Talk:Shakalaka

Origin
Everything2 has a piece on the phrase, that seems consistent with the idea that "boom" is the sound or concept of a slam dunk and shakalaka is the sound of the rim rattling in the immediate aftermath. In any case, can it have come from African American slang current in the 1960s into the 1969 recording by Sly and the Family Stone, rather than being just a musician's invention? --Jerzy•t 06:35, 1 July 2010 (UTC)

Shakalala is also found in the work song 'Can You Line It' from the Alan Lomax collection dated 1935. Possibly to do with the sound made making the railway lines. http://kodaly.hnu.edu/song.cfm?id=710 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.148.114.134 (talk) 04:39, 11 August 2016 (UTC)

Or the sound of the train itself. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.148.114.134 (talk) 04:42, 11 August 2016 (UTC)