The Song That Won't Quit

It's nothing personal, Pennsylvania folks, but if shoo fly pie and apple pan dowdy, makes your eyes light up, your tummy say howdy. Shoo fly pie and apple pan dowdy, I never get enough of that wonderful stuff doesn't get out of my head I'm going to blow the keystone out of your state.
 
Aaaarrrrggghhhh!

Michael, I can help.  Try "3 little fishies in a itty-bitty-pool" or
"Rum and CocaCola"  Those two always work for me when I get
stuck on Shoo Fly Pie.
 

I guess this is an over 80 thing?

The only time I ever heard of apple pan dowdy was on the Rocky & Bullwinkle show.

For me it is the theme song from the Disney ride "It's a Small World After All". The ride is long and the speakers every 3 feet along the way blare out that tune for every damn inch of it !!  Once you are infected it eats your brain-cells by the billions !  I almost attacked a person in my Doctors office some time back who used that song as the ringtone on their cell-phone and received what I felt were hundreds of calls during the time we shared in the waiting room !!

When I was a little bitty baby
My mama would rock me in my cradle
In those old cotton fields back home
When I was a little bitty baby
My mama would rock me in my cradle
In those old cotton fields back home

Oh, when those cotton ball get rotten
You can't pick very much cotton
In them old cotton fields back home
It was back in Louisiana
Just about a mile from Texarkana
In them old cotton fields back home

--- Instrumental ---

When I was a little bitty baby
My mama would rock me in my cradle
In them old cotton fields back home
When I was a little bitty baby
My mama would rock me in my cradle
In those old cotton fields back home

Oh, when those cotton ball get rotten
You can't pick very much cotton
In them old cotton fields back home
It was back in Louisiana
Just about a mile from Texarkana
In those old cotton fields back home
In those old cotton fields back home...

joerogo


I guess this is an over 80 thing?

If, in the very unlikely event that I ever get to 80 or beyond, I promise to let you know.

the ancient mariner


Michael, I can help.  Try "3 little fishies in a itty-bitty-pool" or
"Rum and CocaCola"  Those two always work for me when I get
stuck on Shoo Fly Pie.

I tried it. It didn't work. But thanks.

mar52


When I was a little bitty baby
My mama would rock me in my cradle
In those old cotton fields back home
When I was a little bitty baby
My mama would rock me in my cradle
In those old cotton fields back home

Oh, when those cotton ball get rotten
You can't pick very much cotton
In them old cotton fields back home
It was back in Louisiana
Just about a mile from Texarkana
In them old cotton fields back home

--- Instrumental ---

When I was a little bitty baby
My mama would rock me in my cradle
In them old cotton fields back home
When I was a little bitty baby
My mama would rock me in my cradle
In those old cotton fields back home

Oh, when those cotton ball get rotten
You can't pick very much cotton
In them old cotton fields back home
It was back in Louisiana
Just about a mile from Texarkana
In those old cotton fields back home
In those old cotton fields back home...

Now that was a rotten thing to do.

Oh?  Sorry.
 
Erace that one with this one:
 

Strike up the music the band has begun
The Pennsylvania Polka
Pick out your partner and join in the fun
The Pennsylvania Polka
It started in Scranton. It's now number one
It's bound to entertain ya
Everybody has a mania to do the polka from Pennsylvania
While they're dancing
Everybody's cares are quickly gone
Sweet romancing
This goes on and on until the dawn.
They're so carefree
Gay with laughter, happy as can be
They stop to have a beer
Then the crowd begins to cheer
They kiss and then they start to dance again.
Strike up the music the band has begun
The Pennsylvania Polka
Pick out your partner and join in the fun
The Pennsylvania Polka
It started in Scranton. It's now number one
It's bound to entertain ya
Everybody has a mania to do the polka from Pennsylvania.

mar52


When I was a little bitty baby
My mama would rock me in my cradle
In those old cotton fields back home

 
I like CCR's version of "Cotton Fields"; it's on the Willy and the Poor Boys album.
 
Brad

Unfortunately the Pennsylvania Polka doesn't work. I remember when it was on The Hit Parade (radio, not television).

The Pennsylvania Polka circa 1942--The Andrews Sisters---Patty, LaVerne and Maxene-----
 
The Hit Parade starring Bea Wain with Lanny Ross and the Lucky Strike Hit Parade Orchestra under the baton of ????
 
Michael these young whippersnappers don't know what they missed when they grew up with TV.  Radio was much better.  Your mind made the pictures for you---The Lone Ranger and Tonto, astride Silver and Scout, sitting on a hillside  looking down on a small Western Town where trouble was brewing------------I can see it now.
 
 

Don't forget Buddy Clark and Kay Thompson, and later Frank Sinatra, Dorothy Collins and Doris Day among the singers on the program. And those batons were held by Axel Stordahl and Raymond Scott, among others.
 
I hate the fact that I can actually remember that stuff.

