Songs and Food

Thinking about all the great music (and of course FOOD) happening this weekend brought to mind some of my favorite food related songs. There are thousands of songs out there having to do with food - which just goes to show how much we are inspired in some way by food! What are your favorite food(ie) songs? Here are a few of mine:
RC Cola And A Moonpie - NRBQ
Church - Lyle Lovett
Homegrown Tomatoes - Guy Clark
Jesus and Tomatoes Comin' Soon - Kate Campbell
Chocolate Cake - Crowded House
Tossed Salad And Scrambled Eggs - Kelsey Grammer
Potato - Cheryl Wheeler
Spam - Monty Python
and two more....
This song was written by Rupert Holmes (Buoys) while watching the Galloping Gourmet - Timothy
In honor of Abbey Road On The River (try to catch The Past Band at 7 tonight and Saturday at the Liverpool Stage) Strawberry Fields Forever

One Meatball............Ry Cooder

Dixie Chicken.......Little Feat

Eggs and Sausage...............Tom Waits

but my favorite

Polk Salad Annie................Tony Joe White

OH man. My dad is in the Juggernaut Jug Band and they do a whole chicken medley!!

Chicken Pie
Ain't Nobody Here but us Chickens
Chicken Ain't Nothin' but a Bird
The Chicken Tree
and the classic - Ruckus Juice and Chitlins!

Plus - Hamburger Pie and BBQ on Broadway!

lol....just a few food songs!

Well...Here are two food related songs that have inspired me...Cherry Pie by Warrant...and I want to take it back Old School, Y'all...Do Fries Go With That Shake by George Clinton & Parliament/Funkadelic...

"Cheeseburger in Paradise" - Jimmy Buffet (not Warren)

When the moon hits your eye, like a big pizza pie.......that's amore

dean martin

"Scotch and Soda," The Kingston Trio (ok, not exactly "food")

Green Onions Booker T. and the MG's

[Robin Garr]

What are your favorite food(ie) songs?

I've always been partial to Bo Carter's Delta Blues ballad, "Pigmeat is what I crave."

Of course, in Louisville these days you can just go with Dino Martin and sing "Volare, oh oh oh oh ... cantare ... "

Scotch and Soda isn't a food??? I love that song. And Lovett's too, huge Lyle Lovett fan.

"Scenes from an Italian Restaurant," Billy Joel

"Let's Call the Whole Thing Off," Gershwin

"Margaritaville," Jimmy Buffett

"Bangers & Mash," Peter Sellers and Sophia Loren

"It Was a Real Nice Clambake," Carousel

"Chicken Cordon Blues," Steve Goodman

"Tea for Two" (Bobby Short's, Late Night at the Cafe Carlyle)

"Isn't it Romantic" (Billy Holiday/Michael Feinstein version which is beautifully lush and romantic and which devolves into wonderfully wry silliness: "isn't it romantic, soon I will have found some girl that I adore; isn't it romantic, while I sit around, my love can scrub the floor," etc., and "isn't it romantic, on a moonlight night, she'll cook me onion soup....")

Here's a bunch from my collection:

