Punning record titles

12 Oct 09 - 01:55 PM (#2744273)
Subject: Punning record titles
From: MGM·Lion

I have always loved a really good, groan-inducing pun; and have found the enjoyment of many folk records enhanced by a good pun, related to the singers' styles or their music, in the albums' titles. Examples which spring to mind are June Tabor's "Airs and Graces"; Barry Dransfield's "Bowing and Scraping"; The High Level Ranters' "Four In A Bar".

Further examples, please?

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12 Oct 09 - 02:09 PM (#2744288)
Subject: RE: Punning record titles
From: katlaughing

Hard Eggs in the Mornin' Blues is full of them. This is Mudcat's own Roger in Baltimore and Lonesome EJ doing a fine job and caught on video thanks to anudder Mudder, Amos! I am sure Severn will be along with a few. He is a Punner Extraordinaire!

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12 Oct 09 - 02:16 PM (#2744293)
Subject: RE: Punning record titles
From: MGM·Lion

Calling Mudcatters 'Mudders' seems to me to be asking for all kinds of other, perhaps less obliging, sort of puns!

Yes, many thanks, Kat. But I think *songs* with puns in would be a separate thread from album titles with them, which is what I am trying to collect here.

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12 Oct 09 - 02:19 PM (#2744297)
Subject: RE: Punning record titles
From: katlaughing

My apologies, I thought you wanted song titles..that'll teach me to skim over the text instead of read!:-)

A long time ago we were playing around with what to call ourselves...that's where anudder Mudder came into being. :-)

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12 Oct 09 - 02:22 PM (#2744300)
Subject: RE: Punning record titles - Jimmy Buffett
From: Genie

Jimmy Buffett's discography is replete with such "punny" titles. So are his song titles, but his album titles include:

                        
1973        A White Sport Coat and a Pink Crustacean
1976        Havana Daydreamin'        
(That could be a pun if you put the accent on the wrong sylLABle in "Havana")
1985        Last Mango in Paris        
1986        Floridays                
1989        Off To See The Lizard        
2004        License to Chill

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12 Oct 09 - 06:26 PM (#2744476)
Subject: RE: Punning record titles
From: alex s

Local folk hero's LP record (remember them?) - "Roger's 12-incher"

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12 Oct 09 - 07:51 PM (#2744535)
Subject: RE: Punning record titles
From: GUEST,Gerry

We had a thread on album titles a while ago, I nominated The Roaring Forties' CD, Life Of Brine.

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13 Oct 09 - 02:55 AM (#2744687)
Subject: RE: Punning record titles
From: Dave Sutherland

Does the late Trevor Crozier's "Trouble Over Bridgewater" qualify?

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13 Oct 09 - 05:05 AM (#2744727)
Subject: RE: Punning record titles
From: GUEST

The band "Manic HIspanic" has:

Homo Depot
and
The Recline Of Mexican Civilization

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13 Oct 09 - 05:14 AM (#2744730)
Subject: RE: Punning record titles
From: Leadfingers

Folk/Blues duo 'Hot Vultures' had 'Carrion On' .

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13 Oct 09 - 05:23 AM (#2744733)
Subject: RE: Punning record titles
From: Tangledwood

Not folk music as such, but the quartet "Stringy Bach" have an album titled "Bach in the Bight". One of the tracks is "The Barque in the Bight".

It can ruin a joke if it has to be explained, but for non-
Aussie Catters; there is a eucalypt tree known as a Stringy Bark and the large body of water south of the continent is The Great Australian Bight.

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13 Oct 09 - 05:35 AM (#2744737)
Subject: RE: Punning record titles
From: Mrs_Annie

Mawkin put out an album called 'The Fair Essex'

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13 Oct 09 - 06:50 AM (#2744763)
Subject: RE: Punning record titles
From: treewind

Right on your doorstep Michael, we've got Fenlandia

...and does Sharp Practice count?

...but there must be hundreds of examples - it's a popular formula for an album title, and if you can think of one it's often the best choice because it's invariably memorable.

