Food Songs

[hjgoldstein]

I wonder how many song titles or lyrics remind people of food. Even if they need to be amended very slightly...

I have things in mind like
"There's a guy works down the chip shop swears he's Elvis"
or
"There's a plaice for us"
or
"Bette Davies Pies"
or the more obscure "As time goes by" as made famous in the film "Casablanca"

Spoiler

"You must remember this,
Haggis is just Haggis"

Any other mouth watering suggestions?

It is time for pacifists to stand up and fight for their beliefs.

 

[tcsbiz]

Big Mac The Knife
When the moon hits your eye like a big piece of pie... that's amore. (the original works, too of course)

 

[SamBones]

Actually, I think I have more cases where food reminds me of a song. Whenever I'm having a particularly good cheeseburger, I always start thinking of Jimmy Buffet's Cheeseburger in Paradise.

Whenever anyone even just says the word "lime", I always pipe up with "...and de coconut". It's a reflex action that I can't control.

 

[SantaMufasa]

Here are just a few food-related songs that should take some us old fogies for a ride down memory lane. Some of these my parents forbade me listening to (even now when I'm approaching 59 <grin>):

Apple Blossom Time - 1959 - Rosemary June
Apples, Peaches, Pumpkin Pie - 1967 - Jay & the Techniques
Banana Boat (day-o, daylight come and "I" wanna go home) - 1957 - Harry Belafonte
Banana Boat Song - 1957 - Shirley Bassey
Banana Boat Song, The - 1957 - The Tarriers
Banana Republic - 1980 - Boomtown Rats
Banana Rock - 1974 - Wombles
Banana Splits (Tra La La Song) - 1979 - Dickies
Bananas (Who You Gonna Call?) – 1998 – Queen Latifah
Big Apple - 1983 – Kajagoogoo
Black Berries (Part 1) – 1969 – Isley Brothers
Blind Lemon Cream – 2008 – Leon Russell
Blueberry Hill  - 1956 – Fats Domino
Bread And Butter  - 1965 - The Newbeats
Breakfast At Tiffany's - 1995 - Deep Blue Something
Breakfast In America - 1979 - Supertramp
Breakfast In Bed - 1988 - Chrissie Hynde and UB40
Brown Sugar - 1971 - The Rolling Stones
Candy - 1999 - Mandy Moore
Candy Girl - 1963 - The Four Seasons 
Candy Girl - 1983 - New Edition
Candy Man - 1961 - Roy Orbison
Candy Man - 1964 - Brian Poole and the Tremeloes
Candy Man, The (the candy man can) - 1972 - Sammy Davis, Jr.
Candy Rain - 1995 - Soul For Real
Candy Shop – 2005 – 50 Cent and Olivia
Candyman – 2006/2007 – Christina Aguilera
Candy-O (I need you so) - 1979 - The Cars
Champagne Jam - 1978 - Atlanta Rhythm Section
Cherry Beat – 1973/1974 – Leon Russell
Cherry Bomb – 1976 - Runaways
Cherry Bomb (that's when a smoke was a smoke, and groovin' was groovin') - 1988 - John Cougar Mellencamp
Cherry, Cherry - 1966 - Neil Diamond 
Cherry Hill Park - 1969 - Billy Joe Royal
Cherry Oh Baby - 1984 - UB40
Cherry Pie - 1960 - Skip and Flip
Cherry Pie - 1990 - Warrant
Cherry Pink And Apple Blossom White (Instrumental) - 1955 - Eddie Calvert
Cherry Pink And Apple Blossom White (Instrumental) - 1955 - Perez Prado
Chicken Fried – 2008 – Zac Brown Band
Chocolate Box - 1989 - Bros
