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Saturday, November 13, 2004

FOOTNOTE TO "HEY DIDDLE DIDDLE"

Did the great doo-wop groups of the 1950s read Elizabethan poetry? From Hey, nonny, nonny to Hey nonny ding dong, alang alang alang / Boom ba-doh, ba-doo ba-doodle-ay.

Does any English poetry between, say, Shakespeare and The Chords use nonsense syllables?


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