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DyvaNaye (westside314)
5-Doyen
Username: westside314
Post Number: 364
Registered: 4-2004
Posted From: 209.212.74.216
| | Posted on Thursday, May 13, 2004 - 7:03 pm: �� |     ���  |
You ever had a song that just makes you smile or laugh? I call them 'Parody' songs...where the lyrics are made to tell a story but also make you feel good laughing while you dance or tap your foot to it.
Here are a few that I have heard and liked over the years:
One Eye Open - Mask Men and the Agents
Here Comes the Judge - Pigmeat Markham
Skinny Legs and All/Papa Was Too - Joe Tex
Tramp - Otis/Carla
Love Man - Otis Redding
Wait Until Tomorrow - Jimi Hendrix
My Ding A Ling - Chuck Berry
No No No - Ringo Starr
The Funny Farm - I forgot who made this...
Shut-uppa Your Face - forgot who here too...
Super Fly Meets Shaft
Your turn SDF...
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Juicefree20 (juicefree20)
6-Zenith
Username: juicefree20
Post Number: 772
Registered: 4-2004
Posted From: 24.46.184.162
| | Posted on Thursday, May 13, 2004 - 7:32 pm: �� | ��� |
Shadupa Your Face was by Joe Dolce. Super Fly Meets Shaft was made by John & Ernest. |
Manny (manny)
4-Laureate
Username: manny
Post Number: 111
Registered: 4-2004
Posted From: 217.124.10.147
| | Posted on Thursday, May 13, 2004 - 7:44 pm: �� | ��� |
Hi again Soulful Friends!
Hi, dear DyvaNaye!
Good thread and a chance for smilin' a little after some very bad news!
I can enumerate many spanish and catalonian funny songs that are kown only in Spain.
About soul music, i understand the lyrics if i have it write in the sleeve or the book (in the CD's case). If not, i can understand some things and some songs made me laughin' because this lyrics and / or some "gutural" or instrumental sounds. These are some examples:
-The intro of "Beatiful 7" - Osibisa (sounds of the jungle and very visceral chants)
-"Troglodyte" - Jimmy Castor (dementially funny)
-"Berta But Boogie" - Jimmy Castor (simply deliciously fool)
-"Backdoor Man" - Richard Tee (got a laughin in the intro veri contagious!)
-"Funky dream" - George Duke (many sound effects that resulting very funnys)
-"Nursery Rhymes" - People's Choice (many "gutural" sounds very funnys!)
-"My Feets Won't Move But My Shoes Did The Boogie" - People's Choice (the voice of Frank Brunson in the last part it's similar to a dog!)
-"Fish Bite" - Ramsey Lewis (lyrics and the synthesizer sound)
-"Spider Man" - Ramsey Lewis (lyrics and the synthesizer sound also)
-"El Rey de la puntualidad" - Fania All-Stars (the chorus says that the singer come too late at the show. He replies that are the others who comes sooner!
-"Spaced Cowboy" - Sly & The Family Stone (the Tirol-style chants is very funny!)
-"Bump No More (Whit A Big Fat Woman)" - Joe Tex
-"Super Duper Super Man" - Bunny Sigler (deliciously fool psychedelic funk)
-"Jingle Bells" - Bunny Sigler (deliciously fool psychedelic funk also)
-"Walkin' The Dog" - Rufus Thomas (the intro is very surrealist!)
