History Music / DaYoopers

** Billy Bob Langson and Pete "Casanova" Lalonde, despite mainly being sketch comedy actors, sang part of "Armchair Quarterback".
** There are also several guest vocalists on most of their albums:
*** ''Culture Shock'': Bertha and Elaine Hintsala sang "Iso Sika", Glenn Adams sang parts of "Dear Mr. Governor", and Sandy Kemppa sang "Da Couch Dat Burps".

*** The video compilation ''It's About Time, Eh!'' features a re-recording of "Diarrhea" (originally sung by Potila) with new vocals by Kim Lenten. This version also appears on ''Songs for Fart Lovers''.

* VocalTagTeam / StepUpToTheMicrophone: They are ''all over'' this trope. Jim [=DeCaire=], Joe Potila, and Jim Bellmore usually did the vocals, but nearly every album had at least one song from a female perspective sung by Lynn. (Rare exception: Rare exception: Lynn sang "Nudsie's Wedding Reception" which has no gender-specific content.) Among the official members, there were several rotations:

* VocalTagTeam: They are ''all over'' this trope.
** While the lead vocals have been predominantly Jim [=DeCaire=], Joe Potila, or Jim Bellmore, Lynn has gotten at least one song per album, usually one requiring a female perspective or male/female duet. (Rare exception: Lynn sang "Nudsie's Wedding Reception" which has no gender-specific content.)

** Jerry Coffey sang "Super Dooper Yooper Love Machine" and two lines on "Nite Crawler Boogie".

** Double example with "30 Lb. Diaper". It was originally a concert-exclusive song sung by Jerry Coffey, but after he left, Reggie Lusardi took over vocal duties on it. Reggie also sings the studio version from ''21st Century Yoopers in Space''.
** ''Culture Shock'' was the first to feature guests on lead vocals: Bertha Hintsala sang "Iso Sika", and Sandy Kempa sang "Da Couch Dat Burps".
** Also on ''Culture Shock'', Glenn Adams did spoken interludes on "Yooper Talk" and half of the spoken-word verses to "Dear Mr. Governor", with Jim [=DeCaire=] handling the other half and Lynn singing the chorus. He also sang two folk songs on "Camp Fever", and returned many years later to do an interlude on "Ooga Booga" from ''Jackpine Savage''.
** ''Songs for Fart Lovers'' and ''21st Century Yoopers in Space'' also feature several guest musicians on lead vocals.

** Joe [=DeLongchamp=] sang "Camp Fever" and "Drinking Resort".

** Reggie Lusardi sang "30 Lb. Diaper". Interestingly, it was originally a concert-exclusive song sung by Jerry, but after he quit, Lusardi took over, and sang the version that appears on ''21st Century Yoopers in Space''.

* AuthorCatchPhrase: Deer/beer shows up a lot as a StockRhyme. They also make repeated use of Finnish slang such as "sisu" (roughly "determination").

** "Super Dooper Yooper Love Machine" is the only song sung entirely by Jerry Coffey, although he sang "Ridin' da Cotton Pony" as a duet with Lynn, and did two lines on "Nite Crawler Boogie".
** Dan Collins, obviously, sang "Yooper Cowboy Dan".

** ''Camp Fever'' has the band mostly shifted to its most famous sound, but there are still a couple Finnish folk songs performed on folksy instrumentation such as a gutbucket, jugs, and spoons. By ''Yoop It Up'', they had pretty much shifted to their style.

* ACappella: "My First Time Ever".

* LeadDrummer: Jim [=DeCaire=] and Jerry Coffey have both fulfilled this role at several points.

* {{Gasshole}}: Just about every album has had at least one reference to farting. Then there's ''Songs for Fart Lovers''...

** The only recording sung entirely by Jerry Coffey was "Super Dooper Yooper Love Machine". However, "Ridin' da Cotton Pony" was a duet between him and Lynn, and he sings two lines on "Nite Crawler Boogie". Jerry also sang "30 Lb. Diaper" in concert several years before it appeared on an album, but after he left, "Diaper" became the first song to be sung by Reggie Lusardi (who also does the studio version on ''21st Century Yoopers in Space'').

* Jim [=DeCaire=] (drums, percussion, vocals)

** While the lead vocals have been predominantly Jim [=DeCaire=], Joe Potila, or Jim Bellmore, nearly every album has at least one song sung by Lynn, typically one written from a female perspective. (Rare exception to the "female perspective" rule: Lynn sang "Nudsie's Wedding Reception" even though nothing in the song is gender-specific.)

