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From: wendya@apollo.uucp (Wendy Alberts)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Unintelligible Beach Boys lyrics
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Date: Fri, 9-Nov-84 14:35:04 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov  9 14:35:04 1984
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Jim Poltrone writes:
>I still don't know how that Beach Boys song can be called "Barbara Ann".
>Every time I hear it on the radio or wherever, it always sounds like:
>     "Ba Ba Ba, Ba Ba Ba Ran".
>I still maintain that the song is really "Baba Ran".  And that falsetto is
>awful!  (Ba-ba Ran....)

While listening to this song one day, after not having heard it for several
years, I found myself singing along:
       "Op Op Op Op Operand..."
(I was doing assembler programming at the time.)

W. Christensen