Ob La Di, Ob La Da The Beatles instrumental cover by Dave Monk

ObLaDi, ObLaDa is a song by the Beatles from their 1968 album The Beatles, often called the White Album. It was credited to LennonMcCartney but 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. 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 marketplace 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 obladi, oblada, life goes on, brah was an expression used by Nigerian conga player Jimmy ScottEmuakpor, an acquaintance of McCartney. Another example of the term in popular culture is the 1945 song In the Land of OoBlaDee, which Mary Lou Williams composed for Dizzy Gillespie (heard on Dizzy