A reader wrote to ask, "What weird/wacky/crazy animal songs or tunes have you come across?" Well, that's tricky, because it depends more on the beholder (or should that be listener?) to make that call - it's a matter of taste. At any rate, I decided to post three weird animal songs/tunes, and invite you to post your own contributions in Comments (including a YouTube link or something similar, if possible). Let's drive each other nuts this Sunday!
Of course, one has to begin with the original animal ripoff . . . How many of you remember the Hampster Dance and its spinoff, the Hampster Dance Song?
Perhaps the most earworm-ish of early animal songs (?) was the Badger Song.
Also dating back to last century is Dana Lyons' song Cows With Guns, which became a worldwide hit and led to a music album and book of the same name.
Over to you, readers. List your favorite zany animal songs in Comments, with a link to the videos.
Peter
25 comments:
Shouldn't the Viking Kittens at least get an honorable mention?
***WARNING*** Possibly NSFW video. Nothing EXPLICIT, but much that is HIGHLY SUGGESTIVE.
I'm a Cow, by Riddlemethis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjDsVitzqgo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ipRpxE-BTg
Here’s one by CW McCall: https://youtu.be/CgEFbYXhrk4?si=PJ6ASc5AGxLKzmH0
This is a popular one around our house, especially at 5:00 AM...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Og7Gxn2FUK4
'What did the fox say' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRAWVIX7mv0
'The funky gibbon' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXq8rELhUkw
https://joecartoon.com/watch/f1bbbc/Superfly_Sings_Im_a_Little_Catfish
https://joecartoon.com/watch/20bbbc/Dancing_Monkey_Dont_Never_Get_To_Be_Kong
I don't know if this would count, but how about Tom Lehrer's song that begins:
"Two game wardens, seven hunters, and a pure-bred Guernsey cow."
Ghost Chickens in the Sky!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pkdci55adqk
Tull's Bungle In The Jungle one of me favorites!
https://youtu.be/EJhAyg2LTEk?t=7
Never heard any that you listed. Cow with guns is anatomically incorrect. Udder on the leader makes this a female cow that get milked.
So this is what the kids were listening to 15/20 years ago. No wonder young adults think cows have feelings and they need to be vegetarians.
My only reaction is Good Grief!
My favorite: The Cat Came Back
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bjjbqPAtwA
A Doctor Demento classic: Barnes and Barnes' Fish Heads. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cn73Wtem0No
One Barnes is Bill Mumy, between Lost in Space and Babylon 5
Johnny Cash had a album with a bunch of fun ones on it, here are the two animal ones I remember.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xd0cX1dogtk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NoricqZMhE
Turtles and Whores by Floyd the Trucker https://youtu.be/Vf22Bhn5lZU?si=o_jCj8-ad8Jh0g0k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-K2DZojWi0
There is no way in the world I'm clicking those first two. I now better. Earworms? Uh, no. More like unending whole body experience. :-)
Ray Stevens has done a few.
Teenage Mutant Kung Fu Chickens
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtrJwLfNQPs
The Mississippi Squirrel Revival
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K16fG1sDagU
Mercy. I had forgotten the Badger song. Nothing like listening to that repeatedly while well and truly under the influence of drugs and alcohol one's interesting twenties. And that Fox song!
And also, the highly inappropriate Bloodhound Gang. I am not even going to search for those links.
Thanks for the memories? Maybe?
A lot of those were Mr. Weebl Flash loops, and they just went on forever. I kinda liked this one, which led to a lot of people making animated icons that worked the same way.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbYtASAakAI
Baby Shark! https://youtu.be/020g-0hhCAU
Thanks for the lead billing!
Weird animal songs?
Flanders & Swann did an entire album of those. Starting with "The Hippopotamus Song": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zpDF3Py7r8
See (or hear) also "I'm a Gnu": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPgo6s1lBbw
Many good ones listed in the comments. Another that mentions multiple animals is "Animal Beatbox" a winner at Tropfest 2011 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqZyqSu4XII&t=21s
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