Songs About Food

[will vine]

A long lost record, and one I should be ashamed of trying to re locate. Anyone remember a silly little pop song......(Another little) Cookie in the Jar by Blue -(not the more recent boy band). I think this is seventies/eighties vintage. Can't find it online anywhere.

[john poole]

A long lost record, and one I should be ashamed of trying to re locate. Anyone remember a silly little pop song......(Another little) Cookie in the Jar by Blue -(not the more recent boy band). I think this is seventies/eighties vintage

1975 :-
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Blue-Cookie-j ... 0560559607

I remember Blue with Hugh Nicholson (ex-Marmalade); and have their first LP, but don't remember 'Cookie in a Jar' I have to admit. I'd never have expected to find two separate mentions of Blue in the same week on SoTW.

http://www.rockingscots.co.uk/meblue.htm

[will vine]

Thanks for all that info. John. I'd no idea they were so prolific.

[Alan Balfour]

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.....

Great imagery in the song first recorded in 1956 by the wonderfully named Hurricane Harry. Copied by Jimmy Roger three years later for Chess. In 1969 Python Records released a Chess bootleg compilation entitled Blues From The Windy City on which was supposedly the Jimmy Rogers version but it played Harry's original.

[will vine]

Oh, I seem to be needing to thank so many people tonight. Great information Alan, Thanks. What an amazing archive you are! And of course I'd love to hear those old versions. It really is a great song.
Be sure to check it out Jamie.

[kas]

Erm...

Bacon Fat (a NO song)
Roast Fish and Corn Bread (Lee Perry)
Yes, We Have No Bananas (Louis Jordan)

Edit: Oh yes, and the sephardic song "Los Guisados de la Berendjena" (also known as "Siete Modos") about different ways to cook eggplant...

[Ali]

Blue Note put out a compilation called Cordon Blue on which every track was named after food:
John Patton / Pig Foots
Lee Morgan / Cornbread
Kenny Burrell / Chitlins con Carne
Lou Donaldson / Grits and Gravy
Stanley Turrentine / Tacos
Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers / Chicken an` Dumplins
Lou Donaldson / Hot Dog
Ronnie Foster / Kentucky Fried Chicken
Freddie Roach / Mo` Greens Please
Freddie Hubbard / One Mint Julep
Andrew Hill / Fish `n Rice
Bud Powell / Collard Greens & Black Eyed Peas

[uiwangmike]

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.

There was a Songs about Biscuits thread in 2009, but maybe your computer doesn't allow cookies, Jamie.
viewtopic.php?f=29&t=13125&hilit=john+denver
Johnny McEldoo by the Clancy Brothers is an excellent treatment of the sin of gluttony

[Jamie Renton]

Thanks everyone. My plate runith over. You've inspired me to cook up an early evening food related set. Later on, as the partty (hopefully) hots up, If they're concentrating on the lyrics, rather than dancing, something will have gone very wrong.