Songs with Chickens
September 8, 2020 5:06 PM Subscribe
Other than "the chicken dance song", what songs have bucks, mucks, and cockadoos? Best when on spotify.
It can have lyrics, but the fewer the better. Ideally it would be like the muppets singing chickens.
It can have lyrics, but the fewer the better. Ideally it would be like the muppets singing chickens.
The earwormiest chicken-related song ever is "The chicken song". Puppets, not muppets...Ronald Reagan on drums. Watch at your own risk!
posted by Calvin and the Duplicators at 5:19 PM on September 8, 2020 [1 favorite]
posted by Calvin and the Duplicators at 5:19 PM on September 8, 2020 [1 favorite]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2uZS53bjsg Chicken clucking song?
posted by beccaj at 5:24 PM on September 8, 2020
posted by beccaj at 5:24 PM on September 8, 2020
"Good Morning Good Morning" from Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band has chickens.
posted by slkinsey at 5:49 PM on September 8, 2020 [1 favorite]
posted by slkinsey at 5:49 PM on September 8, 2020 [1 favorite]
Muppets "Ain't Nobody Here But Us Chickens"
posted by coevals at 5:52 PM on September 8, 2020 [1 favorite]
posted by coevals at 5:52 PM on September 8, 2020 [1 favorite]
Rocky Byways
("we hit the road for thrills
with a banjo, a cheap suit,
and a sharp-dressed chicken")
posted by introp at 5:54 PM on September 8, 2020 [1 favorite]
("we hit the road for thrills
with a banjo, a cheap suit,
and a sharp-dressed chicken")
posted by introp at 5:54 PM on September 8, 2020 [1 favorite]
Ray Stevens, under the pseudonym "Henhouse Five Plus Too", had a top 40 single covering Glenn Miller's "In The Mood"...with only chicken clucks.
posted by mookoz at 6:11 PM on September 8, 2020 [1 favorite]
posted by mookoz at 6:11 PM on September 8, 2020 [1 favorite]
I Love You a Bushel and a Peck from Guys & Dolls "The cows & chickens are going to the dickens..."
posted by brookeb at 6:14 PM on September 8, 2020 [3 favorites]
posted by brookeb at 6:14 PM on September 8, 2020 [3 favorites]
The Henhouse Five Plus Two, "In The Mood" comes to mind. Apparently, this is Ray Stevens.
Wang Rong Rollin, "Chick Chick" features a human in a chicken costume making chicken sounds.
While looking for the links for those two, I came across "Chicken Yodel," which seems to be from a talent competition in Russia. It's... really something.
posted by zorseshoes at 6:22 PM on September 8, 2020
Wang Rong Rollin, "Chick Chick" features a human in a chicken costume making chicken sounds.
While looking for the links for those two, I came across "Chicken Yodel," which seems to be from a talent competition in Russia. It's... really something.
posted by zorseshoes at 6:22 PM on September 8, 2020
On preview: I'm too slow. mookoz had "In The Mood."
posted by zorseshoes at 6:24 PM on September 8, 2020
posted by zorseshoes at 6:24 PM on September 8, 2020
Chicken Pickin', by the great Don Rich.
(Guitar ID rule of thumb: Telecaster sounds like a chicken, Strat sounds like a duck)
posted by wps98 at 6:25 PM on September 8, 2020 [1 favorite]
(Guitar ID rule of thumb: Telecaster sounds like a chicken, Strat sounds like a duck)
posted by wps98 at 6:25 PM on September 8, 2020 [1 favorite]
Aint nobody here but us chickens, the great Louis Jordan
posted by sulaine at 6:32 PM on September 8, 2020 [1 favorite]
posted by sulaine at 6:32 PM on September 8, 2020 [1 favorite]
Chicken Kuk Doo Koo was my daughter’s favorite from ages 3-7. I still love it!
posted by chocotaco at 6:34 PM on September 8, 2020 [1 favorite]
posted by chocotaco at 6:34 PM on September 8, 2020 [1 favorite]
It only has chicken vocals in the chorus, but “Psycho Chicken” by the Fools (A parody of “Psycho Killer” by Talking Heads) needs to be on this list.
posted by ejs at 6:59 PM on September 8, 2020
posted by ejs at 6:59 PM on September 8, 2020
“Pick A Little, Talk A Little” from the Music Man.
