Bali Boogie - Danny Kaye and Vera-Ellen in Wonder Man (1945)

Written by Sylvia Fine
Performed by Danny Kaye and Vera-Ellen (dubbed by June Hutton)

Category:

Film & Animation

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• Danny Kaye
• Vera-Ellen
• wonder man
• musical
• comedy
• oldies
• jazz
• boogie
• funny
• broadway
• song
• music
• stage

[petiteAlicious]

awe back then! lol

[Fantomas4616]

Danny Kaye was another great talent, - language artist.

[BalletBecca]

That end part it from The Nutcracker!

[huttonproject]

Here are the clever lyrics...enjoy!

Somewhere off the coast of Java fell a little piece of lava,

That grew up to be the island known as Bali

Bali la, Bali la, Bali la, Bali la

Every native girl sorta, like the farmer’s daughter outa

And for dancing they are simply off their trolley

Trolley la, trolley la, trolley, trolley, trolley la.

[huttonproject]

But they hadn’t seen a new step since Methuselah did the two-step,

On their isolated island they were way off – beat

From jive they were closeted, till the storm deposited, on their beach a Jiving Jack from lower Basin St.

He went up and got a-looking and he said “Hey, hey, what’s cooking?”

This here joint is jumping, but with melancholy,

Coli la, coli la, coli coli coli la.

So he took their native movements, added “in the groove” improvements,

Now they’re really on the trolley down in Bali

[huttonproject]

They made him king of the whole darn thing, and gave him for his queen the Balinese equivalent of Olivia de Havillant (de Havilland!) Pataka boing boing, yakputaka zoo floo Pataka boing boing, yakputaka ree pee Pataka boing boing, ya pataka siff riff A-haka choo choo, Chattanoogi Bali Booogie Awaka soing soing, ak-awaka slickly Awaka soing soing, ak-awaka hep step Awaka soing soing, ak-awaka live jive Ahaka choo choo, Chattanoogi Bali Booogie

[huttonproject]

Now if you can’t dig the chatter with the greatest of these It really doesn’t matter here’s the trans(a)lation, please Yakputaka boing boing Awa-Awaka soing soing Means “Shoot the lava to me Java” Pataka boing boing, yakputaka zoo floo Pataka boing boing, yakputaka ree pee Pataka boing boing, ya pataka live jive Haka choo choo, Haka choo choo, Haka choo choo, Haka choo choo, Haka choo choo, Chattanoogi Bali Booogie

[water1lizzie]

Now if you can't dig the java with the greatest of ease, it really doesn’t matter if the cancellations please yaka tacka boing boing, awaka wacka zong zong, knees, shoot me lava to the java, pataka boing boing yaputaka zooflu , pataka boing boing yaputaka knee be. pataka boing boing yaputaka live jive, acka cho co acka cho cho acka cho cho chaga nogi BOLI BOOGIE!

[water1lizzie]

pataka boing boing yaka taka zo flu, pataka boing boing yaka taka re fleet, pataka boing boing yaka taka stift fift, a yaka cho cho chaga nogi bali boogie.

awaka zong zong awaka waka slick flick, awaka zong zong awaka waka hip step. awaka zong zong awaka waka live jive. a yaka cho cho chaganogi bali boogie.

[water1lizzie]

He went up and gotta looking and he said hey hey what’s cooking, this here joint is jumping but with melancholy, coli la coli la coli coli coli la.

So he took their latest movement and added in the groove improvements, now there really of their trolley down in Bali.

They made him king of the hole darn thing, and gave him porters queen, the palenise equivalent of olivian divalent.