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“Yakety Sax” is a piece of music written by James Q. “Spider” Rich, and released as a 45 rpm single by Boots Randolph in 1963. The composition includes pieces of assorted fiddle tunes such as “Chicken Reel”, and was written for a performance at a venue called The Armory in Hopkinsville, Kentucky. Two bars of “Entrance of the Gladiators” are also worked into it. The song is not to be confused with the Leiber and Stoller song “Yakety Yak”, recorded in 1958 by The Coasters. The tunes are similar, and both feature the “yakety sax” sound, but have distinctly different melodies. Randolph had recorded an earlier version of “Yakety Sax” that year for RCA Victor, but it was not until his rerecording for Monument Records that it became a standard. Read on...