Remarks:
If in 5,000 years archaeologists can reconstruct my memories based on chance remains of my brain, this song is probably all they will get –
“That’s the way, uh-huh uh-huh, I like it, uh-huh, uh-huh.”
In 1975 it went to #1 on the US pop chart twice and once on the R&B chart. It went to #2 across the Anglosphere in general (weighted average). It has since been covered, sampled, and used in films and television ads countless times.
Like Neneh Cherry’s “Buffalo Stance” (1988), it is one of those songs that ring in my head out of the blue.
Like Soul II Soul’s “Back to Life” (1989), they played it so much I got sick of it but now it seems better. Both songs have highly repetitive lyrics. In this song there are 84 uh-huh’s, which comes to 30% of the song.
The video comes from “Soul Train” by way of Japan – like how some of the works of Aristotle come by way of the Arabs.
See also:
- songs: the 1970s
- Silver Convention: Fly Robin Fly – this song’s rival in the charts
- preserved for the ages (bodily or otherwise):
- Ötzi the Iceman – died in the Alps 5,000 years ago
- Aristotle
- Don Cornelius – of “Soul Train”
Lyrics:
Oh, that’s the way, uh-huh uh-huh
I like it, uh-huh, uh-huh
That’s the way, uh-huh uh-huh
I like it, uh-huh, uh-huh
That’s the way, uh-huh uh-huh
I like it, uh-huh, uh-huh
That’s the way, uh-huh uh-huh
I like it, uh-huh, uh-huh
When you take me by the hand
Tell me I’m your loving man
When you give me all your love
And do it the very best you can
Oh, that’s the way, uh-huh uh-huh
I like it, uh-huh, uh-huh
That’s the way, uh-huh uh-huh
I like it, uh-huh, uh-huh
That’s the way, uh-huh uh-huh
I like it, uh-huh, uh-huh
That’s the way, uh-huh uh-huh
I like it, uh-huh, uh-huh
When I get to be in your arms
When we’re all all alone
When you whisper sweet in my ear
When you turn, turn me on
Oh, that’s the way, uh-huh uh-huh
I like it, uh-huh, uh-huh
That’s the way, uh-huh uh-huh
I like it, uh-huh, uh-huh
That’s the way, uh-huh uh-huh
I like it, uh-huh, uh-huh
That’s the way, uh-huh uh-huh
I like it, uh-huh, uh-huh
Babe, oh babe (that’s the way, uh-huh, that’s the way, uh-huh)
Babe, oh babe (that’s the way, uh-huh, that’s the way, uh-huh)
That’s the way, uh-huh, uh-huh
I like it, uh-huh, uh-huh
That’s the way, uh-huh, uh-huh
I like it, uh-huh, uh-huh
That’s the way, uh-huh, uh-huh
I like it, uh-huh, uh-huh
That’s the way, uh-huh, uh-huh
I like it, uh-huh, uh-huh
Oh, that’s the way, uh-huh, uh-huh
I like it, uh-huh, uh-huh
That’s the way, uh-huh, uh-huh
I like it, uh-huh, uh-huh
That’s the way, uh-huh, uh-huh
I like it, uh-huh, uh-huh
That’s the way, uh-huh, uh-huh
I like it, uh-huh, uh-huh
Disco 🕺🏿💃🏿
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5,000 years… LOL
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