Anahata

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13 Oct 09 - 07:51 AM (#2744808)
Subject: RE: Punning record titles
From: Hamish

Not folk, but Caravan specialised in punning titles like For Girls Who Grow Plump in the Night and, of course, Cunning Stunts.

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14 Oct 09 - 02:45 PM (#2745797)
Subject: RE: Punning record titles
From: GUEST,.gargoyle

I like Polka Your Eyes Out by "Weird Al" Yankovic

And 99 Baboons as featured on Dr. Demento's program.

Sincerely,
Gargoyle

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14 Oct 09 - 03:44 PM (#2745851)
Subject: RE: Punning record titles
From: Genie

Pretty much any record (single or album) by Weird Al Yankovic, too.

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14 Oct 09 - 04:09 PM (#2745877)
Subject: RE: Punning record titles
From: GUEST,Ian Gill

Oo-er, how about Derek Bell [of The Chieftains] solo album 'Derek Bell plays with himself' ?

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14 Oct 09 - 04:12 PM (#2745878)
Subject: RE: Punning record titles
From: Folknacious

The 'aforementioned' Hot Vultures folded into the English Country Blues Band who did 'Home And Deranged'. The culprit now gets his kicks with magazine headlines I believe

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14 Oct 09 - 04:54 PM (#2745910)
Subject: RE: Punning record titles
From: GUEST

"12 inches of Cocky" by Cocky.

Which gave rise to their poster (it being the era of the Sex Pistols) - "Never mind the B******ks, Here's 12 inches of Cocky!"

Steve

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14 Oct 09 - 11:44 PM (#2746198)
Subject: RE: Punning record titles
From: Celtaddict

The Rogue's bagpipe album, "Off Kilter"

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14 Oct 09 - 11:49 PM (#2746200)
Subject: RE: Punning record titles
From: PSzymeczek

Stan Freberg is right up there in this regard - "St. George and the Dragonet"

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15 Oct 09 - 02:31 AM (#2746245)
Subject: RE: Punning record titles
From: GUEST,Ralphie

80's UK rock band, having been hit by the tax man, went on the road again. recording the eponymous live LP.
A Tour Force is Forced to Tour.

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15 Oct 09 - 12:36 PM (#2746670)
Subject: RE: Punning record titles
From: GUEST,jonm at work

I always liked the Budgie title "Britannia Waives the Rules"

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18 Oct 09 - 03:12 PM (#2747371)
Subject: RE: Punning record titles
From: GUEST,.gargoyle

OK - Not a record - but the title of a folksong collection Eat Beans, They Make You Astute

Sincerely,
Gargoyle

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18 Feb 10 - 10:37 AM (#2843114)
Subject: RE: Punning record titles
From: GUEST,Mr Red

Climax Ceilidh Band 1) Come Dancing 2) Five Play (there are 5 in the band)

FWIW Climax Ceilidh Band was a continuation of the Climax Blues Band (remember them?). And it was started by a Mr Cooper, and Cooper Climax was THE engine to have for F1 at the time. All other references to Climax are purely incededntal.

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18 Feb 10 - 10:45 AM (#2843125)
Subject: RE: Punning record titles
From: Fred McCormick

I was fairly tickled by the title of the solo LP which Derek Bell recorded for Cló Iar Chonnachta. Derek Bell Plays With Himself!!

Not in public I trust

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18 Feb 10 - 02:25 PM (#2843336)
Subject: RE: Punning record titles
From: Acorn4

Go over into the realms of country and western and you will find a host.

My favourite is Pam Tillis's:-

The call me Cleopatra 'cos I'm the Queen of de Nial"

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20 Oct 19 - 10:07 PM (#4014618)
Subject: RE: Punning record titles
From: Kingwood Kowboy

I Pastured Up My Chance To Herd Her (Larry W Jones 10/20/20190 (song #7648)

I was a cowboy and she was a cowgirl
Working at one-trick Dan’s wild horses spread
Somewhere twixt horse biscuits and hayfever
Someroan wrangled her from Dan’s ranch and fled

Boys, I pastured up my chance to herd her
That dude lassoed her with words so bovine
And then they rode off the ranch in a hoof
Oh no, now she’ll never be my equine

