if you, or anyone in your life, needs a playlist of weird kid music, here it is.
Visit the (somewhat complete) YouTube Playlist. Below that, the master list. Dedicated to Belinda and Hova of WFMU’s Greasy Kid Stuff radio show.
YouTube Playlist
| They Might Be Giants – Don’t Let’s Start (BEST QUALITY Official Music Video) |
| John Davis – Join the Band |
| Pat Kelly · Pat Kelly – Somebodys Baby |
| My Toot Toot , Rockin’ Sidney , 1984 |
| Arthur “Big Boy” Crudup – That’s All Right Mama |
| Hollywood Argyles – Alley-Oop |
| 1938 HITS ARCHIVE: The Flat Foot Floogee (With A Floy Floy) – Slim & Slam |
| Huey “Piano” Smith & His Clowns – Don’t You Just Know It |
| Billy Bragg · Wilco – Hoodoo Voodoo |
| 1960 HITS ARCHIVE: Ooh Poo Pah Doo – Jessie Hill |
| Bo Diddley – Bo Diddley |
| 1946 Slim Gaillard Trio – Cement Mixer (Put-Ti-Put-Ti) |
| Allen & Allen – Tiddle Winks (Remastered) |
| Kermit Ruffins – Li’l Liza Jane |
| Louis Jordan School Days |
| School Days – Chuck Berry |
| 5 Chinese Brothers – Paul Cezanne |
| They Might Be Giants – “Particle Man” |
| Sam Cooke – (What A) Wonderful World |
| A Trout, No Doubt – Kay Kyser – Columbia – 1947 |
| A Trout, No Doubt – The Bean Tones |
| De La Soul – Tread Water (Official Audio) |
| 1939 Red Norvo – Three Little Fishies (Mildred Bailey, vocal) |
| Fats Waller – Christopher Columbus |
| Hoosier Hotshots – From The Indies To The Andes In His Undies (‘Twas A Very, Very, Daring Thing To Do) |
| You Can’t Blame The Youth (1991) – Bob Marley & The Wailers |
| Jesse Fuller – Take This Hammer |
| De La Soul – The Magic Number (Official Lyric Video) |
| 1943 HITS ARCHIVE: Five Guys Named Moe – Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five |
| Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra – Swing! Brother, Swing! |
| Coon Creek Girls – Banjo Pickin Girl (1944) |
| Sister Rosetta Tharpe – Shout, Sister, Shout |
| The Wild Tchoupitoulas – Meet De Boys On The Battlefront |
| Talking Heads – And She Was (Official Video) [HD] |
| Wilson Pickett – Land of 1000 Dances [Full Version] [HQ Audio] |
| Sam Cooke – Everybody Loves To Cha Cha Cha |
| Robbert Bobbert and the Bubble Machine • We R Super Heroes |
| The Velvet Underground – Head Held High (2015 Remaster) |
| Cab Calloway & His Orchestra – Everybody Eats When They Come to My House |
| Baby Gramps – Big Rock Candy Mountain |
| Poi Dog Pondering – Postcard From a Dream (Toast and Jelly) |
| Coon Creek Girls – How Many Biscuits Can You Eat |
| They Might Be Giants – Fingertips (9 – Please Pass the Milk) |
| Matt Munisteri – Little High Chairman |
| Mildred Bailey · Willard Robison · Willard Robison – Little High Chairman |
| Slim Gaillard – Potato Chips |
| The Tarriers – Red Apple Juice |
| Little Joe Cook And The Thrillers · Joe Cook – Peanuts and Popcorn |
| Louis Armstrong – All That Meat And No Potatoes |
| Jim Jackson – I Heard The Voice Of A Pork Chop (Take 1) |
| Eugene Chadbourne – Ketchup Loves Potatoes |
| The Tarriers – Bile Them Cabbage Down |
| Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five – Beans And Cornbread |
| Roger Miller – Chug-a-Lug |
| The Beach Boys – Chug-A-Lug (Mono/Remastered 2001) |
| Prince with the Muppets – Starfish and Coffee |
| Hoosier Hotshots – I Like Bananas (Because They Have No Bones) |
| Louis Prima · Keely Smith · Sam Butera And The Witnesses – Banana Split For My Baby (Remastered) |
| Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers – Ice Cream Man |
| George Lewis – Ice Cream |
| Joe Fiedler · Jeffrey Moss · Joe Raposo – I Love Trash / C is for Cookie |
| Dave Rawlings Machine – Sweet Tooth |
| Michael Shelley – That’s Where The Plaque Is |
| Michael Hurley · Unholy Modal Rounders · Jeffrey Frederick & The Clamtones – Slurf Song |
| They Might Be Giants – Birdhouse In Your Soul (Official Music Video) |
| Pete Seeger · Traditional – I Had a Rooster |
| Baby Gramps – I Had An Old Cow and It Slobbered and How. What Did I Do for It |
| Tony Burrello – There’s A New Sound (The Sound Of Worms) – 1953 |
| Kenn Kweder – Two Little Bugs |
| Jerry Garcia & David Grisman – “There Ain’t No Bugs On Me” – Bare Bones: Volume I – Master Takes |
| Roger Miller – You Can’t Roller Skate in a Buffalo Herd |
| The Hoppin’ Haole Brothers – Monkey’s Brain |
| Dave Rawlings Machine – Monkey And The Engineer |
| Smokey Robinson & The Miracles – Mickey’s Monkey |
| Clarence “Frogman” Henry – Ain’t Got No Home |
| Bessie Jones & Sea Island Singers – Sheep, Sheep, Don’tcha Know The Road |
| Otis Redding – Mary’s Little Lamb |
| Jerry Garcia · David Grisman – A Horse Named Bill |
| Elizabeth Mitchell Oh, John the Rabbit mp3 1 |
| Van Morrison – Redwood Tree |
| Space Songs – What Is a Shooting Star? |
| Talking Heads – “Stay Up Late” |
| Adventure Time · Ashley Eriksson · Ashley Eriksson – Island Song (Come Along with Me) [feat. Ashley Eriksson] |
| Trailer Bride – Porch Song |
| Vera Hall Ward – Mama’s Goin’ to Buy Him a Little Lap Dog |
| Goodnight my friends in They Might Be Giants |
The Master List
| Don’t Let’s Start | 2:36 | They Might Be Giants | They Might Be Giants |
| Join The Band | 1:04 | Sounds of the South 1 | John Davis & Group |
| Somebody’s Baby | 3:04 | Love Songs Early Years | Pat Kelly |
| My Toot Toot | 3:33 | Alligator Stomp | Rockin’ Sidney |
| That’s Alright Mama | 2:22 | That’s Alright Mama | Arthur “Big Boy” Crudup |
| A-Ba-Dic-A-Dabba-Buz | 0:25 | Same Ol’ Timeously | Baby Gramps |
| The Flat Foot Floogie | 2:52 | Slim Gaillard: 1937-1938 | Slim & Slam |
| Alley Oop | 2:43 | Hits Of 1960 | Hollywood Argyles |
| Don’t You Just Know It | 2:33 | The R&B Box- 30 Years Of Rhythm | Huey (Piano) Smith & The Clowns |
| Hoodoo Voodoo | 3:12 | Mermaid Avenue | Billy Bragg and Wilco |
| Ooh Poo Pah Doo | 3:16 | Doctors, Professors, Kings, And Queens | Troy Andrews |
| Bo Diddley | 2:31 | Bo Diddley | Bo Diddley |
| Cement Mixer | 3:21 | Vout for Voutoreenees | Slim Gaillard |
| Tiddle Winks | 2:23 | 25 Best by Allen Toussaint | Allen and Allen |
| Li’l Liza Jane | 3:51 | The Big Butter & Egg Man | Kermit Ruffins |
