Best song titles you have ever seen.....

[BERIGAN]

I imagine we have done this before, but whatever....

I Think "For No Reason at All in C" from 1927 is the best I have ever seen, and for the time...

Just saw a Boyd Raeburn title, Dalvatorre Sally. That cracked me up...

There, 2...someone take it from here, I'm cough, cough...sick....

[BillF]

I always liked "Coolin' Off With Ulanov"

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

"Get off my fucking allotment"

"And what if I don't?"

"You can be replaced".

Other nice titles are:

"What did you think it was that needed to be loved, anyway?"

"The magnificent bimbo"

"Treasure that canary"

"Never bite a married woman on the thigh"

"It does not pay to be hip"

"You soppy pratt"

"Arted is my last name (Passing gas)"

"I was a Kamikaze pilot"

"Walk like an egg"

"Bring on the nubiles"

"I kill therefore I am"

"William Butler Yeats visits Lincoln Park and escapes unscathed"

"How many times can a fridge break down"

"30,000 pounds of bananas"

From the sublime pen of George Clinton

"Take Your Dead Ass Home ! (Say Som'n Nasty)"

"Butt-To- Buttresuscitation"

"Get Off Your Ass And Jam"

Finally, a Polish jazz title

"Your goatee gets on my nerves (not to mention the mustache)"

MG

[Christiern]

Cleverest: "If Your Phone Don't Ring, It's Me"

Sung by Kevin Mark, I think.

Silliest: "Oh Gee, Say Gee, You Oughta See My Gee Gee From the Fiji Isle"

Sung by Chuck Thomas, aka Woody Herman.

[paul secor]

"Big Legs, Big Stockings" - a Buster Brown record

"How Can I Miss You When You Won't Go Away" - Dan Hicks

[BillF]

Charles Mingus, "Gunslingin' Bird (or, if Charlie Parker was a gunslinger, there'd be a whole lotta dead mf copycats)"

(Broad intepretation of "song")

Edited April 25, 2008 by BillF

[Dave James]

All time favorite. Get Your Biscuits in the Oven and Your Buns in the Bed. Kinky Friedman & The Texas Jewboys.

Running this a close second is the Dead Milkmen's Big Lizard in My Back Yard.

Up over and out

[randyhersom]

Lay Me Like You Hate Me, noted elswhere in this forum.

You're The Reason Our Kids are Ugly

I Never Went to Bed with an Ugly Woman (but I Woke Up with a Few)

Hold On, I'm Coming

I Second That Emotion

[Noj]

My Beach, My Waves, Fuck Off! - JD & The Evil's Dynamite Band

[Jim Alfredson]

I have a new one that I'm going to use for an organissimo song one of these days:

Mustard Time

Anyone who's ever had a newborn knows what I'm talking about!

[jostber]

Cow Cow Davenport had this great song with fine lyrics:

"I`m gonna tell you in front so you won`t feel hurt behind"

Sylvester Weaver had this pretty strange one:

"Me and My Tapeworm"

And Willie Blackwell recorded this classic for John Lomax some years ago:

"Junior's a Jap Girl's Christmas for His Santa Claus"

All have inspirational lyrics that must be heard.

Edited April 25, 2008 by jostber

[Sundog]

My Beach, My Waves, Fuck Off! - JD & The Evil's Dynamite Band

I assume that's a take off of The Surf Punks "My Beach"? (My beach, my chicks, my waves, go home!)

I've, always liked "Pictures of Matchstick Men" (WTF? )

[B. Clugston]

"Perfume of a Critic's Burning Flesh" by Naked City

[JSngry]

Who Hit Nelly In The Belly With A Flounder

http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=160

[Steve Gray]

I've, always liked "Pictures of Matchstick Men" (WTF? )

I may be wrong but isn't this a reference to L S Lowry. At least I have always assumed it was.

Lowry on Wikipedia

I gave her the ring, she gave me the finger

[BillF]

"Who Put the Benzedrine in Mrs Murphy's Ovaltine?" by Harry the Hipster Gibson.

[Big Al]

The Waltz That Carried Us Away and Then a Mosquito Came and Ate Up My Sweetheart - John Fahey

[randyhersom]

Just encountered one on a Warne Marsh album

Ad Libido

[DukeCity]

Old schoolmate of mine wrote one called

"Forever Endeavor"

[BillF]

When Brian Priestley - who later went on to become a jazz writer, broadcaster and pianist - was at Leeds University in the sixties, he put together a student big band. Realizing that they were not quite up to Gil Evans standard, he entitled a number he wrote for them "Miles Behind".

[sidewinder]

How about Johnny Griffin's 'The JAMFS are coming'? Always gives me a laugh, that one.

[Big Al]

"May the Bird of Paradise Fly Up Your Nose"

[Man with the Golden Arm]

"Yep Rock Heresy" - Slim Gaillard

[Teasing the Korean]

The Sweetheart of Sigmund Freud

Tale of an African Lobster

(both by Shorty Rogers).

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Bill Heid has some really rather nice, but strange, titles

Blue ice cubes

Peach cobbler

Eatin' and boppin'

Boppin' and eatin'

Orange chair tango

Orange chair ballad

Birds flapping their wings

This little puppy

Rubber marshmallows

Bag of iku

Ningyo mambo

MG