Food: The Playlist

[jmckee]

Starting with an article by Roy Blount, Jr., in "Cornbread Nation," I have been compiling a food playlist on my iPod. Here's where we are thus far:

A Chicken Ain't Nothin' But a Bird by Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five
Keep On Churnin' (Til the Butter Comes) by Wynonie Harris
Why Don't You Eat Where You Slept Last Night by Zuzu Bollin
Let Us Break Bread Together by Jessye Norman
Peel Me A Grape by Blossom Dearie
Peel Me A Grape also by Diana Krall
Black Coffee by Ella Fitzgerald
Big Butter And Egg Man From The West by Louis Armstrong & His Hot Five
Struttin' With Some Barbecue by Louis Armstrong & His Hot Five
Cake Walking Babies From Home by Red Onion Jazz Babies
Big Rock Candy Mountain by Harry McClintock
Sweet Kentucky Ham by Rosemary Clooney
That's What I Like About the South by the Red Stick Ramblers
Let's Eat Home by Dave Frishberg
Sing For Your Supper; Sing, Sing, Sing; Sing (Sing A Song) by Mel Torme
Beans and Cornbread by Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five
Saturday Night Fish Fry by Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five
Pizza On the Ground by Austin Lounge Lizards
Tastes Like Chicken by Austin Lounge Lizards
Anyone Here Want to Buy Cabbage by Champion Jack Dupree
How Many Biscuits Can You Eat This Morning? by The Freight Hoppers
Save the Bones for Henry Jones (Cause Henry Don't Eat No Meat) by Johnny Mercer
Breakfast Time by Lightnin' Hopkins
Hambone Am Sweet (unknown)
I Don't Want Love (feat. Brian Setzer) by Dan Hicks & The Hot Licks
Highway Cafe of the Damned by Austin Lounge Lizards
Mama's Cooking by Anthony and Joseph
She Cooks Me Cabbage by Champion Jack Dupree
Jambalaya (On the Bayou) by Hank Williams
Keep On Eatin' by Memphis Minnie
The Frim Fram Sauce by Nat "King" Cole
Mary's Kitchen by Old Crow Medicine Show
Hambone by Tennessee Ernie Ford
Shoo-Fly Pie (And Apple Pan Dowdy) by Dinah Shore

[Fydeaux]

I've contributed lists on other threads with similar themes, but while digging through old LPs in the basement, I found a song called THE CHOWHOUND'S LAMENT on a Homer & Jethro album.

The album itself is kind of interesting: H&J did some commercials in the early 60s for Kellogg's Corn Flakes using a "Corn-fucious Say" theme, and the album is a tie-in with it. Not exactly PC today, but interesting nonetheless.

I also ran across an instrumental bu Rockin' Johnny Sansone called POPEYE'S & A HUBIG'S.

[Johnny Pastrami]

Last year I sat down and created a 'Foodie' playlist on my ipod:

5-Piece Chicken Dinner - Beastie Boys
Chocolate Pope - Electric Six
Tatum O'Tot And The Fried Vegetables - Redd Kross
Cups And Cakes - Spinal Tap
Chicken - The Cramps
Watermelon Man - Arthur Lyman
Back to the Sauce - Puffball
(Do The) Mashed Potatoes, Pt. 1 - James Brown
Lollipop - The Chordettes
Apples, Peaches, Bananas & Pears - The Monkees
Chocolate Buttermilk - Kool & The Gang
Punky's Dilemma - Simon And Garfunkel
Days Of Wine And Roses - Frank Sinatra
Soul Sauce (Guacha Guaro) - Cal Tjader
Ribs And Hot Sauce - Lionel Hampton & His Sextet
Banana Split For My Baby - Louis Prima
Rat Salad - Black Sabbath
You Put Your Chocolate in My Peanut Butter - NOFX
Mashed Potato Time - Dee Dee Sharp
My Sweet Potato - Booker T And The Mgs
Salad Days - Minor Threat
Sugar, Sugar - The Archies
Rotten Egg - Gas Huffer
My Girl Lollipop - Bad Manners
Macarthur Park - Frank Sinatra
Starfish And Coffee - Prince
Green Onions - Booker T & The MGs
Chocolate Shake - Duke Ellington
Lemon Tree -Trini Lopez
Jambalaya (On The Bayou) - Hank Williams
Hot Barbecue - Brother Jack McDuff
Egg Man - Beastie Boys
Everytime I Eat Vegetables It Makes Me Think Of You - Ramones
Scarborough Fair/Canticle - Simon & Garfunkel
Salt Peanuts - Charlie Parker
Custard Pie - Led Zeppelin
Birthday Cake - Cibo Matto
Drinkin' Wine, Spo-Dee-O-Dee - Hampton, Lionel & His Orchestra (w/ Sonny Parker)
Honey Bee - Muddy Waters
Bar-B-Q - ZZ TOP
I Eat Cannibals - Toto Coelo
Nobody In Town Can Bake A Sweet Jelly Roll Like Mine - Bessie Smith
A Taste Of Honey - Jackie Gleason
Finger Lickin' Good - The Beastie Boys
Candyman - Siouxsie And The Banshees
Soda Pop - G. Love & Special Sauce
Coconut Night - We Are Wolves
Chocolate Chip - Isaac Hayes
Quiche Lorraine - The B-52's
Pulling Mussels (From The Shell) - Squeeze
8 Piece Box - Southern Culture On The Skids
Peaches - The Stranglers
Tangerine - Jimmy Dorsey & his Orchestra / Led Zeppelin
Closer To The Bone - Louis Prima
Bread And Butter - Waitresses
Soup is Good Food - Dead Kennedys
Candy - Iggy Pop & Kate Pierson
Angelina - Zooma Zooma (Medley) Louis Prima
Fried Chicken And Gasoline - Southern Culture On The Skids
Know Your Chicken - Cibo Matto
Rock & Roll Stew - Traffic
Eat That Chicken - Charles Mingus
Peaches & Cream - Beck
Polk Salad Annie - Elvis Presley
White Pepper Ice Cream - Cibo Matto
Black Coffee In Bed - Squeeze
La fox (funghi mix) - Deep fried chicken - Babasonicos
Scenes From An Italian Restaurant - Billy Joel