| Bigger | 4:14 | Daddy-O Daddy! Rare Family Song | Kim Wilson |
| School Days (When We Were Kids) | 2:34 | The Best Of Louis Jordan | Louis Jordan |
| School Day (Ring Ring Goes the Be | 2:42 | Best of Chuck Berry | Chuck Berry |
| (What A) Wonderful World | 2:09 | The Best of Sam Cooke | Sam Cooke |
| Paul Cezanne | 2:50 | Singer Songwriter Beggarman Thief | Five Chinese Brothers |
| Particle Man | 1:56 | Flood | They Might Be Giants |
| A Trout, No Doubt | 2:58 | A Trout, No Doubt | The Bean Tones |
| Tread Water | 3:46 | 3 Feet High and Rising | De La Soul |
| Three Little Fishes (feat. Mildred Ba | 3:02 | The Complete Columbia Recording | Red Norvo and His Orchestra |
| Christopher Columbus | 2:50 | If You Got To Ask, You Ain’t Got It | Fats Waller |
| From The Indies To The Andes In His Undies (‘Twas A Very, Very, Daring Thing To Do) | 3:03 | Hoosier Hotshots | Hoosier Hotshots |
| You Can’t Blame The Youth | 4:09 | Talkin’ Blues | Peter Tosh (Bob Marley & The Wailers) |
| Take This Hammer | 4:42 | Jazz, Folk Songs, Spirituals, & Blues | Jesse Fuller |
| Big Rock Candy Mountain | 5:05 | Same Ol’ Timeously | Baby Gramps |
| The Magic Number | 3:16 | 3 Feet High and Rising | De La Soul |
| Five Guys Named Moe | 3:06 | The Best Of Louis Jordan | Louis Jordan |
| Swing Brother Swing | 1:51 | America’s #1 Band, | Count Basie with Billie Holiday |
| Banjo Picking Girl | 2:15 | Lily May, Rosie & Susie | Coon Creek Girls |
| Shout, Sister, Shout | 2:43 | The Original Soul Sister | Sister Rosetta Tharpe |
| Meet De Boys On The Battlefront | 3:23 | The Wild Tchoupitoulas | The Wild Tchoupitoulas |
| And She Was | 3:39 | Little Creatures | Talking Heads |
| Land of 1000 Dances | 2:27 | The Exciting Wilson Pickett | Wilson Pickett |
| Everybody Loves To Cha Cha Cha | 2:44 | Sam Cooke – The Man Who Invente | Sam Cooke |
| We R Superheroes | 2:05 | Robbert Bobbert & The Bubble Mac… | Robert Bobbert and the Bubble Mac… |
| Head Held High | 2:57 | Loaded | The Velvet Underground |
| Everybody Eats When They Come | 2:45 | Are You Hep To The Jive? | Cab Calloway |
| Postcard from a Dream (Toast and Jelly) | 6:15 | Poi Dog Pondering | Poi Dog Pondering |
| How Many Biscuits Can You Eat | 2:27 | Lily May, Rosie & Susie | Coon Creek Girls |
| Please Pass The Milk | 0:08 | Apollo 18 | They Might Be Giants |
| Little High Chairman | 3:22 | The Complete Columbia Recording | Mildred Bailey |
| Little High Chairman | 4:18 | The Lost Music of Willard Robison, | Matt Munisteri |
| Potato Chips | 3:06 | Sabros – Here’s Smorgasbord | Slim Gaillard |
| Red Apple Juice | 1:59 | Tell the World About This | The Tarriers |
| Peanuts and Popcorn | 2:25 | Peanuts and Popcorn / Chicken Litt… | Little Joe Cook & The Thrillers |
| All That Meat And No Potatoes | 5:17 | Satch Plays Fats | Louis Armstrong |
| I Heard The Voice Of A Pork Chop | 3:01 | Complete Recorded Works, Vol. 1 | Jim Jackson |
| Ketchup Loves Potatoes | 2:58 | The History of the Chadbournes | Eugene Chadbourne |
