OK, Gumbo I'm down with. But what is the 'Ya Ya' all about?

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

Can someone explain that? Can it BE explained? :shrug:

[ForrestGump]

1. As far as I know, it means

everyone talking at once. Kinda makes sense, if 'yaya' is yakking and 'gumbo' is a mélange.

I know this, as I know everything I know, thanks to Elvis -- "Gumbo Ya Ya" was almost the title of one of his '60s movies. Woulda been cool.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

2. So did the movie not get made? Or just title changed? Set in Nawlins?

[ForrestGump]

7. Yep, it got made with a different

title: Girls! Girls! Girls! Set in Hawaii, and filmed there in 1962. So, yeah, no Nawlins connection at all, really. :-)

Maybe it should have been Poi Ya-Ya.

My other favorite working title to one of Elvis' films was Bumblebee, Oh Bumblebee, changed to Stay Away, Joe. If I remember correctly, Bumblebee is a place somewhere north of Flagstaff, which at least fits the story 'cos Elvis played a Navajo dude in the film. And, in one of those twists of fate, the Bumblebee Tuna Factory was featured in Girls! Girls! Girls!

[I Know How To Do it]

6. Gumbo is an African word for Okra.

[KG]

3. what about the gris-gris?

[Atlas Mugged]

4. First thing that came to my mind, too

'Gris Gris Gumbo Ya Ya' & 'Walk On Gilded Splinters'.

[elshiva]

5. Sitting in La La/Waiting for my YA YA? WTF?

I LOVE That song but???