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11 Mar 01 - 05:17 AM (#415071) Subject: Song about fishies in an iddy biddy pool From: GUEST,SusanGoo@mindspring.com Dear Friends, I'm sure this isn't a folk song, per se, but I love to sing it to small children. It starts with "Down in the river in an iddy biddy pool, Swam three little fishies and a mama fishy too, Swim said the mama fishy, swim if you can, so they swam and they swam all over the dam." Are there any more verses? Thank you for your help. |
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11 Mar 01 - 05:45 AM (#415075) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Song about fishies in an iddy biddy From: Joe Offer Hi, Susan - that's a little hard to find because everybody spells itty-bitty different. We have it here (click) in our database. I found it by looking for "all over the dam," which everybody spells the same way. -Joe Offer (lyrics sent by e-mail)- |
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11 Mar 01 - 06:20 AM (#415080) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Song about fishies in an iddy biddy From: AllisonA(Animaterra) Didn't someone record this with a lot of deliberate mispronounciations: Down in the meadow in a ittle bitty pool Were three little fiddies and their mommy fiddie too Fim! fed the mommy fiddie, Fim if you can! And they fam and they fam right over the dam
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11 Mar 01 - 08:51 AM (#415128) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Song about fishies in an iddy biddy From: Susan of DT The Andrews Sisters did. Big hit in the early 40s. |
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11 Mar 01 - 09:08 AM (#415135) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Song about fishies in an iddy biddy From: GUEST I just love mudcat!. It's sixty years since I sang this with my Mum; brings it all back. Thanks. |
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11 Mar 01 - 11:52 AM (#415201) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Song about fishies in an iddy biddy From: jofield An interesting phenomenon in American popular music, the sudden popularity of nonsense lyrics in the '40s. "Three Little Fishes", "Hotsut Ralson", "Flatfoot Floogie", a wonderful Nat Cole tune called "Ke-mo, Ki-mo", "Mairzy Doats", etc. And now I think on it, bebop's avenue to popular acceptance was through "Ooh-bop Sh-Bam", "Ool-ya Koo", and other tunes that tried to make words directly into music. |
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11 Mar 01 - 12:17 PM (#415218) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Song about fishies in an iddy biddy From: Greyeyes In the UK the best known version of this song was recorded by the comedian and actor Frankie Howerd. His and several other versions can be found here. In the twilight of a very long and successful career as a stand up, Howerd became the darling of trendy comedy critics and students and frequently concluded his act with an outrageously over the top rendition of Three Little Fishes. |
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11 Mar 01 - 01:41 PM (#415276) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Song about fishies in an iddy biddy From: kimmers Aha! My mother sang this to me, too, and she always sang it in a kind of baby-talk. "And they fwam and they fwam". I always wondered why she did this. So it was the Andrews Sisters? Mom always shouted the "Choo!" as well. |
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11 Mar 01 - 05:46 PM (#415458) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Song about fishies in an iddy biddy From: Joe Offer Kimmers, try to sing this underwater, and you'll understand why the pronunciation is a little distorted.... Maybe it IS baby talk, but I prefer to think of it as singing underwater. Whatever the case, it sure is a fun song. Now, an interesting challenge would be to find lyrics for the songs that jofield listed. I'm sure some have already been posted here. -Joe Offer- |
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11 Mar 01 - 05:56 PM (#415470) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Song about fishies in an iddy biddy From: Greyeyes So, throwing down the gauntlet eh Joe? 11.pm Sunday night is not a good time for me, but no doubt US Catters will take up the challenge. I'll have a go tomorrow. |
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11 Mar 01 - 06:42 PM (#415510) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Song about fishies in an iddy biddy From: campfire We had a thread not long ago on "Mairzy Doats - we'll have to look for the rest. campfire |
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11 Mar 01 - 07:51 PM (#415547) Subject: Lyr Add: THE HUT-SUT SONG (Killion/McMichael/Owens From: Joe Offer OK, this inspiring gem takes care of the easy ones. The rest will be a challenge. -Joe Offer- THE HUT-SUT SONG Now the Rawlson is a Swedish town, the rillerah is a stream. Hut-Sut Rawlson on the rillerah and a brawla, brawla sooit. |
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11 Mar 01 - 08:29 PM (#415569) Subject: Lyr Add: KE-MO, KI-MO (Nat King Cole) From: jofield OK, time to do my part. When I was a kid, my mom got us an album of 78s called "King Cole for Kids". It was his wonderful trio doing children's songs. The most memorable tune is also on a "Greatest Hits" of the Nat Cole Trio I got recently. It's called "Ke-mo, Ki-mo" (pronounced kee-mo, kye-mo), and, from memory, goes like this:
[Spoken intro by Cole, something like, "Boys and girls, did you ever wish you had a magic potion to make dreams come true? Well, listen to this..."]
Ke-mo, ki-mo spare-o-spare
Once a great magician taught me what to say,
Ke-mo, ki-mo spare-o-spare
[Cole goes through this twice. The second time he speaks one of the "ke-mo, ki-mo"s, as if making sure we get it. At the end he says, "See what I mean?"]
