Catch Phrase/Music

An alphabetical list of musical catch phrases:

• "Ain't it funky now?" - James Brown
• "A-wop-bop-a-loo-bop-a-lop-bop-bop!" - From Little Richard's "Tutti Fruttu" (1956), became a catch phrase still associated with the singer.
• "Bow wow wow yippie-yo yippie yeah/ Bow wow wow yippie-yo yippie yeah" - George Clinton in "Atomic Dog" (1983)
• "Can't pass the people, can't pass me! Hit me!" -James Brown
• "Can't touch this!" - MC Hammer
• "Doobie doobie do" - Frank Sinatra's famous scatting at the end of "Strangers in the Night" (1967)
• "Elvis has left the building." - Closing statement after Elvis Presley's concerts
• "Gabba Gabba Hey!" - The Ramones
• "Hey! Ho! Let's go!" - The Ramones
• "Hi-de-ho!" - Cab Calloway
• "I buried Paul" - The final line in The Beatles' "Strawberry Fields Forever" (1967), which was actually John Lennon muttering "cranberry sauce". Nevertheless the phrase "I buried Paul" became an urban legend.
• "I wish my brother George was here." - Liberace
• "Is everybody happy?" - Ted Lewis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Lewis_(musician) )
• "No future!" - The Sex Pistols. Johnny Rotten mentioned this phrase in their song "God Save The Queen" and it quickly became a nihilistic slogan for punks everywhere.
• "Oops upside your head- I say: oops upside your head" - "Oops Upside Your Head" (1979) by the Gap Band
• "Put your hands up in the air and wave 'em like you just don't care" - Used zillions of times in any catchy song. The earliest use was probably "Rapper's Delight" (1979) by The Sugar Hill Gang.
• "Scream for me, [city name]!" - Bruce Dickinson
• "Shamone" - Michael Jackson (Reference to his song "Bad", though he actually says: "c'mon". It has been spoofed in popular culture as "shamone")
• "YOUUUUUU!!!!! Soulja Boy Tell Em..." - Soulja Boy Tell Em
• "Thank you. Thank you very much." - Elvis Presley
• "Yeah yeah yeah" - The Beatles. Their early song often use "yeah yeah yeah" as a refrain. In France early pop music was even named "yéyé music".
• "Yeaaaaaah booooyyy!" - Flavor Flav of Public Enemy

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