Whats the funniest song you have ever heard?

Fran · Post by **Fran** » 23 Mar 2012, 06:35

dindindin wrote:
Bighuey wrote:Anyone remember Dr. Demento? I used to listen to him when I worked graveyard. He played some pretty wild stuff.

-- Sat Dec 31, 2011 10:24 am --

Anyone remember Dr. Demento? I used to listen to him when I worked graveyard. He played some pretty wild stuff.
He played Tom Lehrer "Poisoning Pigeons in the Park"

I love that song

Alexander_john · Post by **Alexander_john** » 23 Mar 2012, 09:55

Hello,
Well i never heard any funny song,
I always listen good poetry, which always good and feel refreshment in leisure.

Ant · Post by **Ant** » 23 Mar 2012, 14:16

Alexander_john wrote:Hello,
Well i never heard any funny song,
I always listen good poetry, which always good and feel refreshment in leisure.

You are right poetry is good but there are some pretty funny songs out there and laughter is a good thing for all of us right.

dindindin · Post by **dindindin** » 27 Mar 2012, 01:13

"Plastic Jesus" by George Cromarty and Ed Rush. There are lots of renditions of this song. I like Paul Newman's
in "Cool Hand Luke." As it was originally written, it was a description of what a good ol' boy could get away with if
he had a "Plastic Jesus sitting on the dashboard of my car." Newman's version is a little more somber.
"Get yourself a pink Madonna,
Dressed in rhinestones, sittin' on a,
Pedestal of abalone shell.
Goin' ninety, I ain't scary,
Long as I got the Virgin Mary
Assurin' me that I don't go to hell."

Santanico · Post by **Santanico** » 27 Mar 2012, 01:59

Pretty much anything by Tim Minchin, especially 'The Pope Song'

Bighuey · Post by **Bighuey** » 27 Mar 2012, 09:32

Anyone remember Homer and Jethro? They did some great comic songs. Also Cry of the Ruptured Duck by Cactus Pryor and his Prickly Pears.

dindindin · Post by **dindindin** » 27 Mar 2012, 12:39

@Bighuey I challenge you to name two songs that are sillier than these two.
1. Mairsy Doats
Mares eat oats and does eat oats ,and little lambs eat ivy
A kid'll eat ivy too, wouldnt you?

2 Goober Peas
Peas, Peas, Peas, Peas
Eating Goober Peas

3. Thunder Road It's not funny, just inspiring. My hero Robert Mitchum wrote it(and sang
it too). Got nominated for An Academy Award. But I digress:
The devil got the moonshine and the mountain boy that day.

Bighuey · Post by **Bighuey** » 27 Mar 2012, 19:17

Wow, Thunder Road, that is a classic. Ive got it on a cassette tape. I remember Mairsy Doats, I once saw an old Roy Rogers movie where he sang it. Goober Peas was an old Civil War song, I once had a record of it by Burl Ives. Heres another one from that era, Transfusion.
Transfusion, transfusion
Slip me the blood, bud.
I dont remember the exact words, just those two lines. Another one I always got a kick out of was Clancy Lowered the Boom by Dennis Day.

Tralala · Post by **Tralala** » 28 Mar 2012, 00:01

Bighuey wrote:Wow, Thunder Road, that is a classic. Ive got it on a cassette tape. I remember Mairsy Doats, I once saw an old Roy Rogers movie where he sang it. Goober Peas was an old Civil War song, I once had a record of it by Burl Ives. Heres another one from that era, Transfusion.
Transfusion, transfusion
Slip me the blood, bud.
I dont remember the exact words, just those two lines. Another one I always got a kick out of was Clancy Lowered the Boom by Dennis Day.

Nervous Norvus is (was?) great! "The Fang" is one of my favorites.

"Electrocuted", sorta by Guiseppe Andrews, is one that the Arkoffs'll record, if I get my way.
Fry me up
Fry me up!
Fry me up
Fry me up, yeah!

dindindin · Post by **dindindin** » 28 Mar 2012, 00:41

Mitchum was a talented man. Ever see The Friends of Eddie Coyle? A classic. Came out in '73. About the Irish Mob in'
Boston. He was the original "Max Cady" in Cape Fear. But I digress. Mitchum co-wrote the script for Thunder Road
and he wrote the son's part(The movie son) for Elvis Presley. Presley was all for it, but his manager, COL Parker
stuck his nose in it and demanded his cut. He wanted more than the entire budget for the movie! For himself!
So Mitchum used his real son(James) to play the part. Presley would have been great. I imagine there were a few stills
doing business in Mississippi when he was growing up. You probably already knew it, but the movie's based on actual events. The Mob(Chicago and Cleveland) wanted to take over ALL the moonshine business in Kentucky. They controlled
Newport and Covington(KY) since the 20's. During Prohibition, Capone was the moonshiners best customer. I dont know'
if they succeeded(in taking over), but they had the manpower and money to. Ever been in Newport or Covington?
Until "67 it was wide open. I went to college in Southern Ohio and went there a couple times(to restore the plumbing).
I had no idea who ran the town or why there were so many hookers there. Especially in the middle of the Bible Belt.
Well Bh I'm out of lies. It's your turn next time.

