Does anyone remember this old novelty song ("Onions, onions, rahrahrah")?

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I swear I remember an old novelty song that was on a compilation my parents had when I was a kid, about onions. I can’t find anything but frustrating scraps of it in passing in years-old discussion groups and random message boards on Google.

It started with a breathy female voice singing, “Onions, onions, rah rah rah (or possibly raw, raw, raw)”, which repeats for a while.

Then, in the middle, a very poindextery-sounding man starts a lecture, “An onion is an odoriferous veg-et-able” with the syllables sounded out like that.

That’s all I can remember now. This shared an album with classics like Shaving Cream and They’re Coming To Take Me Away, Ha-Ha.

Thanks in advance.

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Here ya go.

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That’s it! Wow…blast from my past…

Thank you, Chefguy!

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I AM. . .the thread killer. :: poses with hands on hips, cape flying::

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To be fair to you, this was never going to be a general-interest thread that was going to attract a lot of continuing discussion. :slight_smile:

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Well, it might have branched off into a discussion of Green Onions, by Booker T. and the MGs, who, by the way, is still playing gigs such as the Portland Jazz Festival where I saw him last year. My 9th grade typing teacher used to play that record and we had to type along with the syncopated beat.

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…or about Doctor Demento and novelty songs in general.

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Or the snack food TV commercial that used this song in the '60s, and which I saw long before I ever heard the original…was it for Funyuns or OnYums?

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You love Onions?

I Love Turtles

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Whoa! Good one!

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How vewy, vewy cwude . . .