Saturday Night Fish Fry - The Blue Dots
Country Pie - Bob Dylan
Diggin My Potoatoes - Washboard sAM
The Hamburger Song - Bobby Moore & The Rhythm Aces
Eat That Chicken - Charles Mingus
Givin' Up Food For Funk - The JBs
Breaking Bread - Johnny Cash
I like Pie I like Cake - The Four Clefs
Hey Pete Lets Eat More Meat - Dizzy Gillespie
Everybody Eats When They Come To My House - Cab Calloway
Hot Dog - The Detroit Cobras
Coconut Bread - Pat Metheney & Sonny Rollins
I Heard The Voice Of A Pork Chop - Jim Jackson
Hamburger Hop - Johnny Hicks
Potato Head Blues
Hot Biscuits & Sweet Marie - Lincoln Chase
Hungry Man - Louis Jordan
Mexican Seafood - Nirvana
Soul Food Man - Mike Gordon
Pie In THe Sky - Cisco Houstson
Rice Crispies (Wake Up In The Morning) - The Rolling Stones
Matzoh Balls - Slim Gaillard
Pork Roll & Cheese - Ween
Bread & Wine - Peter Gabriel
Bar-B-Q Wendy Rene
Pork Brains - Hypnotic Clambake
Chicken, Gravy And Biscuits - Lil' Ed & The Blues Imperials
Red Beans & Rice - Booker T. & The MGss
(Do The) Mashed Potatoes - James Brown
Cornbread & Butterbeans - Carolina Sunshine Trio
Chocolate Jesus - Tom Waits
American Pie - Don McLean
Shortin' Bread - The Cramps
Philly Cheese Blunt - Medeskie, Martin & Wood
Dead Shrimp Blues - Robert Johnson
Chocolate - Carmen González & Koral Y Esmeralda
Roast Fish & Cornbread - Lee 'Scratch' Perry
Crawfish Fiesta - Professor Longhair
Back At The Chicken Shack - Jimmy Smith
Bitter Chocolate - Conjure
Cheese & Crackers - Roscoe Gordon
Peas & Rice - Blind Blake & his Royal Victorians
Doggie Treats - Sue Foley
Pecan Pie - Golden Smog
Dog Treat - Tom Waits
Ain't No Bread In The Breadbox - Jerry Garcia Band
Dog Eat Dog - The Toasters
Sweet Loaf - Buthole Surfers
Chocolate Drop - Howlin' Wolf
Don't Shit Where You Eat - Ween
Caramel - Suzanne Vega
Birthday Cake - Cibo Matto
Custard Pie - Led Zeppelin
Chocolate On My Tongue - The Wood Brothers
St. Alphonzo's Pancake Breakfast - Frank Zappa
Muffin Man - Frank Zappa
Apples & Oranges - Pink Floyd
Wild Honey Pie - BEatles
Eggs & Sasuage - Tom Waits
Prcupine Pie - Neil Diamond
5-Piece Chicken Dinner - Beastie Boys
Gumbo - Phish
The Gumbo Variations - Frank Zappa
Just Like Honey - Jesus & Mary Chain
Apple Honey - Woody Herman
Jellybread - Booker T. & The Mgs
Don't Touch Me Tomato - George Symonette'
Fried Neckbones & Some Home Fries - Willie Bobo
Vegetable Man - Pink Floyd
Orange Juice Blues - The Band
Sweet Potato Pie - Ray Charles & James Taylor
Banana Juice - The Mar-Kays
Spider In My Stew - Buster Benton
Memphis Soul Stew - King Curtis
Purple Stew - Thurston Harris
Don't Eat The Yellow Snow - Frank Zappa
She Don't Use Jelly - Flaming Lips
You Eat Too Much - Harold Burrage

And here's a bunch of coffee, milk and tea songs too:

Coffee Shop Soundtrack - All Time Low
Teahouse From Emperor Rosko - Dice The Boss
Coffee & TV - Blur
One More Cup Of COffee - Bob Dylan
Tea For Two - Django Rheinhardt
One Cup of Coffee - Bob Markey
Tea Pot - I Roy
Black Coffee - Bobby Darrin
Green Tea - Medeski, Martin & Wood w/ John Scofield
Bring Me Coffee or Tea - Can
Forty Cups of Coffee - Ella Mae Morse
Tea For One - Led Zeppelin
Forty Cups of Coffee - Danny Overbea
Pennyroyal Tea - Nirvana
The Coffee Song - Frank Sinatra
Folgers Coffee - Johnny Cash
Milk & Honey - Beck
Coffee Blues - Lightning Hopkins
The Milkman of Human Kindness - Billy Bragg
Put Your Big Toe In The Milk Of Human Kindness - Elvis Costello
Iodine In My Coffee - Muddy Waters
Starfish & Coffee - Prince
Milk Cow Blues - Robert Johnson
Malted Milk - Robert Johnson
Tea In The Saharah - The Police
Milkcow Blues Boogie - Elvis Presley
Coffee Shop - Red Hot Chilli Peppers
Your Cup of Tea - Roy Ayers
Raindrops In My Coffee - Ron Sexsmith & Don Kerr
Black Coffee - Sarah Vaughn
Please Pass The Milk - They Might Be Giants
Keep THat Coffee Hot - Scatman Crothers
Iced Tea - Shelby Lynne
Black Coffee In Bed - Squeeze
Happy Coffee Song - Trey Anastasio
I Will Hold THe Teabag - The Sea & The Cake
Let's Have Another Cup of Coffee - Warning's Pennsylvanians
For The Price of a Cup of Tea - Belle & Sebastian
Tea For THe Tillerman - Cat Stevens
Lets Have Another Cup of Coffee - Glenn Miller



If Anyone wants some of these songs just bring me a CD over to Derby City Espresso and I'll burn em for you while you wait!

And my all time favorite:"If I Knew You Were Coming, I'd a Baked a Cake" by Rosemary Clooney, from somewhere in the early fifties I think.

Clyde Bauman, a friend and great comedian from North Dakota, performs as Mylo Hatzenbuhler, a German farmer who loves food. His music is hilarious, and with tunes such as "Super Cattle Growth Hormone," "Old Time Caramel Roll," "Ballad of the Big Buffet," and "I'm Getting Round."

His site is found here: http://www.farmboymusic.com/

“Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.” -Doug Larson, 1924 Olympic gold medalist.

Thanks for that, Gayle DeM. I believe as Emeril does, that pork fat rules. Yes, I am a large man but get very healthy checkups once a year.

I'd never die.

I am surprised no one has mentioned Alice's Restaurant. Which happens to be one of my favorites. Or I want Candy by M.C. Pee Pants.