I love this little tune, don't you? James.
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11 Mar 01 - 08:41 PM (#415582) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Song about fishies in an iddy biddy From: Snuffy I dimly remember a program on UK radio many years ago on the origins of the Hutsut song - I think the conclusion was that it actually originated in New Orleans and the words had been corrupted into nonsense. Started out as something like "Hot-shot Ralston on the riverboat and his spraling, brawling sweetie". Anyone able to confirm this (or equally valuable - to shoot it down)? |
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12 Mar 01 - 05:27 AM (#415682) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Song about fishies in an iddy biddy From: okthen Didn't Danny Kaye do this "Fishes" song as well? Or is my 40 year memory of uncle Mac on BBC letting me down again? Maybe it was Bing Crosbie, anyway the Andrews Sisters it wasn't. cheers bill |
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12 Mar 01 - 11:36 AM (#415748) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Song about fishies in an iddy biddy From: Kim C Keemo Kimo is a 19th century minstrel tune... but the words are a lot different from Nat's. |
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12 Mar 01 - 12:25 PM (#415781) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Song about fishies in an iddy biddy From: Musicman From "The Readers Digest Children's Songbook"
"Three Little Fishies" is a novelty song that was popularized by Kay Kyser and His Orchestra in 1941, when that band was riding high in popularity as a result of the music-quiz radio program called 'Kay Kyser's Kollege of Musical Knowledge.' The daffy little tune with its baby talk and nonsense words was a jukebox favorite and sold over a million records. The song has been around a long time, but you don't have to dust it off. An amazing number of Children know it and love it." The song is copyright 1939, words and music by Saxie Dowell..... This is a great book, also has Cememnt Mixer, Flat Foot Floogee, Hut-Sut Song, John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt, Mairzy Doats, Good Ship Lollipop, and a whole host of other great kids stuff (older kids too!) |
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12 Mar 01 - 03:13 PM (#415914) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Song about fishies in an iddy biddy From: GUEST,SusanGoo@minspring.com Dear Friends, Thank you so much for your enthusiastic help - it's just what I had hoped for! I'm looking forward to learning those other nonsense songs, too. I should be the hit of the birthday party set soon! |
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12 Mar 01 - 03:35 PM (#415935) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Song about fishies in an iddy biddy From: Greyeyes Flat Foot Floogie
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12 Mar 01 - 03:38 PM (#415937) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Song about fishies in an iddy biddy From: LR Mole Cee-ment Mixer (putt-ti, putt-ti), was a hit for Slim and Slam (Slim Gaillard and Slam Stuart), and is mentioned in Kerouac's "On the Road" . The Harry Smith (Smithsonian) anthology has something that contains the words "Ee-mo, eye-mo, Keemo, Kymo, rowdy rowdy rae," with a yodel on the last syllable: some lunatic banjo guy, I think, whose name you'd know in a minute if I could remember it. Ah, the Folk Process. Now, was "Witchy ti to,timora, hora nika, hora nika, hey, ney, hey, ney, no wah." real Native American or what? |
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12 Mar 01 - 03:41 PM (#415938) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Song about fishies in an iddy biddy From: Greyeyes Sorry try here
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12 Mar 01 - 03:57 PM (#415955) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Song about fishies in an iddy biddy From: Greyeyes How are we doing Joe? Do we get the job? |
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12 Mar 01 - 07:24 PM (#416139) Subject: Lyr Add: FLAT FOOT FLOOGIE From: Joe Offer We're doing pretty darn well, Greyeyes. I'm afraid, though, that I'm going to have to take a few points off your grade. It is a very nice thing to post a link to lyrics, but links have a way of expiring. Unless they are purely pop-rock lyrics that have little interest to folkies, please try to copy-paste the lyrics into our forum, and include the title of the song in the title of your message. That way, they're forever stored at Mudcat, and we can find the lyrics with a simple Mudcat search. Note that there is no need to start a new "add lyrics" thread. If your message has the word ADD and the name of the song, it turns up on out two Mudcat search engines (just not on the Filter). If you can also post a link to the place where you got the lyrics, that would help. You will notice that I broke my own rule. Up above, KimC said Keemo Kimo is an old minstrel tune with different lyrics, and then she didn't post the lyrics. I found the song at the Levy Sheet Music site and added a link to the sheet music in her message, but I didn't transcribe the lyrics, either. I have to teach a class tonight and should be preparing, so I figure that's a good excuse. If somebody would like to transcribe the minstrel lyrics and tune for "Keemo Kimo," that would be nice. -Joe Offer- FLAT FOOT FLOOGIE (Gaillard, Stewart, Green) Oh, the flat foot floogie with a floy, floy, Yeah, yeah yeah, byah, oh, baby! Whenever your cares are chronic, Flat foot floogie with a floy, floy, [Shouting and muttering to the band.] Whenever your cares are chronic, Well, all right then; get those floy-floys straight!
