# Another "ID this song for me" request **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 13, 2014, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-id-this-song-for-me-request/688339 "2014-05-13T12:55:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2014, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-id-this-song-for-me-request/688339/1 "2014-05-13T12:55:15Z")
I have almost NO info to go on. It popped into my head while I got up to go pee about 1/2 hour ago. It MAY have been a Dr. Demento song; I’m not sure. It’s got a piano opening, and it sounds ragtime. The opening is close to - but not quite - Tom Lehrer’s [Vatican Rag](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFIkeXQI8nI). Maybe with [I Will Survive](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBR2G-iI3-I&feature=kp) mixed in. The lyrics start out with something about (I believe) “ever since I was a little bitty kid, my momma [or mother, or some other term]…” something. It may reference something being placed above his crib, like a mobile or something. That’s all I got. ---
**Author:** ![lost4life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c4cdca/32.png) [@lost4life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lost4life)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2014, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-id-this-song-for-me-request/688339/2 "2014-05-13T14:17:30Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > I have almost NO info to go on. It popped into my head while I got up to go pee about 1/2 hour ago. It MAY have been a Dr. Demento song; I’m not sure. It’s got a piano opening, and it sounds ragtime. The opening is close to - but not quite - Tom Lehrer’s [Vatican Rag](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFIkeXQI8nI). Maybe with [I Will Survive](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBR2G-iI3-I&feature=kp) mixed in. The lyrics start out with something about (I believe) “ever since I was a little bitty kid, my momma [or mother, or some other term]…” something. It may reference something being placed above his crib, like a mobile or something. > > That’s all I got. No idea, but CCR’s Cotton fields Back Home starts with _When I was a little bitty baby My mama would rock me in the cradle_. ---
**Author:** ![Ferd\_Burfel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecccb3/32.png) [@Ferd\_Burfel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferd_Burfel)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2014, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-id-this-song-for-me-request/688339/3 "2014-05-13T16:57:58Z")
Can’t believe I know this one. It’s “My Ding A Ling” by Chuck Berry. [His only #1 hit.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Ding_A_Ling) ---
**Author:** ![DChord568](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@DChord568](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DChord568)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2014, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-id-this-song-for-me-request/688339/4 "2014-05-13T17:16:55Z")
> [@Ferd\_Burfel](#): > > Can’t believe I know this one. It’s “My Ding A Ling” by Chuck Berry. [His only #1 hit.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Ding_A_Ling) As “My Ding-a-Ling” was recorded before a live audience with only Chuck Berry’s guitar as musical accompaniment, it wouldn’t appear to match the OP’s description (“It’s got a piano opening, and it sounds ragtime. The opening is close to - but not quite - Tom Lehrer’s Vatican Rag. Maybe with I Will Survive mixed in”) very well. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2014, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-id-this-song-for-me-request/688339/5 "2014-05-14T01:11:42Z")
Yeah, it’s not Chuck Berry. In my recollection, it’s more recent than that. Maybe within the last 20 years. ---
**Author:** ![Ferd\_Burfel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecccb3/32.png) [@Ferd\_Burfel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferd_Burfel)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2014, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-id-this-song-for-me-request/688339/6 "2014-05-14T01:34:36Z")
Sorry. I thought for sure the lyrics were a match for what you were describing. > [@](#): > > When I was a little bitty boy > my grandmother bought me a cute little toy > Silver bells hangin’ on a string > she told me it was my ding a ling ---
**Author:** ![Cabbage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@Cabbage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cabbage)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2014, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-id-this-song-for-me-request/688339/7 "2014-05-14T12:55:50Z")
Is it Shaddap you face - Joe Dolce? [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/Wzb35dgR1oY/maxresdefault.jpg "Shaddap you face - Joe Dolce Lyrics") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wzb35dgR1oY) ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2014, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-id-this-song-for-me-request/688339/8 "2014-05-14T14:14:24Z")
No. Never heard that one before. This one has a faster tempo.