Oh, oh. Rosalind over at Exultet is getting people going on silly riding-in-the-car or camp songs. Feel free to share your favorites here as well as there.
I (ahem) spent hours dancing to and singing along with a Homer & Jethro record as a child. Is there an award for parents who don't strangle children upon hearing Mairzy Doats, and Music Goes Round and Round, and Three Little Fishies, etc., for the three thousandth time (each) from a child who is not blessed with superior singing powers? I'd like to nominate my folks, thanks. (I did close all the doors to the living room to minimize the distress to others, honest.)
For the story behind "Mairzy Doats", go here for the low-down from Dennis Livingston, whose dad, Jerry Livingston, wrote the music.
I also seem to remember something about a song with "Oops, there goes another rubber tree plant" in it that was a massive hit at my grade school. Oh, yeah, some guy named Frank Sinatra sang it too.
Van Gogh Has a Broken Heart by Russ Ramsey
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They had a great song called "The Billboard Song" about a billboard that had many layers of signs on it that peeled off in uneven layers, so you could read more than one sign. The choruses went like "Simonize Your Baby With a Hershey Bar...."
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