** The only recording sung entirely by Jerry Coffey was "Super Dooper Yooper Love Machine". However, "Ridin' da Cotton Pony" was a duet between him and Lynn, and he sings two lines on "Nite Crawler Boogie". Jerry Coffey also sang "30 Lb. Diaper" in concert several years before it appeared on an album, but Reggie Lusardi took over after Jerry left. Reggie also sang the studio version on ''21st Century Yoopers in Space''.

* VolleyingInsults: "Mental Monkey" is a string of these between a brother and sister, portrayed by Jim [=DeCaire=] and Lynn.

** While the lead vocals have been predominantly Jim [=DeCaire=], Joe Potila, or Jim Bellmore, nearly every album has at least one song written from a female perspective and sung by Lynn.

* TheAllegedCar: The subject of "Rusty Chevrolet". "Yooper Snow Rocket" is about The Alleged Snowmobile.

-->I'll take a cork and Super Glue
-->Pound it in there with my shoe
-->And then I'll be all through
-->With diarrhea

-->"She's late! She's late! Oh Lord she's three months late / I took her to my uncle's camp, and now she's three months late!"

* DoubleEntendre: "Do You Wanna Buy an Organ" is ostensibly about a musical instrument, but could be about something else ("Do you wanna buy an organ / I'll sell it to you cheap / She never let me touch it / So you know it ain't been beat…").

** Jim [=DeCaire=]'s son, Jesse, appeared in a skit at the end of ''Camp Fever'' and got a lead vocal on one song from ''Yoop It Up'', both while he was still a child. Jesse later played guitar on "Shuckin' da Cob", and would sporadically appear as a guest musician on later albums before becoming their sound tech.

** ''Yoopanese'' is all over this, as the band barely resembles itself. "My Shoes" and "Critics Tune" are completely serious songs with more generic themes (YourCheatingHeart and TakeThatCritics, respectively); "Robot Girl" and "I Don't Wanna Glow" have science fiction overtones that stand in contrast to the mostly realistic approach of their later work; and "Road to Gwinn" is one of only a very small number of parodies in their catalog. It is also the only album besides ''Yoopy Do Wah'' not to have interstitial skits or guest musicians.[[note]]''We're Still Rockin''' came close to the latter as well, since the only guest musician is Jim [=DeCaire's=] son Jesse on lead guitar on one song, plus a sampled scream from a friend on "Vampire Surfing Girls".[[/note]] Also, Lynn is playing an analog synthesizer instead of a keyboard.

** ''Camp Fever'' has the band mostly shifted to its most famous sound, but there are still a couple Finnish folk songs performed on folksy instrumentation such as a gutbucket, jugs, and spoons.

* InnocentInnuendo: "[[http://dayoopers.com/theaterm/fsttmevr.mp3 My First Time Ever]]" sounds dirty with its lines about a female spreading her legs, the narrator putting his hands on her breasts, and "white stuff" coming, but it's really about [[spoiler:milking a cow]].

--->I took my date into the sauna, and on the bench we sat
--->She pointed and she said, "I've never seen one big as that"
--->She held it and she stroked it, and she told me with a smile
--->"Bodybuilders make me sick, but [[ChubbyChaser beer guts drive me wild]]"

* ListingCities: And countries, in "Christmas Is Everywhere".
* LocalReference: They frequently reference a lot of the smaller former mining towns in the UP, as well as businesses with a strong local presence, such as IGA supermarkets and Shopko discount department stores in "Rusty Chevrolet".
* LyricalDissonance: "Diarrhea", despite its subject matter, is performed as a straight-up love song. At least barring the fart solo.

* NobodyLovesTheBassist: They changed bassists twice in the course of their first six albums, and some of their songs don't even have bass parts. ("Second Week of Deer Camp" had a guest playing a gutbucket bass.) Bellmore played all the bass parts on ''We're Still Rockin''' due to it being recorded after Bradbury left, and while they later hired Reggie Lusardi as a touring bassist, Bellmore usually continued to play most of the bass parts in-studio.

-->''Twenty Yoopers on a pontoon boat, fishin' for Moby Dick\\

It's a little bit like heaven, when you're fishing with the guys''

** ''One Can Short of a 6-Pack'' abruptly switches to a batch of humorous Christmas songs for several tracks before reverting to the typical fare. One gets the impression that they wanted to do a Christmas album, but didn't feel that they had quite enough material for it.

