# Songs played by Chico Marx **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 8, 2007, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-played-by-chico-marx/403322 "2007-05-08T23:52:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2007, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-played-by-chico-marx/403322/1 "2007-05-08T23:52:54Z")
In _Animal Crackers_ Chico plays a song that starts out sounding a lot like “Sugar in the Morning.” In fact he gets stuck in it, with Groucho saying things like, “If you come near a song, play that instead,” and he responds by saying “I think I went past it.” In another movie–the one where the four Marx bros. are stowaways in kippered herring barrels on a ship–Harpo plays the whole of that song, and it is NOT “Sugar in the Morning.” Anybody know what it is? ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2007, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-played-by-chico-marx/403322/2 "2007-05-09T00:05:05Z")
The song in _Monkey Business_ is “I’m Daffy Over You.” You can see and hear a clip [here](http://www.harpomarx.net/solos.html). ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2007, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-played-by-chico-marx/403322/3 "2007-05-09T00:20:54Z")
Chico: “I can’t think of the end of this song.” Groucho:"\*I \* can’t think of anything else." ---
**Author:** ![Mehitabel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@Mehitabel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mehitabel)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2007, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-played-by-chico-marx/403322/4 "2007-05-09T00:58:50Z")
In one of the movies he played some of “Collegiate”, which I can’t find on the web but which I sang myself in the 1970s for a 1920s-style musicale in elementary school. I remember it started “Collegiate! Collegiate! Yes we are collegiate!” and had references to Arrow collars and the Greek alphabet. ---
**Author:** ![Mehitabel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@Mehitabel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mehitabel)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2007, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-played-by-chico-marx/403322/5 "2007-05-09T01:21:36Z")
Here’s the song–I remembered a girl sitting next to him on the bench but I thought it was one of the Italian immigrant kids from MONKEY BUSINESS. Instead it was Thelma Todd in HORSEFEATHERS, who looks nothing like an Italian immigrant kid. :o Chico starts playing it at the 5:12 mark in this [cool compilation.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAY5GN6FctM) ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2007, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-played-by-chico-marx/403322/6 "2007-05-09T02:58:59Z")
My attitude toward Chico’s songs is about the same as Groucho’s: I feel that I can go into the lobby until it blows over. However, other Marxists are more compulsive. On [this Marx Brothers page](http://www.marx-brothers.org/listening/music.htm) you’ll find an annotated list of every song associated with the brothers. ---
**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2007, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-played-by-chico-marx/403322/7 "2007-05-09T04:04:02Z")
[QUOTE=Exapno Mapcase] My attitude toward Chico’s songs is about the same as Groucho’s: I feel that I can go into the lobby until it blows over. [/QUOTE] Not me, Chico’s piano performances are always favorites of mine- in all the movies. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2007, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-played-by-chico-marx/403322/8 "2007-05-09T04:08:43Z")
[QUOTE=Exapno Mapcase] My attitude toward Chico’s songs is about the same as Groucho’s: I feel that I can go into the lobby until it blows over. [/quote] That’s my attitude toward’s Zeppo’s singing. ---
**Author:** ![Bill\_Door](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@Bill\_Door](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bill_Door)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2016, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-played-by-chico-marx/403322/10 "2016-06-03T12:22:12Z")
I reported the previous post. greyhopper revived a nine-year old thread to plagiarize Exapno Mapcase’s post. I’m not sure what his/her/its game is.