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Double Dutch Bus---what are they saying? I was listening to the 1981 hit "Double Dutch Bus" by Frankie Smith yesterday.It was HUGE in the summer of '81,but I've never understood exactly what the kids are saying in the song.At the time,people were telling me it was "pig Latin",but how does that work? Can somebody translate this song for me? | |
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DavidEye said: I was listening to the 1981 hit "Double Dutch Bus" by Frankie Smith yesterday.It was HUGE in the summer of '81,but I've never understood exactly what the kids are saying in the song.At the time,people were telling me it was "pig Latin",but how does that work? Can somebody translate this song for me?
thats not pig latin lol... personally i think it was just some made up spur of the moment crap  | |
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Finess said: DavidEye said: I was listening to the 1981 hit "Double Dutch Bus" by Frankie Smith yesterday.It was HUGE in the summer of '81,but I've never understood exactly what the kids are saying in the song.At the time,people were telling me it was "pig Latin",but how does that work? Can somebody translate this song for me?
thats not pig latin lol... personally i think it was just some made up spur of the moment crap At one point,it sounds like they're chanting... "Willsy is a pillsy et tha double dut dus,tha double dut dus" | |
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DavidEye said: Finess said: DavidEye said: I was listening to the 1981 hit "Double Dutch Bus" by Frankie Smith yesterday.It was HUGE in the summer of '81,but I've never understood exactly what the kids are saying in the song.At the time,people were telling me it was "pig Latin",but how does that work? Can somebody translate this song for me?
thats not pig latin lol... personally i think it was just some made up spur of the moment crap At one point,it sounds like they're chanting... "Willsy is a pillsy et tha double dut dus,tha double dut dus" i think Frankie smith did prison time for giving harshdrugs to those children during that session  | |
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LOL... | |
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DavidEye said: LOL...
seriously tho..whatever happened to WMOT Records i believe they were based in philly had a small group of artists... "Fat Larry's band... Frankie Smith Margie Joseph..even Blue Magic was Breifly signed to WMOT shit they even had Mel brooks ( good to be the king) speakin of which... ya'll remember Sylvia's answer record to that "Good to be the Queen?" lol sadly Sugarhill records Burned down to the ground a few months ago...and i was thinking OMG i reallyhope those Master Tapes... arent at 96 west street... | |
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It IS a form of pig latin. When the song came out in 1981, my Dad happened to hear it. He recognized the slang immediately.
He was a white guy born in 1937 in Nebraska and raised in Houston, and this was a form of pig latin popular in the '50's. Rappers have been using it for the last ten years or so. Unfortunately, I don't remember exactly how to translate it, so I can't help you there, but I'm sure some of the people here who follow rap can decode it for you. | |
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