OOH BABY? Summer of 1980 Instr. Song

[Fall of '78]

Gize,

This 1980 summertime funk song was played only by Ted Currier during his "Special Musical Mix" midnight shows.

The song contained a constant, space odyssey-like keyboard note which would go up -- then back down -- as it played alongside the artist.

(it contained very few instruments --the keyboard, a tambourine and maybe a bass drum)

The song's an instrumental.

The guy's whispering a scat in this fashion:

"wee. ook. at 'em (with filler scat) wee. ook. at..... (the long keyboard note goes up) wee. ook. at 'em, (ta dook, ta dook) wee ook. at.... OOO Baby! (said enthusiastically)

"wee. ook. at 'em, (more filler scat) wee. ook. at.... (keyboard note goes down) OOO babe. (said less emphatically)

This cycle repeats itself over and over again.

And THIS IS ALL HE DOES throughout the ENTIRE song.

No lyrics. The only english spoken is "OOO Baby!", and "ooo babe."

You have THE KEYBOARD, and him scattin' like the way Michael Jackson does in the beginning of "Working Day and Night" c. 1980) -- except this song is much slower.

It's not terribly fast, not slow either, but rather smooth.

If it helps any, the tempo was the pace as Roberta Flack's "God Don't Like Ugly" and Teena Marie's "I Need Your Lovin' ". That kind of "BPM".

Of all the songs in my life I hope to find, THIS ONE IS IT!!

Can you imagine how embarrassing it looks to describe this obscure song to dealers who look at me like I'm crazy as I try to "sing" this to them?

A MEGATON OF THANKS IN ADVANCE FOR THIS ONE,

KEV


Gize,

After submitting this song (in a previous post), I realized that maybe I did all that writing for nothing.

When I wrote "wee. ook. at 'em", I was trying to phonetically capture what the artist was saying.

True, he is saying something very similar to that, but, to clarify, he isn't saying: "We look at them."

Maybe I should've put more space in between the words "ook." and "at". As in...... "wee. ook............ at 'em"

"Wee. ook. at 'em" is more of a beat than anything. A beat that goes: 1, 2............ 3, 4. One two............. Oooo Baby!

1,2......... 3,4. (t' dent, t' dent) 1.2....... ooo babe.

I just didn't want that phrase interpreted as a sentence you might read in one fell swoop. No. It's to be broken up..... to a beat.

hope this helps,
Kev

[pumpmug]

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I don't know if this is the song, but it sounds like you are talking about "Love in C minor" by Cerrone (1977). They do talking in the song, but it's almost in the background of it.There was another version by Frankie Crocker's Love Orch. [I think that is the name](yes, he did a 1978 cover version and it is the famous NY Disc Jockey)
Hope this helps. Check the Cerrone version first.