Comic songs

Subject: Comic songs
From: GUEST
Date: 20 Mar 17 - 01:51 PM

Can anyone recommend a good collection of comic folk songs?
Cheers

Subject: RE: Comic songs
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 20 Mar 17 - 10:48 PM

You could start with a search on YouTube.

Subject: RE: Comic songs
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 21 Mar 17 - 05:14 AM

As with anything, it depends on your definition of 'folk'.
For modern(ish) comic songs, try anything by Tom Lehrer, Max Boyce, Flanders & Swann, Jeremy Taylor, Paddy Roberts, and others.

Cheers
Nigel

Subject: RE: Comic songs
From: JMB
Date: 21 Mar 17 - 10:36 AM

"The Errant Apprentice" by Andy M. Stewart of Silly Wizard. "Scotland The Brave Parody" by The Corries. "Please Don't Bury Me" by John Prine.

Subject: RE: Comic songs
From: GUEST,.gargoyle
Date: 22 Mar 17 - 04:04 AM

You could start with Dr. Dementlo's "Demented Music Data Base"...and then its truncated tree for Lehrer, Zappa, Silverstein and other greats.

www.dmdb.org/discographies/demento.disco.html

or www.dmdb.org/discographies

Amongst some classics in the list are:

Who Put the Benzedrine in Mrs. Murphy's Ovaltine

Davy's Dinghy

Harry's Jockstrap - by Dickie Goodman

I Like Bananas Because They Have No Bones

Transfusion - Nervous Norvus

Eat It - "Weird Al" Yankovic

Fish Heads - Barnes & Barnes

Masochism Tango - Tom Lehrer

They Don't Wear Pants in the Southern Part of France

May The Bird Of Paradise Fly Up Your Nose

Leader Of The Laundromat - The Detergents

Moose Turd Pie - Utah Phillips

Pull My Finger - Happy Schnapps Combo

My Ding-A-Ling

Daffy Duck's Rhapsody - Mel Blanc

It's A Gas - Alfred E. Neuman

Smoke Two Joints

The Smoke-Off - Shel Silverstein

The Arkansas Traveler - Len Spencer

I Had Sex With E.T.

The Wiener Schnitzel Waltz - Tom Lehrer

The Vatican Rag

Four Yorkshiremen



Sincerely,
Gargoyle

Hundreds upon hundreds, and hundreds more, are listed and most are you-tubed.

Subject: RE: Comic songs
From: rosma
Date: 22 Mar 17 - 09:22 PM

Anything by Jake Thackray

Subject: RE: Comic songs
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 22 Mar 17 - 09:44 PM

But it all depends on your sense of humour. There are plenty of terrible "nudge-nudge" unfunny songs...