It was the inspiration and theme song for the 2002-2003 Canadian/Australian animated series, Yakkity Yak.It has also served as the theme to Clive Anderson's chat-show Clive Anderson Talks Back during the 1990s, and as the opening theme of the 1988 movie.The song is sung by the Coasters in the 1988 horror-comedy Phantom of the Ritz, in which the four-man group makes a cameo appearance.The tenor saxophone solo by King Curtis inspired the 1963 Boots Randolph song " Yakety Sax".Vince Vance & the Valiants, one of multiple groups parodying Barbara Ann as " Bomb Iran" in 1980, created a similarly themed 2005 parody called "Yakety Yak (Bomb Iraq)".A modified version, " Yakety Yak, Take It Back", was used in a 1990 all-star PSA for the Take It Back Foundation.The song was parodied for use in adverts for Radox bath soak and McCain Micro Chips in the 1980s and 1990s respectively.Phantom Planet covered this song for the soundtrack of the 1999 film Mumford.In the film, Julius ( Arnold Schwarzenegger) sings along as the song plays in his earphones while flying to the United States. The song was covered by 2 Live Crew for the 1988 movie Twins.Electronic/disco group El Coco covered this song in 1975 with some comedy elements, taken from their debut album, Mondo Disco, released on AVI Records.The Pipkins covered the song in 1970, produced by John Burgess.Sha Na Na performed this as part of their set at the original Woodstock Festival and recorded two live covers of the song in 19.Lee Perry released a cover version in 1969 (as Lee Perry and the Upsetters), altering the lyric "You ain't gonna rock and roll no more" to "You ain't gonna reggae reggae reggae no more".Carnival of Sound was not released until 2010. The song was covered by Jan & Dean and was planned to be released on their album Carnival of Sound in 1968.Billy Sanders recorded a version in German, "Jackety Jack" in early 1959. .Québécois duo Les Jérolas recorded in 1959 a French version, subtitled "Rouspet' pas", for the RCA Victor label.Wendell Marshall or Lloyd Trotman, bass.In the last verse, the parents order their son to tell his " hoodlum friend" outside in the car, that he won't be allowed to go out with him at all for a ride. The threatened punishment for not taking out the garbage and sweeping the floor is, in the song's humorous lyrics: "You ain't gonna rock and roll no more," The group was openly "theatrical" in style-they were not pretending to be expressing their own experience. Leiber has said the Coasters portrayed "a white kid’s view of a black person’s conception of white society." The serio-comic street-smart "playlets" etched out by the songwriters were sung by the Coasters with a sly clowning humor, while the tenor saxophone of King Curtis filled in, in the up-tempo doo-wop style. The lyrics describe the listing of household chores to a kid, presumably a teenager, the teenager's response ("yakety yak") and the parents' retort ("don't talk back") - an experience very familiar to a middle-class teenager of the day. The song is a "playlet," a word Stoller used for the glimpses into teenage life that characterized the songs Leiber and Stoller wrote and produced.
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