# Does anyone remember this old novelty song ("Onions, onions, rahrahrah")? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 11, 2011, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-remember-this-old-novelty-song-onions-onions-rahrahrah/574328 "2011-03-11T19:46:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2011, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-remember-this-old-novelty-song-onions-onions-rahrahrah/574328/1 "2011-03-11T19:46:53Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2011, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-remember-this-old-novelty-song-onions-onions-rahrahrah/574328/2 "2011-03-11T20:02:31Z")
[Here ya go](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KM-lEhhsLQw). ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2011, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-remember-this-old-novelty-song-onions-onions-rahrahrah/574328/3 "2011-03-11T22:19:11Z")
That’s it! Wow…blast from my past… Thank you, **Chefguy**! ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2011, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-remember-this-old-novelty-song-onions-onions-rahrahrah/574328/4 "2011-03-11T22:22:38Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > That’s it! Wow…blast from my past… > > Thank you, **Chefguy**! I AM. . .the thread killer. :: poses with hands on hips, cape flying:: ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2011, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-remember-this-old-novelty-song-onions-onions-rahrahrah/574328/5 "2011-03-11T22:24:57Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > I AM. . .the thread killer. :: poses with hands on hips, cape flying:: 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. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2011, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-remember-this-old-novelty-song-onions-onions-rahrahrah/574328/6 "2011-03-11T23:04:04Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > 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. 🙂 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. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2011, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-remember-this-old-novelty-song-onions-onions-rahrahrah/574328/7 "2011-03-12T03:42:24Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > 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. …or about Doctor Demento and novelty songs in general. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2011, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-remember-this-old-novelty-song-onions-onions-rahrahrah/574328/8 "2011-03-12T04:08:05Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![K364](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k364/32/5_2.png) [@K364](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/K364)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2011, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-remember-this-old-novelty-song-onions-onions-rahrahrah/574328/9 "2011-03-12T04:08:49Z")
You love Onions? [I Love Turtles](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0GEMuj4I5Q) ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2011, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-remember-this-old-novelty-song-onions-onions-rahrahrah/574328/10 "2011-03-12T04:12:00Z")
> [@K364](#): > > [I Love Turtles](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0GEMuj4I5Q) _Whoa!_ Good one! ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2011, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-remember-this-old-novelty-song-onions-onions-rahrahrah/574328/11 "2011-03-12T04:14:59Z")
How vewy, vewy cwude . . .