* SubvertedRhymeEveryOccasion: "Deer Hunter's Widow" repeatedly subverts rhymes to "shit" by having the word go unsung, while "Butcher Town" uses a long chain of averted rhymes, "Miss Susie" style. "Arm Chair Quarterback" uses the oft-quoted "Rah rah ree, kick 'em in the knee / Rah rah rass, kick 'em in the other knee" cheer during a break.

* TruckDriversGearChange: Probably the closest they've ever come to this is "Wanna Buy an Organ", which goes from C Minor on the verses to C major on the chorus.

* VocalTagTeam: They are ''all over'' this trope. Most of the vocals have been Joe Potila, Jim Bellmore, or Jim [=DeCaire=], with Lynn Anderson/Coffey/Bellmore handling most songs written from a female perspective. Among those known to have been sung by other "official" members:
** Jim Pennell: "Smeltin' USA", "Chicquito War"
** Joe [=DeLongchamp=]: "Camp Fever", "Drinking Resort"
** Doc Bradbury: "Transplant Song", "Free Beer", "Grandpa Got Run Over by a Beer Truck", first verse of "Heikki Lunta" (Lynn does the second verse, Joe Potila does the third, and all three do the chorus)
** Jerry Coffey: "Super Dooper Yooper Love Machine", "Nite Crawler Boogie" (two lines in the first verse), "Ridin' da Cotton Pony" (duet with Lynn). The last one was the only duet he ever did with Lynn, despite many other songs taking a husband-and-wife perspective; "Fish Fight Song" and "Anniversary Song" had [=DeCaire=] sing the husband's part, while "Pizza in My Shorts" and "Meat Head" used Potila. However, Jerry and Lynn also portrayed a husband and wife on a skit from ''Jackpine Savage'', and they voiced the parents in the half-skit, half-song "I Want a Rinky Dinky Doo Dad for Christmas."
** Dan Collins: "Yooper Cowboy Dan", of course.
** Jerry Coffey also sang "30 Lb. Diaper" in concert several years before it appeared on an album, but Reggie Lusardi took over after Jerry left. The studio version on ''21st Century Yoopers in Space'' also has Lusardi.
** ''Culture Shock'' was the first to feature guests on lead vocals: Bertha Hintsala sang a song in Finnish called "Iso Sika" (aka "The Killing of the Big Pig"), and Sandy Kempa sang "Da Couch Dat Burps".

** Reggie Lusardi: "30 Pound Diaper". Jerry Coffey originally did this song in concert several years before it appeared on an album, and Reggie took over after he left.

* TheAllegedCar: The subject of "Rusty Chevrolet".
** "Yooper Snow Rocket" is about The Alleged Snowmobile.

** In the skit before "Da Couch Dat Burps", Sandy Kempa quotes an old joke: "Sex is like bridge. If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand."

* EarlyBirdCameo: Jim [=DeCaire=]'s son, Jesse, appeared in a skit at the end of ''Camp Fever'' and got a lead vocal on one song from ''Yoop It Up'', both while he was still a child. Jesse later played guitar on "Shuckin' da Cob", and would sporadically appear as a guest musician on later albums before becoming their sound tech.

** "My First Time Ever" is in the style of a barbershop quartet, with Jim B. singing all four parts.

** "Yooper Snow Rocket". Jim B. sings the lead vocal and a bass harmony, while Lynn sings two harmonies over him. As a bonus, Lynn also plays two keyboard parts on the song (one set to organ, one set to saxophone).

** "When One Love Dies" on ''Yoopy Do Wah'', a straight-up serious song about a deceased lover. The album itself may be an example, as it was the only one after their first not to include skits.

