Playing back my sound-desk recording of Helen & the Neighbourhood Dogs’ recent set, on the school run this morning, raised a laugh during the song ‘Not That Kind Of Girl’.
“I want cats in the cradle and dogs on the hearth, a cup of tea and a nice warm bath
I’m not saying some girls are easily led, but they want tiaras and I want a shed”
Any other songs featuring mundane household or garden objects?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApAptlFJkhM
Well it mentions bucket.
Paolo Nutini had a single that mentioned a licence for his telly, among other things. And, of course, Lonnie Donegan’s ‘My Old Man’s a Dustman’ would seem to tick a lot of boxes.
Bedposts Does your chewy gum lose its flavour on the bedpost overnight ?
Let us not forget ‘I Need A Bathroom’ by Focus, 1975, with appropriate footage here:
I told her I didn’t and crawled off to sleep in the bath.
Bloody Southerner is she then, this Helen? “Hearth” rhymed with “bath” for goodness sake!
Not forgetting the full title for the Faces.
You Can Make Me Dance, Sing or Anything (Even Take the Dog for a Walk, Mend a Fuse, Fold Away the Ironing Board, or Any Other Domestic Shortcomings)
H&TNDs alumni Tony Winn does an entire show in his bath. This one’s about his fridge…
You can’t get much more ordinary than (many) of these:
“(Why don’t you get back into bed?
Why don’t you get back into bed?
Why don’t you get back into bed?
Why don’t you get back into bed?)
Reasons to be cheerful, part 3
1, 2, 3
Summer, Buddy Holly, the working folly
Good golly, Miss Molly and boats
Hammersmith Palais, the Bolshoi Ballet
Jump back in the alley and nanny goats
18 wheeler Scammels, dominica camels
All other mammals plus equal votes
Seeing Piccadilly, Fanny sniffin’ Willie
Being rather silly and porridge oats
A bit of grin and bear it, a bit of come and share it
Your welcome we can spare it, yellow socks
Too short to be haughty, too nutty to be naughty
Going on forty no electric shocks
The juice of a carrot, the smile of a parrot
A little drop of claret, anything that rocks
Elvis and Scotty, the days when I ain’t spotty
Sitting on a potty, curing smallpox
Reasons to be cheerful, part 3
Reasons to be cheerful, part 3
Reasons to be cheerful, part 3
Reasons to be cheerful, 1, 2, 3
Reasons to be cheerful, part 3
Health service glasses, gigolos and brasses
Round or skinny bottoms
Take your mum to Paris, lighting up a chalice
Wee Willie Harris
Bantu Steven Biko, listening to Reko
Harpo Groucho Chico
Cheddar cheese and pickle, a Vincent motorcycle
Slap and tickle
Woody Allan, Dali, Domitrie and Pascale
Balla, balla, balla and Volare
Something nice to study, phoning up a buddy
Being in my nuddy
Saying okey-dokey, sing-a-long a Smokie
Coming out a chokie
John Coltrane’s soprano, Adie Celentano
Beuno Colino
Reasons to be cheerful, part 3
Reasons to be cheerful, part 3
Reasons to be cheerful, part 3
Reasons to be cheerful, 1, 2, 3
Yes, yes, dear, dear
Perhaps next year
Or maybe even now
In which case
Woody Allan, Dali, Domitrie and Pascale
Balla, balla, balla and Volare
Something nice to study, phoning up a buddy
Being in my nuddy
Saying okey-dokey, sing-a-long a Smokie
Coming out a chokie
John Coltrane’s soprano, Adie Celentano
Beuno Colino
Reasons to be cheerful, part 3
Reasons to be cheerful, part 3
Reasons to be cheerful, part 3
Reasons to be cheerful, 1, 2, 3”
Some less so.
There are, of course, all those green-fingered rappers who are mightily upset with the state of their hoes.
Isn’t that (D)rake also a rapper named after gardening equipment?
Not a mundane object, but a mundane task:
“I look at the floor, and I see it needs sweeping”
“They told him, “Don’t you ever come around here.
Don’t wanna see your face. You better disappear.”
The fire’s in their eyes and their words are really clear
So bidet, just bidet”
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It sounded right, then…
Cos something’s cookin’ in the kitchen
Something’s brewin’ in the air
Something’s burnin’ in your microwave
And freezin’ in your Frigidaire
Something’s cookin’ in the kitchen
Something’s steamin’ up the room
Something’s broken down your thermostat
https://youtu.be/9Ot-_ax-xY8
Faces – You Can Make Me Dance, Sing or Anything (Even Take the Dog for a Walk, Mend a Fuse, Fold Away the Ironing Board, or Any Other Domestic Shortcomings)
Knockabout Aussie country (sort of) singer Greg Champion wishing you a Fridge Full Of Coldies
The Ventures – Percolator
Bobby Darin – Splish Spash (1958)
Covered in UK by, er, Charlie Drake