posted by chesty_a_arthur at 7:08 PM on September 8, 2020 [2 favorites]
posted by chesty_a_arthur at 7:08 PM on September 8, 2020 [2 favorites]
Quack quack (cockadoodledoo) by the Wiggles.
posted by Trivia Newton John at 7:13 PM on September 8, 2020
posted by Trivia Newton John at 7:13 PM on September 8, 2020
Chicks and ducks and geese better scurry
When I take you out in the surrey,
When I take you out in the Surrey with the Fringe on Top!
posted by sardonyx at 7:28 PM on September 8, 2020 [1 favorite]
When I take you out in the surrey,
When I take you out in the Surrey with the Fringe on Top!
posted by sardonyx at 7:28 PM on September 8, 2020 [1 favorite]
Well there's always Ozark Mountain Daredevils - Chicken Train (YouTube)
posted by WillieD at 7:31 PM on September 8, 2020
posted by WillieD at 7:31 PM on September 8, 2020
This isn’t really what you’re looking for, but I’d be remiss not to mention “Rooster” by Alice In Chains. There might be a muppety cover version.
posted by kevinbelt at 7:56 PM on September 8, 2020
posted by kevinbelt at 7:56 PM on September 8, 2020
Take this with a grain of salt, as I know almost nothing about Austro-Bavarian culture, but it seems to be typical to interject a few chicken noises when you sing the folk song "'s Bibihenderl". This version by Takeo Ischi is definitely the most famous outside German-speaking countries, and he also performed an English version here.
posted by J.K. Seazer at 8:09 PM on September 8, 2020 [1 favorite]
posted by J.K. Seazer at 8:09 PM on September 8, 2020 [1 favorite]
Also by the Wiggles, Here come a chicken!
posted by slightlybewildered at 8:21 PM on September 8, 2020
posted by slightlybewildered at 8:21 PM on September 8, 2020
Nancy Cassidy - Chicken is an earworm from my childhood that teaches the listener how to spell chicken.
posted by deludingmyself at 10:58 PM on September 8, 2020 [1 favorite]
posted by deludingmyself at 10:58 PM on September 8, 2020 [1 favorite]
The Red Rooster by Howlin' Wolf
posted by runincircles at 11:07 PM on September 8, 2020
posted by runincircles at 11:07 PM on September 8, 2020
I think this is the one I remember the high school madrigal choir singing with clucking sounds: Ein Hennlein weiss / A Small White Hen
posted by abeja bicicleta at 4:43 AM on September 9, 2020
posted by abeja bicicleta at 4:43 AM on September 9, 2020
The song that won Eurovision in 2018, Toy by Israeli singer Netta, has chicken noises for no discernible reason except "because Eurovision".
Slim Gaillard provides us with the innocent Chicken Rhythm and the definitely-not-innocent Dirty Rooster. (NSFW chickens)
Memphis Minnie's If you see my rooster (please run him home) contains possibly the sultriest crow ever recorded.
Willie Dixon's blues number Little Red Rooster as performed by Howlin' Wolf and Big Mama Thornton:
posted by Pallas Athena at 5:17 AM on September 9, 2020
Slim Gaillard provides us with the innocent Chicken Rhythm and the definitely-not-innocent Dirty Rooster. (NSFW chickens)
Memphis Minnie's If you see my rooster (please run him home) contains possibly the sultriest crow ever recorded.
Willie Dixon's blues number Little Red Rooster as performed by Howlin' Wolf and Big Mama Thornton:
I have a little red rooster, too lazy to crow 'fore dayMargie Day and the Griffin Brothers: Little Red Rooster (same title, different song)
Keep everything in the barnyard upset in every way
Got a little red rooster, and man how he can crowAnd some German randomness from 1936 movie "Glückskinder": Ich wollt' ich wär ein Huhn
He's a boss of the barnyard, any ol' place he goes.
Ich wollt, ich wär ein HuhnWeirdly enough, this little song *took off* and became enough of a hit that multiple artists covered it. The Comedian Harmonists' version has some quality clucking, while the foxtrot version by Erhard Bauschke and his orchestra features an oboe-chicken.
