The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #91953   Message #1755007
Posted By: Jimmy Twitcher
07-Jun-06 - 11:17 AM
Thread Name: What recording cracks you up?
Subject: RE: What recording cracks you up?
Well, as you can tell from my handle, I love funny songs. Perhaps the premier parody artist in filk is Bob Kanefsky. One late night of singing, as he relates the story, someone sang "No Man's Land" by Eric Bogel, to appropriate sentiment. Someone else then wondered aloud how someone who could have written that moving song could have also written "Moggy the Cat." Someone else then asked if you could believe that those two songs were on the same album. That set Bob to thinking, "Perhaps they're really the same song . . ." The following is the result, one of the funniest songs I've ever heard sung:

Nobody's Moggy Lands