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Subject: RE: 1950s novelty songs From: Bettynh Date: 19 Oct 09 - 02:52 PM Probably 60's but how about; "The Name Game" by Shirley Ellis "Yakety Yak" and "Charlie Brown" by the Coasters "Splish Splash" by Bobby Darin |
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Subject: RE: 1950s novelty songs From: GUEST,ek Anne Date: 19 Oct 09 - 04:01 PM Does anyone remember
"She Wears Red Feathers" and a hula hula skirt x 2
It was sung by Guy Mitchell with a lovely swing, in the 1950's And I think he also had another at about the same time which I later realised was based on an older more traditional song -- but I can't recall it! |
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Subject: RE: 1950s novelty songs From: Bryn Pugh Date: 20 Oct 09 - 10:12 AM Is it only me who remembers "Oo Bang Jiggly Jang" ? O, some have money and some have looks ; Some drive cars and some read books But my boy's got that Oo Bang Jiggly Jang. (and he can keep it, for me :-) ). |
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Subject: RE: 1950s novelty songs From: Rusty Dobro Date: 20 Oct 09 - 11:39 AM I thought I'd be the only one who remembered 'The Cat Came Back', but the first time I sang it, the audience joined in straight away (well, the older ones did!). What a great song - OK, so it was written by Harry S Miller in 1893, but it only reached the UK when I was a small but rather beautiful child, so that makes it 1950's in my book. |
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Subject: RE: 1950s novelty songs From: GUEST,tkhering Date: 21 Oct 09 - 10:16 PM Is this the song "Worms?" I don't know the details. ========== Subject: RE: 1950s novelty songs From: GUEST,Guest JKA Date: 03 Apr 09 - 06:22 PM I only heard this on WKRC in Cincinnati, OH (model for WKRP) in the early 50's. It went like this: There's a New Sound, the newest sound around, the newest sound you ever heard. Not like a wild boar or a jungle lions roar, not like the cry of any bird. But,this new sound ...... |
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Subject: RE: 1950s novelty songs From: GUEST,tkhering Date: 21 Oct 09 - 10:24 PM Eddie Lawrence recorded probably dozens of these narrations, under the series title "The Old Philosopher." ============= Subject: RE: 1950s novelty songs From: clueless don Date: 26 Jan 09 - 09:09 AM GUEST,Bobbo, on 24 Jan 09 - 10:45 PM , asked about ... "The other was also spoken. The man says, Hey friend, has life got you down.... well step right up... and something about is your mother-in-law getting to you?" |
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Subject: RE: 1950s novelty songs From: Suffet Date: 22 Oct 09 - 09:10 PM Here is one from the 1960s: If I Had It to Do All Over Again, I'd Do It All Over You by Bob Dylan. Recorded by Dave Van Ronk and the Red Onion Jazz Band. --- Steve |
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Subject: RE: 1950s novelty songs From: Bob Hitchcock Date: 23 Oct 09 - 06:08 PM I remember as a kid in the 50's listening to "Childrens Favorites" on the BBC every Saturday. "Uncle Mac" was the DJ and he played "The Laughing Policeman" every week without fail. Trivia...Uncle Mac retired to our village in Sussex and during the 60's I used to deliver his paper every morning, I never had the desire to stop and talk to him as everyone said he was a miserable bastard. |
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Subject: RE: 1950s novelty songs From: GUEST,rob k Date: 25 Oct 09 - 09:39 PM How about "The Hula Hoop Song" Hula hoop, hula hoop, everyone is playin with the hula hoop Look at them spin, trying to win Anyone can play from three to a hundred and ten Hoop-hoop hoop-hoop Hoop-hoop hoop-hoop Georgia Gibbs, her last hit, in 1958. I was looking for a novelty song publisher and came across this site. Love it! Alas, Jan and Dean's "Popsicle" (1966) didn't make the cut! Rob K |
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Subject: RE: 1950s novelty songs From: GUEST,John C. Date: 26 Oct 09 - 12:06 AM Part of the words for The Battle of New Orleans. In 1814 we took a little trip, along with Colonel Jackson, down the mighty Misisip. We took a little Bacon, We took a little Beans and headed on down to New Orleans. ............ We fired one shot and there wasn't as many as there was before, We fired once more and they began arunnin, .... Gulf of Mexico
That is all that I can remember right now, The other song that I believe your are referring to is the Alamo Song, sung by a Mexican Soldier.
