| 词条 | Yakety Sax |
| 释义 |
| name = Yakety Sax | cover = Yakety-Sax-Monument-45804-300px.jpg | alt = | type = single | artist = Boots Randolph | album = Yakety Sax! | B-side = I Really Don't Want to Know | released = 1963 | format = 7" (45 rpm) | recorded = | studio = | venue = | genre = Novelty, pop | length = 2:00 | label = Monument Records | writer = Spider Rich Boots Randolph | producer = Fred Foster | prev_title = | prev_year = | next_title = | next_year = }}"Yakety Sax" is a pop novelty instrumental jointly composed by James Q. "Spider" Rich and Boots Randolph.[1][2][3][4] Saxophonist Randolph popularized the selection in his 1963 recording, which reached number 35 on the rock charts.[5] UK comedian Benny Hill later made it more widely known as the closing theme music of The Benny Hill Show. The piece is considered Randolph's signature song.[6] The selection includes pieces of assorted fiddle tunes and was originally composed by Rich for a performance at a venue called The Armory in Hopkinsville, Kentucky. Two bars of "Entrance of the Gladiators" and "The Girl I Left Behind" are also worked into it. Randolph's take on the piece was inspired by a sax solo in the Leiber and Stoller song "Yakety Yak", recorded in 1958 by the Coasters.[7] The tunes are similar, and both feature the yakety sax sound. Randolph first recorded Yakety Sax that year for RCA Victor, but it did not become a hit till he re-recorded it for Monument Records in 1963; this version reached number 35 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Other performances
In popular cultureYakety Sax is often used in television and film as a soundtrack for outlandishly humorous situations. It was frequently used to accompany comedic sketches—particularly the time-lapse, rapidly paced, silent "chase" skit, which came at the end of almost each episode of the Thames Television comedy programme The Benny Hill Show.[11] Because of this, Yakety Sax is so closely linked to the series that it is also known as The Benny Hill Theme. On The Benny Hill Show, the music was performed by Ronnie Aldrich and His Orchestra. This use of the piece, and the chase scenes themselves, have been parodied in many other movies and TV shows, including Get a Life,[12] the 2006 American film V for Vendetta, in the 2015 Doctor Who episode "The Girl Who Died", and the animated TV shows The Simpsons, Family Guy, and South Park. The stop motion animated sketch comedy series Robot Chicken featured a brief sketch depicting Benny Hill's funeral (using dolls) where the attendees have a Benny Hill Show-type chase scene with many of the usual gags and a song similar to Yakety Sax. The theme was used during the 2012 Olympics beach volleyball event between sets (where rakers must rush to smooth out the court).[13] References1. ^{{cite book |title=The Golden Age of Novelty Songs |last=Otfinoski |first=Steven |publisher=Billboard Books |date=2000 |page=204 |isbn=9780823076949}} {{Bill Haley & His Comets}}2. ^{{cite book |title=The Oxford Handbook of Social Justice in Music Education |page=147 |last=Gould |first=Elizabeth |chapter=A Jazz Funeral in Music Education |editor1=Cathy Benedict|editor2=Patrick K. Schmidt|editor3=Gary Spruce|editor4=Paul Woodford |publisher=Oxford University Press |date=2015 |isbn=9780199356157}} 3. ^{{cite book |title=Music in the 20th Century |page=95 |last=DiMartino |first=Dave |publisher=Routledge |date=April 15, 2016 |isbn=9781317464303}} 4. ^{{cite book |title=Celebrating the Saxophone |last=Lindemeyer |first=Paul |page=77 |publisher=Hearst |date=1996 |isbn=9780688135188}} 5. ^{{cite book |title=That Old-time Rock & Roll: A Chronicle of an Era, 1954–1963 |last=Aquila |first=Richard |publisher=University of Illinois Press |page=304 |date=1989 |isbn=9780252069192}} 6. ^{{cite book |title=Elvis Music FAQ: All That's Left to Know About the King's Recorded Works |last=Eder |first=Mike |publisher=Hal Leonard |date=September 1, 2013 |page=164 |isbn=9781617135804}} 7. ^{{cite web|author=Greg Adams |url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/boots-randolphs-yakety-sax!-mw0000652781 |title=Boots Randolph's Yakety Sax! - Boots Randolph | Songs, Reviews, Credits |publisher=AllMusic |date= |accessdate=2016-09-27}} 8. ^{{cite book|last=Whitburn|first=Joel|title=Hot Country Songs 1944 to 2008|publisher=Record Research, Inc|year=2008|page=34|isbn=0-89820-177-2}} 9. ^Rockin' Song of the Week No.100 - The Highliners, at Rockabillyville; published 29 May 2010; retrieved 17 June 2012 10. ^{{cite web|title=Andre Rieu's 2006 New York Memories Yackety Sax|website=You Tube|publisher=fxmy032701|accessdate=8 September 2016}} 11. ^{{cite news|url=http://articles.latimes.com/2007/jul/04/local/me-randolph4|title=Boots Randolph, 80; versatile musician recorded `Yakety Sax’ |work=Los Angeles Times |date=4 July 2007 |accessdate=2008-10-14}} 12. ^Get a Life - Season 2, Episode 7 - "Chris Becomes a Male Escort" 13. ^{{cite web|author= |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/19016564 |title=Olympics beach volleyball: Bearskins, bikinis and Benny Hill |publisher=BBC Sport |date=2012-07-29 |accessdate=2016-09-27}} 10 : 1963 songs|Bill Haley songs|Chet Atkins songs|Glen Campbell songs|Monument Records singles|Novelty songs|Pop instrumentals|1963 singles|Television theme songs|1960s instrumentals |
| 随便看 |
|
开放百科全书收录14589846条英语、德语、日语等多语种百科知识，基本涵盖了大多数领域的百科知识，是一部内容自由、开放的电子版国际百科全书。