Eat a Peach!
Posted November 23, 2009 by
Morning Show Crew 
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In commemoration of Roald Dahl, who penned the classic children’s books like “James in the Giant Peach,” we rock out to songs about fruit in the Question of the Day!
Stevie Wonder, “You are the Sunshine of My Life”
Has the lyric, “You are the apple of my eye”
…First thing that popped into my head: Last Mango in Paris, Jimmy Buffett. He may actually be king of fruit songs if you think about it: Grapefruit, Juicy Fruit and Coconut telegraph both qualify as well.
I know it’s not Freaky Friday but how about this one for a fruit song.
A fruit pie song for the Thanksgiving Holiday.
My fruit song request………
Apple, Peaches, Pumpkin Pie, by Jay and the Techniques
I dare ya.
John Prine – “Spanish Pipedream”
Gillian Welch – “Wayside/Back In Time”
Anything from Allman Brothers “Eat a Peach” record!
Peaches En Regalia—Frank Zappa
Cherry Bomb–Spoon
Raspberry Beret—Prince or better yet Hindu Love Gods
Banana Pancakes–Jack Johnson
Apple Peaches Pumpkin Pie–Jay and The Techniques
Green Tambourine–The Lemon Pipers
Strawberry Wine—Ryan Adams
Donavan…. “Mellow Yellow”. Of course, he wasn’t talking about eating the bananas….
ps…smoking them doesn’t work….
Happy Monday!
Hehe! Fruit Salad! Ok, let’s put some ingredients into the recipe for today.
PEACHES and HERB – Shake Your Groove Thing or Reunited or Easy As Pie (Peaches AND Pie great for Thanksgiving!)
Apple, Peaches, Pumpkin Pie – (The Techniques? not sure that’s the correct artist name)
Cherry, Cherry – Neil Diamond
One Bad Apple – the Osmond Brothers
Banana Boat Song (Day-O) – Harry Belafonte
Funny, I had all really old ones come to mind. Well, someone has to keep these songs alive!!
Love Roald Dahl! Could have celebrated Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and done songs about CHOCOLATE for the Chocoholics among us!!!
Thanks for the fun, Claudia!
(and Have a great Thanksgiving and a very happy Birthday on 11/28!)
Obvious and old!:
Tutti Frutti – Little Richard
Apples, Peaches, Pumpkin Pie – Jay and the Techniques (I admit I had to google who sang that!) (a bit of Thanksgiving food in this one!)
You are the Sunshine of my Life – Stevie Wonder (“you are the apple of my eye”)
The obscure, and old!:
Chiquita Banana – Carmen Miranda
Well, these are fairly “pop” so may not fit the format. But I gave it a shot!
Have a great day!
Sounds like a good reason to here some donovan-mellow yellow.
” Coconut” — Harry Nilsson
A couple of faves:
Orange Blossom Special Johnny Cash
And
Peaches En Regalia Frank Zappa
Not Giant Peaches, but Giant Artists for sure.
Beatles: Strawberry Fields Forever
Steve Miller: The Joker (“You’re the cutest thing That I ever did see I really love your peaches Want to shake your tree”)
and, painfully:
Harry Chapin: 30 thousand pounds of bananas
I’m sure there are so many songs with fruit – but the one that jumps out for me is Chris Smither’s “No Love Today.” While on the Jersey Shore over the 4th of July weekend I had that song in my head at least twice a day when the fresh fruit truck drove up to each motel and the driver rang (or banged) a big triangle to announce their arrival. I kept expecting him to yell out:
“I got ba-na-na, watermelon, peaches by the pound,
Sweet corn, mirleton, mo’ better than in town,
I got okra, enough to choke ya,
Beans of every kind”
Don’t know if they’d have mirleton in Jersey though – think you need to go to NOLA for that. I’ve attached a photo of the fruit truck just for the fun of it.
Happy Monday!
