Anyone tell me what is the origin of the title Get Yer Ya Ya's Out?

Well Im not gonna post what the urban online dictionary says.

altho one definition was ethnic for grandmother..

Thanks for the pointer button_your_lip I'v never heard of it before

[www.urbandictionary.com]

If anyone's interested

oops - you were swifter than i was, exhpart. but i suspect that one's based on the album title,
not the other way around.
i guess this is what button-your-lip meant: [www.urbandictionary.com]

one explanation i've heard said it's a "wimpy British misunderstanding" of a line in a way-old blues
about roasting a duck and bringing a glass to catch the drippings from its yass yass yass -
i'm sure Rockman knows the original in all due detail. :E



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From [en.wikipedia.org] :

"The title of the album was adapted from the song "Get Yer Yas Yas Out" by Blind Boy Fuller in which "yas yas" is a euphemism for "ass" (arse). The phrase used in Fuller's song was "get your yas yas out the door"."

Ringo Wrote:
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> From
> [en.wikipedia.org]
> :
>
> "The title of the album was adapted from the song
> "Get Yer Yas Yas Out" by Blind Boy Fuller in which
> "yas yas" is a euphemism for "ass" (arse). The
> phrase used in Fuller's song was "get your yas yas
> out the door"."

I thought "ya yas" was a variation on "ta tas," which means "tits" and would better fit the Fuller lyric.

>> which means "tits" and would better fit the Fuller lyric <<

smile: "get your tits out the door" fits better than "get your ass out the door"?
interesting. have some popcorn :E

All I know is it's a Ass-kickin Album!!!!!

MLC

jAMES "STUMP"jOHNSON Has one called the Duck Ya-ya's First recorded in Jan 1929

"Shake your shoulders, shake 'em fast; if youo can't shake your shoulders, shaKE YOUR YAS YAS YAS"

cool - these way-old blues references all fit together nicely

with sssoul Wrote:
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> >> which means "tits" and would better fit the
> Fuller lyric <<
>
> smile: "get your tits out the door" fits better
> than "get your ass out the door"?

That depends on their respective size

with sssoul Wrote:
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> >> which means "tits" and would better fit the
> Fuller lyric <<
>
> smile: "get your tits out the door" fits better
> than "get your ass out the door"?
> interesting. have some popcorn :E

OK, I'll clarify for you: "ya yas" and tits both being plural and all--never did think of a person having "asses..." (and please see jagbo's post on the 1929 record above for added clarification.)

Also: what does that cutesy :E symbol and "have some popcorn" mean, anyway? As clever as you are, I keep missing your point.

I'm not getting involved in this.

"Sittin' on my la la waiting for my (ass), uh-huh".

John Lennon, "Ya-Ya" from 'Walls & Bridges" 1974.

That's funny.

>> OK, I'll clarify for you: "ya yas" and tits both being plural and all <<

well but is "yas yas" plural in the blues lyric? if it's a play on "ass"
(which is clear enough in the duck-roasting lyric) then that's why it ends in s

>> (and please see jagbo's post on the 1929 record above for added clarification.) <<

my sentiments exactly - i take that one as a play on "shake your ass".
and since that number's got a duck in the title, i reckon it's closely related to
the duck-roasting number i read about (if it's not the exact same one).

>> Also: what does that cutesy :E symbol and "have some popcorn" mean, anyway? <<

ahh, but the :E is not "cutesy" - au contraire, even!
it's the same large smile as the colon+D - except this one has fangs :E

and the popcorn is simply a sign of good will. roughage is good for us. :E



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THE DUCK YAS-YAS-YAS
by Tampa Red and Georgia Tom Dorsey

Mama bought a rooster, she thought it was a duck.
She brought him to the table with his legs straight up.
In came the children with the cup and a glass,
To catch the liquor from his yas yas yas.

Babe, oh, babe, have you ever been to Spain?
See those hoodoo women, shakin' that thing.
They got rings on their fingers, bells on their toes.
What they've got good, babe, nobody knows.

I'm goin' down Market Street,
Where the men and women all do meet.
That's where the men do the Georgia Rub,
Women fall in line with a big washtub.

Me and my gal walkin' down the street.
She caught the rheumatism in her feet.
She stooped over to pick some grass,
And the same thing struck her in the yas yas yas.

You catch the train you call Forty-Nine,
carries you down to Caroline.
You catch the train you call Forty-Eight,
Takes you right in to the Golden Gate.

You shake your shoulders, you shake 'em fast.
You can't your shoulders, shake your yas yas yas.
Drink some rooster soup before going to bed.
Wake up in the mornin', find your own self dead.

