Major Lance and Crash Test Dummies, active decades apart in different genres. Both had a big hit with a monosyllabic chorus, one hummed with thrust and the other more flowing and lazy.
Major Lance: "Um Um Um Um Um Um"
Crash Test Dummies: "Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm"
Who is best?
Major Lance vs. Crash Test Dummies
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GoogaMooga
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Major Lance vs. Crash Test Dummies
"When the desert comes, people will be sad; just as Cannery Row was sad when all the pilchards were caught and canned and eaten." - John Steinbeck
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Re: Major Lance vs. Crash Test Dummies
Charlie O. wrote:Um, duh! - the Major.
I'm trying to conjure a circumstance in which I would vote for the Crash Test Dummies. There may be one, but not here.
take5_d_shorterer wrote:If John Bonham simply didn't listen to enough Tommy Johnson or Blind Willie Mctell, that's his doing.
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Re: Major Lance vs. Crash Test Dummies
Never heard Major but wins here easily. I do admit when CTD came out with that song I liked it. Although got old real quick.
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Re: Major Lance vs. Crash Test Dummies
I couldn't think of any more hits with monosyllabic choruses. Definitely a sub-subgenre.
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Re: Major Lance vs. Crash Test Dummies
Um! Um! Um! Um! by Wayne Fontana
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GoogaMooga
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Re: Major Lance vs. Crash Test Dummies
Does "Land of 1,000 Dances" count? (Nah na na na nah...)
"When the desert comes, people will be sad; just as Cannery Row was sad when all the pilchards were caught and canned and eaten." - John Steinbeck