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20 Mar 17 - 01:51 PM (#3845848) Subject: Comic songs From: GUEST Can anyone recommend a good collection of comic folk songs? Cheers |
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20 Mar 17 - 10:48 PM (#3845908) Subject: RE: Comic songs From: Stilly River Sage You could start with a search on YouTube. |
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21 Mar 17 - 05:14 AM (#3845929) Subject: RE: Comic songs From: Nigel Parsons 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 |
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21 Mar 17 - 10:36 AM (#3845963) Subject: RE: Comic songs From: JMB "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. |
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22 Mar 17 - 04:04 AM (#3846093) Subject: RE: Comic songs From: GUEST,.gargoyle 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: 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. |
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22 Mar 17 - 09:22 PM (#3846212) Subject: RE: Comic songs From: rosma Anything by Jake Thackray |
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22 Mar 17 - 09:44 PM (#3846215) Subject: RE: Comic songs From: McGrath of Harlow But it all depends on your sense of humour. There are plenty of terrible "nudge-nudge" unfunny songs... |