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  • Anyone know where I can get this as a ringtone?

  • @Pages225 I agree! Jan Smithers is way hotter than loni Anderson!

  • All poodles need a lid!

  • Jan Smithers...  SO SO HOT!!!!! (Bailey Quarters)

  • Back to five, an a

    get the night outta here.

  • "Red wigglers the Cadillac of worms!"

  • @littleyellowkite Christ, do I ever remember that! There is no more good sit-coms (at least none that compare to this era). I'll always remember Herb dressed up like a giant carp trying to sneak into the men's room stall.

  • I would LOVE to see videos of people trying to sing this song!

  • I heard the word uh huh and that's it!! But I like to dance wiggle and squirm to the song!!

  • LOL. Great!

  • MoshGirl.com

  • This song would be a good "Family Guy" parody with Peter Griffin on vocals

  • Continued, I love your version ... it Rocks!!!

  • This is what I wrote when I was 17 watching the show.

    Went to the Bartender ... "Whatcha got in here?"

    Said, "Due to the modern day, I'm a pack up, 'n' all the beer! Ah ha."

    I said "Good Bartender, I'll have a beer an' head out."

    I said, "Good, Good", an' he poured a lot of beer ... ah ha

    Based on the economy being so bad in the late seventys ... bar business was up, smoking was up. At 18, I had no luck finding a job, stopped at a bar on my way home and had a beer or two.  A cheap high.

  • Baily Quarters was soooo hot!

  • "I wouldn't do it, if a poodle had a lid on."

    That is awesome, well done.

  • pressing the dislike button tells the world, "HEY! I DON'T UNDERSTAND COMEDY AT ALL! PLEASE KILL ME!"

  • According to the DVD commentary, there are no real lyrics to this song, it was a demo recorded on the fly in a CBS studio by Jim Ellis who recorded other background tracks for the show. But at the time he didn't have lyrics written for the song so he's basically just mouthing gibberish into the microphone in the rhythym that he wanted the song to eventually be in. Harris the creator of the show used the song anyway because in the original CBS airings there was always an announcer dubbed over.

  • @elizjmay it works man. I always liked it for some reason. The guitar is cool.

  • RIP Gordon Jump

  • I almost forgot, fellow babies. Booger!

  • I always liked that song, but it is about rock and roll, and a patron relating to or about a bartender. I forget the guy's name, should be in the credits?

  • Rumor has it that Jamie Lyons (RIP) of Music Explosion & Capital City Rockets fame teamed up w/Rick Derringer & created this cool ditty that should've been released as a single and could've been a Top 40 hit. Both musicians are from Ohio the Buckeye state (my home state.)

  • That's just awesome!

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  • If poodle had it on...lol

  • ~chuckle~ Nice work. I've been watching that show most of my life, and your lyrics are near the top of the list. Thanks... [=

  • That's good. The best 37-second rock song ever made.

  • Damn right to that!!!!!!

  • MTM cat at the end FTW!

  • Said to the bartender "Best night I ever had"

    Singin' to the bar

    Had a microphone (in)to her heart

    I said -

    Goodbye madam

    I'd had a bird in hand

    I said -

    I'm doing good

    And put love in her heart

  • Hey, that's pretty good. Made a coherent narrative out of it.  Nice.

  • @beaston Very Nice. First time I ever understood the song.

  • Even in junction with the Wiki info, these words sound about 90% dead on ........only questionable is the 2nd verse about the box outta her hair.......but everything else sounds almost exact.

  • Mad tooth bartender. Bounce the night away. Still gotta run with rock and roll in our hearts. Say. Good Bartender. Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah. I said I wouldn't do it. And poodle lovin in our hearts.

    That's what I hear.

  • never have understood the words myself, but Ive always loved this lil number.

  • ((continued from below)) On the spot words?? No. Studio time isn't cheap. Musicians can't afford risking cost and time overruns because they were not prepared, and preparations include BOTH music and words. But hey, that's my opinion, and "wikipedia" is the current "god" of all knowledge. What do I know?? It's still a fun song, and a fantastic TV show!!!