(Instrumental)

He ponied up and horsed around the ring
I trough that she cud see through his foaling
Neigh I’m horse from crying and whinnying
She pelt for his horse play like a real foal

Boys, I pastured up my chance to herd her
That dude lassoed her with words so bovine
And then they rode off the ranch in a hoof
Oh no, now she’ll never be my equine

(Instrtumental)

If my heart gets stable-ised then I cud
Get hoof a leg up and end this night mare
Because neigh A-mare-ican cowboy should
Ever be colt with no sweet filly there

Boys, I pastured up my chance to herd her
That dude lassoed her with words so bovine
And then they rode off the ranch in a hoof
Oh no, now she’ll never be my equine

I’m only hoof finished but it’s time to hit the hay

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21 Oct 19 - 04:02 AM (#4014631)
Subject: RE: Punning record titles
From: GUEST,Gerry

The Austin Lounge Lizards – Creatures fro the Black Saloon.
Yale Strom – Garden of Yidn.

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21 Oct 19 - 04:59 AM (#4014637)
Subject: RE: Punning record titles
From: Black belt caterpillar wrestler

As Blind Panic we made a cassette called "Panic measures".

Robin

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21 Oct 19 - 08:47 AM (#4014668)
Subject: RE: Punning record titles
From: Howard Jones

In the 1980s I was invited to join the Electropathic Battery Band. This itself was a sort of pun, as it was named after a Victorian apparatus supposed to improve health through electricity. I suppose someone thought it seemed a good idea at the time.

When we came to record an album we shortened the name to The Electropathics. The album was called "Batteries not Included".

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21 Oct 19 - 10:53 AM (#4014699)
Subject: RE: Punning record titles
From: GUEST,Jerry

‘Songs for Swinging Sellars’ by the late Peter Sellars was a neat variation on the album ‘Songs for Swinging Lovers’ by Frank Sinatra. The former referred to hanging from a tree (as in Strange Fruit) and the latter the swing era of music; neither referred to wife swapping, as far as I am aware.

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21 Oct 19 - 12:36 PM (#4014720)
Subject: RE: Punning record titles
From: Reinhard

See also Stan Kelly's and Leon Rosselson's 1961 Topic EP "Songs for Swinging Landlords To".

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21 Oct 19 - 01:33 PM (#4014732)
Subject: RE: Punning record titles
From: GUEST,Jerry

Ah yes, I had forgotten that one.

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21 Oct 19 - 09:40 PM (#4014779)
Subject: RE: Punning record titles
From: Hagman

US rock band REO Speedwagon always amused with their LP titled, "You Can Tune a Piano, but You Can't Tuna Fish."

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21 Oct 19 - 09:57 PM (#4014782)
Subject: RE: Punning record titles
From: michaelr

Cunning Stunts by Caravan (1975).

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22 Oct 19 - 03:44 AM (#4014799)
Subject: RE: Punning record titles
From: GUEST,Jerry

‘Dublin Banjos’ by Tony Sullivan and Johnny Keenan (Irish tenor banjo duo’s reaction to Duelling Banjos).

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25 Oct 19 - 02:38 AM (#4015268)
Subject: RE: Punning record titles
From: Helen

Ad Vielle Que Pourra which is a play on words for the French saying, "advienne que pourra", meaning come what may.

The vielle is a hurdy gurdy and features a lot on the albums, although I only have one of their CD's, called New French Folk Music.

Hagman's mention of "You Can Tune a Piano, but You Can't Tuna Fish." reminds me of an Aussie phrase I have heard - not music related sorry! -
"Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana".

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25 Oct 19 - 03:27 AM (#4015269)
Subject: RE: Punning record titles
From: Mr Red

Groucho Marx popularised the banana phrase. Anyone know where he got it from? S J Perelman perhaps?

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25 Oct 19 - 04:18 AM (#4015276)
Subject: RE: Punning record titles
From: GUEST,Jerry

SJ Perelman provided a lot of Groucho’s witticisms. Just a guess....

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