Comments on: My Favorite Songs About Food

By: Marc

Marc — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 16:38:31 +0000

These two aren’t so much about the food as they are about the experience of sharing food:

“Saturday Night Fish Fry” by Louis Jordan:

“If you ever been down to New Orleans
then you can understand just what I mean,
all through the week it’s as quiet as a mouse
but on a Saturday night they go from house to house
you don’t have to pay the usual admission
if you’re a cook, a waiter or a good musician
so if you happen to to be just passin’ by
stop in at the Saturday night fish fry.”

Louis Prima’s rumination on cheapness: “Banana Split for My Baby”
“Banana Split for My Baby” … “a glass of plain water for me” … [descriptions of how to make the ultimate banana split] … “separate checks it must be, charge the split to her and the water to me.”

By: Kelsey/TheNaptimeChef

Kelsey/TheNaptimeChef — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 18:48:30 +0000

LOL! Don’t forget “Don’t Eat the Pictures” from Sesame Street at the Met, the movie. Cookie monster wants to eat the pictures of fruit on the wall because he is so hungry!

By: Shelly

Shelly — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 15:24:14 +0000

I still have my “C is for Cookie” 45 record. The flip side is “Cookie Disco” which is also awesome! That one’s staying in the vault forever.

By: Tattoo Supplies Los Angeles

Tattoo Supplies Los Angeles — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 15:07:46 +0000

Thanks for taking me down memory lane. All great food songs. I haven’t seen the cookie monster clip in over 20 years.

By: Sandra

Sandra — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 15:00:41 +0000

It wasn’t until I read Tinky’s comment aabout “Find Me a Man I can Cook For” that I remembered one of my favorite food songs, Bill Steele’s “Chocolate Chip Cookies.” He’s hoping to find the right woman, and one of his criteria is whether she can bake chocolate chip cookies. He passes up on a few, then finds what appears to be the ideal woman for him – but she can’t bake! “So I made cookies for her.”

By: Jeffro

Jeffro — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 20:00:38 +0000

I enjoy some “Starfish and Coffee,” by Prince…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snVhdgvy4XE

By: Tinky Weisblat

Tinky Weisblat — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 18:46:21 +0000

P.S. I meant topics, of course, but I guess “toppings” is not inappropriate.

By: Tinky Weisblat

Tinky Weisblat — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 18:45:30 +0000

This is TOTALLY one of my favorite toppings, Erica. Let’s see: I like to sing the other “Supper Time,” by Irving Berlin. Introduced by Ethel Waters in 1933, it’s sung by a woman wondering how to tell her children that their father has been lynched. One doesn’t think of Berlin as having written a lot of blues, but this is a gorgeous bluesy number.

I also submit one of my personal theme songs, “I Can Cook, Too,” by Comden & Green & Bernstein, from “On the Town.” Originally sung by Nancy Walker (yes, Rhoda’s mom), it’s lively with great chords and even greater double entendre.

I could list many more, but my ABSOLUTE favorite was composed by my neighbor, Alice Parker, and was introduced by … well … ME. It’s called “Find Me a Man I Can Cook For.” Here are a couple of lines:

“Find me a heart and a hunger,
A man to be cherished and fed.
Tall or short, older or younger,
Just happy with meals … and a bed.”

Happy singing–and eating! I think “Oats in a Jar” sounds like a hit.

Tinky
Food Writer and Chanteuse