Peace & Soul Food |
Juicefree20 (juicefree20)
6-Zenith
Username: juicefree20
Post Number: 775
Registered: 4-2004
Posted From: 24.46.184.162
| | Posted on Thursday, May 13, 2004 - 7:51 pm: �� | ��� |
I've always been partial to Blowfly! His Blowfly Disco & Oldies But Goodies LPs were hilarious. A little risque, but, hilarious none the less. Cheech & Chong were funny as well. I must add Bill Cosby's hilarious LPs: Bill Cosby Is Not Himself These Days (featured Yes, Yes, Yes) & his Disco Bill LP from 1978. That LP featured a song named 1,2,3 & was hilarious! Joe Tex & Rufus Thomas are always wonderfully funny as well. I have to include some of Millie acksons' Live re-interpretations of songs as well. |
Vonnie (vonnie)
4-Laureate
Username: vonnie
Post Number: 135
Registered: 3-2004
Posted From: 149.174.164.24
| | Posted on Thursday, May 13, 2004 - 7:52 pm: �� | ��� |
Atomic Dog
You Talk Too Much
Mother-In-Law
Never Make A Pretty Woman Your Wife
Eat It
Fat Boys And Ugly Girls |
Eli (phillysoulman)
5-Doyen
Username: phillysoulman
Post Number: 343
Registered: 4-2004
Posted From: 70.16.139.47
| | Posted on Thursday, May 13, 2004 - 11:16 pm: �� | ��� |
Me so hungry--2 Live Jews
All of the Blowfly records
Buchanan and Goodman 's cut in records |
BankHouseDave (bankhousedave)
3-Pundit
Username: bankhousedave
Post Number: 43
Registered: 4-2004
Posted From: 195.93.33.10
| | Posted on Friday, May 14, 2004 - 3:35 am: �� | ��� |
Canyons of your mind - Bonzo Dogs
Evelyn, a modified dog - Zappa
Lily of the valley - Shorty Long |
GrahamD (grahamd)
2-Debutant
Username: grahamd
Post Number: 24
Registered: 4-2004
Posted From: 62.254.0.32
| | Posted on Friday, May 14, 2004 - 6:52 am: �� | ��� |
Ilove Spike Jones,his records from the 40s/50s are a real giggle!the kids at home think its great! |
DyvaNaye (westside314)
5-Doyen
Username: westside314
Post Number: 371
Registered: 4-2004
Posted From: 64.12.116.138
| | Posted on Friday, May 14, 2004 - 8:08 am: �� | ��� |
Eli: 2 Live Jews....LOL. Forgot about that one...but I must mention The Beastie Boys with 'Brass Monkey'. I have to say I did like that song.
Manny: El Rey de la Puntualidad - A NY Latin Classic!...at least in my old neighborhood in the Bronx, NY. Also, I love FANIA any way...most of FANIA's music focused on lifes funny indescretions....lol...
Also Manny, HOW COULD I FORGET JIMMY CASTOR!!! Another NY classic person! What I loved by him was:
'Hey Leroy!' (this is my brothers name, he took a beating on this as we grew up...lol...)
'Trogylodite' - 'come here...woman...woman...' ...reminds me some of some of the Neanderthals I have gone out with in the past...lol...
'King Kong' - 'Kamasambe! King Kong!'
And Jimmy Castor art work on his album were priceless...the scrutiny a Black Woman had to go through ...lol...
I have to add Kool and the Gang to this list-
'Jungle Boogie' - 'uh...get it...feel the funk ya'll...let it get low...'- I cant help but smile when Im jamming this song...
Also Bill Cosby...'Yes Yes Yes' is a classic even Barry White had to laugh at...to funny...also by Bill Cosby his James Brown spoof 'I Love myself, Better than I Love Myself' - words: 'Yeeeeeoooow! Good gawd! They hit me on the Bad Foot....with the bunion and corn, good gawd I feel it...'LOL!!! Bill Cosby needs prayer!....lol... |
roger (roger)
3-Pundit
Username: roger
Post Number: 60
Registered: 4-2004
Posted From: 217.35.87.17
| | Posted on Friday, May 14, 2004 - 9:54 am: �� | ��� |
Hello everyone.
There was a parody of the big hit "Rumors" by TIMEX SOCIAL CLUB, it was called "Roaches" .. I can't remember who it was credited to, Somebody and the Critters?
The lyrics went .. "How do Roaches Get Started, they're started by the dirty people".
