Awale Aden & Farhiya Kabayare-" Ku Ogoliyaa" (Somalia; information, video, & comments)

Edited by Azizi Powell

This pancocojams post showcases a video of Somali Superstars Awale Aden & Farhiya Kabayare singing-the love song "Ku Ogoliyaa".

Information about Djouboti and Somalia are included in this post. Selected comments from that YouTube video's discussion thread are also included in this post.

The content of this post is presented for cultural, entertainment, and aesthetic purposes.

All copyrights remain with their owners.

Thanks to for their musical legacy. Thanks to all those who are quoted in this post and thanks to the publisher of this video on YouTube.

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INFORMATION ABOUT DJOUBTI
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Djibouti
Djibouti... officially the Republic of Djibouti, is a country located in the Horn of Africa. It is bordered by Eritrea in the north, Ethiopia in the west and south, and Somalia in the southeast. The remainder of the border is formed by the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden at the east. Djibouti occupies a total area of just 23,200 km2 (8,958 sq mi).[1]

In antiquity, the territory was part of the Land of Punt and then Sabean and Axumite rule...

Djibouti is a multi-ethnic nation with a population of over 942,333 inhabitants. Arabic and French are the country's two official languages. About 94% of residents adhere to Islam,[1] which is the official religion and has been predominant in the region for more than a thousand years. The Somali Issa and Afar make up the two largest ethnic groups. Both speak Afroasiatic languages, which serve as recognized national languages."...

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INFORMATION ABOUT SOMALIA
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somalia
Somalia... officially the Federal Republic of Somalia[1] (Somali: Jamhuuriyadda Federaalka Soomaaliya, Arabic: جمهورية الصومال الفيدرالية‎‎ Jumhūrīyat aṣ-Ṣūmāl al-Fidirālīyah), is a country located in the Horn of Africa. It is bordered by Ethiopia to the west, Djibouti to the northwest, the Gulf of Aden to the north, the Indian Ocean to the east, and Kenya to the southwest. Somalia has the longest coastline on Africa's mainland,[10] and its terrain consists mainly of plateaus, plains and highlands.[3] ...

Somalia has an estimated population of around 14.3 million.[4] Around 85% of its residents are ethnic Somalis,[3] who have historically inhabited the northern part of the country. Ethnic minorities are largely concentrated in the southern regions.[12] The official languages of Somalia are Somali and Arabic, both of which belong to the Afroasiatic family.[3] Most people in the country are Muslim,[13] with the majority being Sunni.[14]"...

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INFORMATION ABOUT AWALE ADEN
From https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&u=https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Awaleh_Aden&prev=search
"Awaleh Aden Deheyeh (in Somali , Cawaale Aadan Deheeye; in Arabic , عواله ادم داهيه) born on 6 August 1983 in Djibouti, is a Djiboutian singer-songwriter living in Canada, who sings in several languages ( Somali , Afar , Oromo , French and English )."
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Additional information about Awale Aden is included in some of the discussion thread comments that are found below.

I've haven't found any online biographical information about Farhiya Kabayare. If you are aware of any links to this information, please share that in the comment section below. Thanks!

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SHOWCASE VIDEO: Awale Iyo Kabayare 2015 "Ku Ogoliyaa" (Official Video Directed by Studio Libraan)



Liibaan Jama, Published on Oct 28, 2014
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Google translate from Somali to English: Awale And Kabayare- "Allow you"

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SELECTED COMMENTS FROM THIS YOUTUBE VIDEO'S DISCUSSION THREAD
These comments are presented in relative chronological order based on their publishing date with the oldest comments by year given first, except for replies.

Google translate results are given after the comments for the comments written in a language other than English or those comments that have non-English words. I recognize that these translations may be incorrect. Corrections are very welcome.

Because this is a family friendly blog, I've deleted profanity (other than the mild curse word "damn". Those deletions are indicated in brackets in those comments.

WARNING: Some comments in that YouTube discussion thread are racists (from people who could be surmised as being non-Somali and non-Black). Some other comments from Somalis and others were politically argumentative, and/or reflected the historical and present day conflicts and tensions among Somalis themselves, but especially among Somalis and Ethiopians.

Other comments reflected Islamic beliefs or Islamic positions that this song/video wasn't appropriate or should have been forbidden.

I've chosen not to include any of these categories of comments in this discussion thread compilation.

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Numbers are assigned to these selected comments for referencing purposes only.

