beedle bomb / Feetlebaum / Whatever

Subject: RE: beedle bomb
From: Sorcha
Date: 12 Feb 01 - 01:36 AM

I can't find the source, and I suspect it is due to spelling......

Subject: RE: beedle bomb
From: campfire
Date: 12 Feb 01 - 01:30 AM

I grew up hearing Spike Jones, too, and Like Spaw's mom, mine didn't like it much either. I'm sure Dad still has the album (mostly cuz he hasn't thrown anything away in at least 40 years!).

I'll be seeing Dad in the next few days, I hope. I'll transcribe the lyrics if I do.

campfire

Subject: RE: beedle bomb
From: Metchosin
Date: 12 Feb 01 - 01:16 AM

I will make an attempt to transcribe them. The cartoon of the horse race was ca 1956, because we didn't have a TV prior to then and was of the same ilk as the "dancing skeletons".

Subject: RE: beedle bomb
From: Little Hawk
Date: 12 Feb 01 - 12:08 AM

I can well recall that crazy song...very popular with me and my friends when I was 10 or 12. The thing was, this horse named "Beetle Bomb" was always the very last horse at the tail end of the pack...all through the race...he's always in last place...and then at the very end of the song the announcer screams "And the winner is....BEETLE BOMBBBBBB!!!!" Totally ridiculous and quite funny.

Wish I could find the lyrics too.

- LH

Subject: RE: beedle bomb
From: catspaw49
Date: 11 Feb 01 - 11:53 PM

Yeah Bill, horses, a horse race.....to the "William Tell"..........and like I said above, Doodles also wrote one for the Indy 500......that's cars, not horses.......just wanted to keep it clear 'cause I know your gray matter is getting down there. Then again, so is mine...........so now that we have that clear, whatever it was, does anyone have the lyrics to either???? I can't find a thing!!!!

Spaw

Subject: RE: beedle bomb
From: Bill D
Date: 11 Feb 01 - 11:33 PM

"beedelbaum" was presented as a sort of horse race. right?...details are hazy, but I heard it a number of times

Subject: RE: beedle bomb
From: Sorcha
Date: 11 Feb 01 - 11:00 PM

My dad (b. 1925, WWII vet) always used to say "Hey, beedle bomb" and I thought he was saying "beetle bum". Now I know different. Learn something everyday on Mudcat. I am old enuf I should remember this, but I don't. Oh well. Brain damage I guess.

Subject: RE: beedle bomb
From: catspaw49
Date: 11 Feb 01 - 10:12 PM

The Ol' Man was a great Spike fan and of course my Mom couldn't stand him, mainly because Dad was always cranking out some Spike lyric. We had 78's and watched Spike on TV and much to my Mom's chagrin, we'd laugh ourselves silly. I was too young to get it all, but the zaniness was addicting.

This song was done to the "William Tell Overture" and mainly written by "Doodles" Weaver (who happens to have been Sigourney's uncle) and he also did a version about the Indy 500. Weaver played a character called Professor Feetlebaum and the lyric may actually have originally been that name....not sure. Anyway, like Weird Al, Spike would be having a load of fun today!!!

Spaw

Subject: RE: beedle bomb
From: Amos
Date: 11 Feb 01 - 09:58 PM

Nope - the earliest memory I have of television was a Popeye cartoon in 1953. I always placed Spike as firmly on the pretelbinision side of the line. The old days. When analog reality was the only one anyone knew about.... except for radioland and the Make Believe Ballroom, which I always thought of as a sort of jockstrap for lesbian teenagers....

Subject: RE: beedle bomb
From: Matt_R
Date: 11 Feb 01 - 09:07 PM

This is no relation to the kickass Blur song "Beetlebum"?

Subject: RE: beedle bomb
From: sophocleese
Date: 11 Feb 01 - 08:34 PM

I got a CD of Spike Jones for my kids for Christmas. They love it William Tell (Mother-in-Law nagging in the rear) as well as Cocktails for Two.

Subject: RE: beedle bomb
From: Metchosin
Date: 11 Feb 01 - 08:31 PM

Amos, do you also remember this as a cartoon on TV as a kid?

Subject: RE: beedle bomb
From: Metchosin
Date: 11 Feb 01 - 08:22 PM

Its still around Amos, I have it (blush)

Subject: RE: beedle bomb
From: Amos
Date: 11 Feb 01 - 08:20 PM

It included such deathless bits as "Lettuce coming to a head, Toilet Paper wiping up the rear....annnnnnnnnd Beeeyadle Bomb...!!!" We played it on a very old 78RPM Victrola disk when I was a kid but I haven't seen it for decades....

A

Subject: RE: beedle bomb
From: Metchosin
Date: 11 Feb 01 - 07:57 PM

And here comes Beetle Bomb..... Spike Jones did Beetle Bomb, have it on a record somewhere but maybe someone else can come up with the lyrics in the mean time.

Subject: beedle bomb
From:
Date: 11 Feb 01 - 07:49 PM

tooth paste squessed at the rail nails being hammred against the boards nylons in the stretch etc.

circa: 1950's