I, Yi, Yi, Yi, Yi (I Like You Very Much)
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"I, Yi, Yi, Yi, Yi" is a 1941
song. It was written for the 1941 film
, That Night in Rio
, and was popularized by Carmen Miranda
. The lyrics were written by Mack Gordon
and the music by Harry Warren
.
The song makes an appearance in the series finale
of the 1960s television series, The Prisoner
, then in an advert for Kellogg's Fruit 'n Fibre
in 1996 and was used in a sequence for the Futurama
movie The Beast with a Billion Backs
. Alvin and the Chipmunks
covered this song along with "Cunato Le Gusta" for their 1987 film The Chipmunk Adventure
and its soundtrack.
1941 in music
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song. It was written for the 1941 film
1941 in film
The year 1941 in film involved some significant events.-Events:Citizen Kane, consistently rated as one of the greatest films of all time, was released in 1941.-Top grossing films :-Academy Awards:...
, That Night in Rio
That Night in Rio
That Night in Rio is a 1941 musical comedy film starring Alice Faye, Carmen Miranda and Don Ameche . It is one of several film adaptations of a play called The Red Cat by Rudolph Lothar and Hans Adler...
, and was popularized by Carmen Miranda
Carmen Miranda
Carmen Miranda, GCIH was a Portuguese-born Brazilian samba singer, Broadway actress and Hollywood film star popular in the 1940s and 1950s. She was, by some accounts, the highest-earning woman in the United States and noted for her signature fruit hat outfit she wore in the 1943 movie The Gang's...
. The lyrics were written by Mack Gordon
Mack Gordon
Mack Gordon was an American composer and lyricist of songs for the stage and film. He was nominated for the best original song Oscar nine times, including six consecutive years between 1940 and 1945, and won the award once, for "You'll Never Know"...
and the music by Harry Warren
Harry Warren
Harry Warren was an American composer and lyricist. Warren was the first major American songwriter to write primarily for film. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Song eleven times and won three Oscars for composing "Lullaby of Broadway", "You'll Never Know" and "On the Atchison,...
.
The song makes an appearance in the series finale
Fall Out (The Prisoner)
"Fall Out" is the seventeenth and final episode of the allegorical British science fiction series The Prisoner, which starred Patrick McGoohan as the incarcerated Number Six...
of the 1960s television series, The Prisoner
The Prisoner
The Prisoner is a 17-episode British television series first broadcast in the UK from 29 September 1967 to 1 February 1968. Starring and co-created by Patrick McGoohan, it combined spy fiction with elements of science fiction, allegory and psychological drama.The series follows a British former...
, then in an advert for Kellogg's Fruit 'n Fibre
Fruit 'n Fibre
Fruit 'n Fibre is a breakfast cereal produced by Kellogg's and sold in various countries . It consists of wheat flakes, dried fruit and hazelnuts. Versions of this cereal are also produced by other companies under similar names, such as Fruit & Fibre...
in 1996 and was used in a sequence for the Futurama
Futurama
Futurama is an American animated science fiction sitcom created by Matt Groening and developed by Groening and David X. Cohen for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series follows the adventures of a late 20th-century New York City pizza delivery boy, Philip J...
movie The Beast with a Billion Backs
Futurama: The Beast with a Billion Backs
Futurama: The Beast with a Billion Backs is an animated science-fiction comedy film, the second of the four Futurama straight-to-DVD films. The film was released in the United States and Canada on June 24, 2008, followed by a UK release on June 30, 2008 and an Australian release on August 6, 2008....
. Alvin and the Chipmunks
Alvin and the Chipmunks
Alvin and the Chipmunks is an American animated music group created by Ross Bagdasarian, Sr. in 1958. The group consists of three singing animated anthropomorphic chipmunks: Alvin, the mischievous troublemaker, who quickly became the star of the group; Simon, the tall, bespectacled intellectual;...
covered this song along with "Cunato Le Gusta" for their 1987 film The Chipmunk Adventure
The Chipmunk Adventure
The Chipmunk Adventure is a 1987 American animated film featuring the characters from NBC's Saturday morning cartoon Alvin and the Chipmunks. The Chipmunk Adventure was directed by Janice Karman from a screenplay by Karman and Ross Bagdasarian Jr....
and its soundtrack.
External links
- List of recordings at AllMusic