| Bile Them Cabbage Down | 1:47 | Tell the World About This | The Tarriers |
| Beans And Corn Bread | 2:49 | The Best Of Louis Jordan | Louis Jordan |
| Chug-A-Lug | 2:03 | Roger Miller | Roger Miller |
| Chug-A-Lug | 2:02 | Surfin’ Safari | Beach Boys |
| Starfish and Coffee | 2:14 | Prince with the Muppets | The Muppet Show |
| I Like Bananas (Because They Have No Bones) | 3:21 | Hoosier Hotshots | Hoosier Hotshots |
| Banana Split for My Baby (And Kee | 2:31 | The Wildest! | Louis Prima |
| Ice Cream Man | 3:03 | Rock ‘n’ Roll With the Modern Lovers | Jonathan Richman |
| Ice Cream | 5:51 | Doctors, Professors, Kings, And Queens | George Lewis’ Ragtime Band |
| Hush Baby Hush (Carriacou) | 0:57 | Caribbean Voyage Sampler | Tida Lazarus |
| I Love Trash / C is for Cookie | 5:15 | Fuzzy and Blue | Joe Fiedler |
| Sweet Tooth | 5:21 | A Friend of a Friend | Dave Rawlings Machine |
| That’s Where The Plaque Is | 2:19 | Greasy Kids Stuff | Michael Shelley |
| Slurf Song | 3:19 | Have Moicy! | Michael Hurley, Unholy Modal Roun |
| Fox Hollow’s Animal Train | 2:03 | Country Songs For Children | Tom T. Hall |
| Birdhouse In Your Soul | 3:19 | Flood | They Might Be Giants |
| I Had a Rooster | 3:55 | Birds, Beasts, Bugs and Fishes… | Pete Seeger |
| I Had an Old Cow and It Slobbered | 3:22 | Pickathon Music Festival 2002 | Baby Gramps |
| There’s A New Sound (The Sound | 2:25 | Greasy Kids Stuff | Tony Burrello |
| Two Little Bugs | 3:51 | Greasy Kid Stuff 2 – More Songs Fr | Kenn Kweder |
| There Ain’t No Bugs On Me | 4:50 | Not for Kids Only | Jerry Garcia & David Grisman |
| Monkey’s Brain | 1:39 | Greasy Kids Stuff | The Hoppin’ Haole Brothers |
| Monkey and the Engineer | 3:39 | A Friend of a Friend | Dave Rawlings Machine |
| Mickey’s Monkey | 2:45 | Motown: Hitsville U.S.A. | The Miracles |
| Ain’t Got No Home | 2:19 | Doctors, Professors, Kings, And Queens | Clarence ‘Frogman’ Henry |
| Sheep, Sheep, Don’tcha Know The | 2:21 | Southern Journey 6: Sheep, Sheep | Bessie Jones And The Sea Island |
| Mary’s Little Lamb | 2:36 | Otis! | Otis Redding |
| A Horse Named Bill | 3:05 | Not for Kids Only | Jerry Garcia & David Grisman |
| John The Rabbit | 0:57 | You Are My Flower | Elizabeth Mitchell |
| Redwood Tree | 3:06 | Saint Dominic’s Preview | Van Morrison |
| Little Ticks of Time | 3:24 | Little Tricks of Time | Matt McGinn |
| Electric Car | 3:23 | Here Comes Science | They Might Be Giants (For Kids) & |
| Long Gone (From Bowlin’ Green) | 4:16 | Louis Armstrong Plays W.C. Handy | Louis Armstrong |
| What Is A Shooting Star? | 1:18 | Space Songs | Tom Glazer, Dottie Evans, Tony Mo… |
| Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star | 2:51 | Use It Again! | Bayou Seco |
| Stay Up Late | 3:46 | Little Creatures | Talking Heads |
| Island Song (Come Along with Me) | 1:49 | Adventure Time | Adventure Time |
| Porch Song | 2:57 | Smelling Salts | Trailer Bride |
| Mama’s Gonna Buy | 1:34 | Southern Journey 1 | Vera Ward Hall |
| Goodnight My Friends | 0:25 | Here Comes The ABCs | They Might Be Giants |