# Songs sung by animals **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 1, 2019, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-sung-by-animals/842825 "2019-11-01T03:35:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Author\_Balk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Author\_Balk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Author_Balk)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2019, 11:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-sung-by-animals/842825/21 "2019-11-01T11:20:47Z")
By the way… Anything fun, funny or interesting counts. An album of preschool songs with Billy the Goat, Susie the Snake and Tom the Cow probably won’t fit. I will add In the Mood by Henhouse Five Plus Two [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/9vxdQwVuago/maxresdefault.jpg "Ray Stevens (Henhouse Five Plus Two) - In The Mood") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vxdQwVuago) ---
**Author:** ![Treppenwitz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treppenwitz/32/3445_2.png) [@Treppenwitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treppenwitz)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2019, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-sung-by-animals/842825/22 "2019-11-01T11:49:18Z")
There’s that hideously awful Frogs Chorus thing by Paul McCartney. (Link omitted out of basic decency) j ---
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A few more songs, including year and peak position on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100: [_Oh! Susanna_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXmuiw641G0) by The Singing Dogs (1955, #22) (The B side medley included ‘‘Jingle Bells’’, which was expanded and released as a single in 1971) [_Rockin’ Robin_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LklFP1IG9KY) by Bobby Day (1957, #2) [_Uh! Oh! Part 2_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7JIDCLJ_ow) by The Nutty Squirrels (1959, #14) [_The Boll Weevil Song_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5H6iwQGWl4) by Brook Benton (1961, #2) [_Hey Shirley (This is Squirrely)_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOY9-vUm7EY) by Shirley & Squirrely (1976, #48) ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2019, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-sung-by-animals/842825/24 "2019-11-01T12:14:08Z")
> [@Peter\_Morris](#): > > Flanders and Swann did a bunch of animal songs, the most famous of which are the [Hippopotamus](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XK7MckPHgw)and the [Gnu](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPgo6s1lBbw). The Muppets covered the [Gnu Song](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ks80McKhss). ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2019, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-sung-by-animals/842825/25 "2019-11-01T12:28:42Z")
Okay – Disney and Don Bluth and other animated features give you plenty of animal-sung songs. Let’s go for less obvious. Fleischer studios (until it was basically shut down by Paramount for scurrilous reasons) put out a lot of cartoons and two features, many with singing animals. Notable were _Small Fry_ from the short of the same name and LOTS of Betty Boop cartoons (that, in the beginning, had a lot od animals). The second Fleischer feature, \*Mr. Bug Goes to Town\* (AKA \*Hoppity goes to Town\* AKA \*Bugville\*) (1941) features four songs by the bugs: > **[Mr. Bug Goes to Town](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Bug_Goes_to_Town)** > > Mr. Bug Goes to Town (also known as Hoppity Goes to Town and Bugville) is an American animated Technicolor feature film produced by Fleischer Studios, previewed by Paramount Pictures on December 5, 1941, and released in California and New York City in February 1942. The film was originally intended to be an adaptation of Maurice Maeterlinck's The Life of the Bee, but Paramount was unwilling to purchase the rights from Samuel Goldwyn, and instead developed an original modern story loosely in The f... For something _really_ obscure, consider 1948’s _Bill and Coo_, a movie starring – birds. All of the characters are birds, and the movie was filmed on a 30 X 15 foot set. And this was _decades_ before _Jonathan Livingston Seagull_). A number of pieces of music were used, but I’m not surre if any birds sang any of them > **[Bill and Coo (1948) - Soundtracks - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039188/soundtrack/?ref_=tt_trv_snd)** > > Bill and Coo (1948) - Movies, TV, Celebs, and more... Apparently the film won a special honorary Oscar in 1948. The only reason I know about this is that we had a tie-in record for the film at my house when I was a kid, with pictures from the film on the record jacket. It’s not the kind of thing that shows up on TV, or in the movies at kiddie matinees, or even on home video. But it’s on YouTube in its full one hour glory: The song \*Let's all sing like the Birdies Sing\* wasn't written for a Fleischer cartoon, but they used it in two cartoons. Later, Disney used it in their "Enchanted Tiki Room\* at Disneyland and other parks > [@](#): > > In 1932, the novelty song Let’s All Sing Like The Birdies Sing was written by a team of songwriters lead by English composer Tolchard Evans. The song was recorded that year for the first time by English band leader Henry Hall. In 1933 the song was featured in the short film Betty Boop’s Halloween Party. The song is performed by Bonnie Poe as Betty Boop, and featuring background vocals by Mae Questel - one of Betty’s alternate voice artists. In 1934, the song was used again by Max Fleischer as the basis and title of an animated short in the Screen Songs series. In 1963 the song became part of an installment in The Enchanted Tiki Room at Disneyworld, and later at Disneyland. At the popular attraction the song is introduced as the bird national anthem, > **[LET'S ALL SING LIKE THE BIRDIES SING](https://www.fleischerallstars.com/lets-all-sing-like-the-birdies-sing.html)** > > LET'S ALL SING LIKE THE BIRDIES SING  -  BONNIE POE as BETTY BOOP BETTY BOOP'S HALLOWE'EN PARTY    ​ (BETTY BOOP)     1933 ---
