Subject: RE: Humorous male/female duets From: Folkiedave Date: 15 Oct 04 - 05:09 PM Peggy Seeger does "BUFFALO BOY" as part of her current set - with the audience divided up into male and female halves. Best regards, Dave Eyre |
Subject: RE: Humorous male/female duets From: JennieG Date: 15 Oct 04 - 07:16 PM Further to Bernard's posting above - there is another verse I remember: He: Darling go home, the will's to be read, She: What's that you said? He: I said the will's to be read! She: Oh no my dear Franz, This is no time to dance, I must go home to my poor old man, I must go home to my poor old man! The duo Nina and Frederik rings a bell for this one, it was the sort of thing they did. Cheers JennieG |
Subject: RE: Humorous male/female duets From: GUEST,Al Date: 15 Oct 04 - 10:48 PM Small Potatoes (mentioned previously) web site is here You can download (Real Audio) "The Waltz of the Wallflowers". Spuds also perform Flanders and Swann's "Said the left-handed honeysuckle to the right-handed bindweed". [MISALLIANCE] Highly recommended duo for your folk club itinerary. |
Subject: RE: Humorous male/female duets From: GUEST,Sheila Date: 14 Jan 05 - 12:53 PM "ONE MORE DANCE" was recorded by Harry Belafonte and Miriam Makeba. |
Subject: RE: Humorous male/female duets From: John MacKenzie Date: 14 Jan 05 - 01:30 PM I seem to remember 'BARNACLE BILL THE SAILOR' being done as a duet by Bix Beiderbecke, and Joe Venuti, those are big shoes to step in. Giok |
Subject: RE: Humorous male/female duets From: Big Jim from Jackson Date: 14 Jan 05 - 01:49 PM Small Potatoes have several very funny song for duet. One is "They're Not Normal Like Us" and another that they haven't recorded yet about a family with the last name "Knott". Both are absolute screams! Small Potatoes is an absolutely super duo. Their wit and musicianship just can't be matched. If you've not heard them, get their CD's. If you've not seen them, drive many miles to see them. They are going to be in St. Louis at Focal Point on March 11th. I will drive the 130 miles to see them. |
Subject: RE: Humorous male/female duets From: GUEST,Joe_F Date: 14 Jan 05 - 02:39 PM There is a Yiddish song by M. Gebirtig called "NOCH A GLEZELE TEY" (another little cup of tea) in which husband & wife are arguing over what to name the baby. In the end, the wife says, why argue? it might be twins. I'm not sure if a singable translation exists. --- Joe Fineman joe_f@verizon.net ||: Sometimes I don't know where my last meal is going to. :|| |
Subject: RE: Humorous male/female duets From: GUEST,jeremy.downie@fairadsl.co.uk Date: 19 Jan 05 - 07:07 PM have you got the lyrics for this song if so could you please send them many thanks jez |
Subject: RE: Humorous male/female duets From: GUEST,Sidewinder Date: 20 Jan 05 - 07:51 AM Try "Speedy Gonzalez" with partner singing the high "lala la la la la la la la la lah" part.I've seen it done before and it was quite amusing. Rene and Renatas' "Save Your Love" could be a winner also and maybe Andy Williams and Denise Van Outens version of "Can't Take My Eyes Off You" -it made me laugh. Best Wishes. Sidewinder. |
Subject: RE: Humorous male/female duets From: Amos Date: 20 Jan 05 - 09:52 AM I second the motion for John Prine's IN SPITE OF OURSELVES which leaves the 20 to 30 crowd rolling on the floor. A |
Subject: RE: Humorous male/female duets From: GUEST Date: 02 Sep 09 - 08:54 AM "this is our song" from spamalot! WOULD BE AMAZING |
Subject: RE: Humorous male/female duets From: MissouriMud Date: 02 Sep 09 - 11:27 PM HIT THE ROAD, JACK works nicely as a duet with some hamming |
