Artist	Song
Tony Allen & the Originals	Let Me Hear You Say Yeah
Paul Gayten	Yeah Yeah Yeah
Chuck Higgins	Oh Yeah
Dean & Jean	Oh Yeah
Louis Carpenter's All Stars, w/ Tommy "Madman" Jones on vocal	Yeah!
Tommy Lamont	Yeah Yeah Yeah, Oh Yeah
Ray Charles	Yes Indeed
Lee Dorsey w/ Alan Toussaint & the Meters	Yes We Can
Peggy Lee	Yeah Yeah Yeah
Esquivel	Yea Yo
Joe Cuba	Oh Yeah
DEVO	Uncontrollable Urge
Revilloes	Yeah Yeah
Flaming Lips	Yeah Yeah Yeah Song
the Minders	Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah
Timmy Rogers	Oh Yeah
Rex Garvin	Oh Yeah
Wally Jeffrey	Oh Yeah
the Corvairs	Yeah Yeah
Joe Liggins	Yeah Yeah Yeah
the Kaisers	Uh Huh, Oh Yeah
Christopher Columbus	Oh Yeah, Part 1
Kip Tyler & his Flips	Ooh Yeah Baby
Larry Williams	She Said Yeah
Pee Wee Crayton	You Know Yeah
Marvin Phillips & his Men from Mars	Yes I Do
Los Xochimilcos	Yeah Yeah Yeah (She Loves You)
Andrews Sisters	Say "Si, Si"
Georgie Fame	Yeah Yeh Yeh
Yelo	Oh Yeah

Comment:

Another blow in the never-ending struggle against negativity . . .

I have a weakness for simple-minded lyrics, & they don't come any more simple-minded than some of these.
In most, the entire chorus is "yeah" or "oh yeah",
& others are semi-instrumentals with no real lyrics except for the band shouting "yeah" as needed.
You might laugh at Tommy "Madman" Jones getting vocal credits on a song where the entire vocal is the word "Yeah!", but
then wait 'til you hear what he does with it . . . & you'll laugh even harder.

Now, I realize this track list might look monotonous, but, in reality,
no two of these "yeah" tunes are the same.
Musicians will say "yes" to almost anything, apparently.

(Fab Four Fanatics will notice that I've left out the most famous "yeah, yeah, yeah" song of all time,
but it's indirectly represented here in a demented Spanglish cover version by Los Xochimilcos.)


Thanks to fwak for that one,
thanks to Mohr for Georgie Fame,
& thanks to
Sean "Yeah Baby" Lally
for the Kaisers.
,
.

I'm positive I've missed some other great "yeah" songs - I was looking around for Mingus "Oh Yeah" but couldn't find it anywhere at hand -
so, suggestions are welcome, but remember we're looking for songs where most of the lyrics,
or at least the chorus, is "yeah" or "yes", not just something with a "yeah" in the title.
For a sample of what we're talking about here, check out (
until Aug 1) the great New Orleans musician Paul Gayten's
yeah yeah yeah!

. . . and yes I said yes I will Yes

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