**Author:** ![Treppenwitz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treppenwitz/32/3445_2.png) [@Treppenwitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treppenwitz)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2019, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-sung-by-animals/842825/26 "2019-11-01T12:53:57Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > …The song _Let’s all sing like the Birdies Sing_… That reminds me of **The Birdie Song** which, dear lord, may be _even worse_ than that awful frog thing. [Link included](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESViOhqRdlE) for technical evaluation purposes only\*. j - - see, I told you it was worse. ---
**Author:** ![mcgato](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac8455/32.png) [@mcgato](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mcgato)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2019, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-sung-by-animals/842825/27 "2019-11-01T12:54:30Z")
[Dogs barking Jingle Bells](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xam01uaj6Vg) ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2019, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-sung-by-animals/842825/28 "2019-11-01T13:21:44Z")
**Prince** had a lot of doggy help on [La La La He He Hee](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKu4cUnrvio) ---
**Author:** ![Treppenwitz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treppenwitz/32/3445_2.png) [@Treppenwitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treppenwitz)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2019, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-sung-by-animals/842825/29 "2019-11-01T13:31:02Z")
Just remembered a couple of good ones - and after the horrors I posted upthread, I’m morally bound to share these: [Animal Language](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XII16OXyKNI) by Lou Reed (not Uncle Lou’s finest work, but fun) [Freakout Frog](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rb6YbFZlmu4) by Spirit (Feat. Kermit, as the young people would have it these days) j ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2019, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-sung-by-animals/842825/30 "2019-11-01T13:31:28Z")
Warner Brothers cartoons were created to feature their characters singing songs: in the beginning Looney Tunes were produced by Hugh Harmon, and Merrie Melodies were Rudolf Ising’s responsibility (The two also worked together as Harmon-Ising, probably the most appropriately named production company in film). Even after they left, the cartoons were often a way to feature a song (usually ones owned by WB, of course). So there are dozens to choose from. The best of these is probably “[I Love to Singa](https://ia800606.us.archive.org/12/items/ClassicRareAndCensoredCartoons/071836ILoveToSingaMmBr.mp4),” with Owl Jolson performing the song. Tex Avery directed, and Chuck Jones was one of the animators. The cartoon also features other songs sung by animals as part of a talent contest. ---
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If I Only Had the Nerve and If I were King of the Forest by The Cowardly Lion ---
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> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Fleischer studios (until it was basically shut down by Paramount for scurrilous reasons) put out a lot of cartoons and two features, many with singing animals. Notable were _Small Fry_ from the short of the same name and LOTS of Betty Boop cartoons (that, in the beginning, had a lot od animals). And Betty herself [started out as a dog.](https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/bettyboop/images/c/ce/Bettyboopbarnaclebill1930helenkanecaricature.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20181006154950) Her ears morphed into hoop earrings. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2019, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-sung-by-animals/842825/33 "2019-11-01T13:43:00Z")
The first song that popped into my mind was “Memory” from CATS. ---
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“I Haven’t Got a Hat” sung by WB cartoon dogs Ham and Ex, in the landmark cartoon by that name. Not because of them, but because of the first introduction of a certain stuttering pig. ---
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_Hello my honey, hello my baby, hello my ragtime gal_… ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2019, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-sung-by-animals/842825/36 "2019-11-01T17:36:34Z")
The Dirty Dozen Brass Band’s **[The Monkey](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUKLjtqWPuM)** is pretty awesome, and mostly consists of a conversation between some primates. ---
**Author:** ![Doug\_K](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5ac83/32.png) [@Doug\_K](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_K)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2019, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-sung-by-animals/842825/37 "2019-11-01T17:46:56Z")
[Lullaby From the Great Mother Whale For the Baby Seal Pups](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7i7mRuyKU1s) by Paul Winter features vocals (and a melody) by a humpback whale. ---
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[Litterbox Massacre](https://litterboxmassacre.bandcamp.com) is a Slamming Catcore band from Canada. Two days ago they released a new single, [Red Dot Mystery](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Qi4Iw2mgh8). > [@](#): > > There is a red dot on the wall > I don’t know where it came from > But I know it only appears when I’m not looking > > Red dot mystery, I will find you and eviscerate you > You torment me > I will find you in the dead of night > My eyes will adjust to you > > Mother fucker for way too long > You have tormented me > I will get you > Your days are fucking numbered > I will make you suffer like you have made me suffer > Your fucking illuminescent bullshit will come to a fucking end I also give high marks to [My Bowl’s Half Empty](https://youtu.be/CwUhTAocO_c?t=528) from their spring 2019 EP _Welcome to the Scratching Post_. ---
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Does background singing count? Pink Floyd - [Seamus](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3u5E8XKPjg) ---
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How about _I Want to Eat Your Face_ from Bruce Kimmel’s _The Creature that wasn’t Nice/Spaceship/The Naked Space_? It’s a sort-of musical version of _Alien_ made by the same guy who made _The first Nudie Musical_. It’s sung by the titular Creature. It starred Cindy Williams, Patrick MacNee, and Leslie Nielsen! (In addition to Kimmel, who wrote and directed it, and wrote all the songs) [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/BEyEL-BvbqQ/hqdefault.jpg "I Want To Eat Your Face - Naked Space Song - Leslie Nielsen") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEyEL-BvbqQ) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7uAxOk67gg [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-sung-by-animals/842825.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-sung-by-animals/842825.md?page=3)