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

[Peter Friedman]

Upright Organ Blues - Glen Hardman with Lester Young

Lady Chatterley's Mother - Gerry Mulligan

[Don Brown]

Al the Things You Could Be By Now If Sigmund Freud's Wife Was Your Mother - Charles Mingus

Warm Valley - Duke Ellington

Soft and Furry - Johnny Griffin

Beaver Junction - Count Basie

Pussy Wiggle Stomp - Don Ellis

T.T. on Toast - Duke Ellington

Tea and Trumpets - Rex Stewart

Texas Tea Party - Benny Goodman & Jack Teagarden

Chili Con Carney - Sandy Williams (with Harry Carney)

The JAMFS are Coming - Johnny Griffin

Papilloma - Flip Phillips

Tonsillectomy - Boyd Raeburn

Athlete's Foot - Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis

Edited May 1, 2008 by Don Brown

[Shawn]

Our very own Jim Sangrey performs on a wonderfully clever little ditty called "Andrew Lloyd Weber Must Die".

[Teasing the Korean]

Teasing the Korean.

[Chuck Nessa]

So What.

[Free For All]

A high school-level big band chart, somehow this one got past the music publisher: The Puffy Taco

Another good big band chart title: Blue Job

[Larry Kart]

Johnny Mandel's "Keester Parade" and "London Derriere." Also his "Groover Wailin'" -- though the play on words is virtually lost in time:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grover_Whalen

[Big Al]

Sonic Youth is always good for some wild song titles:

"Mariah Carey and the Arthur Doyle Hand Cream" (original title of "Kim Gordon and the Arthur Doyle Hand Cream")

"Radical Adults Lick Godhead Style"

[poetrylover3]

Professor Longhair: Ball The Wall

Maria Muldaur: It Ain't The Meat (It's the Motion)

The Fugs: Kill, Kill, Kill for Peace

Frank Zappa: Pajama People

[BillF]

Johnny Mandel's "Keester Parade" and "London Derriere." Also his "Groover Wailin'" -- though the play on words is virtually lost in time:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grover_Whalen

Manny Albam's "Claude Reigns", featuring Claude Williamson with the Charlie Barnet Orchestra in 1949, would be another example of a play on words virtually lost in time.

[Don Brown]

Chasin' Chippies - Cootie Williams

Poon Tang - Barney Bigard

Zoot Case - Zoot Sims

Pigeons and Peppers - Cootie Williams

Hellview From Bellevue - Charles Mingus

Once Upon a Time There Was a Holding Company Called Old America - Charles Mingus

Blight of the Fumblebee - Gerry Mulligan & Paul Desmond

Crimea River - Al Cohn

Edited May 1, 2008 by Don Brown

[BillF]

"Marcel the Furrier" (recorded by the Oscar Pettiford Sextet) is an intriguing title. But who was Marcel? Do I remember reading that he was a Belgian who supplied Bird when he was in Europe, or am I completely wrong about this? Anyone know?

[Larry Kart]

Johnny Mandel's "Keester Parade" and "London Derriere." Also his "Groover Wailin'" -- though the play on words is virtually lost in time:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grover_Whalen

Manny Albam's "Claude Reigns", featuring Claude Williamson with the Charlie Barnet Orchestra in 1949, would be another example of a play on words virtually lost in time.

Not as long as "Casablanca" and "Notorious" are shown.

Also, never heard it myself and I can't find it on the Internet, but a friend once mentioned a Fugs tune titled (I think) "Squawk Man Meets The Lunatic Vagina."

[Larry Kart]

There's also the tune that Mandel wrote for Al Cohn, "El Cajon."

[gaston]

"Marcel the Furrier" (recorded by the Oscar Pettiford Sextet) is an intriguing title. But who was Marcel? Do I remember reading that he was a Belgian who supplied Bird when he was in Europe, or am I completely wrong about this? Anyone know?

i have the explanation of this title, but infortunately only in french :

Dans la session de 1954, un petit joyau : "Marcel The Furrier " avec un magnifique solo d'Al Cohn, précédé de celui de Tal Farlow qui est excellent.

Ce titre a été écrit en hommage à Marcel Fleiss, un photographe français passionné de jazz. Un autre titre (" Burt's Pad ") est dédié à un autre photographe (Burt Goldblatt).

this title was written for a french photograph named marcel Fleiss ( maybe fleiss means "furrier" in deutch ? )

an other title, " burt's Pad" is dedicated to a photograph: burt goldblatt. sorry for my english.

