[net.music] Unintelligible Beach Boys lyrics

wendya@apollo.uucp (Wendy Alberts) (11/09/84)

Jim Poltrone writes:
>I still don't know how that Beach Boys song can be called "Barbara Ann".
>Every time I hear it on the radio or wherever, it always sounds like:
>     "Ba Ba Ba, Ba Ba Ba Ran".
>I still maintain that the song is really "Baba Ran".  And that falsetto is
>awful!  (Ba-ba Ran....)

While listening to this song one day, after not having heard it for several
years, I found myself singing along:
       "Op Op Op Op Operand..."
(I was doing assembler programming at the time.)

W. Christensen