Subject: RE: Humorous male/female duets From: pasher Date: 03 Sep 09 - 02:02 AM Video of Grant Baynham and Hilary Spencer doing Victoria Wood's LET'S DO IT - http://c1.gigmemories.com/Grant_Baynham_and_Hilary_Spencer_18Jul09/ Hilarious, especially when she briefly forgets the words |
Subject: RE: Humorous male/female duets From: GUEST,Murray on Saltpring Date: 03 Sep 09 - 01:54 PM What about "SOLDIER, SOLDIER, won't you marry me?" - rather like BUFFALO BOY above, the last verse says he's a wife and children at home. - It was arranged very nicely by Benjamin Britten of all people. |
Subject: RE: Humorous male/female duets From: Genie Date: 03 Sep 09 - 02:43 PM This one's really silly: Jack Blanchard and Misty Morgan: Tennessee Bird Walk (YouTube) (lyrics) |
Subject: RE: Humorous male/female duets From: Artful Codger Date: 14 Sep 09 - 03:05 AM "TELL ME PRETTY MAIDEN" (are there any more at home like you)--from "Floradora", 1900. Actually a male/female octet, but who's counting? |
Subject: RE: Humorous male/female duets From: Will Fly Date: 14 Sep 09 - 04:15 AM Oh well - let's not forget Norman Wisdom and Joyce Grenfell doing "NARCISSUS"... |
Subject: RE: Humorous male/female duets From: TenorTwo Date: 14 Sep 09 - 04:44 AM And no one yet has suggested "COME WRITE ME DOWN" - huge opportunities for ostentatious over-acting! T2 |
Subject: RE: Humorous male/female duets From: Georgiansilver Date: 24 Jul 10 - 08:31 AM I'm sure this 'Goodbye' song could be adapted...... |
Subject: RE: Humorous male/female duets From: VirginiaTam Date: 24 Jul 10 - 08:44 AM You could do lots of straight songs humorously like Jonathan and Darlene Edwards. Paris in the Spring |
Subject: RE: Humorous male/female duets From: beeliner Date: 24 Jul 10 - 08:58 AM Jack Blanchard and Misty Morgan's "TENNESSEE BIRD WALK" is not a dialogue, but it certainly qualifies as a humorous M/F duet. |
Subject: RE: Humorous male/female duets From: Tattie Bogle Date: 24 Jul 10 - 09:24 AM The Duke of Athol (AKA HUNTINGTOWER): it's in the DT as DUKE OF ATHOL. And "THE SHEPHERD'S WIFE". |
Subject: RE: Humorous male/female duets From: Rob Naylor Date: 24 Jul 10 - 10:55 AM This one from Flossie Malavialle and Keith Donnelly always creases me up: Keith and Flossie |
Subject: RE: Humorous male/female duets From: GUEST,erbert Date: 24 Jul 10 - 11:14 AM Candice Marie & Keith 1976 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTup9yo6T9M&feature=related |
Subject: RE: Humorous male/female duets From: dick greenhaus Date: 24 Jul 10 - 11:28 AM For a short one, there's Les Barker's "There's a Hole in my Bodhran" |
Subject: Lyr Add: ROMEO AND JULIET (Yale glee) From: Haruo Date: 01 Oct 10 - 02:24 PM The following is the text of "Romeo and Juliet" (see post by cetmst of 15 Oct 2004, supra) as published in Thomas G. Shepard's 1893 Yale Glees: Text: sine adtributione Tune: simple MIDI / fancier MIDI (contemplator.com) Solo throughout: Come now and listen to my tale of woe, Of Romeo and Juliet, Cribbed out of Shakespeare and reeking with woe, Oh Romeo and Juliet; Never was story so mournful as that one, If you have tears now prepare to get at one. Romeo's the thin one and Juliet's the fat one. Oh Romeo and Juliet. I am the hero of this little tale, I'm Romeo, I'm Romeo. I am that very susceptible male, I'm Romeo, Romeo Ne'er did a lover dare do as I did, When his best girl to eternity slided, I took cold poison and I suicided, I'm Romeo, Romeo. I am the heroine of this tale of woe, I'm Juliet, I'm Juliet, I am the lady who "mashed" Romeo, I'm Juliet, Juliet. Locked in the prison no pickaxe to force it, Nasty old hole, scarce room to stand or sit, I up and stabbed myself right through the corset, I'm Juliet, Juliet. This of my tale is the short and the long Of Romeo and Juliet, This is the moral of my little song, Of Romeo and Juliet; Lovers, I warn you, always be wary, Don't buy your drinks of an apothecary, Don't stab yourself in the left pulmonary, Like Romeo and Juliet. |