Please Santa Anna, I don't wanna go, Please Santa Anna, I don't wanna die. It was pretty popular in the early '60's That is all that I can recall right now. Arnie Woo Woo Ginsburg used to play it a lot on the Night Train Show on WMEX Boston and I would stay up and listen. |
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Subject: New to the forums From: GUEST,maibeObergO Date: 17 Nov 09 - 07:27 PM Hi , Im new here and just wanted to stop by and say hi :) |
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Subject: RE: 1950s novelty songs From: beeliner Date: 18 Nov 09 - 12:10 AM My gawd, this could go on for HUNDREDS more posts, the list is endless. The poster who mentioned " 'Just Keep Walkin' by Martin (sic) Stang" is probably thinking of "Ambrose, Part Five" by Linda Laurie. The unidentified voice of Ambrose does sound a little like character actor ARNOLD Stang. (There were no parts 1-4.) David Seville was William Saroyan's COUSIN, not nephew. "Oh, What a Face" was by Phil Harris, but there were lots and lots of cover versions back then, so it's possible that Arthur Godfrey could have recorded it also. Godfrey also covered Oscar Brand's "Teterboro Tower". Lots of the Coasters' records have good novelty B-sides which never got much radio play, "Shoppin' for Clothes" by Leiber & Stoller being probably the best. The original "I'm My Own Grandpa" was, I believe, by Lonzo and Oscar, with lots of cover versions. "The Little Blue Man" was by Betty Johnson, who was the wife of Charlie Grean (sp?), who wrote her hit "I Dreamed" and Phil Harris's hit "The Thing", which was indeed based on "The Chandler's Wife" as another poster noted. Did anybody mention the Hoosier Hotshots' "From the Indies to the Andes in His Undies"? |
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Subject: RE: 1950s novelty songs From: GUEST,Mamablues Date: 18 Nov 09 - 01:11 AM "Walkin' My Cat Named Dog" |
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Subject: RE: 1950s novelty songs From: clueless don Date: 18 Nov 09 - 09:02 AM I enjoyed "Walkin' my Cat named Dog" quite a lot. I don't think of it as a novelty song, in spite of the "novelty title". Don |
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Subject: RE: 1950s novelty songs From: GUEST,E Man Date: 18 Nov 09 - 03:42 PM Haunted House by Jumpin' Gene Simmons "Don't be here when the morning comes." Just reissued on John Fogarty's new album |
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Subject: RE: 1950s novelty songs From: Cool Beans Date: 19 Nov 09 - 08:14 AM Linda Laurie herself did Ambrose's voice on "Ambrose, Part 5." It doesn't sound anything like Arnold Stang. |
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Subject: RE: 1950s novelty songs From: GUEST,seth in Olympia Date: 19 Nov 09 - 10:20 AM Mudcat helps me appreciate where I grew up (Cleveland), when I grew up (fifties and sixties) and my dad. He used to bring home 78's that he thought were funny for his kids. What a great dad! Among the treasures that I played until they broke were all the early Stan Freburg stuff (Dragnet, St. George and the Dragon), Spike Jones, Red Buttons (Strange Things Are Happening, The Laughing Song), Danny Kaye, Phil Harris ("The Thing"), and other great stuff. "Who Stole the Kishka?" by Frankie Yankovic was a smash in Cleveland. In addition to Alan Freed, immortal DJ, was another DJ, Pete "Mad Daddy" Myers, who did a two(?)-hour nightly show, non-stop rhyming jive talk, playing all manner of fifties novelty songs mixed with R&B and jazz--it was like heaven to my little 1958 white-boy ears. His sign off tune was the old Lil Green standard "Romance in the Dark" which at the time I thought was the hippest, coolest song I had ever heard. If it hadn't been for him and Mad magazine, who knows what would have happened? seth |
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Subject: RE: 1950s novelty songs From: beeliner Date: 19 Nov 09 - 03:38 PM Here is a link to "Ambrose, Part 5": [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8Z4SFc3uho[/url] I said that Ambrose' voice sounded A LITTLE like Arnold Stang. Now that I hear it again, I am of the same opinion. Other posters can listen and judge for themselves. I never implied that Mr. Stang actually supplied the voice, and it may well have been Ms. Laurie herself; if so, she has quite a range. |
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Subject: RE: 1950s novelty songs From: beeliner Date: 21 Nov 09 - 12:44 PM Three more that I don't think were mentioned previously: "Mister Grillon" by the Archibald Players (Gunsmoke spoof with a great 'shaggy dog' punch line'). "Chaos, Parts 1 and 2" by (Bob) Arbogast and (Stan) Ross. (Sendup of Top-40 radio and screaming DJ's). Bob Arbogast passed away earlier this year. "Ling Ting Tong" by the Charms (now, what could "eye-sum-o-kum-boo-dye-ay" possibly have meant?). |