It's almost 4 hours of music. I'll throw this on when cooking some big (non-Italian) Sunday feast. Italian feasts are strictly Sinatra, baby!

[lulubelle]

Brilliant, although hearing Gas Huffer, Bad Manners and Frank all in a row like that might make your head explode.

[MGZ]

Wild Montain Honey - Steve Miller
Tupelo Honey - Van Morrison
I Want Candy - The Strangeloves
Bottle of Red Wine - Clapton

[wew]

Cheeseburger in Paradise - Jimmy Buffet
Straight no Chaser - many recordings
Salt Peanuts - Dizzy Gillespie
Bottle of Wine - (I'm drawing a blank)
Back Door Man - many recordings
Già la mensa preparata -- Don Giovanni - so many recordings

[danieljdwyer]

Try looking more into old blues and folk. Here's a start:
by Robert Johnson: They're Red Hot, Malted Milk, Come on in My Kitchen, Dead Shrimp Blues, Milkcow's Calf Blues
by Leadbelly (Huddie Ledbetter): Diggin My Potatoes, Green Corn, Grey Goose, and probably a whole lot more I can't think of right now

[jmckee]

Mmm. I've got the complete Johnson recordings; hadn't looked there yet!

[smartie]

Sugar Magnolia - Grateful Dead
Browed Eyed Women and Red Grenadine - Grateful Dead

[lulubelle]

Ohhhhh, much more fun than working! Here are some from my iPod.

Black Coffee in Bed ~~ Squeeze
Cup of Coffee ~~Garbage
Cigarettes and Chocolate Milk~~Rufus Wainwright
Chocolate~~ Snow Patrol
A Knife and a Fork~~Rockpile
Brother My Cup is Empty~~Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Sweet Tangerine~~The Hush Sound
Red Red Wine~~UB40
Pecan Pie~~Jeff Tweedy
Cabbage Alley~~The Meters
Cigarettes, Coffee and Booze~~The Minus Five
Pot Pie~~Evil Beaver
Brandy Alexander~~Feist
Banana Pancakes~~ Jack Johnson
Hungry Like the Wolf~~Duran Duran
Poundcake~~Van Halen
Fortune Cookie~~ Rolf Kent
Meat is Murder~~The Smiths
Happy Hour~~The Housemartins
Rock Lobster & Quiche Lorraine ~~ both by B52s
Burnt Orange Peel~~ Beck
Banana Chips~~Shonan Knife
When I Was Drinking~~Hem
Edible Flowers~~The Finn Brothers
Syrup and Honey~~Duffy
Dinner for Two~~Deerhoof
Scenes From and Italian Restaurant~~Billy Joel
Red Apples~~Cat Power
You and Me and The Bottle Make 3 Tonight~~Big Bad Voodoo Daddy
Champagne From a Paper Cup~~Death Cab for Cutie
Know Your Onion!~~The Shins
Salad Days~~Young Marble Giants
Little Cream Soda~~The White Stripes
Shaky Puddin'~~Soledad Brothers

[MGZ]

Rockpile - excellent call!

[smartie]

Life is a Minestrone - 10CC
Raspberry Beret - Prince
2 Pints of Lager and a packet of Crisps - Chas and Dave (might be tough to find in USA)
Let's Have Another Cup of Coffee - Commander Cody and his Lost Planet Airment
One Man's Meat is Another Man's Poison - Commander Cody I think
Yes we have no Bananas
I've got a lovely bunch of Coconuts

[Passadumkeg]

I see you like the Austin Lounge Lizards, how about "Shallow End of the Gene Pool"?
Hot Tamale Baby
Red Neck, White Socks and Blue Ribbon Beer
Sopa de Caricol (Snail Soup)

Veggo is right, take a look.

[jmckee]

While adding the Food Austin Lounge Lizards songs, I found a song I hadn't heard before: "That Godforsaken Hellhole I Call Home."

[MGZ]

One More Cup of Coffee & Po' Boy - Bob Dylan
Taco Wagon - Dick Dale
Cookie Jar - Jack Johnson
Memphis Soul Stew - King Curtis
Tangerine & Custard Pie - Led Zeppelin
Chicken Strut & Liver Splash - The Meters
Bathtub Gin - Phish

[DrewBB]

How about 'Banana Puddin' and 'Carve That Possum' by Southern Culture On The Skids.

[beevod]

"My Corn Pone Likes Your Carrot." by the Carolina Skillet Lickers

[margshep]

It Ain't the Meat it's the Motion...Maria Muldaur
Watermelon Man....Herbie Hancock
Today is the day they give babies away (with a half a pound of tea)...various artists

[Veggo]

Check out the "songs referencing food; your playlist" post by tatamagouche on the Food Media & News board. It is still active, and I contributed a little more Champion Jack Dupree.