Subject: RE: Humorous male/female duets From: oldhippie Date: 01 Oct 10 - 08:59 PM Steve Gilette & Cindy Mangson - "Good Enough For Now". |
Subject: Lyr Add: YOU'RE THE REASON OUR KIDS ARE UGLY From: JohnInKansas Date: 02 Oct 10 - 04:05 AM A Lovin' C/W song as done by Conway Twitty & Loretta Lynn. LORETTA LYNN AND CONWAY TWITTY lyrics - You're The Reason Our Kids Are Ugly You're the reason I'm a-ridin' 'round on recapped tyres. An' you're the reason I'm hangin' our clothes outside on walls. An' you're the reason our kids are ugly little darlins'. Ah but looks ain't everything, And money ain't everything. But' I love you just the same. You're the reason I changed to beer from soda pop. An' you're the reason I never get to go to the beauty shop. You're the reason our kids are ugly little darlins'. Oh, but looks ain't everything, And money ain't everything. But' I love you just the same. I guess that we won't ever have, everything we need. 'Cause when we get ahead, it's got another mouth to feed. And that's the reason my good looks and my figure's gone. And that's the reason I ain't got no hair to comb. An' you're the reason our kids are ugly little darlins'. Ah but looks ain't everything, And money ain't everything. But' I love you just the same. Conway, why in the devil don't you gon and shave an' put on a clean pair of pants? Loretta, look at yourself. I wish you'd take them curlers out of your hair an' go put on a little bit of make up. An' get out of the housecoat before supper. Ha! Well let me tell you somethin', Conway. Considerin' everything I went through today, I look like a movie star. Yeah, Ruth Cassidy! Thank you. Besides that, all of our kids took after your part of our family anyway. Oh they did, huh? What about the one's that's bald? Well, I guess you might say they took after me. I'd rather have put up a video clip, 'cause the performance I've seen is a lot prettier than the bare words; but my quick look search didn't find a good one. John |
Subject: RE: Humorous male/female duets From: Arthur_itus Date: 02 Oct 10 - 07:59 AM I suppose you could both dress up as women and do this little sketch http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x9v6xf_the-two-ronnies-cleaning-ladies-son_fun |
Subject: RE: Humorous male/female duets From: GUEST Date: 11 Sep 11 - 02:19 AM Here are my parents, who were folksingers back then, in a film shot in 1966 doing Dear Old BUFFALO BOY. This song is a scream if acted properly. My parents have this one down pat. The words and tune are right here. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_S9yncFFnDk |
Subject: RE: Humorous male/female duets From: Jim McLean Date: 11 Sep 11 - 07:36 AM Get up and bar the Door: Herd, David (1732-1810): Ancient and modern Scottish songs, heroic ballads etc. A very humourous song about a battle of wills between a man and his wife (or a woman and her husband!) [See BARRING OF THE DOOR] |
Subject: RE: Humorous male/female duets From: Max Johnson Date: 11 Sep 11 - 07:45 AM Does anyone remember The Norman Chop Trio? They were a m/f duo working in London in the mid '70s. Very funny act. |
Subject: RE: Humorous male/female duets From: RoyH (Burl) Date: 11 Sep 11 - 08:02 AM I remember hearing a song which had the woman singing questions to the man and being given short, laconic, answers. I think the first lines were - 'Where are you going, my good old man?
Where are you going, my honey, my lamb?