  • As a musician myself, it is EXTREMELY difficult to create words "on-the-spot" to a song like WKRP's. With all due respect to "wikipedia" (some of us are decades older than "wikipedia"), think of this: Jim and the other session musicians did not simply go into the studio and fire up that song, first take. It was thought out. Jim probably had words PREPARED IN HIS MIND that matched the song characteristics. ((continued))

  • this was a thought /obsession as a child. I used to watch the show, want the voiceover to go away, and hear the song...yes I allways wondered about the words...but then the documentaries came on such as Entertainment Tonight, and WIkipedia. SOmetimes in Syndication, there would be no voiceover. Now they have it on DVD and an explanation on WIkipedia, also check out the 1978 film "FM"!!!

  • lets go drinking at 'the bad tooth bar!!" woohoo

  • From Wikipedia: The closing theme, "WKRP In Cincinnati End Credits", was a rock number composed and performed by Jim Ellis, an Atlanta musician. According to people who attended the recording sessions, Ellis didn't have lyrics for the closing theme, so he sang nonsense words to give an idea of how it would sound. Wilson decided to use the words anyway, since he felt that it would be funny to use lyrics that were deliberately gibberish, as a satire on the incomprehensibility of many rock songs

  • Quad ROFL! Poodle had a lid on. Pure genius!

  • Moose...if only I drank!! As I said, just my opinion. Yes, a couple of words need tweaked. But for over 30 years I've been deciphering sounds, information, and other "interesting stuff" from worldwide radio transmissions...."spooky, eh??"!! Anyhow, how 'bout YOU and all the 'KRP fans here having a Shot 'o Bourbon, I'll raise a glass of Cranberry, and we'll toast WKRP!

  • Sounds like your interpretation of the lyrics makes more sense to me than I've ever heard or even guessed. If you come up with any new ones, let me know. All the best to you :)

  • I'm almost sure that the cat was the symbol of MTM (Mary Tyler Moore) productions. A little spinoff of MGM's Leo the Lion....

  • Yes, the cat was Mary Tyler Moore's "trademark" for all of her shows in the 70's and 80's. The old "Bob Newhart Show" (Larry, Darryl and Darryl) finished with the cat's voice being Bob Newhart meowing. BTW: The words I scribbled last night ARE MY OPINION only!!! But after sitting and listening to it MANY, MANY times in a row, that's what I heard, but I may not be stickin' to it!!

  • You'd need to have at least one shot of bourbon before you could come up with any lyrics for that.. perhaps more than one for good measure.

  • Went to the Bartender,

    "Bartender, yeah..."

    Sittin at the bar

    with a microphone at her heart,

    I said, "Good Bartender"

    I said "I've had it with her!

    I've gotta do it to it,

    And pull my life from her heart..."

    Sounds like the song's character was singing about a former lover, who also sang at the same bar. And that he was tired of her, and wanted to move on.

    Note to future musicians: if you ever plan on recording something that may be used for TV, please write the words down!!!

  • read wikipedia about this; the nonsense words were a comment on you cant understand the words to rock songs...

  • Always wondered what the words were to that song since the show was prime time tv. Now I know and another nagging life mystery is solved. lol That cat at the end they used to change for different shows. Hill Street Blues it wore a police cap; The White Shadow it bounced a basketball. I think for Newhart it had a meow from Bob Newhart. WKRP was hilarious; too bad it didnt last longer. WKRP followed by MASH on Monday nights. Classic comedy line-up circa 1979. Where'd the time go?

  • Even the Mary Tyler Moore Show had the cat

  • Yes it did. The MTM logo with the cat stood for Mary Tyler Moore, I think.

  • Yep. That orange kitten on the MTM logo was Mary Tyler Moore's cat. I remember on The New WKRP ending credits, instead of hearing the cat meow, the cat said "WOOOOO!!!!" I'm sure I'm not making that up since I use to have an episode of The New WKRP taped off television years ago.

  • Does any one know who sings this song ? I've been looking for so many years ! Can anyone help me out ?

  • Composed and performed by Atlanta musician Jim Ellis.

    (source: Wikipedia)

  • The cat was always part of the credits -- at the end -- for those of us who are old enough to have watched this show when it was still on.

  • We know there weren't any real lyrics and it was gibberish.

    But this is flippin' hilarious and it's probably the closest anyone could get to what it sounds like.

  • Very creative. Keep up the good work, bro!

