YUMMY YUMMY YUMMY, RIC OCASEK SURE LIKED HIS BUBBLE GUM!
Joe V looks back on Cars songs
The intro to Just What I Needed: Cars/Ohio Express intro:
Was Jon Macey of Fox Pass the only musicologist (and co-band leader who helped Captain Swing get record company attention down at Paul's Mall?, the Jazz Workshop basement under what would become a Newbury Records corporate office on the top floor ) to figure out "Just What I Needed" morphed off of the demo/hit for the Ohio Express, Yummy Yummy Yummy? Joe V extends the story of 1968's #4 US hit (#1 in Canada) YUMMY YUMMY YUMMY
The Ohio Express ...and the fan who did the video uses beautiful old cars, probably subconsciously, as Ric used the band's intro for his initial hit record! And someone made an Ohio Express video featuring Cars!!!!
YUMMY YUMMY YUMMYThe Ohio Express ...and the fan who did the video uses beautiful old cars, probably subconsciously, as Ric used the band's intro for his initial hit record!
https://youtu.be/iH9d-GOr31U
Back in the day, Jon Macey of Fox Pass tipped me off to the riff rip of "Just What I Needed" by the cars from The Ohio Express hit "Yummy, Yummy, Yummy."
Ric Ocasek frequently lifted significant elements from songs, "Come Back Down" by Captain Swing is exactly "Here She Comes Now" from the White Light / White Heat CD https://youtu.be/Ds_LUEe23dM
Released on: 1968-01-30
Producer: Tom Wilson
Studio Personnel, Engineer: Gary Kellgren
Composer Lyricist: Lou Reed
Composer Lyricist: John Cale
Composer Lyricist: Sterling Morrison
Composer Lyricist: Maureen Ann Tucker
Captain Swing Come Back Down
https://youtu.be/JVla6rOqZuQ
The melody is exact. This ain't no "My Sweet Lord" vs "He's So Fine," this is exact.
Songfacts does not list that the Cars used the intro from the Ohio Express demo, but they do note that it was the "demo that WAS the deal" for that 1960s hit:
Floyd Marcus is the drummer for the 1910 Fruitgum Company, who also recorded for Buddah Records and recorded many of the same songs as The Ohio Express. Floyd told us: "Joey had brought in a demo of 'Yummy Yummy Yummy,' and often back then the demos were not nearly as sophisticated as what you can do at your house today with Pro Tools - they want much more finished product these days. But Joey went and he did 'Yummy Yummy Yummy' as a demo, and Jeff and Jerry said, 'Yeah, we're going to take you to the studio and do this.' And before they knew it, the demo was out on the market. So it became a big hit, but you know, The Ohio Express wasn't really happy with it going out that way. They never had meant it to go out in the form it did. So it just shows you that often people don't really know what they have, and they don't really understand the business as well as some of these guys who are producing or managing."
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But even the usually reliable Songfacts and its comments don't reference Ocasek using the Yummy hit/demo intro for his composition "Just What I Needed."
Cars leader Ric Ocasek wrote this song in a basement at a commune in Newton, Massachusetts, where he lived at the time. At least that's the story he told - he also said that all written words are fiction.
"Just What I Needed" is a classic example of his skewed sense of humor and sly lyrical touch. It seems very sweet when he's telling the girl she's just what he needed and letting her know he's happy to have her wasting his time. But then he gets to the chorus:
https://www.songfacts.com/facts/the-cars/just-what-i-needed
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