An alphabetical list of musical catch phrases:
- "Ain't it funky now?" - James Brown
- "A-wop-bop-a-loo-bop-a-lop-bop-bop!" - From Little Richard's "Tutti Fruttu" (1956), became a catch phrase still associated with the singer.
- "Bow wow wow yippie-yo yippie yeah/ Bow wow wow yippie-yo yippie yeah" - George Clinton in "Atomic Dog" (1983)
- "Can't pass the people, can't pass me! Hit me!" -James Brown
- "Can't touch this!" - MC Hammer
- "Doobie doobie do" - Frank Sinatra's famous scatting at the end of "Strangers in the Night" (1967)
- "Elvis has left the building." - Closing statement after Elvis Presley's concerts
- "Gabba Gabba Hey!" - The Ramones
- "Hey! Ho! Let's go!" - The Ramones
- "Hi-de-ho!" - Cab Calloway
- "I buried Paul" - The final line in The Beatles' "Strawberry Fields Forever" (1967), which was actually John Lennon muttering "cranberry sauce". Nevertheless the phrase "I buried Paul" became an urban legend.
- "I feel good!"- James Brown, who used this line in his Signature Song "I Feel Good (I Got You)", but also dozens of other times in other songs and during public appearances.
- "I wish my brother George was here." - Liberace
- "Is everybody happy?" - Ted Lewis
- "Jah Rastafari!" - Bob Marley
- "Look out!" - Ronnie James Dio
- "No future!" - The Sex Pistols. Johnny Rotten mentioned this phrase in their song "God Save The Queen" and it quickly became a nihilistic slogan for punks everywhere.
- "Oops upside your head- I say: oops upside your head" - "Oops Upside Your Head" (1979) by the Gap Band
- "Put your hands up in the air and wave 'em like you just don't care" - Used zillions of times in any catchy song. The earliest use was probably "Rapper's Delight" (1979) by The Sugar Hill Gang.
- "Scream for me, (city name)]!" - Bruce Dickinson
- "Shamone" - Michael Jackson (Reference to his song "Bad", though he actually says: "c'mon". It has been spoofed in popular culture as "shamone")
- "So far away" - Dragonforce
- "We love you madly"- Duke Ellington's traditional closing message.
- "YOUUUUUU!!!!! Soulja Boy Tell Em..." - Soulja Boy Tell Em
- "Thank you. Thank you very much." - Elvis Presley
- "Yeah yeah yeah" - The Beatles. Their early songs often use "yeah yeah yeah" as a refrain. In France early pop music was even named "yéyé music".
- "Yeaaaaaah booooyyy!" - Flavor Flav of Public Enemy