Down on Morgan there's a good location,
Right there next to a gasoline station.
That's where you'll get your car's oil and grease.
Women cryin', "Honey, won't you come in, please."

I'm gonna sing this verse, ain't gonna sing no more.
Somebody's knockin' on my door.
The people upstairs have gone to bed.
I'd better stop that noise 'fore they crack my head.

These two recorded it in march, Stump johnson recorded it in January, then again in november and much later in 1964 or 5

...Think I'll have a bad of popcorn



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Yas Yas....was the jazz/blues slang term for arse.

That's Your Yas Yas
Keep Your Yas Yas Clean
The Duck's Yas Yas
Get Your Yas Yas Out
The Yas Yas Man
The Yas Yas Girls

Memphis Minnie - New Dirty Dozen
Now the funniest thing I ever seen, tom cat Jumping on the sewing machine
Sewing machine running so fast took ninty-nine stiches in his yas yas yas

As for the case of the Stones 'Get You Ya-Ya's Out!'
It's most possibly a nod to the blues "arse" term....
As in get your arse out and shake it ...BUT there could also
be a chance it might be meant as also getting your verbal cheering and
yelling out for the Stones as in.....Get Ya-Ya's (Yeah - Yeah's) Out...



ROCKMAN

[passing huge helpings of popcorn to Rockman]

I'm sure the image on Charlie's shirt (on the album cover) has helped lead to the confusion. Originally I thought BREASTS (because of the CW's shirt)...then I assumed "go crazy/blow steam off"......this is the first I've heard of the Blind Boy Fuller "arse" thing. Not sure if it's one of those...or all of those. I'm not doubting Rockman.....I just don't know for sure.

With small cd art these days...I wonder how many youngsters were unaware of the ya-yas on Charlie's t-shirt.



Is there a a definitive answer somewhere or just speculation?



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Any guesses on a pronunciation of the singular "yas yas", then? I'd always thought "ya ya's" was [YAH yahs]. But now... ?

I never noticed the shirt before neo con.....I did however always find it strange that the drummer was carrying all the equipment, well with a little help from a beast of burden,.....and he looked thrilled to be doing it

Hey Lukester...you've seen the beginning of the Gimme Shelter movie right? THey show part of the photoshoot for the album cover. (w/Mick directing)

Here's another image from the shoot....anyone have any others?





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>> Any guesses on a pronunciation of the singular "yas yas", then?
I'd always thought "ya ya's" was [YAH yahs]. But now... ? <<

well but ... ya yas is not identical to yas yas.
the way i've heard that duck blues sung, yas (x 3) rhymes with glass, grass, and so on.
the way i've heard everyone in the world including the Stones pronounce the album title,
ya yas rhymes with wah-wahs.

and i reckon the album title is like Rockman said: it alludes to the old blues term,
but if it was meant to be the same thing, i reckon they would've spelled it yas yas.
what they did instead is (i reckon) just a gloriously raunchy-sounding title
for a gloriously raunchy-sounding album.



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What a great thread. I never noticed charlies t-shirt either.

Also, the urban dictionary site is hilarious. Ive known about it for a while and some of the stuff on there is nuts...

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What's your favourite flavour?...........Cherry Red!!

Was it Freud that said something like "Sometimes, a cigar is just a cigar." Given the image on Charlie's shirt (which I had never noticed before either), I think in this case, it simply means tits.

"ya-ya's"?..... why the apostrophe "s"?? "ya-ya" in plural form would be "ya-yas" right? I guess it's #3.

The apostrophe has three uses:

1) to form possessives of nouns
2) to show the omission of letters
3) to indicate certain plurals of lowercase letters.



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what a surprise, a grammatical error from a rock band.

>> Given the image on Charlie's shirt <<

yep, the image on Charlie's shirt is indisputably tits;
whether "ya yas" means tits is a different question, though.
alluding to an old blues term that means ass but having it actually mean tits
and putting a tshirt on Charlie to helpfully illustrate - right, why not? :E
far as i'm concerned the album title can certainly be an exhortation to get all kinds of things out,
including but not limited to ass, tits, general raunchy exuberance and let me hear you say ~*YEAH!*~
(and bless you all for makin me glad i'm old enough to have owned this album
back when it was LP-sized so you couldn't miss what's on Charlie's shirt.)



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Re: use of the apostrophe

Actually I've done more research....and it is acceptable:

(from Wikipedia)
Use in forming certain plurals

a few sources [2] accept its use in an alternative spelling of the plurals of a very few short words, such as do, ex, yes, no, which become do’s, ex’s, etc. In each case, dos, exes, yesses and noes would be preferred by most authorities. Nevertheless, many writers are still inclined to use such an apostrophe when the word is thought to look awkward or unusual without one.



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