Chocolate High – 2008/2009 - India.Arie featuring Musiq Soulchild 
Chocolate Legs – 2009 – Eric Benet
Chocolate Salty Balls (PS I Love You) - 1998 - Chef
Cinnamon - 1968 - Derek
Coconut (put the lime in the coconut and drink it all up) - 1972 – Nilsson
Cornflake Girl - 1994 - Tori Amos
Custard Pie - 1975 - Led Zeppelin
Cut The Cake  - 1975 - Average White Band
Do The Clam - 1965 - Elvis Presley
Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavor (on the bedpost over night) - 1961 - Lonnie Donegan & His Skiffle Group
Everybody Loves A Nut – 1966 – Johnny Cash 
Food For Thought - 1980 - UB40
From The Vine Came The Grape - 1954 - Gaylords
From The Vine Came The Grape - 1954 - Hilltoppers
Ginger Bread - 1958 - Frankie Avalon
Gravy (For My Mashed Potatoes) - 1962 - Dee Dee Sharp
Green Onions (Instrumental) - 1962 - Booker T. & MG's
Gum Drop - 1955 - The Crew-Cuts
Honey - 1968 - Bobby Goldsboro
Honey – 1994 – Aretha Franklin
Honey - 1997 - Mariah Carey
Honey & Eli – 2006/2007 – Leon Russell
Honey Don't - 1964 - The Beatles
Honey Don't Leave L.A. - 1978 - James Taylor
Honey, Honey – 1974 – ABBA
Honey To The Bee - 1999 - Billie (Piper)
Hot Pastrami - 1963 – Dartells
I Want Candy - 1965 - The Strangeloves
I Want Candy - 1982 - Bow Wow Wow
Ice Cream Man, The - 1963 - Tornados
Ice Cream Man - 1978 - Van Halen
Ice Cream Paint Job – 2009 – Dorrough
Incense And Peppermints - 1967 - Strawberry Alarm Clock
Jam Up Jelly Tight - 1970 - Tommy Roe
Jambalaya (On The Bayou) – 1973 – Blue Ridge Rangers 
Jambalaya - 1974 – Carpenters
Juicy Fruit – 1983 - Mtume
Junk Food Junkie - 1976 - Larry Groce
Keep On Lovin' Me Honey - 1968 - Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell
Laffy Taffy – 2006 – D4L
Lemon Song, The - 1969 - Led Zeppelin
Lips Like Sugar – 1987 – Echo and The Bunnymen
Little Green Apples - 1968 - O. C. Smith
Lolli Lolli – 2008 – Three 6 Mafia featuring Project Pat, Yound D and Superpower
Lollipop - 1958 - The Chordettes
Lollipop - 1958 - Mudlarks
Lollipop - 1958 - Ronald & Ruby
Lollipop – 2008 – Lil’ Wayne
Look At Them Beans – 1975 - Johnny Cash
Mashed Potato Time - 1962 - Dee De Sharp
Mean Mr. Mustard (he's such a mean old man) - 1969 – Beatles
Money Honey - 1956/1959 - Elvis Presley
Money Honey - 1976 - Bay City Rollers
Mother Popcorn (You Got To Have A Mother For Me) - 1969 - James Brown
Mouldy Old Dough - 1972 - Lieutenant Pigeon
My Boy Lollipop - 1964 - Millie Small
My Girl Lollipop - 1982 - Bad Manners
No Sugar Tonight - 1970 - The Guess Who
Nut Rocker - 1962 - B Bumble and the Stingers
On The Good Ship Lollipop – 1966 - The Wonder Who? (aka The Four Seasons)
On Top Of Spaghetti - 1963 - Tom Glazer & the Do-Re-Mi Children's Chorus
One Bad Apple - 1971 - The Osmonds
One Mint Julep - 1961 - Ray Charles
Onion Song - 1969 - Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell
Orange Blossom Special – 1964/1965 – Johnny Cash
Peaches - 1977 - Stranglers
Peaches and Cream – 2001 - 112
Peanut Butter - 1961 – Marathons
Pepper Box - 1974 - Peppers
Peppermint Twist - 1962 - Joey Dee & the Starliters
