BERIGAN Posted April 25, 2008 Report Share Posted April 25, 2008 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.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillF Posted April 25, 2008 Report Share Posted April 25, 2008 I always liked "Coolin' Off With Ulanov" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Magnificent Goldberg Posted April 25, 2008 Report Share Posted April 25, 2008 "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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christiern Posted April 25, 2008 Report Share Posted April 25, 2008 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul secor Posted April 25, 2008 Report Share Posted April 25, 2008 "Big Legs, Big Stockings" - a Buster Brown record "How Can I Miss You When You Won't Go Away" - Dan Hicks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillF Posted April 25, 2008 Report Share Posted April 25, 2008 (edited) 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave James Posted April 25, 2008 Report Share Posted April 25, 2008 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
randyhersom Posted April 25, 2008 Report Share Posted April 25, 2008 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noj Posted April 25, 2008 Report Share Posted April 25, 2008 My Beach, My Waves, Fuck Off! - JD & The Evil's Dynamite Band Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Alfredson Posted April 25, 2008 Report Share Posted April 25, 2008 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! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jostber Posted April 25, 2008 Report Share Posted April 25, 2008 (edited) 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sundog Posted April 25, 2008 Report Share Posted April 25, 2008 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? ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B. Clugston Posted April 25, 2008 Report Share Posted April 25, 2008 "Perfume of a Critic's Burning Flesh" by Naked City Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted April 26, 2008 Report Share Posted April 26, 2008 Who Hit Nelly In The Belly With A Flounder http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=160 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Gray Posted April 26, 2008 Report Share Posted April 26, 2008 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillF Posted April 26, 2008 Report Share Posted April 26, 2008 "Who Put the Benzedrine in Mrs Murphy's Ovaltine?" by Harry the Hipster Gibson. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Al Posted April 26, 2008 Report Share Posted April 26, 2008 The Waltz That Carried Us Away and Then a Mosquito Came and Ate Up My Sweetheart - John Fahey Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
randyhersom Posted April 30, 2008 Report Share Posted April 30, 2008 Just encountered one on a Warne Marsh album Ad Libido Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DukeCity Posted April 30, 2008 Report Share Posted April 30, 2008 Old schoolmate of mine wrote one called "Forever Endeavor" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillF Posted April 30, 2008 Report Share Posted April 30, 2008 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". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidewinder Posted April 30, 2008 Report Share Posted April 30, 2008 How about Johnny Griffin's 'The JAMFS are coming'? Always gives me a laugh, that one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Al Posted April 30, 2008 Report Share Posted April 30, 2008 "May the Bird of Paradise Fly Up Your Nose" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Man with the Golden Arm Posted April 30, 2008 Report Share Posted April 30, 2008 "Yep Rock Heresy" - Slim Gaillard Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teasing the Korean Posted April 30, 2008 Report Share Posted April 30, 2008 The Sweetheart of Sigmund Freud Tale of an African Lobster (both by Shorty Rogers). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Magnificent Goldberg Posted April 30, 2008 Report Share Posted April 30, 2008 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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