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Subject: RE: 1950s novelty songs From: GUEST,RGS Date: 12 Feb 10 - 03:11 PM Heard a novelty song that sounded something like 'Abdul the bull bull emir'.[Abdul Abulbul Amir by Percy French] The'bull bull' won't be right but it might give a clue as to it's title?? |
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Subject: RE: 1950s novelty songs From: Bainbo Date: 12 Feb 10 - 05:27 PM Abdul Abulbul Amir. I have it on a recording by Frank Crumit, but loads of people have done it. |
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Subject: RE: 1950s novelty songs From: mousethief Date: 12 Feb 10 - 08:46 PM I'm surprised nobody seems to have mentioned "Istanbul, Not Constantinople" by the Four Lads. And the group that did the remake of this song in 1990 shows the novelty song is not dead yet. O..O =o= |
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Subject: RE: 1950s novelty songs From: MGM·Lion Date: 13 Feb 10 - 10:52 AM "Tzena, Tzena, Tzena," is a song originally written in Hebrew by a Polish emigrant to Palestine (now Israel) and famously recorded by The Weavers somewhere around 1950, I believe. Prior to that, not many were acquainted with it. Guest 6 jan 09 ====== ========= I learned the Hebrew version, then new I think, in 1946 -- Phonetically — Tze-na tze-na tze-na tze-na, Ha-banot, oo-rena Chyalim ba moshavah Al-na al-na al-na al na Al-na tit-chabeh-na Mi-ben chayil, ish tzavah [ch pronounced as a guttural thruout] Rough translation: Please come out [x4] girl recruits, & see the young recruits in the village. Please do not [x5] hide yourselves from the young soldier, man of the army. (Just in case anyone interested ~ Michael) |
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Subject: RE: 1950s novelty songs From: mousethief Date: 13 Feb 10 - 02:29 PM Is Tzena Tzena Tzena a novelty song? O..O =o= |
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Subject: RE: 1950s novelty songs From: MGM·Lion Date: 13 Feb 10 - 03:42 PM Someone adduces it as one above. Depends what you mean by a novelty song, as we have been saying thruout this thread. It's hardly mainstream or standard pop, I suppose. |
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Subject: RE: 1950s novelty songs From: Joe Offer Date: 13 Feb 10 - 03:48 PM I just came across a link to a now-dead Website, and found it at archive.org: FROGGY'S NOVELTY SONG LYRIC COLLECTION. Anybody know if this site has a new home? -Joe- |
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Subject: RE: 1950s novelty songs From: BobKnight Date: 13 Feb 10 - 03:50 PM "Too Pooped To Pop" - Chuck Berry "You’re a Pink Toothbrush" - Max Bygraves "Nellie The Elephant" - ? "The Laughing Policeman" - ? "There Is A Bairnie In The Hoose" - Jimmy Logan "Stop Yer Tickling Jock" - Harry Lauder I also remember a song by Jimmie Logan with the line, "Tell me this my dearie, whit's a whigmaleerie, Well, it's something that ye widnae want to know." |
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Subject: RE: 1950s novelty songs From: John on the Sunset Coast Date: 13 Feb 10 - 04:22 PM Some of these may have been listed amongst the hundreds noted so far, but these come from the deep recesses of my memory-- HOT ROD LINCOLN - Johnny Bond, and others TRANSFUSION - Nervous Norvus THE RAILROAD RUNS THROUGH THE MIDDLE OF THE HOUSE - Rosemary Clooney? I'VE GOT TEARS IN MY EARS FROM LYING ON MY BACK IN MY BED WHILE I CRY OVER YOU PURPLE PEOPLE EATER - Sheb Wooley THE LITTLE BLUE MAN - Betty Johnson CLEO AND ME-O - Jill Corey and The Four Lads BOTCH-A-ME - Rosemary Clooney IF I KNEW YOU WERE COMING I'D'VE BAKED a CAKE - Eileen Barton MONEY, MONEY, MONEY ? Not to be confused with , much later, ABBA |
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Subject: RE: 1950s and earlier novelty songs From: GUEST,Aristotle Date: 26 Jun 10 - 10:41 AM I am 81 years old and am tickled pink that there are so many other people who remember these songs. How dull the music front is these days. How about Walter, Walter Lead Me to the Altar? |
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Subject: RE: 1950s novelty songs From: Larry The Radio Guy Date: 26 Jun 10 - 01:04 PM GUEST,N.O. Oldies - PM Date: 03 Jan 09 - 05:01 PM Response to N.O. Oldies: Can anyone identify the author and title of the following lyrics? "They say that Perry Mason won all his cases. Yeah, but that's not so, he sold shoe laces. They say that Old Cheyenne shot up the land but he really was a real estate man. They say that Robin Hood lived in the forest. Yeah, but that's not so, he was a lawyer. They say that Jesse James had him a gang, but he really had a rag time band." It has a 50's kind of Coasters sound. Any suggestions? Yes, the song is called The Joke, and it's by Reggie Hall. On Chess records, I believe. I have a copy of the 45. I don't believe it ever made the hitparade charts. |