ScreamingChicken

mar52


When I was a little bitty baby
My mama would rock me in my cradle
In those old cotton fields back home

I like CCR's version of "Cotton Fields"; it's on the Willy and the Poor Boys album.

Brad

Great little song as long as it's sung right. 

I was walking the hound and it was raining out.  She didn't care so why should I?  Then a song by Johnny Ray popped into my head----started singing---Just walking in the rain, getting soaking wet-
 
Well, the hound couldn't put her paws over her ears, so now when it is raining out she hides under a bed.  But every time it rains I start humming that tune.

It was a one eyed, one horned, flying purple people eater.
There...a beautiful song you can rewind 5000 times!

Does your chewing gum lose its flavor on the bedpost overnight?

chewingthefat


It was a one eyed, one horned, flying purple people eater.
There...a beautiful song you can rewind 5000 times!

So then I said to Sheb Wooley ...

the ancient mariner


I was walking the hound and it was raining out.  She didn't care so why should I?  Then a song by Johnny Ray popped into my head----started singing---Just walking in the rain, getting soaking wet-

Well, the hound couldn't put her paws over her ears, so now when it is raining out she hides under a bed.  But every time it rains I start humming that tune.

You're just going to have to stop walking under that little white cloud when it's crying.
 
If your heartaches seem to hang around to long,
And your blues keep getting bluer with each song...
Well, now, remember sunshine can be found
Behind a cloudy sky,
So let your hair down
And go right on baby and cry.

Damn! Now I have a new one that won't get out of my head.

mar52


When I was a little bitty baby
My mama would rock me in my cradle
In those old cotton fields back home
When I was a little bitty baby
My mama would rock me in my cradle
In those old cotton fields back home

Oh, when those cotton ball get rotten
You can't pick very much cotton
In them old cotton fields back home
It was back in Louisiana
Just about a mile from Texarkana
In them old cotton fields back home

--- Instrumental ---

When I was a little bitty baby
My mama would rock me in my cradle
In them old cotton fields back home
When I was a little bitty baby
My mama would rock me in my cradle
In those old cotton fields back home

Oh, when those cotton ball get rotten
You can't pick very much cotton
In them old cotton fields back home
It was back in Louisiana
Just about a mile from Texarkana
In those old cotton fields back home
In those old cotton fields back home...

Harry Belafonte weeps.  

Speaking of little white clouds---it is a lovely 77 degree day here in St Pete with a few little white clouds.  No rain in site.
 
And speaking of Harry Belafonte---the year was 1949---William B Williams had a TV show.  Black and white naturally----actually it was two shades of gray----light and dark gray.  He had Belafonte as his guest.  Harry lip sinced "Day-is-a-day-oh"  but the song coming out of the TV was "Scarlet Ribbons".  Little mistakes like that happened in those days-----made life fun.  And gives me something to talk about 62 years later. 
 
 

For some odd reason the song that stays in my mind and I belt out at odd time is "Delta Dawn".

William B. Williams on WNEW. Boy, I haven't thought of him in a very long time.

I'm still hearing "It's a Small World" from the post of a couple of days ago.

you don't want this in your head, whoa...too late:
 
I was alright for a while, I could smile for a while
But I saw you last night, you held my hand so tight
As you stopped to say "Hello"
Aw you wished me well, you couldn't tell
 
That I'd been crying over you, crying over you
Then you said "so long."  left me standing all alone
Alone and crying, crying, crying, crying
It's hard to understand but the touch of your hand
Can start me crying

 
bacia me i bacia you and everything goes crazy
ba ba bacia me bambino
ba ba bo bo bocca piccolino
when you kiss me
and i'm a kiss a you
tra la la la la la la la lu

ba ba bacia me my baby
ba ba bo bo just say yes and maybe
if a you squeeze me
and i'm a squeeze you
tra la la la la la la lu

be you bye oh be you bu
wont you bacia bacia me
be you bye oh be you bu
when you bacia me i bacia you
and everything goes crazy

ba ba bacia me bambino
ba ba bo bo boca piccolino
and then we will raise a great big family
tra la la la la la la li 



bacia me i bacia you
and everything goes crazy
ba ba bacia me my baby
ba ba bo bo just say yes and maybe
if you squeeze me
and i'm a squeeze you
tra la la la la la la lu

be you bye oh be you bu
wont you bacia bacia me
kiss me!
be you bye oh be you bu
when you bacia me i bacia you
come on a you kiss a me, eh?

ba ba bacia me bambino
ba ba bo bo bocca piccolino
and then we will raise a great big family
tra la la la la la la la
be you bye oh be you bu
bacia me bambino
bacia me

thats nice!

 
I needed something new to hum all day.
 
 
 
 

Yes Michael, the same William B. on WNEW
Followed by Ted Brown and the Redhead.
Jim Lowe and his Green Door.
 
Do you rember Martin Block?
Art Ford, Fred Robins ????????
Stay up Stan the all night record man?

I do remember Ted Brown and the Redhead and Martin Block. Make Believe Ballroom?