2015
1. mose Jacob
"learning somali langauge and practicing, from california"

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2. Nimo Farah
"Mashallah ! That's great let us know if we can help . 😍"
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mashallah
"Masha Allah (Arabic: ما شاء الله‎‎, mā shāʾa llāhu), also Masha'Allah, is an Arabic phrase that means "God has willed", expresses appreciation, joy, praise, or thankfulness for an event or person that was just mentioned. While Masha'Allah is used as an expression of respect, it also serves as a reminder that all accomplishments are considered by Muslims to be achieved through the will of Allah. It is generally said upon hearing good news."...

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3. Sabrina Sharif
"+mose Jacob
Although the language has been around for a long time the written language is under 50 years old."

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4. NFN MRM, 2016
"+mose Jacob Somali has roots first in Cushitic languages then Afro-Asiatic languages. Somali language is perhaps the oldest of the Cushitic languages and it has influenced other Neighboring Cushitic languages. Learn Somali and you will easily pick up other similar languages.

Somali language written in latin is less than 50 years old but we have been writing with different scripts for thousands of years.

Friendly advice; Be very careful with the Somali letters X, C, Q and D. they are not the same as how you would pronounce them in English"

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5. Waryaa Heedheh, 2017
"Yes Somali language has roots and based off of the Cushitic language tree. That means it is a derivative of ancient Egyptian.
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This comment was written in bold font in that discussion thread."

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6. Cabdullaahi Bootaan
"+Madara Sennin This is clean music, we are talking about love ending with marriage ... every Somali couples will Enjoy."

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7. Selemun rusom
"I am ertrian but I love somal music long live somal."

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8. Milanese Bwoy
"somalia and eritrea hve alike songs they sounding same

welcme"

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9. jafar maalim
"wht a wonderful and nyc song u r very rumantic guys"
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"nyc" is a "hip" way of spelling "nice" that appears to be rather widespread on many YouTube contemporary African music threads. In the context of those comments, "nice" is a compliment that appears to mean "good" and not "average" or "ok" (Note these two descriptors aren't used in those discussion threads.) The word "nice" may also be spelled in its standard way on these threads.

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10. MISS JJay
"someone needs to translate this song. Damn Somali lyrics are so complicated...."

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11. abdiwali hussein
"+MISS JJay i feel sorry for pipo like u u cant even understand yo own language"
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This commenter quickly corrected the typo "pipo" to "people"

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12. that aint ordinary bruh
"+abdiwali hussein sxb, people were taken from their country at a young age. like my family, we can all speak somali alx, but complicated lyrics are still hard to understand. so don't criticize."

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13. abdiwali hussein
"+that aint ordinary bruh i understand bro but still there no excuse for one not to not know their own language u can find somalis every where or u can even go back and visit your country and learn its something that definess u how do u say you are somali and u cant speak the language ?"
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"definess" = "defines"

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14. Saalax Cisho
"+abdiwali hussein"
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Writing just the name of a commenter as a reply means that the person agrees with what that commenter wrote.

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15. Jakiiz Jambo
"+abdiwali hussein Am somali born sxb and i still dont understand the lyrics that much and my Somali is on point"
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"On point" is an African American Vernacular English term that means that something is perfectly done.

"sxb"= appears to usually be defined as "bro" ("brother", used in the African American custom of referring to males who you aren't related to, but who you are friendly with or may be friendly with)

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16. MISS JJay
"Lol it's not about if i speak the language or not, the lyrics are complicated and even some words my bparents don't understand. Alhamdulillah Somali fiican waan ku hadli aqan walaal.
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Google translate from Somali to English:
"Alhamdulillah Somali fiican waan ku hadli aqan walaal".= "Alhamdulillah Good English I speak a brother."

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17. abdiwali hussein
"+MISS JJay am just [profanity deleted] with u waraya hesaha somalida anigaba i dont listen the lyrics i just listen them for the beat"
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Google translate from Somali to English:
"waraya hesaha somalida anigaba"- " Report on the Somali issue"

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18. Sara Ali
"Is he Somali or Oromo? I watched him singing Oromo so I'm confused 😏"

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19. Mahdia Houssein
"+Sara Ali What a silly question!"