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Subject: RE: 1950s novelty songs From: eddie1 Date: 27 Jun 10 - 01:43 AM I never cease to wonder at Spotify! Just for the hell of it, I typed "Reggie Hall" and there is "The Joke" on an album called "New Orleans Twist Party! Eddie |
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Subject: RE: 1950s novelty songs From: mousethief Date: 27 Jun 10 - 02:22 AM I think these are from the 1950s but it may be the early 1960s * Baby Sittin' Boogie * Mr Bass Man * Who Put the Bomp in the bomp sh-bomp sh-bomp * Monster Mash My favourite 1950s novelty song I've only heard on Dr Demento and can't find a copy of the 78 (one was mailed to me from eBay but the moron packed it as if it were an LP and it arrived in about 20 pieces. He wouldn't refund my money and the post office wouldn't pay the insurance because it wasn't packaged properly. Grrrr.). I have an album version but it's not the same recording session as the 78. Sigh. The song is "Wong Has the Largest Tong in China" [="Wong Song"] and now I can't remember the artist's name! :( "Walking 'Round in Women's Underwear" is by Bob Rivers (a local DJ here in Seattle who makes hundreds of novelty songs, mostly spoofs of existing songs which may be cheating). His best are probably "I Saw Her Leaning There" (about Sir Paul's second wife) and "Janet's Coconut" (about the "wardrobe failure" to Harry Nilssen's tune). Sh-Boom is not a novelty song The Fab Four did a number of novelty songs including: * Maxwell's Silver Hammer * Why Don't We Do It in the Road * Octopus's Garden and the best of all * You Know My Name (Look Up the Number) * Don't Pass Me By (interesting that 2 are written by Ringo, as he wrote so very few!) and maybe * Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey There's a New Sound, the newest sound around, I know this from Dr. Demento! Tony Burrello. 1952. "Your red scarf matches your eyes, close the cover before striking, your father got the shipfitter's blues, Loving You Has Made Me Bananas"! I remember this one from Dr Demento also! The tune is as catchy as the lyrics are weird. Leader of the Laundromat plot: Boy loves laundry girl, but his parents say he has to go to a different laundry because daddy's shorts came back brown. (Oh, sure, blame the laundress!) Girl's heart is broken and she runs into the street, directly into the path of a runaway garbage truck. The best line: "Who's that banging on the piano?" "I don't know." Great stanza from The Battle of New Orleans: We fired our cannon till the barrel melted down So we grabbed an alligator and we hauled another round We filled his head with cannonballs, we powdered his behind And when we touched the powder off, the gator lost his mind! From the 40s I think: Hitler had only one big ball.... I think "Tennessee Bird Walk" is 60's but I love it! From the 70s: Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout by Shel Silverstein There were a lot of novelty songs in the 80s and 90s, the pack being led by Weird Al Yankovic. But few of them got much airplay. That's the difference, I think, between the 50s and later decades: fewer and fewer novelty songs became radio hits. Chuck Berry's only #1 hit was a novelty song: My Ding-a-Ling. |
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Subject: RE: 1950s novelty songs From: mousethief Date: 27 Jun 10 - 02:24 AM And of course most of the early stuff by They Might Be Giants. My fave is probably Birdhouse In Your Soul. |
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Subject: RE: 1950s novelty songs From: mousethief Date: 27 Jun 10 - 02:36 AM Two other Beatles novelty songs: * Back in the USSR (a spoof on the Beach Boys' California Girls) * Happiness is a Warm Gun |
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Subject: RE: 1950s novelty songs From: sonoftheseventh Date: 25 Jul 10 - 06:27 PM I have loved reading about so many of the songs I knew then and many I had never heard or heard of before now. I graduated in '51. I just wish I could hear or even obtain copies of many of those listed in this thread. But does "Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer" qualify or did it come on too late? How about "Tony The Dago, A Son of The Beach" which was contemporary with "Der Fuehrer's Face," Spike Jones' "Beedlebaum," and "Tea For Two?" Then there is "Ballad of Thunder Road," from the Robert Mitchum movie of the same name; Frankie Laine's "Mule Train," and "Ghost Riders In The Sky." How about "John and Marsha," on which nothing is ever said but those two words? By the way, I believe this is the correct wording of "Battle of New Orleans" by Johnny Horton. I had this on an eight track cassette that I used as a test while servicing those popular machines in my electronics business in 1970 and must have heard it a thousand times:
