# Songs on "Seinfeld" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 13, 2006, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-on-seinfeld/352539 "2006-04-13T16:16:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-on-seinfeld/352539/21 "2006-04-13T19:26:32Z")
> [@middleman](#): > > Michael Jackson’s “Don’t Stop 'Til You Get Enough” was used in one of the clips shows and has become permanately linked to Jerry and the gang. > > Also, Newman’s rendition of ONCE…TWIIIICE, THREE TIMES A LADY has ruined the song for me as anything but a gag. I always picture him catching on fire. I believe it actually goes “unce, tice fee times a mady” 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-on-seinfeld/352539/22 "2006-04-13T19:41:38Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUB](#): > > I believe it actually goes “unce, tice fee times a mady” 😉 Ha. I was hoping you’d come in and say this. The gods have smiled. ---
**Author:** ![middleman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@middleman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/middleman)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-on-seinfeld/352539/23 "2006-04-13T19:52:23Z")
Nice! ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-on-seinfeld/352539/24 "2006-04-13T20:26:55Z")
> [@LateComer](#): > > Seinfeld went off the air after the 1997-98 season. I just saw the episode with this song and thought outloud “Green Day’s been around more than 10 years?” You, good sir (or ma’am), are correct. And _Dookie_ came out when I was in grammar school, so that’d be 1996 at the latest. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-on-seinfeld/352539/25 "2006-04-13T20:30:03Z")
“Lemon tree, it is so pretty But the fruit you cannot eat. Lemon tree, lemon tree, lemon treeeee” I can’t remember what ep. it’s from, but I distinctly recall Jerry & George sitting at the usual coffee-shop booth singing that. ---
**Author:** ![cactus\_waltz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@cactus\_waltz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cactus_waltz)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-on-seinfeld/352539/26 "2006-04-13T20:39:18Z")
I got to think of that odd rhodes-like instrumental when Kramer and Newman are slicing meat in Jerry’s apartment. I wanted to get ahold of it for a while, but I decided it was genius because of the context and I should let it be. ---
**Author:** ![Stephe96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-on-seinfeld/352539/27 "2006-04-13T20:43:21Z")
“Yankee bean, Yankee been…I love my Yankee bean…” ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-on-seinfeld/352539/28 "2006-04-13T20:48:38Z")
> [@Art Vandelay](#): > > “Lemon tree, it is so pretty > But the fruit you cannot eat. > Lemon tree, lemon tree, lemon treeeee” > > I can’t remember what ep. it’s from, but I distinctly recall Jerry & George sitting at the usual coffee-shop booth singing that. Was that the one were George had left a hostile message on his girlfriend’s answering machine and he and Jerry had a plan to get into her apartment and get it back? I think they were trying to come up with a code word to let the other one know when she was coming back into the room.(?) ---
**Author:** ![DooWahDiddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9bcb4/32.png) [@DooWahDiddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DooWahDiddy)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-on-seinfeld/352539/29 "2006-04-13T21:01:14Z")
> [@Art Vandelay](#): > > “Lemon tree, it is so pretty > But the fruit you cannot eat. > Lemon tree, lemon tree, lemon treeeee” > > I can’t remember what ep. it’s from, but I distinctly recall Jerry & George sitting at the usual coffee-shop booth singing that. Nitpick: They weren’t at the coffee shop, they were outside George’s girlfriend’s apartment building. They were trying to come up with a code word to signal her return, as **WOOKINPANUB** said. ---
**Author:** ![interface2x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2006, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-on-seinfeld/352539/30 "2006-04-14T01:50:00Z")
> [@Troy McClure SF](#): > > You, good sir (or ma’am), are correct. > > And _Dookie_ came out when I was in grammar school, so that’d be 1996 at the latest. It came out when I was a junior in high school, early 1994 if I’m not mistaken. It hit big with “Basket Case” that summer. ---
**Author:** ![Kaspar\_Hauser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b3f665/32.png) [@Kaspar\_Hauser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaspar_Hauser)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2006, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-on-seinfeld/352539/31 "2006-04-14T02:05:31Z")
The Wreck of the Gordon Lightfoot, by Edmund Fitzgerald. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2006, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-on-seinfeld/352539/32 "2006-04-14T02:30:51Z")
The Official Theme Song of “The Contest” is that “The wheels on the bus go 'round and 'round” song. (Which was then suitably adapted by Kramer.) “I’m out.” ---
**Author:** ![awldune](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c77e96/32.png) [@awldune](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/awldune)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2006, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-on-seinfeld/352539/33 "2006-04-14T03:43:19Z")
Lionel Richie: _Hello, Is it me you’re looking for?_ From the one where Jerry is doing the talking navel voice. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2006, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-on-seinfeld/352539/34 "2006-04-14T03:43:53Z")
_Everybody’s talking at me… I can’t see their faces… Just drivin’ around in Jon Voight’s car…_ ---
**Author:** ![LateComer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b5ac83/32.png) [@LateComer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LateComer)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2006, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-on-seinfeld/352539/35 "2006-04-14T13:53:51Z")
What song does Mel Torme sing to Kramer when he thinks he’s mentally retarded? ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2006, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-on-seinfeld/352539/36 "2006-04-14T14:59:09Z")
> [@LateComer](#): > > What song does Mel Torme sing to Kramer when he thinks he’s mentally retarded? **When you’re smiling** I love that one! ---
**Author:** ![Kaspar\_Hauser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b3f665/32.png) [@Kaspar\_Hauser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaspar_Hauser)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2006, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-on-seinfeld/352539/37 "2006-04-15T06:01:44Z")
That whistley song when Jerry takes over Newman’s mail route, and Kramer and Newman’s funky sausage-making music. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-on-seinfeld/352539.md?page=1)