MOVIES THAT DONT HOLD UP WITH TIME

@Lustig Andrei,

In what very excellent movie did the songs with the following lyrics

"OOGA CHAKKA OOGAH OOGAH,"
and
"YOU PUT DE LIME IN DE COCONUT DEN DRINK EM BOAT UP;"

appear?

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@farmerman,

You got me, farmer.

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@Lustig Andrei,

MAybe someone else, more familiar with songs of the 70's will know

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Ghost Busters?

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@farmerman,

I'm familiar with the song "You put da lime in da coconut" but I don't know what flick it came from.

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@Lustig Andrei,

It got universal exposure from a commercial for 7-Up. I knew it from the Grammy-winning '72 (huge hit) album from Harry Nilsson's Nilsson Schmilson but I just read where it also appeared in 4 movies, one of which was Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs.

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@farmerman,

and /or

Rap

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@Lustig Andrei,

"Out of context". I think not, sir.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060164/

And in fact, the film was most notable for a review it garnered which said - and this was the totality of the review - "The book was better".

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@farmerman,

Didn't know the Nillson song was included in a movie though apparently it was in four of them. But as it happens, I was singing it to my grandnephew at Christmas. He appeared to think it a fine melody and lyric.

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@Ragman,

DING DING DING , Reservoir dogs. Areally excellent movie in the "broken glass" script style of Tarentino
As I said, all Tarentino movie scripts are torn into bits and thrown down a stairs, Then the individual pages are picked up in no order nd the story is created by chance arrangement of segments.

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@raprap,

Havent hard Stan Freeburg for twenty or thirty years. He dead?

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@farmerman,

That pretty much describes how I felt after trying, and note I said trying to read The Sound and the Fury. That's the way I'm going to describe it the next time it comes up in conversation.

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@roger,

Roger, I loved The Sound and the Fury. Not as good as The Light in August. Different strokes, I guess.

I loved the Thin Man series. Not sure how well the films have held up. I think they're still good, except I think that all the drinking would be considered no longer amusing.

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@farmerman,

http://www.stlyrics.com/p/practicalmagic.htm

http://www.stlyrics.com/lyrics/practicalmagic/coconut.htm

It was in the movie, "Practical Magic"

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@Phoenix32890,

thats only half an answer

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@Phoenix32890,

I never saw the motion picture, and am not interested, given how lame the novel was.

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@Roberta,

I really liked the book, Light in August. Was there a film?

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@blatham,

My apologies. I read it as out of context, never having seen the flick.

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@farmerman,

farmerman wrote:

thats only half an answer

Reservoir Dogs included both songs mentioned by farmerman: Nillson's Coconuts and Blue Swede's Hooked on a Feeling (which had the chorus "Oogah Chaka Oogah Oogah").

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@wandeljw,

wouldnt that make a swell game?

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