“The Best Is Yet To Come” by Tony Bennitt “I just picked me a plum”
“Yes, We Have No Bananas” by Louis Prima
“I’ve Got a Lovely Bunch of Coconuts”
No Love Today by Chris Smither
Coconut – Nilsson
Here’s my list of fruit songs:
Banana Pancakes – Jack Johnson
Big Black Horse & the Cherry Tree – K.T. Tunstall
Raspberry Beret -the Warren Zevon version
Strawberry Fields Forever -The Beatles
Blueberry Hill – Fats Domino
Lemon Tree – Peter Paul & Mary
And to sum it all up:
Tutti Frutti-Little Richard
Gotta go-I’m getting hungry…
Have a great day!
What an appropriate question, given that I just got back from L.A. (draw your own conclusions).
Two candidates this morning, one a very serious song, and the other one, not so much.
“Strange Fruit” Billy Holiday
“Coconut” Harry Nilsson.
Enjoy your day!
well, since they formed and recorded on the Apple label (OK,
JT did, too) it may behoove you to play some George?: “Apple Scruffs”
(could have requested the lengthy “Apple Jam”) off the remastered
“All Things Must Pass” CD?
Harry Chapin 30,000 pounds of bananas Perfect time of year for Harry with Hugrerthon
Apple Peaches Pumpkin Pie by Jan and the Techniques Claudia was close but not exact
Strawberry Fields – The Beatles
Tuttie Fruitti – Little Richard
Cherry, Cherry – Neil diamond
Blueberry Hill- Fats domino
Hollaback Girl – Gwen Stefani
Big Black Horse and the cherry Tree- KT Tunstall
One Bad Apple – The Osmonds
Banana Boat Song – Harry Belafonte
Raspberry Beret- Prince
The mango song – phish
homegrown tomatoes by guy clark!
I like Coconuts you can break them open they smell like ladies lying in the sun.
Widespread Panic
I love Chris Smither’s song “No Love Today” where he talks about bananas, peaches and watermelons and a few other obscure fruits and vegetables.
Also The Cranberries had a song that I liked way back, but don’t remember the name. Maybe someone else will know it!
Happy Thanksgiving
Jimmy Buffett – “Grapefruit, Juicy Fruit”. A great fun song from back when he wasn’t so “commercial!”
I am gettingin this in late.. Mondays are just busy…
The first song that jumped in my head was
1) Apples Peaches Pumpkin Pie…Jay and the Techniques ( ai had to look up the group) it actually might be a onehit wonder catagory..haha
2)Tempted By The Fruit of Another… I have always loved this song…
Ok thats it…got to get this in….
Oh, where I could go with this subject! LOL!
Okay, Seriously – Songs about Fruit –
“Yes, We Have No Bananas” (Louis Prima)
“Sweet Cherry Wine” (Tommy James and the Shondells)
“Cherry, Cherry” (Neil Diamond)
“The Lemon Song” (Led Zeppelin)
“Peaches” (R.L.Burnside)
“Apples, Peaches, Pumpkin Pie” (Jay and the Techniques – and/or – Mary Wells)
I tuned in a little late this morning, so I’m not clear why you’re asking for songs about fruit, but you obviously need to play “30,000 Pounds of Bananas,” and you obviously need to play the live version, which is much funnier than the studio recording.
There’s also a great song by Sinead O’Connor, on her album “Theology,” called “If I Had a Vineyard.”
And I think there’s some other song about a grapevine that gets played on the radio a lot.
“Peel Me a Grape” Dianna Krall
“Watermelon Mann” Herbie Hancock
Have a peachy day
“Rasberries, Strawberries” the Kingston Trio
I smiled recalling “30,000 Pounds of Bananas” by Harry Chapin, mentioned above. I have driven that hill in Scranton, Pennsylvania.
You all missed one of my favorites:
A SMALL FRUIT SONG – AL STEWART
The lyrics:
“Said the apple.. to the orange/
oh I wanted you to come/
and kiss me to the core.
And then you could love me/
like no other orange/
has ever done/
before.”