* VocalTagTeam: They are ''all over'' this trope. Most of the vocals have been Potila, Jim Bellmore, or sometimes Jim [=DeCaire=]. They've also written several songs from a female perspective for Lynn to sing.
** Among those known to have been sung by other "official" members:
*** Jim Pennell: "Smeltin' USA", "Chicquito War"
*** Joe [=DeLongchamp=]: "Camp Fever", "Drinking Resort"
*** Doc Bradbury: "Transplant Song", "Free Beer", "Grandpa Got Run Over by a Beer Truck", first verse of "Heikki Lunta"
*** Jerry Coffey: "Super Dooper Yooper Love Machine", "Nite Crawler Boogie" (two lines in the first verse), "Ridin' da Cotton Pony" (duet with Lynn). The last one was the only duet he ever did with Lynn, despite many other songs taking a husband-and-wife perspective; "Fish Fight Song" and "Anniversary Song" had [=DeCaire=] sing the husband's part, while "Pizza in My Shorts" and "Meat Head" used Potila. However, Jerry and Lynn also portrayed a husband and wife on a skit from ''Jackpine Savage'', and they voiced the parents in the half-skit, half-song "I Want a Rinky Dinky Doo Dad for Christmas."
*** Dan Collins: "Yooper Cowboy Dan", of course.
*** Reggie Lusardi: "30 Pound Diaper". Jerry originally did this song in concert several years before it appeared on an album, and Reggie took over after he left. (Bellmore always plays bass on this song.)
** Several vocal parts have been shuffled over time due to membership changes. The general rule is that Bellmore sings whatever Potila used to, but this is not set in stone. Perhaps the most interesting is that "Fishin wit Fred", originally sung by Potila, ended up split among [=DeCaire=], Lusardi, and Bellmore.
*** When he was in the group, Collins took over from Bradbury on "Grandpa Got Run Over by a Beer Truck" and Potila on "Diarrhea". Both were later given to Bellmore after Collins left.
** Also, several guests have contributed over time:
*** ''Culture Shock'' was the first to feature guests on lead vocals. Bertha Hintsala sang a song in Finnish called "Iso Sika" (aka "The Killing of the Big Pig"), and Sandy Kempa sang "Da Couch Dat Burps".
*** Glenn Adams was featured in some of the skits framing ''Culture Shock'' (on which he also contributed to half of the spoken-word verses to "Dear Mr. Governor") and ''Yoop It Up'', and sang two folk songs on ''Camp Fever''. He returned much later to back the Jims on "Ooga Booga" from ''Jackpine Savage''.
*** ''Songs for Fart Lovers'' and ''21st Century Yoopers in Space'' also feature several guest musicians on lead vocals.
* VolleyingInsults: "Mental Monkey" is a string of these between a brother and sister, portrayed by Jim D. and Lynn.

*** ''Culture Shock'' was the first to feature guests on lead vocals. Bertha Hintsala sang a song in Finnish called "Iso Sika" (aka "The Killing of the Big Pig"), and Sandy Kempa sang "Da Couch Dat Burps". Unknown male vocalists (several vocalists are credited in the liner notes, but it's not known who sang what) sang "Ruthie Rollover", "Chiquito War", and "Beer-Beer-Beer".

*** Jim Pennell: "Smeltin' USA"

* Jim Bellmore (guitar, various other instruments, vocals)

* Jim [=DeCaire=] (percussion, vocals)

* Jerry "Cuppa" Coffey (drums, congas, vocals). Lynn was married to him from the late 1980s to the mid-2000s.

* Reggie Lusardi (bass guitar, vocals). Died May 8, 2016.

** Dan Collins sang backing vocals on a couple albums before becoming an official member on ''We're Still Rockin''' in 1996.
** Dick Bunce had been a stage actor for several years, but near the end of his tenure, he played bass on a handful of songs instead of Lusardi or Bellmore.

** "Shuckin' da Cob" is the narrator's reminiscence of being told that he'll go blind, but stating that it's what "made him a man".

** ''Yoopanese'' is all over this, as the band barely resembles itself. "My Shoes" and "Critics Tune" are completely serious songs with more generic themes (YourCheatingHeart and TakeThatCritics, respectively); "Robot Girl" and "I Don't Wanna Glow" have science fiction overtones that stand in contrast to the mostly realistic approach of their later work; and "Road to Gwinn" is one of only a very small number of parodies in their catalog. It is also the only album besides ''Yoopy Do Wah'' not to have interstitial skits or guest musicians.[[note]]''We're Still Rockin''' came close to the latter as well, since the only guest musician is Jim [=DeCaire's=] son Jesse on lead guitar on one song.[[/note]] Also, Lynn is playing an analog synthesizer instead of a keyboard.
** ''Culture Shock'', despite containing the very famous "Rusty Chevrolet" and "Second Week of Deer Camp", still contains some weirdness. Notably, some tracks still have Lynn playing a synthesizer ("Last Frontier" even has a drum machine, something the band never used again); "Chiquito War" continues to show a mild science-fiction theme; and guest musicians perform some Finnish folk songs near the end. Also, "Rusty Chevrolet" and "Second Week of Deer Camp" are examples themselves, as the former is a parody, and the latter is "traditional" folk with only a gutbucket bass and accordion.