I used to have a copy, but the joke wore thin after two or three plays.
Roger |
Eli (phillysoulman)
5-Doyen
Username: phillysoulman
Post Number: 347
Registered: 4-2004
Posted From: 68.163.47.8
| | Posted on Friday, May 14, 2004 - 10:07 am: �� | ��� |
There used to be a Jewish "Borscht Belt" type comedian in the '50's named Mickey Katz, who recorded Yiddish parodies of a lot of the hits of the day.
For instance, 'Kiss of Fire" would become "Kiss of Meyer"
Stuff for the katskill crowd.
His son is Broadway performer, Joel Grey. |
Vonnie (vonnie)
4-Laureate
Username: vonnie
Post Number: 141
Registered: 3-2004
Posted From: 205.188.116.138
| | Posted on Friday, May 14, 2004 - 10:22 am: �� | ��� |
THE COASTERS
Along Came Jones
Poision Ivy
Yakity Yak
Searchin
Smokin Joe's Cafe |
Steve (steve_litos)
2-Debutant
Username: steve_litos
Post Number: 12
Registered: 4-2004
Posted From: 209.100.86.4
| | Posted on Friday, May 14, 2004 - 10:49 am: �� | ��� |
Plenty of funny has been listed already...there was one song that made me stop the car (actually is was a rusted out 2 tone blue 1976 Dodge Window Van).
ELVIS IS EVERYWHERE by Skid Roper & Mojo Nixon
The hysterically funny effect only lasts for one listen though. I guess most comedy is based on the element of surprise. |
roger (roger)
3-Pundit
Username: roger
Post Number: 61
Registered: 4-2004
Posted From: 217.35.87.17
| | Posted on Friday, May 14, 2004 - 10:56 am: �� | ��� |
Hello again everyone.
Do any of you folks in the States remember a song called "The Funky Gibbon" by a group called THE GOODIES. It made the lower reaches of the Billboard Hot 100 in 1974/75.
The song was intended to be a parody of those RUFUS THOMAS hits .. "Funky Chicken", "Funky Bird" etc. But the received wisdom in the U.K. is that 99% of those U.S. record buyers who purchased it were unaware of this, and just thought it was another groovy funky work-out.
THE GOODIES were actually three British comedians TIM BROOKE-TAYLOR, GRAEME GARDEN and BILL ODDIE, who had made their name as part of a BBC radio comedy review show called "I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again". I.S.I.R.T.A. also included JOHN CLEESE ( later of "Monty Python", "Fawlty Towers" and "Fish Called Wanda" fame ).
I believe that "Funky Gibbon" was originally performed in this radio show.
The threesome then went on to produce their own BBC T.V. show called "The Goodies" in which they played a trio of "seekers of truth and justice" who were constantly being caught up in humorous situations, and the '45 was released under this name. It became a big U.K. hit and a surprise U.S. chart entry.
Roger |
Manny (manny)
4-Laureate
Username: manny
Post Number: 114
Registered: 4-2004
Posted From: 217.124.10.168
| | Posted on Friday, May 14, 2004 - 10:56 am: �� | ��� |
Hello again, soulful brothers & sisters!
Hey, DyvaNaye, I celebrates that you likes also Fania (if you understand the lyrics, is very metaphorical as in "Memba Color�"). Casually in the country of my mother, Murcia, the second name �Pacheco� (as Johnny Pacheco's founder of the Fania label) is very usual (she have various cousins with this second name).
I likes also another good tune by Jimmy Castor called Potential that i have in a compilation by various artists and in the book of the CD appears reproduced in little size the cover of the album "Butt Of Course" where Jimmy (dressed as Superman!!) dance with a "Neandenthal" woman in a funny underground draw style ala Robert Crumb!
Also many time ago i left to my brother (among others) the album E-Man Boogie where Jimmy sang a song called some similar to "Superlove" in a falseto register very funny. Also have a Thom Bell-Linda Creed's song with a Jimmy's falsetto very impressionant (ala Phillip Bailey!).