Bighuey · Post by **Bighuey** » 28 Mar 2012, 08:28

Thats interesting. Elvis would have boon good for the part. He was quite a good serious actor in dramatic roles. I saw an interview with Robert Mitchum on TCM one time, he said he didnt especially like acting, he thought it was for sissies. He said the only reason he became an actor, he knew he was good at it and he made a lot of money. Cape Fear was one of his best. Also Night Of The Hunter, he played a good psycho. He was in one called His Kind Of Woman, that came out in the late 40's or early 50's. That was among his best, it co-starred Jane Russell and Vincent Price. Price played a comic part and was pretty good. Ive never been back to that part of the country, but Ive heard stories about the moonshine wars. My ex son-in-law was from Kentucky and was involved in some of that.

dindindin · Post by **dindindin** » 28 Mar 2012, 14:12

Mitchum was a natural. Seemed like everything he did was effortless. I liked the Sundowners with Deborah Kerr(I think).
What I know about Newport I found out from a friend here in LV who has a 25% share in a bar off the strip. His dad was
a bookmaker and pretty important too. Whenever the powers that be, had problems with their operations in Ky, Ohio,
or W. Virginia, they'd send his Dad to straighten it out. Usually. it was guys skimming or setting the odds for a football
game unrealistically and having a shill place a bet that took advantage of the "mistake." His Dad was a better handicapper than Lefty Rosenthal(the guy they blew up in "Casino") and when Rosenthal was denied a gaming license,
his Dad took over the Sports Book at the Stardust. Things started to go bad in Newport(for the Boys) when George
Ratterman got elected sheriff. Ratterman was an All-American QB at Notre Dame and was Otto Grahams back up
for the Browns. He was from Cincy which was just across theriver in Ohio. They made the mistake of drugging him
and taking pictures of him with a hooker in a whorehouse in Newport. Ratterman was a lawyer and had lots of
connections. One of them was the new Attorney General Bobby Kennedy. Kennedy threw the DOJ behind the prosecution of Rattermans blackmailers. 6 men were convicted of violating Ratterman's civil rights and went to jail.
3 of them were wise guys that were connected to the Cleveland mob. That was 1962 and it was all downhill from there.
Ratterman had something the other sheriffs didnt have--the backing and resources of the US Attorney General.
Where you from Bh? Utah? Lets hear some stories Jefe. Nos vemos

Bighuey · Post by **Bighuey** » 28 Mar 2012, 18:59

Im from Utah, I lived in Eureka, its an old ghost town up in the mountains. Nothing much exciting ever happened there. It was kind of a primitive place, we used wood stoves for heat, parts of the area had to haul in their own water and no TV until about 1990, then we only had one station. In 1991 we had seven feet of snow in two days, but it worked out good for me. My son-in-law and I made some good money shoveling snow off of roofs. Things were a little backwards there, but we had a good life. The town has built up in the last few years, more people have moved in, a few new businesses and they hope to have natural gas soon. They even have cable TV now, its a pretty modern place. I made a living at various things, from picking up scrap metal to a janitor to a movie extra. Nothing fancy, but we did ok. Sometimes towards payday we would be living on peanut butter sandwiches and that noodle ramen stuff but nowdays thats the norm for everyone. Back to the subject, one funny song I have always liked was Seven Drunken Nights. Its an old Irish folk song, Ruth Brown did a R+B version of it also.

dindindin · Post by **dindindin** » 28 Mar 2012, 21:39

Was Eureka an old mining town? Looks pretty isolated. I love "the back of beyond". I've had itchy feet all my life.
Eureka sounds like the kind of place I could live in--until it got cold. Do you miss Eureka? How far are you from the ocean? I've gotta go Bh. The missus and Iare going to see "Guys and Dolls" at the LV Hilton. Luck be a lady tonight....
Cheers Maestro.

Bighuey · Post by **Bighuey** » 29 Mar 2012, 08:45

Eureka was kind of off the beaten path, it was on highway 6, that was the highway going to the sand dunes and we had a lot of activity on the weekends. It was an old mining town, at one time second only to the Comstock in production of silver. I kind of miss it there, but I dont miss the winters. Sometimes it got pretty cold there. Im about a mile from the ocean, its about a half hour walk from my house. Like you, I like the back of beyond. Its like that here, not many people and pretty quiet. I dont envy you living in Vegas, thats too much big city for me. Id kind of like to see some of the shows, I always liked them. Hope you won a bundle.

I heard a kind of pretty song last night, it had a funny title, Three Young Ladies Drinking Whiskey in the Morning.