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20. darui
"+Sara Ali he is somali from djibouti and he sang only one oromo song"

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21. Abdiwahab Mohamed
"+Mahdia Houssein not that silly

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22. Xoosh Robleh
"+Sara Ali stay that way
you better off confused
that qabilist,Oromo and somali have the same lineage
he is the latter"

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23. Rude gyal
"+Sara Ali Yes i was confused aswell but he's djiboutian somali i think he was raised in dire dhabe were alot of oromo lives"
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"Qabil"= Somali term for "clan affiliation" source: https://mymemory.translated.net/en/Somali/English/qabilalthough its current use may mean something more or something in addition to that

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"Oromo"
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oromo_people
"The Oromo people (Oromo: Oromoo; Ge'ez: ኦሮሞ?; ’Oromo) are an ethnic group inhabiting Ethiopia who are also found in northern Kenya and Somalia.[5][6] They are the largest ethnic group in Ethiopia and the wider Horn of Africa. According to the 2007 census,[1][7] they make up about 34.5% of Ethiopia's population and others estimate that they make up about 40% of the population.[6][8] With the total Ethiopian population thought to be over 102 million, the number of Oromo people exceeds 35 million in Ethiopia alone.[9]

Oromos speak the Oromo language as a mother tongue (also called Afaan Oromoo and Oromiffa), which is part of the Cushitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic family...

The Oromo are divided into two major branches that break down into an assortment of clan families. From west to east. The Borana Oromo, also called the Boran, are a pastoralist group living in southern Ethiopia (Oromia) and northern Kenya.[123][124] The Boran inhabit the former provinces of Shewa, Welega, Illubabor, Kafa, Jimma, Sidamo, northern and northeastern Kenya, and a small refugee population in some parts of Somalia....

Various human rights organizations have publicized the government persecution of Oromos in Ethiopia for decades. In 2008, OFDM opposition party condemned the government's indirect role in the death of hundreds of Oromos in western Ethiopia.[166] According to Amnesty International, "between 2011 and 2014, at least 5000 Oromos have been arrested based on their actual or suspected peaceful opposition to the government. These include thousands of peaceful protestors and hundreds of opposition political party members."...
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After reading most of the comments on this YouTube discussion thread and most or all of the comments on five other Somali contemporary music discussion threads-all but one of which was for Awale Aden's music- I never came across a reply from a Somali that wasn't very friendly toward any commenter who identified himself or herself as Oromo. Commenters who identified themselves as Eritrean and Djiboutian got the same very warm responses from Somalians, while Ethiopians who didn't identify themselves as Oromo almost always got the exact opposite response from Somalians.

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24. Aminnaaxo
"This song is good for weddings. "

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25. Abdirahman Omar
"I would like to say that Farhiya Kabayare And Awale have a great chemistry on the video and i can't rememeber a time where i saw a Somali video where i enjoyed watching it as much as this one. Farhiya has good bubbly personality which boasts everyone's mood and that smile of her is great. If they said nice thing about a Somali town we shouldn't all be jealous or envious because we should all know our fellow brothers live in that town and is ours as much as theirs so Big up to all Somalia."

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26. Junior Isaac
"Lovely duo......proudly Somali"

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27. abdifatah yare
"4 m ooolaaah
soosocda hada ilmo aabo ... this song soon will overthrow dhaantada dirgax which has the most viewers in somali songs on YouTube"
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4 m [million] refers to the total number of views for this video.

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28. Hassnaytou Ali
"AWALEH IS FROM DJIBOUTI AND WAY BETTER FROM OTHER SOMALI SINGERS .UNLIKE OTHER SOMALI SINGERS, HIS UNIQUENESS IS DUE TO EXPLORING OTHER NEIGHBORING TRIBES AND COUNTRIES MUSICS. PLUS, HE CAREFULLY CHOOSE HIS TUNE FOR HIS SONGS. C EST UNE FIERTE POUR DJIBOUTI .SINCE HIS ARRIVAL TO NORTH AMERICA, OTHER SINGERS WENT TO THE BACK OF THE QUEUE AND WENT HARDLY GET A CALL. COURAGE AWALEH ET NE RENONCE PAS A TES DJIBOUTIANITES."
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Google translate from French to English:
C EST UNE FIERTE POUR DJIBOUTIC IS A PRIDE FOR DJIBOUTI

AWALEH ET NE RENONCE PAS A TES DJIBOUTIANITES.- "AWALEH AND DOES NOT WAIVE YOUR DJIBOUTIANITIES. "[my suggested translation: "Awaleh doesn't renounce his Djiboutian heritage".

