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Walla Walla Chippa Mocca Mogga

They say music can pick you up when you’re feeling down. Well, they’re not wrong.

Music

I’ve been a music lover as far back as I can remember. My memory can recall when I was sat in a yellow-painted high chair complete with a built-in abacus on a Sunday morning listening to Buddy Holly on the radio, singing ‘Raining In My Heart’. People tell me it’s impossible to recall things from that early in your life, but I can see and hear every last detail of that moment, including the grey wallpaper with silhouetted dancers.

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Little Darling

Little Darling (words and music by Maurice Williams) and sung by The Diamonds has had me laughing no end this week. It appears there are a few versions of the song and one covered by the king himself, Elvis Presley. Songwriting has always fascinated me, how someone can put words to music and it sounds so natural is a talent I’ve always envied. Songs like Simon & Garfunkle’s ‘Bridge Over Troubled Water’ or many of The Beatles songs seem so clever, beautiful, melodic and hit many emotions. We all have our favourite.

Strange Lyrics

However, ‘Little Darling’ has some of the strangest combinations of words I think I’ve ever heard. For example, “My lover, I was wronger to try to love two” or “Ahh Uha Uha Uha”. Talk about making the words fit the music! And there’s more (where have I heard that before?) in Elvis Presley’s version of the song. He seems to add his own lyrics, such as “Walla Walla Chippa Mocca Mogga”! I’m sure I can hear him laughing while he’s singing too. Which brings me back to what I was originally saying that music can lift you up.

Smile

I’ve included the original version of the song by The Diamonds courtesy of Youtube and up until a few years ago, I believe they were still singing the same version to audiences around Canada and North America. The singer has a big smile on his face and he was probably still a teenager at the time of recording. I hope you can garner a smile or two from listening to it. In a time of little to smile about, this song can take us to a simpler time and hopefully release a few endorphins for you.

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55 thoughts on “Walla Walla Chippa Mocca Mogga”

  1. gulfcoastpoet@gmail.com
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    Trev, yes i believe you remember sitting in your high chair playing with the abacus and listening to music!. I have a couple of detailed memories from before I was three.

    I enjoyed reading your post and listening to The Diamonds singing “Lil Darlin.'” have a great day! Cheryl

  9. conniejjasperson
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    I remember such fun songs from watching American Bandstand with my older cousins after school. “Shaboom Shaboom” “The Witch Doctor” – we would ride bicycles and sing at the top of our lungs. So much fun.

    BTW – I live a four hour drive from a city called “Walla Walla” and about twenty years ago, a local politician tried to make “Louie Louie” our official state song. I guess “Roll On, Columbia!” was too boring, lol!

  18. SueW
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    Thank you so much for the song Trev. I remember it well.

    My earliest memory is of being pushed in my brown pram, I can remember lying under the hood and the sound and sensation of the wheels going over the cracks on the paved pavement. My mum insisted it was impossible but I’ve always insisted it is my earliest memory.
    It’s possible I was a toddler because pushchairs weren’t common back then.

    1. Trev
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      I have a vivid image of being pushed to to Grandmothers house in a small, brown pushchair. Strange how small snippets of film from our memories can be recalled and played over. Thank you, Sue ????

  20. azurea20
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    Yo sí que creo que puedes recordar ese momento. No somos dueños de nuestra memoria y selecciona el recuerdo y el olvido. Hay cosas que no podemos olvidar y otras que no podemos recordar. Buen domingo.

  28. Yetismith
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    I love music too, Trev. I have eclectic choices from Classical to New Age to Rave and I’m not even sure what they call the stuff I listen to now. My housemate calls it my Marching music, but in the middle I’ll stop and listen to choral singing or Mongolian throat singing. It can bring me to tears (not the Mongolian stuff) but I love that it touches a part of you that is so deep.

  34. iammrsshecky
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    I remember that song too although I was 3 when that song came out. But I remember when I was a teenager in high school there was a place we would hang out at lunch hour across from High School called the Sweet Shop. My parents, listened to this music along with Frank, Dino and the bunch. But these songs were great in those players on top of the tables there *A-4*. My parents also went to the same high school and my grand parents so this town was full of those memories for them. WWII and for me too in my time. But this music is classic and did bring a smile and laugh while reading. Long winded here but you flared up some good memories including my first concert… The Beatles at the Cow Palace in 1964. Swoooon…

    1. Trev
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      Thank you, Mrs Shecky. I am pleased it brought back happy memories for you. I am green with envy that you got to see The Beatles in concert. Just WOW!!! 🙂

  36. Hope
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    If you don’t know every word to a song, the artist forgetting some words can fill them it with something else, and of course no one recognizes it. ????????

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