  • hahahaha. these lyrics seem pretty legit.

  • LOL Well done

  • Just to let you guys know, there actually aren't any lyrics to that song. It was said in an interview with the creators. He's actually talking jibberish.

  • Yeah, gibberish was the only alternative possibility. I just love this video, though. I was laughing so hard I thought I'd wake the kids.

  • and of course making that special appearance from LolCatz is Ceiling Cat!

  • good tune, dumb lyrics

  • Very creative and a lot of fun...like the show!

    The vocal was basically a "scratch" track, i.e., a vocal track recorded solely to help the musicians and the show's producers get a feel for the song and the lyric melody. But the producers liked it as is, and it was never changed, so there aren't any words, just meaningless gibberish!

  • 0:21 = Fill up dammit.... LOL!

  • Ceiling cat! YEAH!

  • Ahh yeah, I thought that's what they were saying

  • I can't believe Johnny is taking that job in California!

  • BOOGER!

  • I use to wonder what the lyrics were to the ending credits of WKRP.

  • Supposedly there are no lyrics. It's known as a "scratch track" for tv ads/features to be played over on CBS. But, everyone out there can here Bartender several times in the song. Coolest 30 second rock song ever!

  • fan-freakin-tasic

    that's some funny s#$t

  • Love the "ceiling cat". Perfect link from the future to the past!

  • Rush Limbaugh??? Love it.

  • VERY well done!

    5 outta 5!

  • Said to bartender, "Box of night in hair."

    "Still to do a model daily, rock n' roll, yeah, uh huh."

    I said, "you're a bartender, and like to bat a head, huh?"

    He said " A rootie tootie, and a cola and a minnow"

  • @kirkenbunken Those are the best lyrics to this song I've ever heard!

  • Very funny! Well done!

  • Every time I set foot on Cincinnati's riverfront...I think of this song, simply because of the shot of Riverfront Stadium while this was playing on the show.

  • I don't know about anybody else but I like the closing credits better than the opening

  • I totally agree:)

  • Even when I was 3 and watching this back in the late 70's I liked the closing credits waaayyyyy better.

  • me too brother. i used to hate when the announcer cut the clsoing theme off.

  • I will do a remake of this song, just for the fans!!!

  • I had to watch that three times in a row. Still laughing. Especially the whack a mole bit. Okay, and the poodle with a lid on. Wait - watching for fourth time now...

  • OMG, that kitten is adorable.

  • ceiling cat FTW!

  • Said to the bartender "Best night I ever had"

    Singin' to the bar

    Had a microphone (in)to her heart

    I said -

    Goodbye madam

    I'd had a bird in hand

    I said -

    I'm doing good

    And put love in her heart

  • You win. Definitely.

  • Awesome!  That really works.

  • Woops, I was replying to buddyboy55.

  • @buddyboy55 For me, I hear "Put the Rock N Roll In her Heart" Something like "r and r" getting mentioned at least once

  • This song was over 20 years ahead of it's time.

    it was not until 2000 that The Sims came out, and made music sung to complete gibberish popular.

  • hahahahahahaha!!!!! 5 stars

  • that was fuckin hillarious!!!! LMAO

  • mad tooth bar chin up!!! This was a demo and HAD NO lyrics it was all just garble. The story is on Google.

  • Correct. Jim Ellis, the writer/singer doesn't even know what he says.

  • Hil-freakin'-larious!!

  • the song is so good you don't pay attention to the lyrics.

  • Yeah check out my version. I always heard something different. However I must admit the Mad Tooth may have done that bar chin up. It seemed like a strong tooth. Check out my version. Not as well done as this guy's though. I love this video.

  • He was "scatting" to the music to show what the saxaphone player would be doing when he came in to record BUT "they" thought it was so representitive of the "unintelligble" rock singers of the day that they kept it.

  • no he wasn't...he was just demonstrating the song to Hugh Wilson (WKRP creator) what the end theme would sound like...only problem was he didn't have the words written. Hugh thought it would be great just as that because some rock songs of the day had lyrics that sounded like gibberish.

  • I could be wrong BUT that's what I read online somewhere. CLOSE ENOUGH FOR ROCK N ROLL FELLOW BABYS !!!