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29. Omar Ali
"Absolutely true. C'est notre monument national et je l'écoute tous les jours ici aux Etats unis. Merci pour ces paroles magnifiques Yi Hassnaytou Ali. May God always keep our beloved Djibouti in peace, prosperity and beauty. <3 <3 <3"

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30. cooler aced
"i love djibouti but now you are pushing it, dude even if entire djibouti watched his videos a billion times he would still have like 2 views very few people live there ,somalia capital of somali territories , nothing unique he is just talented"

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31. Siriin Said
"they are somali stars💯Thumps up for the legends👍👍"

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32. Malick jones
"The only problem is this individual male is as tall as the woman,this is extremely rare in Somali society"

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33. Rukzbliss mohz
"hehehe why is it a problem?"

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34. Malick jones
"No problem. I was making an observation"

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35. Malick jones
"Most of the Somali men that i have met have been exceptionally tall."

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2017
36. [name not retrieved- sorry]
"thanks brothers waa hees macaan dhulkeena hooyo"
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"waa hees macaan dhulkeena hooyo" ="It's a sweet song in our motherland"

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37. fatuma maalim
" "As promised I am single" this song is unique and the message is the words of love speak only if u feel it it's true"

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38. nana Raage
"I love my Somalia"

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39. Aden Ceynte
"what a nice song keep up my people"
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The phrase "keep up" is frequently found in most of the contemporary African music YouTube discussions threads that I've read. I believe that "keep up" is short for "Keep up the good work".

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40. Araps Rapu
"i love my somali pp'le , somalia,puntland,khatumoland,somaliland,jubaland,djiboutiland,Northern kenya land,Ogadenland,kukuland iyoo bisaadland, aniga waxaan axhaiii jacyland,,,,,,"

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41. Axmed Cali
"wow 5‚703‚456 views its most Somali Views veido
long life Awale and Farhia"
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This comment was published in June 2017.

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42. Suzana
"lot of foreigners are listening to this song"

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43. Ahmed Ahmed
"awale he's the somalia singer who has most of views on YouTube👏👏👏👏"
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All of Awale's YouTube videos have well over 1 million viewers.

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44. Naima Ali
"OMG i cant believe this has 6 million views! Did all somalis watch this? Wooow just shocking.... amazing."
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This comment was published in July 2017.

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45. Windex Windex
"Form USA i really love somali songs but i ain't understand a single world We love you guys !!"

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46. Axmed Ali
"i am from mars and i love somali music ha top that....."
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This comment is [I believe] humorously written in the form of many of the comments on and many other YouTube contemporary African music discussion threads. The commenter writes "I am from [name a nation] and (or often "but") I love [name the nation or ethnic group] music.

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47. Sammy Rich
"Somali music getting so much love from foreigners, amazing thanks for the kind words people"

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48. Anom m
"Damn bro, I love this song and I'm Somali, but I have no idea [profanity letters deleted] they are saying. I'm so out of touch with both my culture and language :("

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49. Rahma Farah
"Why so many haters on this song! Maxaa kaqaldan heestan waa yaabee?
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Google translation from Somali to English
"Maxaa kaqaldan heestan waa yaabee?"= "Why this song is so wonderful?"

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50. shakaal de pana
"am black American nd I like Somali music from los Angeles"

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51. Viv Berner
"shakaal de pana wow cool! How did you discover somali music?"
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There's no reply from Shakaal to this comment as of this date.

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52. Knight Rider
"6.1M view more 2k comments WOW! challenges any other somali song."
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This comment was written in August 2017. As of October 16, 2017 6:35 am, this video has 6,512,213 views.

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53. Siyaad Cali
"Knowledge people keep it up one love always"

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"La Hoola Boola", The African American Source Of The Yale University Song "Boola Boola" & The University Of Oklahoma song "Boomer Sooner"

Edited by Azizi Powell

This post presents information about the 1898 song "La Hoola Boola" that is documented as the source of the Yale University Fight Song "Boola Boola" & The University Of Oklahoma song "Boomer Sooner. Documentation about the connection between these three songs, and a sound file example of "Boola Boola" are also given in this post.

In addition, an example of an unrelated Somalian (Northeast Africa) song with the name "Boola Boola" and an example of the also unrelated Indonesian national anthem whose tune is quite similar to "La Hoola Boola" are included in the Addendum section of this post.

The content of this post is provided for folkloric, historical and cultural purposes.

All copyrights remain with their owners.

Thanks to Bob Cole and Billy Johnson for composing the song "La Hoola Boola". Thanks also to the vocalists who are featured on these sound files and videos and thanks to the publishers of these sound files and videos on YouTube. Thanks also to all those who are quoted in this post.

