<Table> <Tr> <Td> "Got to Get You into My Life" (1976) </Td> <Td> "Ob - La - Di, Ob - La - Da" (1976) </Td> <Td> "Sgt . Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" (1978) </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> "Got to Get You into My Life" (1976) </Td> <Td> "Ob - La - Di, Ob - La - Da" (1976) </Td> <Td> "Sgt . Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" (1978) </Td> </Tr> <P> "Ob - La - Di, Ob - La - Da" is a song by the Beatles from their 1968 album The Beatles (often called "the White Album"). Although credited to Lennon--McCartney, the song was written solely by Paul McCartney . It was released as a single that same year in many countries, but not in their native United Kingdom, nor in the United States until 1976 . </P> <P> Paul McCartney wrote the song around the time that highlife and reggae were beginning to become popular in Britain . The starting lyric, "Desmond has a barrow in the market - place", was a reference to the first internationally renowned Jamaican ska and reggae performer Desmond Dekker who had just had a successful tour of the UK . The tag line "ob - la - di, ob - la - da, life goes on, brah" was an expression used by Nigerian conga player Jimmy Scott - Emuakpor, an acquaintance of McCartney . Another example of the term in popular culture is the 1945 song' In the Land of Oo - Bla - Dee', which Mary Lou Williams composed for Dizzy Gillespie (heard on Dizzy Digs Paris). </P>

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