* ElvisImpersonator: In "He Thinks He's Music/{{Elvis|Presley}}", the narrator (Lynn) laments that her husband woke up this morning and thought himself to be The King.

* LeadBassist: Everyone who has ever played bass for the band (except for Dick Bunce) has sung at least one lead vocal. In an inversion, Jim Bellmore often played bass in-studio, usually to tracks he sang lead on.

** Also true of touring drummer Bobby Symons, who mostly just stayed behind the drum kit and never sang or participated in skits. [=DeCaire=] usually played the drum parts in-studio.

** The version of "Smeltin' USA" on ''For Diehards Only'' oddly keeps Jim Pennell's original vocal track, but has a new instrumental backing.

*** Jerry Coffey: "Super Dooper Yooper Love Machine", "Nite Crawler Boogie" (two lines in the first verse), "Ridin' da Cotton Pony" (duet with Lynn). Oddly, the last one was the only duet he ever did with Lynn, despite many other songs taking a husband-and-wife perspective; "Fish Fight Song" and "Anniversary Song" had [=DeCaire=] sing the husband's part, while "Pizza in My Shorts" and "Meat Head" used Potila. However, Jerry and Lynn also portrayed a husband and wife on a skit from ''Jackpine Savage'', and they voiced the parents in the half-skit, half-song "I Want a Rinky Dinky Doo Dad for Christmas."

*** Reggie Lusardi: "30 Pound Diaper". Jerry originally did this song in concert several years before it appeared on an album, and Reggie took over after he left. (Oddly, Bellmore always plays bass on this song.)

!Members:

* NobodyLovesTheBassist: They changed bassists twice in the course of their first six albums, and some of their songs don't even have bass parts. ("Second Week of Deer Camp" had a guest playing a gutbucket bass.) Lusardi has been the touring bassist since the late 90s, but Bellmore typically plays the bass parts in-studio.

* StepUpToTheMicrophone: They are ''all over'' this trope. Most of the vocals have been Potila, Jim Bellmore, or sometimes Jim [=DeCaire=]. They've also written several songs from a female perspective for Lynn to sing.

* StylisticSuck: Invoked in a newspaper article, where [=DeCaire=] said that they decided not to let Joe [=DeLongchamp=] sing a song they had been working on, because [=DeCaire=] thought that his voice was too good for it.
* SubvertedRhymeEveryOccasion: "Deer Hunter's Widow" repeatedly subverts rhymes to "shit" by having the word go unsung, while "Butcher Town" uses a long chain of averted rhymes, "Miss Susie" style. "Arm Chair Quarterback" uses the oft-quoted "Rah rah ree, kick 'em in the knee / Rah rah rass, kick 'em in the other knee" cheer during a break.
* SynchroVox: Done twice with a mounted deer head on "Camp Go for Beer", a song exclusive to ''It's About Time, Eh!''
* TakeThatCritics: "Critics Tune".
* ToiletHumor: Not just the ''Fart Lovers'' album, but also "Diarrhea" (self-explanatory), "Lonely Yooper" (character hides in an outhouse during an affair and gets crapped on), etc.
* TruckDriversGearChange: Probably the closest they've ever come to this is "Wanna Buy an Organ", which goes from C Minor on the verses to C major on the chorus.
* UnusualEuphemism: "Ring Dang Do" is about female genitalia, apparently.
* VocalTagTeam: As mentioned above, they've never really stuck to just one lead singer. Several songs have split the lead vocal, as well.

** ''Yoopanese'' is all over this, as the band barely resembles itself. "My Shoes" and "Critics Tune" are completely serious songs with more generic themes (adultery and TakeThatCritics, respectively); "Robot Girl" and "I Don't Wanna Glow" have science fiction overtones that stand in contrast to the mostly realistic approach of their later work; and "Road to Gwinn" is one of only a very small number of parodies in their catalog. It is also the only album besides ''Yoopy Do Wah'' not to have interstitial skits or guest musicians.[[note]]''We're Still Rockin''' came close to the latter as well, since the only guest musician is Jim [=DeCaire's=] son Jesse on lead guitar on one song.[[/note]] Also, Lynn is playing an analog synthesizer instead of a keyboard.