Ich hätt nicht viel zu tun
Ich legte vormittags ein Ei
Und abends wär ich frei
I wish I were a hen,
I wouldn't have much to do
I'd lay an egg in the morning,
and afternoons I'd be free
posted by Pallas Athena at 5:17 AM on September 9, 2020
(having read your "few/no lyrics" stipulation, I think the Slim Gaillard numbers and the Erhard Bauschke foxtrot [last link] will suit that condition best)
posted by Pallas Athena at 5:40 AM on September 9, 2020
posted by Pallas Athena at 5:40 AM on September 9, 2020
Sandra Boynton’s Philadelphia Chickens, unfortunately has literally no chicken noises. But they do say ‘chickens’ an awful lot.
posted by LizardBreath at 5:50 AM on September 9, 2020 [1 favorite]
posted by LizardBreath at 5:50 AM on September 9, 2020 [1 favorite]
May I present Mozart's glorious Queen of the Night aria, arranged and performed by Orriel Smith? Her Cluckoratura album is a favourite of mine. All buck, all the time.
A bit lyric-heavy, but The DeZurik (Cackle) Sisters were the queens of bird yodelling. The First Whipporwill Song and Old Dan Tucker (both MP3 links) should set the scene.
As someone whose ADHD will eventually mangle any popular tune into a chicken noise earworm, I'm so glad you asked …
posted by scruss at 7:43 AM on September 9, 2020 [3 favorites]
A bit lyric-heavy, but The DeZurik (Cackle) Sisters were the queens of bird yodelling. The First Whipporwill Song and Old Dan Tucker (both MP3 links) should set the scene.
As someone whose ADHD will eventually mangle any popular tune into a chicken noise earworm, I'm so glad you asked …
posted by scruss at 7:43 AM on September 9, 2020 [3 favorites]
The song that won Eurovision in 2018, Toy by Israeli singer Netta, has chicken noises for no discernible reason except "because Eurovision".
Come for the chicken noises, stay for the chicken dance and the empowered-women messaging! (I'm not kidding about that - "Toy" is a pretty damn awesome song.)
The blues artist Taj Mahal did a fun song called Cluck Old Hen on his album De Old Folks At Home* - it's a blues standard, but there's also a part in the intro where he strums his banjo in a riff that sounds like a bunch of happy clucking chickens.
* De Old Folks At Home is the second half of his album Giant Step and is a fantastic album that provided 1/3 of the soundtrack for my childhood.
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 8:26 AM on September 9, 2020
Come for the chicken noises, stay for the chicken dance and the empowered-women messaging! (I'm not kidding about that - "Toy" is a pretty damn awesome song.)
The blues artist Taj Mahal did a fun song called Cluck Old Hen on his album De Old Folks At Home* - it's a blues standard, but there's also a part in the intro where he strums his banjo in a riff that sounds like a bunch of happy clucking chickens.
* De Old Folks At Home is the second half of his album Giant Step and is a fantastic album that provided 1/3 of the soundtrack for my childhood.
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 8:26 AM on September 9, 2020
Cocks and Hens by Camille St-Saens evokes buck-buckaws in classic music (piano, violins, etc.)
posted by snarfois at 8:49 AM on September 9, 2020
posted by snarfois at 8:49 AM on September 9, 2020
X - Call of the Wrecking Ball. "In Hollywood... there are too many chickens. Some of these chickens have to die..."
posted by BReed at 1:25 PM on September 9, 2020
posted by BReed at 1:25 PM on September 9, 2020
How has no one mentioned "Chicken With Its Head Cut Off" by The Magnetic Fields?
posted by zeusianfog at 4:05 PM on September 9, 2020 [1 favorite]
posted by zeusianfog at 4:05 PM on September 9, 2020 [1 favorite]
Maybe not precisely what you are looking for, but here are a couple songs I like that involve chicken sounds...
so at least worth a listen :)
M.I.A. - Bird Flu
Cardi B - Bickenhead
(both likely nsfw)
posted by wats at 10:07 PM on September 10, 2020
so at least worth a listen :)
M.I.A. - Bird Flu
Cardi B - Bickenhead
(both likely nsfw)
posted by wats at 10:07 PM on September 10, 2020
For completeness's sake, Johnny Cash's "Chicken in Black" and Cab Calloway's "A Chicken Ain't Nothin' But A Bird".
posted by brainwane at 8:23 PM on September 11, 2020
posted by brainwane at 8:23 PM on September 11, 2020
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posted by escapepod at 5:18 PM on September 8, 2020 [1 favorite]