Help: Tunes with animal sounds

Subject: RE: Help: Tunes with animal sounds
From: GUEST,Cheryl, guest
Date: 26 Jan 01 - 09:44 AM

Pete Seeger put out a great kids' album called Birds, Beasts, Bugs and Fishes which I wore out when my eldest was a tot. Searched for it for years and then found it, of course, on Mudcat. All songs relate to animals and some, particularly the The Bullfrog song, employ a kind of talking blues format where Pete's voice and the instruments (banjo in this case) imitate various animals.

Subject: RE: Help: Tunes with animal sounds
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 26 Jan 01 - 09:18 AM

Cumberlang Mountain Bear Chase has dog-pack baying sounds; no bears.

DAve Oesterreich

Subject: RE: Help: Tunes with animal sounds
From: Barry Finn
Date: 25 Jan 01 - 10:19 PM

"I Went To Market"

The cock went cock, cock, cock a doodle do
And after every farmers' cock did my cock crow

Subject: RE: Help: Tunes with animal sounds
From: GUEST,dick greenhaus
Date: 25 Jan 01 - 09:25 PM

There are a few classic instrumentals that incorporate animal sounds: Fox Chase, Cluck Old Hen, Chicken Reel, Cumberland Mountain Fox Chase and Listen to the Mocking Bird come to mind.

There are a bunch of songs with such imitations: I Had a Rooster, Old MacDonald Had a Farm, Little Pigs Lie in the Best of Straw, There was an Old Lady Who LOved a Swine, Susanna's a Funny Old (or Funicle) Man, Old Blue... My kids' favorite was Fod.

Subject: RE: Help: Tunes with animal sounds
From: GUEST,petr
Date: 25 Jan 01 - 08:14 PM

great stuff, thanks for your input. there is a ton of that in the classical music repertoire like Saint Saens the march of the animals?, Prokofiev peter and the wolf, Im mainly interested in instrumentals where the musician does some tricks to make animal sounds Of course Listen to the Mockingbird, I missed that one. (like my favorite novel Tequila Mockingbird). does the Cumberland mountain bear chase have bear sounds?) petr.

Subject: RE: Help: Tunes with animal sounds
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 25 Jan 01 - 06:24 PM

I can do Old MacDonald in Latin.... Senex MacDonaldus habe un fundum.....

LTS

Subject: RE: Help: Tunes with animal sounds
From: GUEST
Date: 25 Jan 01 - 06:12 PM

"The Dance of the Bumble Bees" - is fairly descriptive, I think it was written by one of the Lennon family but Altan do it on one of their albums.

"The Fox Hunt" as played by Mickey Doherty has hounds, foxes and galloping horses all on the fiddle.

Does "Paddy's Rambles through the Park" count as the fiddle is trying to sound like a Banshee - as recorded by Johnny Doherty.

Ian S

Subject: RE: Help: Tunes with animal sounds
From: GUEST,Mike
Date: 25 Jan 01 - 04:03 PM

"Johnson's Old Grey Mule"; the banjo player usually does the "mule" part on the strings to the right of the bridge.

Subject: RE: Help: Tunes with animal sounds
From: wildlone
Date: 25 Jan 01 - 02:53 PM

I can do realy good animal impersonations
Smells as a rule

Subject: RE: Help: Tunes with animal sounds
From: mkebenn
Date: 25 Jan 01 - 07:55 AM

Brian Seltzer's tom cat howl in Stray Cat Strut does it for me. Mike

Subject: RE: Help: Tunes with animal sounds
From: Mikey joe
Date: 25 Jan 01 - 07:23 AM

The Blackbird

Subject: RE: Help: Tunes with animal sounds
From: bbc
Date: 25 Jan 01 - 05:33 AM

All God's Critters Got a Place in the Choir

Subject: RE: Help: Tunes with animal sounds
From: English Jon
Date: 25 Jan 01 - 05:30 AM

"Hens march over the midden" a la Dave Swarbrick, with pizzicato "clucking"

Also, the cockney song : "I bought myself a cock"

Subject: RE: Help: Tunes with animal sounds
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 25 Jan 01 - 04:27 AM

So how come no-ones mentioned Old McDonald???

I love "In the mood" done with chicken noises btw but can't remember who did it...

Dave the Gnome

Subject: RE: Help: Tunes with animal sounds
From: Hutzul
Date: 25 Jan 01 - 12:40 AM

"Goin' to the Zoo"

Is it Pete Seeger or Tom Paxton?

