“Too Much Barbecue,” Big Twist and the Mellow Fellows. Great Chicago blues, and the video is funny as hell.
This is either the most disturbing or uplifting song about food ever produced.
“Breakfast is the most important meal of the Day!”
Certainly a contender for the song listing the greatest number of different foods - and all for breakfast!
Does this count? 8P
WARNING: Extremely catchy BAD song.The McDonalds Menu Song. Stupid marketing jingle that embedded itself in my 12-year-old brain and never left.
Frank Zappa had a weird obsession with food songs: The Duke of Prunes, St. Alonzo’s Pancake Breakfast, Muffin Man etc. And that doesn’t count instrumentals like Peaches en Regalia or the Gumbo Variations.
Also, WARNING: Do not listen to if lactose intolerant
The Cheese Alarm, Robyn Hitchcock.
Green Onion Top by Roosevelt Sykes
Matzoh Balls by Slim Gaillard and His Flat Foot Floogie Boys
Mama Don’t Want No Peas and Rice and Coconut Oil by Cleo Brown
Mrs. Murphy’s Chowder by Ed Smalle and Vernon Dalhart
Cut Yourself a Piece of Cake by Billy Murray
You’re the Cream in My Coffee by Annette Hanshaw
Black Coffee by Wingy Manone
Gravy Waltz, sung here by Mel Torme. Song written by Ray Brown and Steve Allen.
More commonly performed as an instrumental.
There’s the English folk song “The Mallard” (common species of wild duck): one of those tongue-twisting agglomerative ones which present quite a challenge to the singer. The basic verse goes:
I have et – what have I et?
I have et the [body part] of a mallard.
[first part named is the toe, then working up the body: the part named, is then repeated twice with the addition of “y”; followed – now in down-the-body order – by all the previously-named parts, with “y” appended: each verse is therefore a couple of words longer than the previous one. Thus – for verse 1:]
Toe-toe-y; and the nippers and all;
And good a meat was the mallard –
And now I am in Debility House,
And good a meat was the mallard.
[Some parts are named, which it’s doubtful that any human would actually be able to eat; but, well, poetic license.
If the singer has managed to make it all the way through, the final verse runs:]
I have et – what have I et?
I have et the bill of a mallard.
Bill-billy, head-heady, neck-necky, wing-wingy, breast-breasty, back-backy, rump-rumpy, thigh-thigh-y, knee-knee-y, leg-leggy, foot-footy, toe-toe-y; and the nippers and all;
And good a meat was the mallard –
And now I am in Debility House,
And good a meat was the mallard.
Eggplant by Michael Franks
Frim Fram Sauce written in 1945 and performed by Nat King Cole, Ella Fitzgerald, and many others before Diana Krall was born.
Yes, I know. My link was to Ms. Krall’s version.
I know. Didn’t want folks to think it was exclusively hers.
“On top of spagheeeeettiiiiiiii, all covered with cheeeeeeeeeese, I lost my poor meeeeeeatballllll when somebody sneeeeeeeezed…”
Two songs written by Rupert Holmes: Escape (The Piña Colada Song) and Timothy.
Rubber Biscuit
Hot Tamales and the Red Hots
Bottle of Wine, originally written and sung by Tom Paxton, and covered by The Fireballs.
Red, Red Wine
Cracklin’ Rosie
Both by Neil Diamond
I heard somewhere that Timothy was the mule.
That was the cover story the record company tried to sell, which gets Holmes very upset, since it suggests he would write a song about an innocent mule being eaten.
Just remembered another song: Eat the Rich by Aerosmith.
Southern Culture on the Skids
8 Piece Box
Fried Chicken and Gasoline
Too Much Pork for One Fork
Banana Pudding
Tuna Fish Every Day
Chitlin Strut
Biscuit Eater
Greenback Fly
Carve That Possum
The Cuban Sandwich–Barrence Whitfield and Tom Russell