  • happy new year every one, specially dr fever! im so happy that someone besides me was bewitched bothered and bemildred by that song. the only word i ever caught was bartender. believe it or not, wkrp took my life in a whole new direction. when we get to know each other better ill tell you what.

  • Nice try. Actual lyrics are:

    Said to the bartender Best night I ever had

    Singin to the bar

    Had a microphone in(to) her heart

    I said -

    Goodbye madam

    Id had a bird in hand

    I said - Im doing good

    And put love in her heart

  • I can hear that...Proof?

  • I can hear it too. I think you've cracked the code.

  • Actually, our friend here didn't crack the code. :) The lyrics he posted have always been the lyrics that have been known by avid WKRP fans for years.

  • I like the poster lyrics much better. I'm sticking with hers, until you prove her wrong.

  • I love that song, and good goin on the lyrics!

  • I'm pretty sure that's wrong. But, it's funny.

  • Wow, this actually makes more sense to me than that tune Roundabout by Yes.

  • lmao!!

  • They used gibberish lyrics because originally the CBS announcer would announce what show was coming up next over the closing credits.

  • FINALLY I understand what the guy's singing! Thank you!!!! XD

  • explains a lot!!! WTF!!!

  • Cincinnati now has a REAL WKRP station, not a radio station but WKRP TV staring in 2009

  • Wow! Thanks for clearing that up! LOL I been watching WKRP lately and I thought, "This is the first song I've ever heard where I could not understand a single word." Yeah, I thought maybe there were a couple of "bartender"'s in there, but I wasn't sure. I always thought the last bit sounded like "good lovin' in our hearts"? Mmmmm, I guess I was wrong. Anyway, I can stop racking my brain over it now.

  • I always thought it started "I said to the bartender, huh huh huh huh yeah.........."

  • That makes about much sense as "McArthur Park"!

  • What a great job! Hilarious. Absolutely hilarious.

  • According to people who attended the recording sessions, Ellis didn't yet have lyrics for the closing theme, so he sang nonsense words to give an idea of how it would sound. Wilson decided it would be funny to use lyrics that were deliberately gibberish, as a satire on the incomprehensibility of many rock songs.[14] Also, since CBS always had an announcer talking over the closing credits, Wilson knew that no one would actually hear the closing theme lyrics anyway.

  • I'm from Buffalo, what station did you work at?

  • Does anyone have a full version of that song? It rocked!

  • Well...

    That makes about as much sense as any other interpretation I've heard...

  • effing hilarious.

  • This is hillarious. I later found out that the song didn't have actual lyrics, just gibberish. For years I thought they were saying:

    "A bucktooth bartender, he's got psorias in hair yeah, Met her in a bar full of rock'n'roll dinner".

    I ate too many paint chips, I suppose.

  • this might rank as one of the single greatest things I've ever seen on youtube.

    Its like decifering the rosseta stone. Ultra classic. THX

  • HHHHAAA!!!!!! I just about wet myself!!!

    I knew they were saying something like..Uhh..

    "I said to the bartender you gotta have hair...something something something uh huh!

    And its cool uh huh!!"

    I sing long aimlessly!!

  • thanks, I just wanted to hear this awesome tune again, always wondered about the lyrics, ceiling cat was a nice touch! lulz. =^-^=

  • Said to bartender, "Box of night in hair."

    "Still to do a model daily, rock n' roll, yeah, uh huh."

    I said, "you're a bartender, and like to bat a head, huh?"

    He said " A rootie tootie, and a cola and a minnow"

  • Ric Peterson on CJAD in Montreal said it perfectly: "You thought WKRP was a sticom...you're wrong, my friend...it was a documentary!" heh heh

  • "Said to the bartender, best night I ever had. Singin' to the bar, put a microphone to her heart...I said, good bye madam, I had a bird in hand. I said I'm doin' good, and I'm putting love in her heart"

  • Well that does make a lot more sense

  • How in the world you got that out of the song, I don't know, but it is the absolute bes fit I've seen.

  • Best case of lyricosis ever! Just brilliant.

  • Holy crap - my 9,000th video watched on YouTube - very funny.

  • mad tooth bar chin up LOL

  • THAT is GOLD!!!

    The song never had real lyrics IIRC. It was just a sound check gibberish jam...

