[Dixielandjazz] Song words/music

[David Richoux]

The morning DJ on a San Francisco radio station (Tery McGovern)  also  
used this as his closing theme in the late 1970s. It was done by  
Soupy Sales in 1972, but Irving Taylor wrote it and did his own  
version in the 1960s.

Good luck on sheet music!

Dave Richoux

Pachalafaka
http://www.themadmusicarchive.com/song_details.aspx?SongID=8077

Pachalafaka, pachalafaka
they whisper it all over Turkey
pachalafaka, pachalafaka
it sounds so romantic and perky
oh I know that phrase
will make me thrill always
for it reminds me of you, my sweet
just the mention of
that tender word of love
gives my heart a jerkish Turkish beat

I won't say c'est bon
or l'amour toujours
for they can't express what I'm feeling
even maresydoats or
other foreign quotes
don't seem to be quite so appealing
but pachalafaka! pachalafaka!
takes me back with you to passionate desert scenes
and it's there we'll stay
till the very day
we find out what pachalafaka means
we find out what pachalafaka means!
.
On Mar 8, 2008, at 6:36 PM, Bill Hildebrandt wrote:

> Some years ago, one of our popular early morning radio programs (it  
> might have been the Bob Steele show) played a novelty ditty which  
> started (as I remember it) something like this (the "ch" sound as  
> in the German "ach".)
>
> Acha-nachi-ta, Acha-nachi-ta, they're singing it all over turkey,
> Acha-nachi-ta, Acha-nachi-ta, it sounds so romantic and perky, ....
>
> Does anyone have the correct words and maybe even a lead sheet for  
> this gem?
> I believe it was on the air around the time when "Winchester  
> Cathedral" was popular (if that is the proper word) (:-)
>
> Bill Hildebrandt
> The New Farmington River Royal Ragtime Ramblers
> Simsbury, CT
>
>
>
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