Yakety Sax

"Yakety Sax"
Single by Boots Randolph
from the album Yakety Sax!
B-side"I Really Don't Want to Know"
Released1963
StudioPhillips Recording, Nashville, Tennessee
GenreNovelty, pop
Length2:00
LabelMonument Records
SongwritersSpider Rich
Boots Randolph
ProducerFred Foster
Music video
Boots Randolph - Yakety Sax (Audio) on YouTube

"Yakety Sax" is an instrumental novelty pop song composed by James Q. "Spider" Rich and Boots Randolph and released in 1963.

"Yakety Sax" was popularized by The Benny Hill Show. The song is widely recognized and used in television and film as a soundtrack to highlight outlandish or silly situations.