_Greg]

Originally Posted by rcs

You should play "A quoi reve une jeune fille". I don't know what the english trans is, but the music and her singing is pleasant and may fit the mood since attending the funeral.

You should read the interpretations of that song at...I don't seem to have the link. It was posted here recently. I'll look around and edit this post if I find it.

Anyway, it seems like a lot of people missed that post about my friend's mom. That was actually last week, and I ended up not doing my show. This week, at the top of the first hour, I just thanked the DJ who subbed my show for me and didn't say why I was absent. Originally I was going to, but I decided against it.

[Bob]

Originally Posted by DJ_Greg

I hung out with a bunch of friends last night, and one of them basically said the same thing...

Jon: "I call bullshit. I might believe that someone from UAE requested a song, but how convenient that it just happened to be Alizée."

lol what did you say about that =)