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Sunday May 01, 2005

Bar Bar Ra Ra Cu Cu Da Da

I need a little help with this. Yesterday, (for some unknown reason), I had a flashback to an old radio jingle or commercial or something. This would have probably been in the 70's or 80's. The trouble is I'm not remembering exactly how it went.

My vague recollection that there was a man who was having trouble saying "barracuda". I think it was the car rather than the fish. There was somebody else who suggested how he could fix this, and it ended up with the first man now saying it as "bar bar ra ra cu cu da da". My wife looked at me like I'm an idiot when I bought this up in conversation. Googling for it takes me to a lot of Vietnamese web pages. That's no help. So does anybody else remember this? When and what was it all about?

( May 01 2005, 10:56:21 AM PDT ) [Listen] Permalink Comments [2]

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You didn't find anything googling because you remember it wrong. The result spelled: ba ba ra ra cu cu da da. See: http://www2.hard-core-dx.com/archive/1997/msg01925.html I remember a Swedish radio show called Baracuda which had that as the signature.

Posted by Thorbiörn Fritzon on May 02, 2005 at 05:08 AM PDT #

Yup, that's it. Thanks Thorbiörn! 1966 eh. It's earlier than I thought too. Seeing as I grew up in England where there weren't many Plymouth Barracudas, I wonder where i picked that memory up from.

Posted by Rich Burridge on May 02, 2005 at 07:36 AM PDT #