Dah Dah facts
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Disney's film "Song of the South" (based on the "Uncle Remus" books and famous for its "Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah" song) has never been released in its entirety on home video in the United States due to its offensive racial stereotypes and benign portrayal of ex-slaves and their former masters.
The morse code symbol for the letter V, dit-dit-dit-dah, is the same as the famous motif from Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, which can be represented by the Roman Numeral V.
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US POWs in the Vietnam War used taps to communicate while held in isolation. To initiate conversation, they tapped Shave and a Haircut (dah da-da dah dah). The correct response was Two Bits (dah dah). Captors, unfamiliar w/the jingle, tapped back the five beats--revealing they weren't American.
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The "dah da-dah da-dah HEY! da-dah da-dah" song played in US sports arenas earns a convicted UK pedophile $250,000 a year
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The Cash Me Outside, How Bout Dah girl has a hip hop song and video.
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Lovely Kid Says First Word A Dah Dah Dah
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A popular chant of fans of the English football team is "2 World Wars and 1 World Cup, do dah, do dah" in reference to WW1 &WW2.
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The band Death Cab for Cutie took their band name from a song of the same name, written by Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band. The song was performed by Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band during the strip club scene in The Beatles "Magical Mystery Tour" movie.