I forget previously to mention a funky-funny tune that make me laugh many times: George Duke's �I AM FOR REAL� (the screaming in the intro is very "Neandenthal"!!)
Peace & Soul Food |
Reese (reese)
3-Pundit
Username: reese
Post Number: 51
Registered: 4-2004
Posted From: 12.15.169.206
| | Posted on Friday, May 14, 2004 - 11:12 am: �� | ��� |
I liked Weird Al Yankovic's parodies EAT IT and FAT (parodying Michael Jackson's BEAT IT and BAD.)
Around the same time, Weird Al's EAT IT came out, I caught Millie Jackson in concert. She opened with her own parody of EAT IT. Of course, it was much more explicit than anything Weird Al did. |
Garo (gary_james)
1-Arriviste
Username: gary_james
Post Number: 3
Registered: 5-2004
Posted From: 192.234.106.2
| | Posted on Friday, May 14, 2004 - 11:18 am: �� | ��� |
Allan Sherman had great success on Warner Brothers Records putting a Yiddish twist on his parodies of old songs.
He also did "Crazy Downtown" in 1965. |
Chancellor of Soul (harlem_144)
4-Laureate
Username: harlem_144
Post Number: 140
Registered: 4-2004
Posted From: 66.207.40.18
| | Posted on Friday, May 14, 2004 - 12:53 pm: �� | ��� |
Let me see ........hmmmmmmmmmm.....
1)The Streak - Ray Stevens
2)Ahab The Arab- Ray Stevens
3)Jaws - Dickie Goodman
4)Here Comes The Judge- Pigmeat Markham
5)It's Your Thing - Moms Mabley
6)Let It All Hang Out- Hombres
7)Little Ole Man- Bill Cosby
8)Hicky Burr- Bill Cosby & Bill Bradford Bunions
Band
9)They're Comming To Take Me Away- Napoleon IV
10)The Stipper- David Rose
11)Luther The Antropoid- Jimmy Castor
12)Skinny Legs And All- Joe Tex
13)Ain't Gonna Bump No More With No Big Fat
Woman- Joe Tex
14)Dial That Telephone- Effie Smith
15)It's Good To Be The King - Mel Brooks
16)Rapping Duke
17)Here Comes The Judge - Shorty Long
More later........
Mike Boone
(Chancellor of Soul)
chancellorofsoul.com
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Vonnie (vonnie)
4-Laureate
Username: vonnie
Post Number: 142
Registered: 3-2004
Posted From: 64.12.116.138
| | Posted on Friday, May 14, 2004 - 3:56 pm: �� | ��� |
Stagger Lee
Splish Splash
Tossin & Turnin
Johnny Dollar |
DyvaNaye (westside314)
5-Doyen
Username: westside314
Post Number: 372
Registered: 4-2004
Posted From: 209.212.74.198
| | Posted on Friday, May 14, 2004 - 4:14 pm: �� | ��� |
Hey Chancellor -
You went there with Mel Brooks...that song was the 'bomb', and a good dance groove.
What I have to add is Richard Fields - RIP- 'She's Got Papers' and the answer 'She Got the Papers and I Got the Man' and 'Another Man Is Beating My Time'...they were parody in the sense of 'ghetto dialog'...lol....THe thing that always got me was that I believe it was Bettye Wright who made the 'Another Man ' song and RF was a gay man...did she make that about 'him', so to speak? |
Juicefree20 (juicefree20)
6-Zenith
Username: juicefree20
Post Number: 801
Registered: 4-2004
Posted From: 24.46.184.162
| | Posted on Friday, May 14, 2004 - 4:20 pm: �� | ��� |
Hey Dyva!!! Nah, Barbara Mason did Another Man. Betty Wright did the rap on She's Got Papers. Those sisters were rough on a brother, WHEW!!!
I also loved Hello Mudder, Hello Faddah |