Need Banana Songs
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> In a previous article, banan...@aol.com (Banana4645) says:
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>>Can anyone help me add to my list of banana songs? I'm looking for songs that
>>have the word banana or bananas in the lyrtics (or in the title).
Well, of course there is:
_Yes, We Have No Bananas_
There is also the song by Harry Belafonte _Day O_
"A beautiful bunch, a ripe banana"
There is an old camp song called "I like Bananas, Coconuts, and Grapes
I like bananas, coconuts and grapes
I like bananas, coconuts and grapes
I like bananas, coconuts and grapes
That's why they call me Tarzan of the apes.
(Hey, I didn't say it was a good song!)
If I think of anymore, I'll post 'em as well.
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You forgot "Banana Oil"
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Bill Dickson
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B Ş Can anyone help me add to my list of banana songs? I'm looking for
B Ş have the word banana or bananas in the lyrtics (or in the title).
B Ş list includes:
B Ş Bananas- Louis Jordan
How about Jimmie Buffett's "Banana Republics" from the
album "Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes"?
Bill
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Scott Weinbloom
>In article <2lm2l8$b...@search01.news.aol.com>, banan...@aol.com
>(Banana4645) says:
>>>Can anyone help me add to my list of banana songs? I'm looking for songs that
>>>have the word banana or bananas in the lyrtics (or in the title).
>You forgot "My Wife Left Town with a Banana", which was on one of the early
>Dr's albums (Demento's Momentos, Dementia Royale, or thereabouts). I'll
>look up the artist if I remember when I get home...
How about "I like bananas because they ahve no bones" by The Hoosier Hot
Shots! It's on "Dr. Demento's Greatest Novelty Records Of All Time: the
1940's".
JMingo
A Bunch of Bananas--Rosemary Clooney
Banana Boat Song--Not just by Harry Belafonte, but also by the Kinks and Stan
Freberg
Banana Split for My Baby--Louis Prima
I'm Chiquita Banan--Xavier Cugat, etc.
Chiquita Bacana- -Bando da Lua
I've Got the "Yes, We've Got No Bananas" Blues- -Irving Kaufman, Eddie Cantor,
etc. ("Bananas! Bananas! I'd like to break up a million pianas!")
Please No Squeeza da Banana --Louis Prima (again)
Talking Green Beret New Super Yellow Hydraulic Banana Blues --Jaime Brockett
When Can I Have a Banana Again? --Harry Roy & his Orchestra
Why Are Bananas Picked Green? --Tom Glazer & Paul (Mr. Imagination) Tripp
That's about all I can come up with for now. -Jack Mingo
JMingo
across your name when I was writing the Whole Pop Catalog a few years ago.
Anyway, here are some more banana songs that I dredged from memory, data bank
and record collection:
-The Banana Splits Theme Song ("One banana, two banana, three banana, four...)
-When Banana Skins are Falling I'll Come Sliding Back to You- - I forgot who
did this. Maybe Ziggy Talent?
-Everybody Eats When They Come to My House- -Fats Waller (contains the line,
"Have a banana, Anna!")
Also, in the "I am an Apeman" mode, how about simian songs? Most probably bring
in a banana reference somewhere in the lyric (although I can't guarantee it
since I'm not about to teear apart my collection and listen to these things
just to make computer conversation):
-All by Myself With No Ape- -Alan Seidler
-Never, Oh Never, Whatever You Do, Sing a Gorilla Song- -Ibid
-Mickey & the Monkey- -Tiny Tim
-The Monkey & the Elephant- -Ron Eliran
-The Monkey Song (You Made a Monkey Out of Me)- -The Big Bopper
-Harry the Hairy Ape- -Ray Stevens
-The Monkey that Became President- -Tom T. Hall
- The Monkey Time- -Tubes
- Pretending to be a Monkey- -Fred Rogers
- Monkee's Theme
- There's Just a Little Bit of Monkey (Still Left in You and Me)- -M.J.
O'Connell
- Too Much Monkey Business- -Various
- You're Bound to Look Like a Monkey (When You Grow Old)- -Bob Crosby &
Orchestra
- All of the Monkeys Ain't in the Zoo- -Tommy Collins
- Edward the Dignified Monkey- -Vernon Crane
- Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except for Me & My Monkey- -Beatles
Hope this helps.
