Songs About Food

[Jamie Renton]

Next week I'm DJing the afterparty for the Feeding the 5000 charity event: http://www.feeding5k.org/ (I get paid in wonky carrot stew & hand-pressed apple juice)

I'd quite like to stir a few food-related songs into my set. Anyone got any suggestions? Have we done a thread on this before? I can't believe we haven't, but a quick search couldn't find any evidence that we have.

Thanks

Jamie

[Chris P]

http://youtu.be/QcW4YKaWDPU

There's a mushroom on my eyelid
There's a carrot down my back
I can see in the distance
A vast quantity of beans
To you I'm just a flavour
To make your soup taste nice
Oh my god here come the onions
And, I don't believe it, at least a pound of rice

There was a time when bacon sandwiches
Were everyone's favourite snack
I'm delicious when I'm crunchy
Even when I'm almost black
So why you make a soup with me
I just can't understand
It seems so bloody tasteless
Not to mention underhand

Now there's no hope of getting out of here
I can feel I'm going soft
Dirty waters soak my fibres
The whole saucepan's getting hot
So I may as well resign myself
Make friends with a few peas
But I just, I can't help hoping
that a tummy ache will bring you to your knees

Bring you to your knees...

[NormanD]

Slim Gaillard's "Dunkin' Beigels" for a start
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xlLolCQXH4

And Louis Jordan liked singing about his grub:
"Beans and Corn Bread"
"Cole Slaw"
"You're My Meat"

[Ted]

Julia Lees "All This Beef and Big Ripe Tomatoes", although it isn't really about food...

[Rob Hall]

El Manisero - Pepesito Reyes Feat. Estrella Morente
Shrimp & Gumbo - Dave Bartholomew
Diggin' My Potatoes - Washboard Sam
Watermelon Man - Herbie Hancock
Grits Ain't Groceries - Little Willie John/Little Milton
Breakfast In Bed - Dusty
Lady Marmalade - Labelle
Green Onions - Booker T
Senegal Fast Food - Amadou & Mariam

There's lots more...

[will vine]

Last Meal.............Asleep at the Wheel - can't find it on youtube but check it out
Give me two dinosaur eggs over easy
fried in butter, 'n not too greasy.....

Frim Fram Sauce...............Nat King Cole
Just Another Oyster in the Stew..............Fats Waller

I always liked the line that, I take it, Chas and Dave quoted from a Harry Champion song........
put anuvver bit o' treacle on me puddin' Marrianne

[john poole]

'Memphis Soul Stew' - King Curtis
'Chicken Crazy' - Joe Tex

There must be lots of soul and New Orleans food related songs that I can't think of at the moment.

Bob had a Theme Time Radio Hour on the subject (Episode 29)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theme_Time ... Season_One

[Hugh Weldon]

Tom Waits - Eggs and Sausage
10CC Life is a Minestrone
Hank Williams - Jambalaya (crawfish pie & filet gumbo)
Joni Mitchell - Banquet
Louis Jordan - Saturday Night Fish Fry
Streetband - Toast
Peter Sarstedt - Frozen Orange Juice
Little Feat - Tripe Face Boogie

[David Flower]

Olu Dara often mentions food in his cool funky New Orleans songs. 'Okra' off 'In the world'
for example
Has he released anything since Neighbourhoods?

[will vine]

Polk Salad Annie.........Tony Joe White
I Want a Hot Dog for my Roll...........Butterbeans and Susie
It Must Be Jelly (cos jam don't shake like that)..........Frankie Ford

[Rob Hall]

Olu Dara often mentions food in his cool funky New Orleans songs. 'Okra' off 'In the world'
for example
Has he released anything since Neighbourhoods?

I don't think that he has David, which is a great pity. I think he might have done something with his son, who is the rapper Nas (who has done some work with Damian Marley I think?). I'd love to hear another album from Olu Dara.

[gary booth]

[quote="Rob Hall I think he might have done something with his son, who is the rapper Nas (who has done some work with Damian Marley I think?). I'd love to hear another album from Olu Dara.[/quote]

Nas & Damian Marley did an album together. The track 'Patience' was played heavily sampling Amadou & Mariam's 'Sabali'

[Jamie Renton]

Nas & Olu Dara - Bridging the Gap
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05pA5U-W32c

Featured on the soundtrack of the film A Prophet.

Last time I posted it here, Norman made reference to bloomers

[Jamie Renton]

Oh & thanks for all your suggestions for food related tunes. I feel well armed & ready for next Friday.

[will vine]

Cornbread, Beans, and Black Mollasses.........Sonny Terry / Brownie McGee
Gimmie a Pigfoot and a bottle of Beer.............Bessie Smith
French Fries with Black Pepper...........Morphine
Cut The Cake............Average White Band
Bread and Butter............The Newbeats
then there's.....Peanut Butter, Salt Peanuts, Rubber Biscuit, Toast, all washed down with Strawberry Wine.

Finally, I shudder to mention this since I hate the blatant opportunism of the man and the ludicrous proliferation of cooking shows on the tv but a Rick Stein PR vehicle is currently being trailed by the BBC. Something like Rick Stein Meets the Blues. You can just imagine can't you?