Pineapple Princess - 1960 - Annette (Funicello)
Pisces Apple Lady – 1970 – Leon Russell
Polk Salad Annie - 1969 - Tony Joe White
Polk Salad Annie - 1973 - Elvis Presley
Popcorn (fun instrumental) - 1972 - Hot Butter 
Popcorn Song, The - 1955 - Cliffie Stone
Popsicles And Icicles - 1964 - The Murmaids
Poundcake - 1991 - Van Halen
Pour Some Sugar On Me - 1988 - Def Leppard
Pump Up The Jam (pump it up) - 1990 - Technotronic with Felly
Raspberry Beret - 1985 - Prince & the Revolution
Reverend Black Grape - 1995 - Black Grape
Rockin' Through The Rye - 1956 - Bill Haley and His Comets
Rose And A Baby Ruth, A - 1956 - George Hamilton IV 
Salt Lick - 1969 - ZZ Top
Salt Shaker – 2004 – Ying Yang Twins
Salty Candy – 1971 – Asylum Choir (featuring Leon Russell and Marc Benno)
Sex And Candy - 1998 - Marcy Playground
Shake Your Bon-Bon - 2000 - Ricky Martin
Someone Loves You Honey - 1998 - Lutricia McNeal
Soul Food – 1968 – Asylum Choir (featuring Leon Russell and Marc Benno)
Spill The Wine (cover version) – 1971 – Isley Brothers
Spoonful Of Sugar, A (from the movie Mary Poppins) - 1964 - Julie Andrews
Strawberry Cake (Live) – 1976 – Johnny Cash
Strawberry Fair - 1960 - Anthony Newley
Strawberry Fields Forever  - 1967 - The Beatles
Strawberry Fields Forever - 1990 - Candy Flip
Strawberry Letter 23 (is it cool, or is it cool?) - 1977 - Brothers Johnson
Suga Suga – 2003 – Baby Bash and Frankie J.
Sugar – 2009 – Flo Rida featuring Wynter
Sugar And Spice - 1963 - Searchers
Sugar Baby Love - 1974 - Rubettes
Sugar Candy Kisses - 1975 - Mac and Katie Kissoon
Sugar Daddy - 1972 - Jackson Five
Sugar Me - 1972 - Lynsey De Paul
Sugar Moon - 1958 - Pat Boone
Sugar Mountain  - 1968 - Neil Young
Sugar On Sunday - 1969 - Clique
Sugar Shack - 1963 - Jimmy Gilmer & the Fireballs
Sugar, Sugar - 1969 - The Archies
Sugar Sugar - 1970 - Wilson Pickett
Sugar Sugar - 1971 - Sakkarin
Sugar-Sugar (In My Life) - 2004 - John Fogerty
Sugar Town - 1966 - Nancy Sinatra
Sugar Walls - 1985 - Sheena Easton
Sugar, We’re Goin’ Down – 2005 – Fall Out Boy
Sugartime - 1958 - The McGuire Sisters
Suger (Gimme Some) – 2005 – Trick Daddy and Ludacris
Sukiyaki - 1963 - Kyu Sakamoto
Sukiyaki - 1981 - A Taste Of Honey
Sukiyaki - 1994 - 4 P.M.
Sunshine, Lollipops & Rainbows - 1965 - Lesley Gore
Sweet Like Chocolate - 1999 - Shanks and Bigfoot
Sweet Pea  - 1966 - Tommy Roe
Sweets For My Sweet - 1963 - Searchers
Sweets For My Sweet - 1994 - CJ Lewis
Taste Of Honey, A (Instrumental) - 1965 - Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass
Tear The Roof Off The Sucker (Give Up The Funk) - 1976 – Parliament
Toast And Marmalade For Tea - 1971 - Tin Tin
Tootsie Roll - 1994 - 69 Boyz
TV Dinners - 1983/1984 - ZZ Top
Two Pints Of Lager And A Packet Of Crisps Please - 1980 – Splodgenessabounds
Up For Breakfast - 2004 - Van Halen
Vanilla Twilight – 2009 – Owl City
Watermelon Crawl - 1994 - Tracy Byrd
Watermelon Man - 1963 - Mongo Santamaria
When Will The Good Apples Fall - 1967 – Seekers
Wild Honey – 1967 – Beach Boys
Wild Mountain Honey - 1976 - Steve Miller Band

