Does it sound like this?
The bad chickens cluck to Steppenwolf.
I’ll check it when I get home. Whatever net nanny we use here thinks YouTube is a wretched hive of scum and villainy.
(And yet they allow the Dope. Go figure.)
Hatched to Be Wild
Two from The Medallions:
Buick '59
'59 Volvo
Because now-a-days singers don’t use innuendo they just say the word outright
& the catchphrases thread reminded me of NZ comedy great Fred Dagg. His novelty songs “If not for your gumboots where would you be” & “we don’t know how lucky we are , mate” are on Youtube.
(No, not the one you’re thinking of. This one turned up on a record date in 1932, and AFAIK, only I and 7 or 8 other crazy middle-aged-bachelor collectors know about it. And yes, I own a copy of the original 78.)
I found a peanut. I found a peanut.
Where did you find it? Where did you find it?
Found it in my pocket. Found it in my pocket.
Whatcha gonna do with it? Whatcha gonna do with it?
I’m gonna eat-tit. I’m gonna eat-tit.
What’s it gonna taste like? What’s it gonna taste like?
Looks like a peanut, feels like a peanut,
Tastes like a peanut, ya gosh darn fool.
And this is where The Kids These Days get it wrong: the censored versions are FUNNIER. Compare the uncensored version of Adam Sandler’s “Piece of Shit Car” with the radio edit. Sound effects beat dirty words when you want to be funny. Obviously, that doesn’t hold when you are trying to be serious. Then it’s just lame.
That’s it exactly, Lute! Thanks!
I Bet They Won’t Pay This Song on the Radio by Eric Idle.
I resent his ripoff of Goodman’s “Chicken Cordon Blues.”
What I enjoy is that Larry Groce, upon hearing Cracker’s Teen Angst and its “Cause, what the world needs now is another folk singer like I need a hole in my head,” and complaining about it on NPR’s “Mountain Stage,” has had the guys from Cracker on many times, acoustic and electric.
ooh! ooh! I can’t believe I forgot Alice’s Restaurant.
I should also mention “Timothy” by the Buoys, about how the singer & another man eat their friend after getting trapped in a mine.
“Hello D.J.” by Don Bowman, from the 1979 album “Still Fighting Mental Health”. Written by Bobby Bare.
If you ever heard this song at all, you probably heard a very “bleeped” version. The unbleeped version was distributed on 45 to radio stations with the big NO AIRPLAY written on it. The album has both versions, and it took me a while to find a copy.
“Pop the top on one more beer,
Hold the phone up to your ear,
Dial that number one more time,
Get that D.J. on the line …”
The first song about John & Lorena here. A listeneer to Imus called this in and I’m so glad to find the lyrics on line.
Now Peter and John couldn’t stay apart too long
So a dick Doc said, “Hey! I can fix your dong”
“A needle and a thread’s just the thing you’re gonna need”
Then the world held its breath 'til they heard that John peed
(Whizzed, that is)
(Stitched seam, straight stream)
Here are a few:
Nee Nee Na Na Na Na Nu Nu by Dickey Doo & the Dont’s
The Purple People Eater by Sheb Wooley
Alley Oop by The Hollywood Argyles
Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport by Rolf Harris
The Curley Shuffle by Jump 'n the Saddle
Here’s a few more:
Beep Beep by The Playmates
Time Warp from The Rock Horror Picture Show
They’re Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-haa by Napoleon XIV
Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini by Brian Hyland
Convoy by C.W. McCall
Martian Boogie by Brownsville Station
Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport by Rolf Harris
Along Came Jones by The Coasters
Swamp Witch Hattie by Jim Stafford
My dad used to sing those to my brother and me when we were kids. We loved it, and always pretended to be scared of Swamp Witch Hattie.
Wildwood Weed was by Jim Stafford, wasn’t it?
Also, I didn’t see any mention of Rick Dees’ Disco Duck!!!
I remember also Mr. Jaws from back in the late 70’s…it was a mad-lib style piece where a reporter is interviewing people about seeing a shark…and clips from Glen Campbell, Olivia Newton-John and other 70’s hits are spliced together to tell the “story”. Our 6th grade funny bones thought it was hilarious!!!