Weird Noises in songs (mouth-born, etc)

Subject: Weird Noises in songs (mouth-born, etc)
From: Memphis Mud
Date: 17 Sep 02 - 05:52 PM

Being relatively new, I've asked questions that have been covered extensively prior to my arrival. Let's see if you've done this one: (This might be hard to do with a typewriter).

What songs can you come up with that use unusual noises. Grunts, clicks, raspberries, etc. For instance: "gluih, gluih went the little green frog one day..."

But you make that "gluih" noise way at the back of your tongue, down in the throat.

These songs always get a laugh. (I'm interested in the explainations too.)

Or, as in the past, just Blue Clicky me in the right direction.

Subject: RE: Weird Noises in songs (mouth-born, etc)
From: greg stephens
Date: 17 Sep 02 - 06:03 PM

Spike Jones's classic "We (insert appropriate noise) right in the fuehrer's face" is a grand example of this genre.

Subject: RE: Weird Noises in songs (mouth-born, etc)
From: MMario
Date: 17 Sep 02 - 07:09 PM

Bert does an incredible version of the old sow.

Subject: RE: Weird Noises in songs (mouth-born, etc)
From: curmudgeon
Date: 17 Sep 02 - 07:15 PM

"Take Me Riding In Your Car, Car"

Subject: RE: Weird Noises in songs (mouth-born, etc)
From: Susanne (skw)
Date: 17 Sep 02 - 07:49 PM

I have a tape where Alex Campbell sings (after a fit of coughing on stage)
"We're three jolly consumptors
Cough cough spit" (don't know how to do this phonetically!)

Then there is the song about the watermelon, where the chorus consists of slurping and spitting out the pips. Don't know the title, as I didn't particularly care for the song.

Subject: RE: Weird Noises in songs (mouth-born, etc)
From: Snuffy
Date: 17 Sep 02 - 08:21 PM

Susannah's a funnicle man

Subject: RE: Weird Noises in songs (mouth-born, etc)
From: GUEST,Sonja
Date: 17 Sep 02 - 10:14 PM

The Marvelous Toy
Washing Machine

Subject: RE: Weird Noises in songs (mouth-born, etc)
From: Sorcha
Date: 17 Sep 02 - 11:52 PM

Seamus Kennedy's "Old MacDonald Had a Deformed Farm". Side splittingly funny.

Subject: RE: Weird Noises in songs (mouth-born, etc)
From: aaronjclegg
Date: 18 Sep 02 - 12:02 AM

Listen to the song "Here for You", which is the last track on Andy Wolf's album called "Doc Wolf's Tuneful Tonic".

Mostly it contains certifiably insane gibberish, but a few screwball sound effects.

Aaron.

Subject: RE: Weird Noises in songs (mouth-born, etc)
From: Grab
Date: 18 Sep 02 - 10:47 AM

The all-time best: Monty Python's "I bet you they won't play this song on the radio" (the B-side to "Always look on the bright side of life" IIRC). One of these days I'll have to get together with some friends (and a large collection of noise-making equipment) and do that at a folk club! :-)

Graham.

Subject: RE: Weird Noises in songs (mouth-born, etc)
From: GUEST,Les B.
Date: 18 Sep 02 - 11:33 AM

Miriam Makeba's "click" song, which, I believe, comes from the Xhosa tribe in South Africa.

Subject: RE: Weird Noises in songs (mouth-born, etc)
From: Memphis Mud
Date: 18 Sep 02 - 12:02 PM

Phil Collins (Genesis) uses one of my favorite sounds in (I think) "I Can't Dance". The noise is made when you tap the side of a metal pot that has a little water sloshing around in the bottom.

poi-oi-oinnng

Subject: RE: Weird Noises in songs (mouth-born, etc)
From: Willa
Date: 18 Sep 02 - 02:04 PM

Janet Russell sings some wonderful "Mouth Music"; I particularly like her version of "Jeannie Jenkins"

Subject: RE: Weird Noises in songs (mouth-born, etc)
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 18 Sep 02 - 02:15 PM

We don't do any songs with sound effects, but we often goof around with the fiddle tune "Staten Island" where it goest to a C chord in the B part. Mouth pops, slide whistles, kazoos - anything except playing it straight.

Subject: RE: Weird Noises in songs (mouth-born, etc)
From: GUEST,Guest
Date: 18 Sep 02 - 06:14 PM

The Watermelon Song mentioned by an earlier poster (the chorus of which involves spitting, slurping, and sighing!) is a John McCutcheon tune: www.folkmusic.com .

Subject: RE: Weird Noises in songs (mouth-born, etc)
From: Dave Bryant
Date: 19 Sep 02 - 04:31 AM

Try singing a funny song with Liz-the-Sqeak in the audience !