Mufasa
(aka Dave of Sandy, Utah, USA)
[I provide low-cost, remote Database Administration services: www.dasages.com]
“Beware of those that seek to protect you from harm or risk. The cost will be your freedoms and your liberty.”

 

[BadBigBen]

The Godfather - Tarantella Napolitana

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4i97cYnJio

Dean Martin - That's Amore

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtmsIq0-T54

System of a Down - Pizza Pie

The Schnitzel (Hoodwinked)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9W0Cryg0uEw

Roland Zannetti - Beer Bretzel Polka

A Pretzel, A Beer, and a Burp

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ap3MhZ6tqfs

Kottonmouth Kings - Munchies

Spitting Image - The Chicken Song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vUVJsfG3eA

Ben
"If it works don't fix it! If it doesn't use a sledgehammer..."
How to ask a question, when posting them to a professional forum.
Only ask questions with yes/no answers if you want "yes" or "no"

 

[Michael52x]

Oh, I eat peas with honey,
Ive done it all my life
It may sound kind of funny,
But it keeps them on my knife!

Dont know who wrote it, but I think that peas has an e on the end.

"Impatience will reward you with dissatisfaction" RMS Cosmics'97

 

[tcsbiz]

Peas, peas, peas, peas
Eating goober peas
Goodness how delicious
Eating goober peas

 

[rjoubert]

Beans, beans, the magical fruit
The more you eat, the more you toot
The more you toot, the better you feel
Let's have beans for every meal!

 

[flapeyre]

Oh, I diet all day,
And I diet all night.
It's enough to drive me bats.
Got no gravy or potatoes
'Cause the whole refrigerator's
Full of polyunsaturated fats.
Fare the well,
Metrecal,
And the others of that ilk.
Let my diet start tomorrow
For tonight I'll drown my sorrow
In a double malted milk!


-- Francis
In Deo nos confídimus.
Ceteris pariatur.

 

[2ffat]

http://dmdb.org/lyrics/junk.food.junkie.html[/URL]]Junk Food Junkie - Larry Groce
Written by Larry Groce
Released by Warner Bros. Records in 1976
.
.
.
You know I love that organic cooking
I always ask for more
And they call me Mr. Natural
On down to the health food store
I only eat good sea salt
White sugar don't touch my lips
And my friends is always
Begging me to take them
On macrobiotic trips
Yes, they are

Oh, but at night I stake out my strongbox
That I keep under lock and key
And I take it off to my closet
Where nobody else can see
I open that door so slowly
Take a peek up north and south
Then I pull out a Hostess Twinkie
And I pop it in my mouth

Yeah, in the daytime I'm Mr. Natural
Just as healthy as I can be
But at night I'm a junk food junkie
Good lord have pity on me

Well, at lunchtime
You can always find me
At the Whole Earth Vitamin Bar
Just sucking on my plain white yogurt
From my hand thrown pottery jar
And sippin' a little hand pressed cider
With a carrot stick for dessert
And wiping my face
In a natural way
On the sleeve of my peasant shirt
Oh yeah

Ah, but when that clock strikes midnight
And I'm all by myself
I work that combination
On my secret hideaway shelf
And I pull out some Fritos corn chips
Dr. Pepper and an Ole Moon Pie
Then I sit back in glorious expectation
Of a genuine junk food high

Oh yeah, in the daytime I'm Mr. Natural
Just as healthy as I can be
But at night I'm a junk food junkie
Good lord have pity on me

My friends down at the commune
They think I'm pretty neat
Oh, I don't know nothing about arts and crafts
But I give 'em all something to eat
I'm a friend to old Euell Gibbons
And I only eat homegrown spice
I got a John Keats autographed Grecian urn
Filled up with my brown rice
Yes, I do