"In 1814, we took a little trip,
"Well, we fired our cannons and the British kept a'comin,'
They ran through the briers and they ran through the brambles, Slight correction to Mousethief's preferred stanza, "...till the barrel melted down, then we grabbed an alligator and FOUGHT another round." I was born to a soldier father in the Seventh Cavalry which was George Armstrong Custer's outfit at the time of his great faux pas on the Little Big Horn, hence my sobriquet, sonoftheseventh. Therefore, all things Custer and Seventh Cavalry are special to me, as "Please, Mr. Custer, I Don't Want To Go." Also the "Garryowen," an ancient Irish drinking song for which I was named, became the Seventh's regimental march, battle cry, and motto as depicted in the movie, "They Died With Their Boots On," starring Errol Flynn. Probably not an exact match to the title of this thread, but perhaps you will forgive me. |
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Subject: RE: 1950s novelty songs From: Allen in Oz Date: 25 Jul 10 - 07:29 PM JR Does "The Rock Island Line" rank as novelty ? A good song anyway AD |
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Subject: RE: 1950s novelty songs From: beeliner Date: 26 Jul 10 - 03:25 AM Abdul Abulbul Amir. I have it on a recording by Frank Crumit, but loads of people have done it. General, later President Dwight D. Eisenhower, arguably the most anti-war warrior in American history, called it his favorite song, though he gave the title as "Ivan Skavinsky Skavar", who was, of course, the other character in the story. |
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Subject: RE: 1950s novelty songs From: GUEST,Patsy Warren Date: 26 Jul 10 - 07:03 AM Mums and Dads, Mums and Dads, Funny Mums and Dads:- not quite sure who the children were who sang that but always loved it though. The Runaway Train, Michael Holiday I've Lost My Mummy, Rolf Harris Woodman, Spare That Tree, Phil Harris There were green alligators and long necked geese, Some humpy back camels and some chimpanzees, Some cats and rats and elephants but sure as you're born, The loveliest of all was the Unicorn:- The Batchelors theory on the demise of the Unicorn. Tommy Steele's 'Dream Maker' and also 'Little White Bull' 'New Fangled Tango' Lena Horne, funny to watch. 'You Can't Roller Skate in a Buffalo Herd' - Roger Miller. It was just so silly but I always sang along to it as a child. I saw a mouse (where, there on the stair, where on the stair, right there, a little mouse with clogs on: I think it was Ronnie Hilton singing about A Mouse in A Windmill in Old Amsterdam. '(How Much Is That) Doggie in the Window' Lita Rosa Stanley Holloway did a monologue song (if that counts) I can't quite remember the title but it was a boy who got too close to a lion in a cage disobeyed and got eaten. It was a droll Northern funniness and I loved it. [=The Lion and Albert] There were so many little gems. These songs were typical things that were regularly played on the radio on the Home Service on Sunday while my mother was cooking lunch or on a Children's Favourites programme before the birth of radio 1 |
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Subject: RE: 1950s novelty songs From: GUEST,Graham Date: 10 Aug 10 - 06:23 AM Then there was "Close The Door (They're Coming in the Window)" and "Who Is It? (It's the Milkman)", both by the Stargazers ("The Stargazers are on the air..........) |
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Subject: RE: 1950s novelty songs From: clueless don Date: 10 Aug 10 - 09:17 AM On 26 Jul 10 - 07:03 AM, GUEST,Patsy Warren wrote Stanley Holloway did a monologue song (if that counts) I can't quite remember the title but it was a boy who got too close to a lion in a cage disobeyed and got eaten. It was a droll Northern funniness and I loved it. That was variously titled "The Lion and Albert" or "Albert and the Lion", written by Marriott Edgar. It was, as usually performed, a recitation rather than a song - certainly that's the way Stanley Holloway performed it (I can't rule out the possibility that someone performed it as a song.) I first heard it performed by Tony Barrand. I love performing it, and do so every chance I get, even though some would argue that someone with a Washington D.C. Southern drawl should not be attempting a Lancashire accent. Don |
