Does your chewing gum lose its flavor on the bedpost overnight?
 

Well? Does it?

What songs do you remember from your younger days. The goofy songs, like the ones you would find on the Looney Tunes album?

I completely forgot about that song! Now I can't get that one line out of my head!! (and ps, no the flavor gets better)

Excellent!

JACKPOT!

This month's Cellar Tip Jar donation (dig deep, people, it's for the children) will be made in Shawnee123's name. Sweeeeet! Thanks!

*ahem*

We're experiencing some technical difficulties with the tip jar. I have a dread suspicion it's *not* the tip jar's fault. I think I may have spoken in haste. But I'm good for it, I promise.

Once I discovered Dr Demento in the mid 70's, my brain was so filled with insane songs that I no longer recall when I first heard them.

I'm a huge Tom Lehrer fan.

Poisoning Pigeons In The Park

The Vatican Rag

The Masochism Tango

Oedipus Rex

To name a few.

"A Cannibal King with a big brass ring . . . " I can't remember that one.

"Found a peanut, found a peanut, found a peanut last night . . . "

"There's a hole in the bottom of the sea"

Sheldon, if you play any sort of instrument at all, you should check this out.

You'll be a hit at parties. :) I first received it in middle school, and eventually learned to play all of his songs... on the viola.

:violin:

I studied flute, clarinet, cello and violin in elementary school. Never learned anything on any of them. But I can hum. ;-)

Yes! And Shel Silverstein.

Beans In My Ears, the original earworm.

Turn Back the Clocks, from the prolific Allan Sherman -- you all know "Hello Faddah, Hello Muddah."

Chorus: Great green gobs of greasy grimy gopher guts,

Mutilated monkey meat,

Itsy bitsy birdie feet,

French fried eye-balls,

Rolling down a muddy street,

And I forgot my spoon. (slurp, slurp).

But I haaave a straaaaaaaaawww!

oh! how about, On Top of Spaghetti? I love that song!

My all time favorites are Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah. I drove my mother crazy demanding a 45 of that song. I also love the Snoopy vs. the Red Baron sequence (series of three parts, only part 3 ever gets radio play), and They're Coming to Take Me Away (now the hospital theme song ... at least three of us are using it as a ringtone).

Not technically a novelty song, but I love The Night Chicago Died by Paper Lace. And Carl Douglas, Kung Fu Fighting.

I listened to a lot of Dr. Demento while in high school and early college (until the local affiliate dropped his show), so you might as well throw in everything he played in the late 70s - early 80s.

Along the lines of "chewing gum":

Purple People Eater
Puff the Magic Dragon

At the summer camp I went to, the songs were mainly led by the older couple that owned and ran the place. Thus, I know lots of 60s novelty songs (like "Purple People Eater" and "The Billboard Song") but also quite a lot of old military songs ("The Caissons Go Rolling Along," "From the Halls of Montezuma...", "Battle of New Orleans" etc.)

Oh, god, I remember They're Coming to Take You Away!

A variant sautees the mutilated monkey meat and dirty little birdie feet in All-Purpose Porpoise Pus.

McDonalds is my kind of place
hamburgers in your face
french fries between your toes
dill pickles up your nose
ketchup's running down my back
I want my money back - before I have a heart attack!

:) I liked puff the magic dragon.
I still like the song about "The Lorax."...It's on the old video. ("Dr. Seuss")

The Streak - Ray Stevens

Ahab the Arab

Monster Mash

Convoy (breaker one-nine, that smell is gettin' intense...)

Like everyone else, I knew the old standby:
Jingle Bells
Batman smells
Robin laid an egg
The Batmobile lost a wheel
And the Joker danced ballet.

But my 5 year old son taught me this version last Fall:

Dashing through the snow,
On a pair of broken skis,
O'er the hills I go,
Smashing into trees (ow ow ow)
The snow it turning red
I think I'm almost dead
Now I'm in the hospital
With stitches in my head

Oh, 9-1-1, 9-1-1
Sirens all the way
Oh what fun it is to ride
In an ambulance all day.

LOL!

That's a keeper!
I don't even have kids.:D
:headshake

On top of spaghetti,
All covered with blood,
I shot my poor teacher
With a .44 slug.