'Huntin [See MY GOOD OLD MAN] |
Subject: RE: Humorous male/female duets From: GUEST,Gerry Date: 24 Jun 17 - 12:59 AM There's Sarah Jackman, a duet written by Allan Sherman. Also, Doyle & Debbie, When You're Screwing Other Women (Think of Me), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKjzolqJwgY |
Subject: RE: Humorous male/female duets From: JMB Date: 26 Jun 17 - 01:31 PM Come My Dear Franz as mentioned above. I know it as "Betsy Go Home" as it is sung in Nova Scotia by John Allan Cameron. It is humourous. I found it listed as a traditional German folk song. |
Subject: RE: Humorous male/female duets From: GUEST,Phil d'Conch Date: 26 Jun 17 - 03:07 PM JACKSON "We got married in a fever, hotter than a pepper sprout..." (Wheeler/Leiber, 1967) Cash-Carter won a Grammy with it... "'Jackson' came to me when I read the script for Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (I was too broke to see the play on Broadway)...When I played it for Jerry [Leiber], he said 'Your first verses suck,' or words to that effect. 'Throw them away and start the song with your last verse, "We got married in a fever, hotter than a pepper sprout."' When I protested to Jerry that I couldn't start the song with the climax, he said, 'Oh, yes you can.' So I rewrote the song and thanks to Jerry's editing and help, it worked. I recorded the song on my first Kapp Records album, with Joan Sommer, an old friend from Berea, Kentucky, singing the woman's part. Johnny Cash learned the song from that album, A New Bag of Songs, produced by Jerry and Mike" Billy Ed Wheeler (from the song wiki) |
Subject: Lyr Add: ONE MORE DANCE / NOCH EINEN TANZ From: Jim Dixon Date: 01 Feb 18 - 12:41 PM Here's a complete version of the song Bernard posted on 23-Aug-2003, and which John Hindsill and Sheila mentioned also: ONE MORE DANCE Written by C. C. Carter As recorded by Miriam Makeba, with Charles Colman, on "Miriam Makeba" (1960). [CC] Darling, go home; your husband is ill. [MM] Is he ill? Let them give him a pill. Oh, come, my dear Franz; just one more dance. Then I'll go home to my poor old man. Then I'll go home to my poor old man.* [CC] Darling, go home; your husband is worse. [MM] Is he worse? Well, I am no nurse. Oh, come, my dear Franz; just one more dance. Then I'll go home to my poor old man. Then I'll go home to my poor old man.* [CC] Darling, go home; your husband is dead. [MM] Is he dead? There's no more to be said. Oh, come, my dear Franz; just one more dance. Then I'll go home to my poor old man. Then I'll go home to my poor old man.* [CC] Darling, go home; the will's to be read. [MM] What's that you said? [CC] I said the will's to be read. [MM] Oh, no, no, my dear Franz; this is no time to dance. I must go weep for my poor old man. I must go weep for my poor old man.* - - - * On this line, the man harmonizes: "Then she'll go home to her poor old man," or, on the last verse: "Then she'll go weep for her poor old man." Also recorded by Harry Belafonte and Miriam Makeba on "Belafonte Returns to Carnegie Hall (Live)" (1993). A review at AllMusic.com referred to this as an "Austrian song." Using this clue, I found a German-language version called NOCH EINEN TANZ, performed by Esther & Abi Ofarim on their album "The Very Best Of" (2012); by Angels Blue on "Wenn die Sonne hinter den Dächern versinkt..."; and by Bea Nyga on "Bea Nyga" (2011). These are available on Spotify, but I am unable to transcribe them, being illiterate in German. |
Subject: RE: Humorous male/female duets (songs) From: GUEST,Robin Date: 01 Feb 18 - 08:25 PM HOLE IN MY BUCKET |
Subject: RE: Humorous male/female duets (songs) From: GUEST,henryp Date: 02 Feb 18 - 06:47 AM Also see the thread; 'Conversation' songs |
Subject: RE: Humorous male/female duets (songs) From: Jim Carroll Date: 02 Feb 18 - 08:16 AM 'What Shall I WEar for the Wedding John' among the best English ones in my opinion - nice American version too, 'The Mountaineer's Courtship' We got a nice Irish story version based around 'The Burren' in North Clare Jim Carroll |
Subject: RE: Humorous male/female duets (songs) From: Joe_F Date: 02 Feb 18 - 06:28 PM Noch a gleyzele te |
Subject: RE: Humorous male/female duets (songs) From: Big Al Whittle Date: 03 Feb 18 - 07:31 AM our moment of greatness https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XC80J2IZCQQ |
Subject: RE: Humorous male/female duets (songs) From: GUEST,Some bloke Date: 05 Feb 18 - 02:59 AM An old girlfriend and I used to sing a duet based on The Two Magicians. I had to "living tradition" the words slightly to give her the posessive speke but everybody found it funny. These days, if you didn't have the historical song excuse, its puttimg a rapist and victim on equal footing I suppose....... |
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