[Swinging Swede]

Ugly Child

Feather Brain Blues

[Shawn]

Pettin' & Pokin' - Louis Jordan

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

"Marcel the Furrier" (recorded by the Oscar Pettiford Sextet) is an intriguing title. But who was Marcel? Do I remember reading that he was a Belgian who supplied Bird when he was in Europe, or am I completely wrong about this? Anyone know?

i have the explanation of this title, but infortunately only in french :

Dans la session de 1954, un petit joyau : "Marcel The Furrier " avec un magnifique solo d'Al Cohn, précédé de celui de Tal Farlow qui est excellent.

Ce titre a été écrit en hommage à Marcel Fleiss, un photographe français passionné de jazz. Un autre titre (" Burt's Pad ") est dédié à un autre photographe (Burt Goldblatt).

this title was written for a french photograph named marcel Fleiss ( maybe fleiss means "furrier" in deutch ? )

an other title, " burt's Pad" is dedicated to a photograph: burt goldblatt. sorry for my english.

Bienvenue! Especially with a story like that! Thanks Gaston!

MG

[BillF]

"Marcel the Furrier" (recorded by the Oscar Pettiford Sextet) is an intriguing title. But who was Marcel? Do I remember reading that he was a Belgian who supplied Bird when he was in Europe, or am I completely wrong about this? Anyone know?

i have the explanation of this title, but infortunately only in french :

Dans la session de 1954, un petit joyau : "Marcel The Furrier " avec un magnifique solo d'Al Cohn, précédé de celui de Tal Farlow qui est excellent.

Ce titre a été écrit en hommage à Marcel Fleiss, un photographe français passionné de jazz. Un autre titre (" Burt's Pad ") est dédié à un autre photographe (Burt Goldblatt).

this title was written for a french photograph named marcel Fleiss ( maybe fleiss means "furrier" in deutch ? )

an other title, " burt's Pad" is dedicated to a photograph: burt goldblatt. sorry for my english.

Merci de votre explication, Gaston.

[gaston]

"Marcel the Furrier" (recorded by the Oscar Pettiford Sextet) is an intriguing title. But who was Marcel? Do I remember reading that he was a Belgian who supplied Bird when he was in Europe, or am I completely wrong about this? Anyone know?

i have the explanation of this title, but infortunately only in french :

Dans la session de 1954, un petit joyau : "Marcel The Furrier " avec un magnifique solo d'Al Cohn, précédé de celui de Tal Farlow qui est excellent.

Ce titre a été écrit en hommage à Marcel Fleiss, un photographe français passionné de jazz. Un autre titre (" Burt's Pad ") est dédié à un autre photographe (Burt Goldblatt).

this title was written for a french photograph named marcel Fleiss ( maybe fleiss means "furrier" in deutch ? )

an other title, " burt's Pad" is dedicated to a photograph: burt goldblatt. sorry for my english.

Merci de votre explication, Gaston.

de rien c'est tout naturel...

[Peter Friedman]

Battle Hymn Of The Republican - Gerry Mulligan

Warm Valley - Ellington

[Peter Friedman]

Furnished Flats - Jim Hall

Riffs I have Known - Rob McConnell

Dialated Pupils - Howard McGhee

Have You Hugged Your Martian Today? - Shorty Rogers

Love Me Or Levey - Bill Holman

Comin' Thru The Rye Bread - Shorty Rogers

[Peter Friedman]

A Bit Byas'd - Lew Tabackin

[JSngry]

Our very own Jim Sangrey performs on a wonderfully clever little ditty called "Andrew Lloyd Weber Must Die".

That was a Lyles West original.

I've got one, as yet unrecorded, called "Only Their Ears Were Pink".

[Don Brown]

Charles Mingus was responsible for a whole slew of unique titles. Among them are:

The Shoes of the Fisherman's Wife are Some Jive Ass Slippers

E's Flat, Ah's Flat Too

Eat That Chicken

Oh Lord, Don't Let Them Drop That Atomic Bomb on Me

Wham, Bam, Thank You, Ma'am

Ecclusiastics

Vassarlean

Half-Mast Inhibition

Bemoanable Lady

Then there were Al Cohn's sessions which often had clever plays on words in the tune titles:

Ah Moore (Marilyn Moore was Al's first wife)

Cohn My Way

Sugar Cohn

El Cajon

Sioux-zan