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Subject: RE: 1950s novelty songs From: GUEST,Patsy Warren Date: 10 Aug 10 - 10:34 AM The 'Ying Tong Song', by the Goons. 'Goodness Gracious Me' Peter Sellers and Sophia Loren 'Bangers and Mash' I think Peter Sellers and Sophia Loren again. 'Pedro the Fisherman' Julie Andrews. 'Never Smile at a Crocodile' I think this was Jerry Lewis. 'Just One More Cigarette' Sheila Hancock which was am anti-smoking song at the time. 'I'm a Little Christmas Cracker' Pinky and Perky 'The Monster Mash' The Crypt Kicker 6? 'Six White Boomers' Rolf Harris 'Sun Arise' Rolf Harris. I call this a novelty song because the sound was so different for the time. 'Three Wheels on My Wagon' The New Christy Minstrels |
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Subject: RE: 1950s novelty songs From: Snuffy Date: 10 Aug 10 - 05:32 PM Don, I have been known to sing The Lion and Albert: it goes very well to the tune of My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean There's a famous seaside place called Blackpool, That's noted for fresh air and fun, And Mr and Mrs Ramsbottom Went there with young Albert, their son. Al-bert, Al-bert, Went there with young Albert, their son, their son Al-bert, Al-bert, Went there with young Albert, their son. A grand little lad was young Albert All dressed in his best; quite a swell 'With a stick with an 'orse's 'ead 'andle The finest that Woolworth's could sell. Wool-worth's, Wool-worth's The finest that Woolworth's could sell, could sell. Wool-worth's, Wool-worth's The finest that Woolworth's could sell. And similarly with all the remaining verses - about 8 minutes worth in all IIRC! |
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Subject: RE: 1950s novelty songs From: mousethief Date: 10 Aug 10 - 10:33 PM Has anybody mentioned "Green Door" by Jim Lowe? Maybe that was early 60s. |
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Subject: RE: 1950s novelty songs From: GUEST,josep Date: 11 Aug 10 - 12:21 PM Mule Skinner Blues by the Fendermen (although I think this might be 1960) Mule Skinner Blues on YouTube. |
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Subject: RE: 1950s novelty songs From: Bettynh Date: 11 Aug 10 - 02:13 PM I've had a bit of an earworm for "The Prune Song" recently (no matter how young a prune may be, it's always full of wrinkles...). Just goes round and round in my head, and I know it'll play itself out eventually. But I don't know how I know it. I grew up in the fifties, and listened to radio a lot, but the only recordings I can find are from the 30s. We may have sung it in Girl Scouts, but I remember the music, too (probably Harry Reser's version). Was there a 50s or early 60s recording? Or, more likely, some local DJ (Boston) played it a lot. |
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Subject: RE: 1950s novelty songs From: The Fooles Troupe Date: 11 Aug 10 - 08:29 PM Anybody remember "You're Standing on me Foot, Captain"? - maybe not the title, but the most easily remembered line from it.... had a more or less nautical theme ... something about a ship sinking, I think. Not making this up, which is why I have reposted it after it vanished from the thread the other day ... |
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Subject: RE: 1950s novelty songs From: fumblefingers Date: 11 Aug 10 - 08:31 PM Bill Carlisle:
Is Zat You Myrtle Louvin Bros.: Cash on the Barrelhead Sheb Wooley:
The Chase |
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Subject: RE: 1950s novelty songs From: GUEST,Errol Fellows Date: 13 Aug 10 - 04:35 AM I recall a song about a guy who finds something ( a box? ) on the beach and , no matter how hard he tries, he can't get rid of it. The chorus went something like; get outta here with that ( Boom Boom-Boom on drums) before I call the cops. What was it called, who wrote it and who recorded it? [=The Thing] |
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Subject: RE: 1950s novelty songs From: The Fooles Troupe Date: 13 Aug 10 - 06:50 AM I think its - Get Out Of Here With Your Boom Boom Boom [=The Thing] |
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Subject: RE: 1950s novelty songs From: mousethief Date: 13 Aug 10 - 09:52 AM It's called "The Thing" and was sung by Phil Harris, who did the voice of Baloo the Bear in Disney's Jungle Book. It was recorded and released in late 1950 and spent 14 weeks on the charts, peaking at #1. |
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