-Jack Mingo
Indulis R Rutks
(from the album "Warm And Wavery")
-I. R. Rutks (rutk...@maroon.tc.umn.edu)
Dan Drazen
No, it's not a banana song, but my suggestion for monkey song is "99
Dead Babboons."
Daniel J. Drazen
"The only problem I have found/Is buying enough Purina Dead Babboon
Chow."
geofry s glenn
very funny Saturday Night Live skit: "Anna's Dream/Nightmare" (?)
"...Sometimes a banana is just a banana, Anna."
Brian Leibowitz
Boiled Bananas and Carrots - Peter Sellers (on The Songs of Peter Sellers)
The Fruit Song - Martin Mull (on Perfect - Banana is used in double meaning
but the song is about a trucker who likes
eating fruit, so the double entendre is not
the primary joke. ["one hand on my banana"])
Brian
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> Well, nobody's mentioned the one the Chipmunks do. I'm not
> sure about the title, but it is proabably "Japanese Banana"
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> P.S. Somebody Please Post Alapalooza Tour Info!
>
>
You are correct. The Chipmunks sang "Japanese Banana'. This is off the
Liberty album "Around the World with the Chipmunks". I have most (if
not all) of the Chipmunk albums from the 60's as I enjoyed them when I
was young. I wonder if these albums are worth anything?
Chris P. Mezzolesta
In a previous article, ape...@email.bony.com () says:
>You are correct. The Chipmunks sang "Japanese Banana'. This is off the
>Liberty album "Around the World with the Chipmunks". I have most (if
>not all) of the Chipmunk albums from the 60's as I enjoyed them when I
>was young. I wonder if these albums are worth anything?
Only if they're not trashed...as I'd imagine most Chipmunks LP's to be by
this time...my copy of "The Alvin Show", picked up at a junk shop, is one
of the most trashed in my collection...Chipmunk LP's that are WORTH (again,
in good shape) are the pre-TV show LP's..."Let's All Sing With The
Chipmunks" and "Chipmunk Songbook" (and I think "Sing Again with...) came
out before the show, and have drawings of "real" (i.e. not cartoony)
chipmunks, and real photos of David Seville interacting with them (some of
these cover designs were reproduced in cartoon form for post-Alvin Show
reissues of the early LP's.) These early LP's are on the green Liberty
label. Also worth quite a bit is Seville's "Witch Doctor" LP (I've seen it
for $80)...one I wish I had picked up at the time was one from the late
60's called "The Mixed-Up World of Bagdasarian" (Seville's real name: Ross
Bagdasarian), cover has him in an overcoat walking towards the camera...no
idea what the music's like.
There was also a reissue of "THe Chipmunk Song" 45 in a picture sleeve
featuring the pre-TV Chipmunks...and Alvin is the one looking hesitant as
Simon and Theodore rip open the presents....I think this is worth a bit
too...
C
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Rob Harper
>There is also, I suppose, skits with "banana" in them, such as the
>very funny Saturday Night Live skit: "Anna's Dream/Nightmare" (?)
Didn't Harry Chapin do a song called 1000 kilos of bannanas, about
the mess that gets made when a a truck carrying them crashes.
-=ROB=-
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Mellow Yeti
Any idea whether its possible to buy any records by this artist, Tim
Cavanaugh(sp?)? I've got copies off the radio, but they're starting to decay,
and I would be bereft without 99 Dead Baboons and I Wanna Kiss her But...
"This one's Jake, that one's Dinah. There's Big Ned on my recliner. No its not
a Lazy Boy. Can't you see it's a dead baboon?"
-Padgett L. Arango
Par...@pomona.claremont.edu
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made your first billion by the age of 19, its hard to find new goals for
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iwerk...@cobra.uni.edu
song years ago on the Letterman show. Basically it was just some weird music
with Elliot doing a strange walk/dance and every couple of seconds the music
would stop and he'd say "Bananas!"
Probably not any help, but it was AWFULLY amusing at the time . . .
Dan Iwerks
iwerk...@cobra.uni.edu
Insert witty quote here
Dan Drazen
Your red scarf matches your eyes
You close your cover before striking
Papa's got the shift-fitter blues
Loving you has made me bananas
Close enough?
Daniel J. Drazen