Songs about Food

This list is but a sampling of the many songs that reference food in their titles. We've tried to list the more popular songs, but if we've left out any of your favorites, just let us know by commenting in our Guestbook below.

SONGS WITH FOOD IN THE TITLE:
"Alice's Restaurant" Arlo Guthrie
"All That Meat And No Potatoes" by Louis Armstrong
"All You Can Eat" by the Fat Boys
"Alligator Meat" by Johnny Otis Band
"American Pie" by Don McLean
"Apples, Peaches, Pumpkin Pie" by Jay & The Techniques
"Apples and Oranges" by Led Zepplin
"Artichoke" by Cibo Matto
"Banana Boat Song/Day-O" by Harry Belafonte
"Banana Man" by Tally Hall
"Beans and Cornbread" performed by Louis Jordan & The Tympany Five
"Birthday Cake" by Cibo Matto
"Blueberry Hill" popularized by Glenn Miller and later by Fats Domino
"Bread and Butter" by the Newbeats
"Brown Sugar" by the Rolling Stones
"Burger Man" by ZZ Top
"Catfish" by Bob Dylan
"Cheeseburger in Paradise" by Jimmy Buffet,
"Cigarettes and Coffee" by Otis Redding
"Country Pie" by Bob Dylan
"Cream" by Prince
"Eggs and Sausage," Tom Waits
"Food Glorious Food" by Lionel Bart for "Oliver"
"Gimme a Pigfoot" by Bessie Smith
"Goober Peas" played by the Kingston Trio
"Gravy (For My Mashed Potatoes)" sung by Dee Dee Sharp
"Green Onions" by Booker T & the MG'
"Grits" by James Brown
"Homegrown Tomatoes" performed by Guy Clark
"Hot Potatoes" by the Kinks
"Hotcakes" Carly Simon
"I'm Gonna Bake My Biscuits" by Memphis Minnie
"I've Got a Lovely Bunch of Coconuts" sung by Merv Griffin
"Ice Cream" performed by Sarah McLachlan
"Ice Cream Man" by Jonathan Richman
"Jambalaya on the Bayou" sung by Hank Williams
"Lemon Tree" sung by Peter, Paul, and Mary
"Lollipop" by the Chordettes
"MacArthur Park" by Jimmy Webb
"Magic Pie" by Oasis
"Maximum Consumpion" by The Kinks
"Mayonaise" by Smashing Pumpkins
"Melon Song" by mrweebls
"Memphis Soul Stew" by King Curtis
"Milk And Toast And Honey" by Roxette
"My Sweet Potato" by Booker T & the MGs
"Omelete Man" by Carlinhos Brown
"On Top of Spaghetti" by Tom Glazer
"Onion Song" by Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell
"Onions" Performed by John Lee Hooker
"Pass the Peas" by James Brown
"Peaches" performed by The Presidents Of The USA (musical group)
"Peaches and Cream" by the John Butler Trio
"Pork Chops & Gravy" by The Ink Spots
"Pork Roll, Egg, And Cheese" by Ween
"Pulling Mussels From a Shell" by Squeeze
"RC Cola & a Moon Pie" by Nelsen Adelard Band w/Mark Norris
"Raspberries, Strawberries" by The Kingston Trio
"Reggae Reggae Sauce" by Levi Roots
"Rump Steak Serenade"-Fats Waller
"Save the Bones for Henry Jones" by The Jackson Sisters
"Savoy Truffle" by The Beatles
"Shanghi Noodle Factory" by Traffic
"Shortnin' Bread" performed by everyone
"Sing for Your Supper" by the Mamas & Papas
"Smokey Joe's Cafe" sung by The Robins
"Soup Of The Day"performed by Chris Rea
"Strawberry Cream Puff " by Shonen Knife
"Strawberry Fields" by John Lennon and Paul McCartney
"Supper Time"-Irving Berlin
"TV Dinners" by ZZ Top
"Tangerine" by Led Zeppelin
"The Lemon Song" by Led Zeppelin
"This Was a Real Nice Clambake" from musical Carousel
"Toast" by The Q-Tips
"Toast" performed by Steetband
"Tossed Salad and Scrambled Eggs" Kelsey Grammar
"Tutti Frutti" by Little Richard
"Vegetables" by The Beach Boys
"Watermelon Man" by Herbie Hancock
"Watermelon Man" by Mongo Santamaria
"White Pepper Ice Cream" by Cibo Matto
"Wild Honey" by The Beach Boys
"Wild Honey" by U2
"Yes! We Have No Bananas" by Frank Silver and Irving Cohn
"You're My Meat" performed by Joe Williams
'Sweet Potato Pie" performed by James Taylor

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"Food, Glorious Food" is from the Broadway musical and the film "Oliver." It is the opening song, sung when the boys from the workhouse are getting their daily gruel and are fantasizing about having "real food" to eat.

Who doesn't remember the song "Shortnin' Bread"? We usually think of it as a southern plantation song, but it was originally written by James Whitcomb Riley in 1900 and republished as a folk song in 1915. The chorus goes:

Mammy's little baby loves short'nin', short'nin',
Mammy's little baby loves short'nin' bread

Shortening bread is a fried batter bread that tastes similar to butter cookies. It is made with corn meal, flour, hot water, eggs, baking powder, milk and shortening.

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Songs about fruit must be the most popular of all. The following are a few of our favorites, including songs about bananas, coconuts, peaches and melons!

Guy Clark wrote a song about home grown tomatoes. Louis Jordan & The Tympany Five wrote about beans and cornbread, using food as a metaphor for a hot date. Fats Waller and Louis Armstrong recorded a song called "All That Meat And No Potatoes." The list goes on and on. We thought we would share a few of these selections with you.

• "On Top of Spaghetti" (sung to the tune of "On Top of Old Smoky")
• "99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall"

This list of songs about food wouldn't be complete without giving special mention to that 60's favorite by Arlo Guthrie, "Alice's Restaurant." This song tells of the events one Thanksgiving Day in 1965. It is about restaurant-owner Alice M. Brock, about the war in Vietnam and about the draft, and about how 18 year old Arlo Guthrie and his friend Richard Robbins, who was 19, got arrested for illegally dumping some of Alice's garbage after discovering that the town dump was closed for the holiday. Alice's Restaurant is a satirical, first-person account of 1960s counterculture, and in this case, food takes a back seat to the issues of that November day in 1965. Nonetheless, the restaurant was the setting for this important song about life in the sixties.

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