Here's a playlist of BBQ, food, drinking, and related tunes for playing while cooking. And yes, I know that all chicken shacks don't serve chicken, and not all hot dogs and buns get mustard. Send me your suggestions. Just click once on a tune to play it.
The BBQ Song
Here's a great song that does a pretty good job of describing the regional styles of BBQ by Rhett & Link (Rhett McLaughlin and Link Neal), a North Carolina-based comedy duo.
Everybody Eats When They Come to My House by Cab Calloway
Have a banana, Hannah,
Try the salami, Tommy,
Give with the gravy, Davy,
Everybody eats when they come to my house!
Try a tomato, Plato,
Here's cacciatore, Dorie,
Taste the baloney, Tony,
Everybody eats when they come to my house!
I fix your favorite dishes,
Hopin' this good food fills ya!
Work my hands to the bone in the kitchen alone,
You better eat if it kills ya!
Pass me a pancake, Mandrake,
Have an hors-d'oeuvre-y, Irvy,
Look in the fendel, Mendel,
Everybody eats when they come to my house!
Hannah! Davy! Tommy! Dora! Mandrake!
Everybody eats when they come to my house!
Pastafazoola, Talullah!
Oh, do have a bagel, Fagel,
Now, don't be so bashful, Nashville,
Everybody eats when they come to my house!
Hey, this is a party, Marty,
Here, you get the cherry, Jerry,
Now, look, don't be so picky, Micky,
'Cause everybody eats when they come to my house!
All of my friends are welcome,
Don't make me coax you, moax you,
Eat the tables, the chairs, the napkins, who cares?
You gotta eat if it chokes you!
Oh, do have a knish, Nishia,
Pass me the latke, Macky,
Chile con carne for Barney,
Everybody eats when they come to my house!
Face! Buster! Chair! Chops! Fump!
Everybody eats when they come to my house!
Everybody eats when they come to my house!
Meathead's Theme Song: "You Can't Hurry Ribs" and Other Great Food Tunes
By Meathead To the tune of
"You Can't Hurry Love"
with apologies to Diana Ross
"You Can't Hurry Ribs", Meathead's theme song, sung by Natalie Longo, should play automatically when you open this page from the playlist at right. If not, click the "listen" buttons below. Feel free to download it, burn it, and play it on the road while you're lookin' for that great little rib shack. It's copyright free!
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I need ribs, ribs,
To ease my day.
I need to find time,
To cook them right!
My papa said:
You can't hurry ribs!
No, you just got to wait.
He said ribs don't come easy,
It's a game of time and temp.
You can't hurry ribs!
No, you just have to wait.
Just trust in low 'n slow,
No matter how long it takes.
How many boiled slabs must I stand?
Before I find the crunch to let me live again?
Right now the only thing that keeps me hanging on,
Is a mem'ry of smokiness down to the bone.
I remember Papa said:
Can’t hurry ribs!
No you just have to wait.
He said ribs don’t come easy,
It’s a game of time and temp.
How long must I wait?
How much thirst must I slake?
Before succulent slabs
Will cause my taste buds to wake?
No, I can't bear them burnt or boiled.
I grow impatient for meat that falls off the bone.
But when I feel that I, that I can’t go on,
These precious words keep me hanging on,
I remember Papa said:
You can’t hurry ribs!
No, you just have to wait.
He said ribs don’t come easy,
It’s a game of time and temp.
You can’t hurry ribs,
No, you just have to wait.
He said trust in the low 'n slow,
No matter how long it takes!
Now ribs, ribs they don’t come easy.
But I keep on waiting, anticipating.
For that juicy meat
To talk to me at night
For some tender flesh
Hickory smoked just right!
I keep waiting
Until it's done.
But it ain’t easy.
It ain’t easy.
My papa said:
You can’t hurry ribs.
No, you’ll just have to wait.
He said ribs don’t come easy.
It’s a game of time and temp.
You can’t hurry ribs.
No, you just have to wait.
Just trust in low 'n slow,
No matter how long it takes.
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Other tunes in Meathead's
iTunes Library
Ain't Nobody Here but Us Chickens by B.B. King
All That Meat and No Potatoes by Fats Waller
Blessing of the Pork by Billy Ray Mangham
Burger Man by ZZ Top
Cheeseburger in Paradise by Jimmy Buffett
A Chicken Ain't Nothin' but a Bird by Cab Calloway
Chicken Cordon Blues by Steve Goodman
Chicken Shack Boogie by Lionel Hampton & His Sextet
Chicken Soup with Rice by Carole King
Chocolate by Chenille Sisters
Chocolate Chip by Miles Davis
The Closer to the Bone (The Sweeter Is the Meat) by Louis Prima
Dixie Fried by Kentucky Headhunters
Eating Greens by Michael Tilson Thomas
Eggs and Sausage (In a Cadillac With Susan Michelson) by Tom Waits
Everytime I Eat Vegetables It Makes Me Think of You by Ramones
Food Innuendo Guy by Adam Sandler
Food, Glorious Food (Overture) from Oliver by Lionel Bart
Fried Bananas by Benny Golson
Fried Bananas by Dexter Gordon
Fried Chicken by Ice T
Fried Chicken and Coffee by Nashville Pussy
Fried Chicken and Gasoline by Southern Culture on the Skids
Fried Neck Bones and Some Homefries by Willie Bobo
Frim Fram Sauce by Diana Krall
Hold Tight (Want Some Sea Food Mama) by The Andrews Sisters with Jimmy Dorsey & His Orchestra
Hot Barbecue by Brother Jack McDuff, Pat Martino & Red Holloway
I Heard the Voice of the Porkchop by Greg & Jere Canote
It's Hard to Kiss the Lips At Night That Chew Your A*s Out All Day Long by The Notorious Cherry Bombs
Lunchbox by Marilyn Manson
Mama Bake a Pie (Daddy Kill a Chicken) by Tom T. Hall
Miss Otis Regrets (She's Unable to Lunch Today) by Ella Fitzgerald
Plant a Radish from the Fantastiks, music by Harvey Schmidt and lyrics by Tom Jones
Pork Store by The Booglerizers
Trout Quintet by Franz Schubert
Red Hot Chicken by Wet Willie
Ribs and Hot Sauce by Lionel Hampton & His Sextet
Ribs and Whiskey by Widespread Panic
Saturday Night Fish Fry by B.B. King
Scenes from an Italian Restaurant by Billy Joel
Sing for Your Supper by The Mamas & The Papas
Spaghetti by Shel Silverstein
Strawberry Fields Forever by the Beatles
Struttin' with Some Barbecue by Louis Armstrong
That's Amore by Dean Martin
Vegematic by Steve Goodman
Vegetables by The Beach Boys
Watermelon Man by Jimmy Smith
Other tunes suggested by readers
Bar-B-Q by Wendy Rene, recommended by Scott Johnston of San Francisco, CA
Rib Shack Boogie by Steve Guyger and Big Joe Maher on Guyger's CD "Past Life Blues", recommended by Karl Zapf of Richmond, VA
A Fridge Full of Food by The Nancy Drews, recommended by Chef Tom Beckman of Chicago, IL
One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer by George Thorogood, recommended by Jerry of Golden, CO
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