The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #115413   Message #3804268
Posted By: Jim Dixon
09-Aug-16 - 12:55 AM
Thread Name: 1950s novelty songs
Subject: Lyr Add: THERE'S A NEW SOUND (Tony Burrello)
This has been mentioned a few times in this thread, but with the wrong title.

This song can be heard on Spotify and YouTube. It consists of only this one verse, repeated several times, sung in a near monotone, but modulated upwards each time, interspersed by Chipmunk-like vocal sounds, representing, I suppose, the sound of worms.

THERE'S A NEW SOUND
As recorded by Tony Burrello, 1953.

There's a new sound, the newest sound around,
The strangest sound that you have ever heard.
Not like a wild boar or a jungle lion's roar,
It isn't like the cry of any bird.
But there's a new sound; it's deep down in the ground,
And ev'ryone who listens to it squirms,
Because this new sound, so deep down in the ground,
Is the sound that's made by worms.