Hat tip to Slam20011 for sharing the information about the connection between "La Hoola Boola" and "Boola Boola".

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INFORMATION ABOUT THE AFRICAN AMERICAN SONG "LA HOOLA BOOLA" From https://www.yalealumnimagazine.com/articles/2552 Yale Alumni Magazine Arts & Culture “You can quote them” by Fred Shapiro | Sep/Oct 2009
Yale law librarian Fred R. Shapiro is editor of the Yale Book of Quotations.
"The authorship of Yale's iconic fight song “Boola Boola” has traditionally been ascribed to Allan M. Hirsh, Class of 1901...

But the claim of two men with no Yale connection -- Robert Allen “Bob” Cole and Billy Johnson -- appears to shift the role of Hirsh (and his classmates) from creating to adapting. Hirsh himself acknowledged as much, if somewhat obliquely, in his 1930 letter.

Cole and Johnson were extremely popular African American singer-songwriters of the time. They wrote, directed, and produced the first full-length musical with an all-black cast and all-black management, which opened on Broadway in 1898.* Also in 1898, they copyrighted a song called “La Hoola Boola.” In addition to using the word “Boola,” their song, according to James J. Fuld's authoritative Book of World-Famous Music (1971), has the same melody “virtually note for note in the important bars” as the Yale song. Fuld adds that, when the first edition for piano of “Yale Boola” (with A. M. Hirsh listed as author) was published in 1901, it included a notice: “Adapted by permission of Howley, Haviland & Dresser.” Howley, Haviland & Dresser was the successor publisher of “La Hoola Boola.”

In his 1930 letter, Allan Hirsh wrote: “The song was not altogether original with us, but was undoubtedly adapted from some other song but we were unable to definitively designate this song, although later on we did discover that there had been published a song, which at that time was out of print, called 'La Hula Boola,' and the air was quite similar but the time was different.” Given that Hirsh's publisher had felt obligated to get permission for adapting “La Hoola Boola,” Hirsh seems, at the least, to have failed to give proper credit to Cole and Johnson.”...
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* The Robert Allen "Bob" Cole and [William] Billy Johnson Broadway production in 1898 was "A Trip To Coontown".

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From The Book of World-famous Music: Classical, Popular, and Folk, James J. Fuld [Google Books, p. 150]
"The first printing of this melody [for "Boola Boola"], virtually note for note in the important bars is in the song “La Hoola Boola” where the words “Hoola Boola” are also frequently used. “La Hoola Boola” was copyrighted by Howley, Haviland and Company in 1898 although the year in the copyright notice on the music is from the previous year. “La Hoola Boola” is described as “an Hawaiian Ditty” ...Up To Dated” by Bob Cole and Billy Johnson. First edition front cover [of the musical score] has a drawing of two Hawaiians and is orange, black, and white in color..."
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I've not been able to find either the words to the song "La Hoola Boola" or any rendition of that song online. However, given the description of that song by James L. Fuld , it's very likely that "La Hoola Boola" includes a refrain similar to that of the Yale song "Boola Boola" except for the word "hoola" instead of the first "boola". Here's the refrain for "Boola Boola":

"Well-a Boola, Boo, Boola, Boola, Boo,
Boola, Boo, Boola, Boola, Boola, Boo!

Boola, Boola, Boola, Boola,
Boola, Boola, Boola, Boola,"
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The complete lyrics to the Yale song "Boola Boola" are found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boola_Boola

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THE WORD "HULA" AND THE SONG "'HOOLA BOOLA"
The word "hoola" is pronounced the same as the word "hula", a form of hip shaking/hand motion dance that is now (if not in the late 19th century) very closely associated with Hawaii. It seems very likely to me that that dance and its association with Hawaii is the meaning of the word "hoola" in that Cole/Johnson song. And the word "boola" is a word with no meaning that rhymes with the word "hoola" ("hula").

According to this website http://www.ovrtur.com/show/124809, the song “La Hoola Boola” was later added to the production of Bob Coles & Billy Johnson's Broadway play "A Trip To Coontown". That website includes a complete list of the songs that were featured in that production.