I went to the casket
I went to the grave.
Some people threw flowers,
I threw a grenade.

I opened the casket,
She wasn't quite dead.
I got a bazooka
And blew off her head.

Shit, I'm not sure I even know how the real version goes.

Speaking of other things that a child should never experience... Anyone else here ever gotten stuck on that "It's a Small World" ride at Disney World for 45 minutes? Like right when you're supposed to be turning the corner so you're hearing animatronic children sing it to you in BOTH Spanish and fucking Mandarin Chinese? :shudders:

OH MY GOD.... I'm pretty sure that if I'm ever murdered, for some inexplicable reason, it WILL be "It's A Small World" playing in the background. Either that or "Wicked Game" by Chris Isaak. Both those songs creep me out for some bizarre reason.

This one was great

I was leery about clicking on the above anonymous link. I was certain it was gonna be the Banana Phone song.

I think it's a RR...not doing it.
:)

This will only resonate with Brits of a certain age!

Spitting Image's I've Never Met a Nice South African
('80s satirical song)

Which I now find has been given a new animation on youtube!

for the record, it misses out the last verse which should go
"Cos we've never met one either
Except for Breyten Breytenbach and he's emigrated to Paris. (farts)
Yes he's quite a nice South African
And he's hardly ever killed anyone
And he's not smelly at all
That's why they put him prison"

Havin mentioned the above, I have to mention what to me is the ultimate ear-worm - The Chicken Song.
Released as a double B side with the above.
Written by Rob Grant and Doug Naylor of Red Dwarf renown.

Mimics eurotrash vacation songs

Spitting image was the dog's bollocks. I miss it.

Eh. Just "swallow it in spite."

The one I wish I could remember starts with:

"Oh the Cannibal King with the big brass ring . . . "

but that's all I can remember. :(

Google wasn't your friend today, Cloud?

From Mudcat.org -- they tend to be a deep resource for this sort of thing. I've never heard the thing, but they have a MIDI, I think.

thank you UG. I've tried to google it before without success. I'm actually not positive that's the right one, but I guess it must be. I'll check out the mudcat site.

How 'bout this one:

Found a peanut, found a peanut, found a peanut last night. Last night I found a peanut, found a peanut last night.
Cracked it open, cracked it open, cracked it open last night Last night I cracked it open, cracked it open last night.
It was rotten, it was rotten, it was rotten last night, last night it was rotten, it was rotten last night.
Ate it anyway, ate it anyway, ate it anyway last night, last night I ate it anyway, ate it anyway last night.

repeat with other verses:

# Got a stomach ache"
# "Called the doctor"
# "Penicillin"
# "Didn't work"
# "Operation"
# "Died Anyway"
# "Went to Heaven"
# "Wouldn't take me "
# "Went the other way"
# "Didn't want me"
# "Woke up"
# "It was a dream"
# "Found a peanut" ...

Funny, I started to sing that song last night. Homeless Guy was eating peanuts in the shell and remarked he hated it when he dropped a perfectly good peanut in the shell bowl. (As a side note brag my 'rents surprised me by calling and asking me to dinner: I had a filet. :yum:) He then said "I found it. Woohoo!" (Small victories, you know.) So I said "Found a peanut, found a peanut." My cousin and I used to sit on my great-aunt's porch swing and sing that.

we took great delight as kids in the "went the other way" line.

Our version was not nearly so developed. I like!

We take the same scandalized delight in this song:

followed by gales of laughter. There are several other verses here, angels, devils, martians, Boy Scouts, etc. A very versatile song. In a surprising coincidence, having rewound this thread to the most recent posts, I found UG's song at the top of the page. It looks like fun!

Did anyone else know "Mm Ah Went The Little Green Frog"?


"Mm Ah!" went the little green frog one day,
"Mm Ah!" went the little green frog!
"Mm Ah!" went the little green frog one day,
As he jumped off of his log.

"Honk HONK!" went the big Mac Truck one day,
"Squish Squish!" went the little green frog,
and the frog won't go "Mm AH!" anymore
'Cause he got lapped up by a dog!