  • The modern day whack-a-mole is nice, but I prefer the old one. :-D

  • If you made this video, you...are pure comedic genius refined! Laughed like a loon and promptly sent a link to all the fools in my address book. 5 STARS!

  • Brilliant!!!

    Well done and funny as hell. The more I watch it the more I laugh. I wouldn't do it if a poodle had a lid on either.

  • well...I was born in 1976. I didn't grow up watching the show, but I watched and loved every one in syndication. The show was awesome but I gotta say that the highlight for me was the closing song...a song I wish to this day was full length with a band attached! THanks for the post!

  • Here-here!

  • hahah! I laffed outloud! can't believe I never paid attention to the words b4! Absolutely highlarious XD

  • WKRP made me want to work in radio. So I did. It wasn't near as fun as the show was!!!!! (As God as my witness Andy, I thought Turkeys could fly!)

  • Awesome. This ranks right up there with the llama song.

  • I always loved the song. But I never understood a word... Untill now.

  • my fav part "if a poodle had a lid on". problem is, that's what the dude was singing. still sounds kickass though.

  • This is the best band EVER!

  • As someone born in 1968 who watched this show, I always thought the lyrics were...

    "I said to the bartender

    (Nonsense lyrics)

    (Nonsense lyrics) microphone (nonsense lyrics)

    (Nonsense lyrics) bartender (nonsense lyrics)

    I said I wouldn't do it

    (Nonsense close)"

    Mimsey meow

  • I'm glad that poodle had it's lid on otherwise we'd all be dust now.

  • Cobain derived his entire sound from this one song. Brilliant!

  • pander22's comment had me pissing my pants laughing.

  • OMFG!!! I always wondered what the singer for Scum Of The Earth was saying. I can't stop laughing LOL Great Video Man!!!!

  • This is great!!!! One of the funniest videos I've seen on youtube in a while (guess I gotta get out more!). Well done. I had a mediocre day - thanks for making me laugh!!

  • Don't you mean you gotta stay in more?

  • "Said to the bartender, best night I ever had

    Singin' to the bar, put a microphone to her heart...said goodbye madam, had a bird in hand, said I'm doin' good, I put love in her heart"

  • Parts of it always sounded like bar tender and microphone in our hearts.

  • ahaa,I wonder who the singer is thanx? Anyone?

  • Atlanta musician Jim Ellis was the guy who wrote and sang it.

  • merci bouquet

    (Thanx)

  • Not a coincidence. Everything about WKRP was full of Atlanta radio injokes. WKRP was based on and created by a former WQXI DJ. WQXI was a famous Atlanta FM station. The turkey drop actually happened; a WQXI DJ was up in a copter and did the deed; it later became the stuff of legend on WKRP. I used to live in Atlanta and listen to "Quixsie". All WQXI fans know WKRP was based on that legendary Atlanta FM station! Check Wiki!

  • I love this song.

  • This not the original ending. "My woman from Tokyo" was the original ending but like all the reruns of the show they couldn't use the music because of legal issues.

  • No this was the original ending. The songs played during the show had to be relaced with generic songs but this was definitely the original end theme used during the first run of the series.

  • This used to drive me crazy when I was a kid (from Cincinnati) cause I thought it was a real rock song and couldn't figure out the words. Just recently found out it was written specifically for the show with intentionally indecipherable lyrics!

  • Wow there are some smart people out there on YouTube and you're one of them. You saved me allot of headache. Back when I was in a garage band I kinda' made my own lyrics to this song having not heard it in years. Something like: "One two spot in a parking lot I said hey! Yeah the cute little girls' put the rock and roll in our hearts." You may laugh!

  • Nicely done...

  • I might say to people "I won't do it if a poodle had a lid on it!" Rare rock songs are just NOT played on the retarded radio now...

  • This is like the Anime version of the show. lol.

  • Great song, even if the lyrics don't work perfectly. I'm probabbly adding this to my mix tape after work! Sorry, since after 2004 Rock will always lose out Vs. to Disco for me.

  • "If a poodle had a lid on" - LOL! Nice interpretation. Also, was thas Rush Limbaugh in the whack-a-mole game?

  • yeah, I couldn't think of a better way to have "ditto" properly represented...

  • Hey, that works perfectly!!! :) Funny stuff here.