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12 Mar 01 - 07:43 PM (#416152) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Song about fishies in an iddy biddy From: Joe Offer On second thought, it's good that Kim and I didn't post the lyrics to "Keemo Kimo." It's in the Digital Tradition (click), and Sorcha and Irish Sergeant posted different versions here (click). -Joe Offer- |
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13 Mar 01 - 02:18 PM (#416736) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Song about fishies in an iddy biddy From: Greyeyes You should have made me copy them out 10 times Joe :>) I'll remember next time. |
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21 Nov 07 - 11:41 AM (#2199270) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Song about fishies in an iddy biddy From: GUEST,Girly It was sang by Kay Keiser...many moons ago: Here are they lyrics as sung by Kay Kyser [Kayser?], whose band popularized the song in the mid 1930's [and who may have written it]. BTW, this song, like "Doggie In The Window," and some other "kids' songs" was not originally a children's song, but a song popular with the teenagers and young adults. THREE LITTLE FISHES (Fwee Widdo Fiddies) Down in the meadow in a little bitty pool, Swam three little fishies and the mama fishy, too. "Swim!" said the mama fishy, "Swim if you can!" And they swam and they swam right over the dam. cho: Boop boop dittum dattum wattum, shoo Boop boop dittum dattum wattum, shoo Boop boop dittum dattum wattum, shoo And they swam and they swam all over the dam. "Stop!" said the mama fishy, "You'll get lost!" But the three little fishies didn't want to be bossed, So the three little fishies went out on a spree And they swam and they swam right out to the sea. chorus "Whee!" said the little fishies, "This is fun! Let's swim and swim 'til the day is done1" So they swam and they swam, and it was a lark. Then, all of a sudden, they saw a shark. chorus "Help!"cried the little fishies, "Look at all the whales!" And the three little fishies, they turned on their tails. And back to the pool in the meadow they swam And they swam and swam back over the dam. chorus A simple but effective way to play it is with a simple, repeated chord progression of G,Em,C, D7 on each of the first two lines of each verse [and the chorus], a progression of G, Em, C, A on the third, and D7, D7, D7, G on the last line. Kayser, of course, then repeats the whole song in baby talk, e.g.: Down in da meadow in a itty bitty poo, Fwam fwee widdo fiddies and da momma fiddy, too. "Fwim!" ted da momma fiddy, "Fwim if oo tan!" And dey fwam and dey fwam wight ova da dam. etc Reprinted from "genie" |
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21 Nov 07 - 05:02 PM (#2199473) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Song about fishies in an iddy biddy From: s&r Played in 'C' we use C Am Dm7 G7; C Am Dm7 G7; C C7 F Ab7; G7 G7 G7 C Stu |
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17 Mar 08 - 07:32 PM (#2291123) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Song about fishies in an iddy biddy From: GUEST Thank you all...my Gramma passed away last year, she used to sing this to me when I was small, nobody else I know knew this song - it's made me smile to see it means something to others x |
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17 Mar 08 - 08:59 PM (#2291210) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Song about fishies in an iddy biddy From: Herga Kitty But to go back to Okthen's post - it was Danny Kaye's version that I remember was played on Children's family favourites. Kitty |
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24 Jan 10 - 09:30 PM (#2820839) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Song about fishies in an iddy biddy From: GUEST,Waabi Three Little Fishies (Itty Bitty Poo) Kay Kyser (#1 in 1939) - words and music by Saxie Dowell Down in the meadow in a little bitty pool Swam three little fishies and a mama fishie too "Swim" said the mama fishie, "Swim if you can" And they swam and they swam all over the dam Boop boop dit-tem dat-tem what-tem Chu! Boop boop dit-tem dat-tem what-tem Chu! Boop boop dit-tem dat-tem what-tem Chu! And they swam and they swam all over the dam "Stop" said the mama fishie, "or you will get lost" The three little fishies didn't wanna be bossed The three little fishies went off on a spree And they swam and they swam right out to the sea Boop boop dit-tem dat-tem what-tem Chu! Boop boop dit-tem dat-tem what-tem Chu! Boop boop dit-tem dat-tem what-tem Chu! And they swam and they swam right out to the sea "Whee!" yelled the little fishies, "Here's a lot of fun We'll swim in the sea till the day is done" They swam and they swam, and it was a lark Till all of a sudden they saw a shark! Boop boop dit-tem dat-tem what-tem Chu! Boop boop dit-tem dat-tem what-tem Chu! Boop boop dit-tem dat-tem what-tem Chu! Till all of a sudden they saw a shark! "Help!" cried the little fishies, "Gee! look at all the whales!" And quick as they could, they turned on their tails And back to the pool in the meadow they swam And they swam and they swam back over the dam Boop boop dit-tem dat-tem what-tem Chu! Boop boop dit-tem dat-tem what-tem Chu! Boop boop dit-tem dat-tem what-tem Chu! And they swam and they swam back over the dam Read more: http://www.metrolyrics.com/three-little-fishes-lyrics-kay-kyser.html#ixzz0daIR5guG |