Album: The Ohio Express (1968)

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• Yummy, yummy, yummy
  I got love in my tummy and I feel like a-lovin' you
  Love, you're such a sweet thing, good enough to eat thing
  And it's just a-what I'm gonna do
  
  Ooh love to hold ya, ooh love to kiss ya
  Ooh love I love it so, oh love you're sweeter
  Sweeter than sugar
  Ooh love, I won't let you go
  
  Yummy, yummy, yummy
  I got love in my tummy and as silly as it may seem
  The lovin' that you're giving is what keeps me livin'
  And it's just like peaches and cream
  
  Kinda like sugar, kinda like spices
  Kinda like, like what you do
  Kinda sounds funny but you love honey
  And honey, I love you
  
  Ba, da, ba, da, da, da, da
  Ba, da, da, da, da, da
  
  Yummy, yummy, yummy
  I got love in my tummy that your love can satisfy
  Love, you're such a sweet thing, good enough to eat thing
  And sweet thing, that ain't no lie
  
  I love to hold ya, I love to kiss ya
  Ooh love, I love it so
  Ooh love, you're sweeter, sweeter than sugar
  Ooh love, I won't let you go
  
  Ba, da, ba, da, da, da, da
  Ba, da, da, da, da, da
  
  Sweet thing
  Sweet thing, yummy yummy
  Sweet thing Writer/s: Arthur Resnick, Joey Levine
  Publisher: CARLIN AMERICA INC, BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT
  Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 9

• Ljc from TexasThought it meant gay sex
• Babbling Babette from Tulsa OkWhen "bubblegum music" appeared on the charts, I wasn't into it at all in high school. But I got shipped off to college in '68 and that music showed up in most of the college taverns around campus. So I gradually started liking it for the looniness & scatter-brained aura of it. They're great to dance to when a jukebox is blasting it out with a tavern full of juiced-up college kids. This song & "Green Tamboreen" were wild favorites. But then "96 Tears" was so popular too & I don't know if it's a bubblegum song or not. Anyways---it's a wonder I graduated college, since it seems all my time was spent at the college bars and taverns dancing my little heart out with all the jocks. The song itself seemed to have lyrics that were a bit dirty. Or was it just an urban legend sort of thing??? But I'm babbling again...
• Harry White from CaliforniaIn the 60s I'd be driving around with my stoner friends listening to the radio, and when this song came on they'd get really upset and wonder how it ever got on the same station that played Hendrix. Their reaction was like bubble gum music was social engineering, the same as what Frankie Avalon did to rock and roll in the 50's taking the rebellion out of the youth who could see through society's BS.
• Rotunda from Tulsa, OkLove this zany hit from 1968. I was a freshman in college & working at a Sonic drive-in. At the Sonic, I'd hear this song come over their P.A. system & I thought it was a cute song, until it got to the lyrics "I got love in my tummy" and it sounded a bit risque'. Ya know? Anyway, an older dude (a college senior) told me he heard it was about oral sex. I didn't believe him. I never did buy this single, but I loved the song. I know that this song, like other bubblegum songs, was a wide departure from the many socially conscious songs of '68 & '69. I think a lot of rock & rollers just got burnt out on too many socially conscious songs that really brought you down mentally. Kids loved this song too. I remember my little cousin (10 at the time) really was bazookas over this song. HAA! I always loved the drums on this hit & wondered who their drummer was.
• Bubblesk from Memphis, TnOK, now I'm confused. When this song came out, I was a terrible punk in jr. high and my three older brothers in high school rebelled against the norm and loved bubblegum music and owned the single and played the heck out of it and other bubblegum hits. They never let me touch their records! So I never saw the artists' names on the single's labels. I always thought this song was by the 1910 Fruitgum Company. Way back then, my brothers were always snickering around when they played this record and told me it was about some girl having sex and getting pregnant, but who knows what it's about? Does anyone offer an explanation? Inquiring minds want to know.
• Bryan from Tulsa, OkOkay, everytime I hit play I get any song except Yummy Yummy Yummy
• John from Cincinnati, OhThe Ohio Express were really 3 "groups", with the actual band by that name (from Ohio) not having any of their hits, but that group would appear on TV shows lip-syncing Joey Levine's songs. Levine also had hits as The Third Rail ("Run Run Run"), The Jet Stream ("All'a Quiet on West 23rd"), Reunion "(Life is a Rock") and the Kasenetz Katz Singing Orchestral Circus ("Quick Joey Small").
• Barry from Teaneck, NjThese are not the same people who recorded Beg Borrow and Steal (although the re-release says it's by the Ohio Express). It is easy to hear they are by different people. Beg Borrow and Steal was first released under the Attack label by The Rare Breed (which is exactly the same recording as the one released under the Cameo Parkway label by the Ohio Express).
• Mark from London, EnglandThe flip-side to this record, Zig Zag, is just an instrumental played backwards.

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