Get more of yer ya ya’s out. Lyrics: ya ya ya ya ya ya/ya ya ya ya ya ya/ ya ya ya ya ya ya/ ya ya ya ya ya ya (repeat).

The Yardbirds – “Hot House of Omagarashid”

Forgotten Vertigo label brilliance from Deutschland for getting your ya ya’s out. Lyrics: ya ya ya ya ya ya ya/ya ya ya ya ya ya ya ya ya (repeat). Ja?

Odin – “Turnpike Lane”

Roberta Flack’s “The Closer I Get to You,” a duet with Donny Hathaway which came out in 1977, is one of the creamiest and most irresistible of all seventies soul ballads. But I think songwriters Reggie Lucas and James Mtume got some of their musical inspiration from a short scene in It’s the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown, which came out in 1974. See what you think.

Birdhouse lounge scene in It’s the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown (1974)

“The Closer I Get to You” (1977)