Sunday, January 28, 2024

Sunday morning music

 

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


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25 comments:

  1. AnonymousJanuary 28, 2024 at 4:29 AM

    Shouldn't the Viking Kittens at least get an honorable mention?

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  2. AnonymousJanuary 28, 2024 at 6:10 AM

    ***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

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  3. AnonymousJanuary 28, 2024 at 6:22 AM

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ipRpxE-BTg

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  4. Joe HJanuary 28, 2024 at 6:31 AM

    Here’s one by CW McCall: https://youtu.be/CgEFbYXhrk4?si=PJ6ASc5AGxLKzmH0

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  5. Chris NelsonJanuary 28, 2024 at 7:22 AM


    This is a popular one around our house, especially at 5:00 AM...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Og7Gxn2FUK4

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  6. BadFrogJanuary 28, 2024 at 7:47 AM

    'What did the fox say' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRAWVIX7mv0

    'The funky gibbon' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXq8rELhUkw

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  7. BZZZzzz...January 28, 2024 at 8:36 AM

    https://joecartoon.com/watch/f1bbbc/Superfly_Sings_Im_a_Little_Catfish

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  8. BZZZzzz...January 28, 2024 at 8:40 AM

    https://joecartoon.com/watch/20bbbc/Dancing_Monkey_Dont_Never_Get_To_Be_Kong

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  9. boronJanuary 28, 2024 at 10:50 AM

    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."

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  10. E. C.January 28, 2024 at 11:02 AM

    Ghost Chickens in the Sky!
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pkdci55adqk

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  11. JamesJanuary 28, 2024 at 11:53 AM

    Tull's Bungle In The Jungle one of me favorites!

    https://youtu.be/EJhAyg2LTEk?t=7

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  12. glasslassJanuary 28, 2024 at 11:58 AM

    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!

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  13. KinnisonJanuary 28, 2024 at 12:00 PM

    My favorite: The Cat Came Back

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bjjbqPAtwA

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  14. Rick TJanuary 28, 2024 at 12:08 PM

    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

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  15. JudyJanuary 28, 2024 at 12:20 PM

    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

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  16. DitchcritterJanuary 28, 2024 at 1:29 PM

    Turtles and Whores by Floyd the Trucker https://youtu.be/Vf22Bhn5lZU?si=o_jCj8-ad8Jh0g0k

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  17. Mind your own businessJanuary 28, 2024 at 2:33 PM

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-K2DZojWi0

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  18. BobFJanuary 28, 2024 at 5:27 PM

    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. :-)

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  19. NateJanuary 28, 2024 at 5:39 PM

    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

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  20. AnonymousJanuary 28, 2024 at 6:40 PM

    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?

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  21. MauserJanuary 28, 2024 at 6:55 PM

    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

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  22. AnonymousJanuary 28, 2024 at 7:45 PM

    Baby Shark! https://youtu.be/020g-0hhCAU

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  23. HamstermanJanuary 28, 2024 at 9:21 PM

    Thanks for the lead billing!

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  24. wolfwalkerJanuary 29, 2024 at 9:03 PM

    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

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  25. Kelly McCradyJanuary 30, 2024 at 7:30 PM

    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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