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posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 10:58pm on 2007-12-27
Doctor, ain't there nothin' I can take, I said Doctor, to relieve this bellyache,

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You put the lime in the coconut, you drink 'em both together
Put the lime in the coconut, then you feel better
Put the lime in the coconut, drink 'em both up
Put the lime in the coconut, and call me in the morning

-- Harry Nilsson, "Coconut". No idea why it's stuck in my head.

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posted by [identity profile] acroyear70.livejournal.com at 04:30am on 2007-12-28
no idea either, but the muppet show rendition of it was fantastic... :)
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posted by [identity profile] dglenn.livejournal.com at 09:13am on 2007-12-28
I wish I remembered the Muppet version better. I remember my reaction -- thinking, "Oh good, I love this song, let's see what they do with it" as it started -- but not the performance. I wonder whether I can find it on YouTube.
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posted by [identity profile] xpioti.livejournal.com at 04:34am on 2007-12-28
I heard that song on The Muppet Show in the 70s and haven't heard it since. The only line I could remember was "You put the lime in the coconut and drink 'em both up", but for some reason associated it with "Bingle bangle bungle we don't want to leave the jungle, we refuse to go." I should've thought to ask you, of course you would've been able to point me at the correct full song! :)
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posted by [identity profile] dglenn.livejournal.com at 09:10am on 2007-12-28
I had to Google it to find out the title and artist but I'd assumed it was one of those songs that 'everybody' just grew up knowing and humming. It turns out not to be as old as I'd thought: 1971 or 1972. So I guess I was just exposed to it at the right time to have it stick in my brain as part of the Background Of Childhood.

I have only a very vague memory of the Muppet version, alas, but a few clear memories of other radio and television performances of it, and lots of memories of various people -- children and adults -- quoting it randomly or singing a verse because it got stuck in their heads or something reminded them of it. So I'd gotten the apparently incorrect notion that it was as universal as "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" (during a lull in a group conversation start singing "a-wimoweh a-wimoweh, a-wimoweh a-wimoweh," and see how long it takes for someone to jump in with the descant and everybody else to start the chorus), "Mah Na Mah Na" (aka "Mahna Mahna", the title used for the Muppets version), and "Under the Boardwalk".

Now I'm wondering which category "Witch Doctor" (the one with "Ooh, eee, ooh ah ah, ting tang, walla walla bing bang" in it) falls into -- "everybody knows it", folks-of-a-certain-age, or obscure.

Er ... is it safe to assume you've Googled the complete lyrics by now, or should I toss you a URL?

I'm flattered that you have such confidence in my ability to supply info about possibly obscure songs, though I haven't quite that much confidence myself. :-)
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posted by [identity profile] nosebeepbear.livejournal.com at 08:23am on 2007-12-28
Where do you put the habanero?
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posted by [identity profile] dglenn.livejournal.com at 09:18am on 2007-12-28
Doggone it, now you've got me wanting ice cream, and the right kind just ain't available.

<voice="Homer Simpson">Mmmmmm. Coconut lime habanero ice cream ...</voice>
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posted by [identity profile] smallship1.livejournal.com at 09:09am on 2007-12-28
"Practical Magic" was where I heard it, and spent the rest of the night trying to stop hearing it.
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posted by [identity profile] dglenn.livejournal.com at 09:17am on 2007-12-28
The movie (http://imdb.com/title/tt0120791/)? I've never gotten around to watching that, though I recall trailers convincing me I wanted to. Apart from that song, how is it?
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posted by [identity profile] smallship1.livejournal.com at 10:27am on 2007-12-28
Apart from the song, which I have to admit I could have done without, it was very enjoyable. Could possibly have been set in the same universe as The Witches Of Eastwick (the film, I mean; I don't know about other incarnations)--the magic seems to work in much the same way. There are some nice lines and some scary moments, and it ends happily, which is something I find important.

Hmm. If it wasn't that or the Muppets, I wonder where you got it from?
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posted by [personal profile] gorgeousgary at 01:47pm on 2007-12-28
It was used in a recent (last year or two) soda commercial, Sprite or 7-UP or one of those plugging their new lime flavor.
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posted by (anonymous) at 08:14pm on 2007-12-28
None of this rung bells for me, but yeah, it is on YouTube....
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