Oh, but folks lately I have been spotted
With a Big Mac on my breath
Stumbling into a Colonel Sanders
With a face as white as death
I'm afraid someday they'll find me
Just stretched out on my bed
With a handful of Pringles Potato Chips
And a Ding Dong by my head

In the daytime I'm Mr. Natural
Just as healthy as I can be
But at night I'm a junk food junkie
Good lord have pity on me

James P. Cottingham
^{I'm number 1,229!
I'm number 1,229!}

 

[flapeyre]

Another one from Allan Sherman:

Do not make a stingy sandwich,
Pile the cold cuts high.
Customers should see salami
Comin' through the rye.

-- Francis
In Deo nos confídimus.
Ceteris pariatur.

 

[SamBones]

I'll admit I split bananas,
Take Easter eggs and make them dye.
But I never harmed an onion
So why should they make me cry?

Once I saw a salad dressing.
My face got radish, my oh my.
But I never harmed an onion
So why should they make me cry?

Potatoes I've mashed, and berries I've crushed,
I've made an artichoke, and that's not all.
I've also whipped cream, and beaten an egg.
Yes, I've even made a melon ball.

Of all the things above, I'm guilty.
If punished I would know just why.
But I never harmed an onion
So why should they make me cry?
Oh why should they make me cry?

 

[mintjulep]

Spam! Spam! Spam! Spam!
Lovely spam! Wonderful spam!
Spam spa-a-a-a-a-am spam spa-a-a-a-a-am spam.
Lovely spam! Lovely spam! Lovely spam! Lovely spam!
Spam spam spam spam!

 

[donbott]

The Chicken Fat Song - if you dare

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFofqe26t-4

DonBott

 

[dixiematic]

A small supplement to Santa Mufasa's list:

Ice cream by King, Moll and Johnson
Cornbread,Peas and Black Molase by C.Barber(?)
A cup of coffee by Caty Perry
Coffee and Acker Cake by Acker Bilk(?)
Tea for two by V. Youman
Whiskey Man Blues by Scrapper Blackwell
Yes, we have no bananas by F.Silver and I. Cohn
Her kisses are sweeter then wine by Huddie Ledbetter
Ida, sweet as apple cider by Eddie Munson

Dixiematic

 

[KenCunningham]

As well as the Green Onions mentioned by Dave, Booker T & The MGs also have 'Red Beans and Rice' as a variation on their diet.

The internet - allowing those who don't know what they're talking about to have their say.

 

[hjgoldstein]

If I only had Thyme"

Anything by Bread

The Indian version of the William Tell Overture "Popadom Popadom Popadom dom dom..."

And the composer of the aforementioned - (Tournedos) Rossini.

It is time for pacifists to stand up and fight for their beliefs.

 

[KenCunningham]

Oo oo - Fat Les and his 'Vindaloo'!

The internet - allowing those who don't know what they're talking about to have their say.

 

[SamBones]

Speaking of 'Red Beans and Rice', I love the version by Spearhead...

I don't eat red meat but I'm not a vegetarian
I like ice cream / but not much dairy
'cause it gets in my nose
it makes me gotta blows
snot like a farmer and it gets up on my clothes
it's rather unsightly / can even be frightening
but cold medication it should not be taken nightly
because everything dat I put in / it comes out again
and if I eat lean / it helps me stay thin
check out my hair I keep it dreaded
about my corn? I like it breaded
hot from the oven? MMMM! you said it!
straight to the stomach my fuel is unleaded
But not fossil fuels / I like olive oil
I like my eggs scrambled / I never eat 'em boiled
The way to my heart / is with a garlic clove
it smells hella sexy when it's on the kitchen stove

 

[djj55]

Hand Me Down That Can Of Beans" Lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner, Music by Frederick Loewe, Sung by The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band & The Chorus in movie Paint Your Wagon

"Heard It Through the Grape Vine" by Mavin Gaye



djj
The Lord is my shepherd (Psalm 23) - I need someone to lead me!