Subject: RE: Help: Tunes with animal sounds
From: paddymac
Date: 24 Jan 01 - 11:50 PM

Gee - I thought this was going to be about Martin Denny's marvelous music. It was a fun way to "get away" in the age of innocence, before "organics" were so readily available.

Subject: RE: Help: Tunes with animal sounds
From: Sorcha
Date: 24 Jan 01 - 11:43 PM

Lu, he did say he was looking mostly for "tunes". Ya'll missed Listen to the Mockingbird and I do cat sounds--yowl, fight, and "meow" in Alley Cat. Slide up and down the string until you find the right sound.....

Subject: RE: Help: Tunes with animal sounds
From: Lucius
Date: 24 Jan 01 - 11:39 PM

So do I have this straight? MattR weighs in with a classic farm yard noise song that Bert sings, the Bert posts Flight of the Bumblebee. It has words??? I can't even think that fast ; )

Bonzo Dog Band did a tune quite a few years back called Jollity Farm. I'd highly recommend it.

Lucius

Subject: RE: Help: Tunes with animal sounds
From: Bert
Date: 24 Jan 01 - 09:38 PM

Flight of the bumblebee

Subject: RE: Help: Tunes with animal sounds
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 24 Jan 01 - 08:42 PM

Cumberland Mountain Bear Chase, which is for banjo.

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: Help: Tunes with animal sounds
From: Snuffy
Date: 24 Jan 01 - 07:22 PM

That should be:

Donkey Reel by the Dubliners

Subject: RE: Help: Tunes with animal sounds
From: Snuffy
Date: 24 Jan 01 - 07:21 PM

Donkey Rell by the Dubliners

Subject: RE: Help: Tunes with animal sounds
From: GUEST,petr
Date: 24 Jan 01 - 04:39 PM

well Im looking primarily for fiddle tunes rather than songs but Id be interested in songs as well or other instruments for that matter.

Of course theres Cluck old hen too.

Subject: RE: Help: Tunes with animal sounds
From: Bert
Date: 24 Jan 01 - 03:38 PM

Then there's the Mechanical Blackbird as sung by the Spinners, but again the sound is sung. "To my twee do lie ee do lie ee do lie ay..."

Subject: RE: Help: Tunes with animal sounds
From: GUEST,Seamus Kennedy
Date: 24 Jan 01 - 03:09 PM

The Hens march through the Midden by Dave Swarbrick, Flop-eared mule by John Sheahan of the Dubliners. On my kids' CD i recorded a version of th OldSow with animal noises. All the best.

Seamus

Subject: RE: Help: Tunes with animal sounds
From: Metchosin
Date: 24 Jan 01 - 03:09 PM

or how about Marvin Rainwater's Tennessee Hound Dog Yodel here or Susannas a Funny Old Man

Subject: RE: Help: Tunes with animal sounds
From: Matt_R
Date: 24 Jan 01 - 02:55 PM

Don't forget that classic farm yard noise song that Bert sings!!

Subject: RE: Help: Tunes with animal sounds
From: Joe Offer
Date: 24 Jan 01 - 02:50 PM

Petr, are these songs you're seeking just ones where the instruments make animal sounds? I know a number of songs where the singer makes animal sounds - one is De Colores. Then there's a pig song that I can't find just now - Ewan McVicar and Bert Hansel sing equally disgusting versions, and I love them both.

-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Help: Tunes with animal sounds
From: Matt_R
Date: 24 Jan 01 - 02:35 PM

Try "Contrapunctus Bestiale" by Banccheiri!

Subject: Tunes with animal sounds
From: GUEST,petr
Date: 24 Jan 01 - 02:28 PM

Ive always enjoyed collecting tunes that imitate animal sounds (primarily fiddle tunes) ones I can think of offhand are Whoa Mule an old time fiddle tune that has some mule sounding effects. There are also a couple of Tommy Peoples tunes Mouse in the cupboard and the Fat Cat (I think) which sound like a mouse scurrying around and a cat meowing and purring. Also the Tennesse fox chase which is about as close to program music as Irish music gets, with hounds barking and horns blowing. the jig geese in the bog also reminds me a bit of geese (especially on the pipes) Any other suggestions? petr (theres also OBS which really does sound like a train to me although thats not an animal)