Sunday, June 29, 2014

Awesome Old Song of the Week: "Yakety Yak" by The Coasters

The Coasters released "Yakety Yak" in 1958, but I've always known it as the song Arnold Schwarzenegger sang in Twins thirty years later.

If you were born sometime after the Reagan administration and are not familiar with the 1988 film Twins, I highly recommend giving it a shot on Netflix (or whatever similar technology you use).

On the other hand, it's probably been at least two decades since I last saw that movie, and it's entirely possible it would just seem stupid now.




Something I'd completely forgotten about was that 2 Live Crew actually covered "Yakey Yak" for Twins:





Here are The Coasters:




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