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"I like bar-b-q, you like bar-b-q, we like bar-b-q"

Stax Records celebrated it's 50th anniversary this past weekend with a concert at the Orpheum, featuring a lot of the label's alums who're still around, folks like Isaac Hayes, Mavis Staples and Eddie Floyd. I wanted to go pretty bad, but travel weariness, new dogs and projects around the house conspired to keep me at home.

Still, the occasion inspired me to dig through my Stax singles box sets (the first in the series, a nine disc set that runs from 1957-1968, is essential for any soul fan), which brought to the fore Wendy Rene, my favorite teenaged soul singer.

Here's "Bar-B-Q," my favorite Rene track and my favorite song EVER about food. Recorded in 1965, it sounds like the Jackson 5, when the group was but a twinkle in daddy Joe's eye. Bet you won't be able to get it out of your head.

Anyone else have a favorite food song?

Posted by Lindsey Millar on June 25, 2007 12:11 PM | Permalink

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I've always been partial to "Canned Ham", the flipside to Spirit in the Sky by Norman Greenbaum. I think I was about 12 or 13 when it came out in 1970. Don't know how you got song to play on this blog, but click my name for a link to an iTunes preview.

Posted by: conform&bedull | June 25, 2007 07:26 PM

Posted by: conform&bedull | June 25, 2007 07:29 PM

Does this count? My bologna has a first name/ It's O-S-C-A-R. . .

Or this one? Does your chewing gum lose its flavor on the bedpost over night? (Is gum a food?)

My dad also sang a song that said something like "look at them beans" - or at least I think he did. Am I making that up?

Posted by: Liberal and Proud | June 25, 2007 07:58 PM

b double e double r un spells beer run. by todd snider has always been a favorite of mine when he comes to juanitas.

Posted by: zonker | June 25, 2007 11:39 PM

Also like "Beer Run", and Todd Snider is one of my favorites, but is beer technically a food?

I think I'd have to go with "Home Grown Tomatoes", by Guy Clark.

Posted by: mm | June 26, 2007 09:51 AM

Under the act that's about to result in us getting a cut in the grocery tax: gum is a food, thus eligible for the tax reduction whereas beer is not a food.

Go figure.

How many calories are in a stick of gum, for heaven's sake???

Posted by: Quapaw | June 26, 2007 10:45 AM

"Keep My Skillet Good and Greasy" -- Uncle Dave Macon. This was on one of the Oxford American's music CDs -- last year's, I think.

"Banana Puddin' " -- by Southern Culture on the Skids, which also has an album titled "Too Much Pork For One Fork"

"One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer" -- John Lee Hooker and, later, Geo. Thorogood

"Jambalaya (On the Bayou)" -- Hank Williams. Mmmm good.

Posted by: Quapaw | June 27, 2007 11:38 AM

"Look at them beans, look at that corn" is a line from a Johnny Cash song from the 70's -can't remember the title, though.

Posted by: paulied | June 27, 2007 12:45 PM

"Look at Them Beans", indeed by JC, 1975

Man look at that beans and look at that corn
And I bet them watermelons must be three feet long
Man look at them tomatoes and look at them peas
Well I know if papa was here right now he'd sure be pleased
And papa if you can hear me look at them beans

Posted by: Quapaw | June 27, 2007 02:04 PM

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