An excerpt from the article "Forgotten Manuscripts: A Trip to Coontown" written by Krystyn R. Moon, David Krasner, Thomas L. Riis, and included in African American Review Volume 44, Numbers 1-2, Spring/Summer 2011 (pp. 7-24 | 10.1353/afa.2011.0012) provides interesting information about that 1898 play and one of the songs that was originally written for that play “The Wedding of the Chinee and the Coon” (1897)”:
..."Bob Cole and Billy Johnson’s A Trip to Coontown first appeared on the stage during the 1897–98 season. Although African Americans had written numerous short theatrical and musical works, none had written a full-length musical production. To add to its historical significance, A Trip to Coontown was performed, directed, and produced by African Americans, an astounding feat in an era where few independent theaters could even consider taking a chance on such a production. Unfortunately, the play—like so many other nineteenth-century African American documents and artifacts—was lost, and scholars could only make conjectures (based mainly on newspaper reviews) about what it looked and sounded like.

...In A Trip to Coontown, Cole and Johnson reworked a skit originally titled At Jolly Coon-ey Island that Cole had written for Black Patti’s Troubadours (the operatic variety company formed by Sissieretta Jones) and named the new production to spoof one of the most popular musicals of the 1890s, A Trip to Chinatown (1891).3 Despite positive reviews in the fall of 1897, Cole was unable to produce his work except in third-rate American and Canadian theaters over the course of several weeks. By the end of the nineteenth century, the theater industry was owned and operated by a handful of European American men who could blacklist any performer and destroy his/her career. Not until after World War I did actors and writers have some success unionizing, but African Americans were almost unilaterally excluded. Cole’s previous employers organized a boycott of Cole and Johnson’s play because they chose to work independently. Despite this hurdle, its success grew, and Klaw and Erlanger, one of the major theatrical booking agencies in New York City, finally broke the boycott in April 1898 and opened A Trip to Coontown at the Third Avenue Theater.4A Trip to Coontown toured the United States for..."
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[end of Project Muse excerpt]
https://muse.jhu.edu/login?auth=0&type=summary&url=/journals/african_american_review/v044/44.1-2.moon.html
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As per this article, the original title for the play "A Trip To Coontown" was "At Jolly Coon-ey Island". That title includes a clever play on words since "Coney Island" was (and still is) a popular amusement location in New York City and "coon" was a somewhat common referent for a Black person. [The word "coon" as a referent for a Black person is considered a pejorative referent and as such is no considered appropriate to use.). The word "coney" in the name "Coney Island" is an English adaptation of a Dutch word for "rabbit". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coney_Island.

Given that the first cover of "La Hoola Boola"'s musical included drawings of two Hawaiians (as per the statements of James J. Fuld), and given that song's later inclusion in the play "A Trip To Coontown", it could be said that that composition provided a stereotypical depiction-albeit probably "friendly" stereotypical depiction- of Hawaiians. Since the play "A Trip To Coontown" apparently also included other stereotyped depictions, I can see how the song "La Hoola Boola" was added to that production.

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SOUND FILES OF THE YALE FIGHT SONG "BOOLA BOOLA" AND THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FIGHT SONG "BOOMER SOONER"
The SingALong Gang - Boola Boola



Technotherapie, Uploaded on Dec 17, 2011

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Boomer Sooner (University of Oklahoma fight song)



2011mrkingofkings, Published on Dec 7, 2013

My third Big Eight Conference fight song.

One of my favorite fight songs of all time, it's Boomer Sooner by The Pride of Oklahoma Marching Band, which WWE play-by-play man and Sooners fan Jim Ross uses as his theme music...
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A "fight song" is a song that is used to cheer on the athletes in a competitive game.

Here's information about the University of Oklahoma Fight Song "Boomer Sooner":
"Boomer Sooner" is the fight song for the University of Oklahoma (OU). The lyrics were written in 1905 by Arthur M. Alden, an OU student and son of a local jeweler in Norman. The tune is taken from "Boola Boola", the fight song of Yale University (which was itself borrowed from an 1898 song called "La Hoola Boola" by Robert Allen (Bob) Cole and Billy Johnson)." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boomer_Sooner
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The lyrics to the University of Oklahoma song "Boomer Sooner" are found on that song's Wikipedia page.

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ADDENDUM: TWO UNRELATED SONGS WITH SIMILAR TITLE OR TUNE

BOOLA BOOLA


ABAKFAY,Published on Jul 8, 2013
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There are several videos or sound files of this song on YouTube. Those performances are credited to Abdallah Lee. From the comments and summaries I believe that this song is Afar music from Somali, Africa.

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Indonesia National Anthem "Indonesia Raya" (Great Indonesia)



NationalAnthems12, Published on Oct 9, 2012

The official national anthem of Indonesia "Indonesia Raya" (Great Indonesia)
Lyrics include in both languages Indonesian and English

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