Weird song from the 80's

[fleabert]

I have never found another person who remembers this song, and I haven't been able to find it on google. I don't remember the exact title, but here's what I do remember:

It was a whole song sung about fruit and vegetables. Kinda spoken word, kinda sung. Peaches was one of the main characters. This wasn't a kid's song, it played on the radio, pop station in tulsa when I was in 6th or 7th grade, which was in 84 or 85, about the time that Amadeus was out, I think. Lot's of double entendre's, very funny tongue in cheek.

anyone know what the heck I am talking about?

[NamVetsWeeLass]

1. I don't remember that one But one I do remember is

Barnes&Barnes: Fish heads Fish heads, rolly polly Fish head...... Another one was a Song called "I wanna be a Lifeguard" by Doug and the Slugs. The 80's were strange. Course, I fit right in.

[fleabert]

2. I would have to hear them to know for sure,

but I think I know what you're talking about, was the lifeguard one a parody of the 'I wanna be a cowboy' song?

the one in my OP was out at the same time and in the same style as that song!

I loved the 80's too, silly, irreverent, weird, but yet serious at the same time.

[Mabus]

3. the Stranglers' "Peaches"?

The band The Stranglers had a song called Peaches. Here's some of the lyrics:

Strolling along minding my own business
There goes a girl and a half
She's got me going up and down (x2)
Walking on the beaches looking at the peaches

Well I got the notion girl that
You got some sun tan lotion in that bottle of yours
Spread it all over my peeling skin baby
That feels real good
All this skirt
Lapping up the sun
Lap me up
(Why don't you come on and)
Lap me up
Walking on the beaches looking at the peaches
*****
There was also a song by the Presidents of the United States. It went:

Movin' to the country, I'm gonna eat a lot of peaches...
I'm movin' to the country, I'm gonna eat me a lot of peaches...
Movin' to the country, I'm gonna eat a lot of peaches...
I'm movin' to the country, I'm gonna eat a lot of peaches...

Peaches come from a can,
They were put there by a man,
In a factory downtown.
If I had my litte way,
I'd eat peches every day,
Sun-soaken buldges in the shade...
*****
Other than these two I'm outta ideas.

[fleabert]

4. thanks, but nope.

It was a play on words, I will have to bust my brain to think of a line or two... Peaches was a girl peach, and she had a boyfriend who was a vegetable and they got into a fight or something, the orange character's navel was mentioned...

I just can't come up with a full line from the song. this is going to kill me.

edit to add: I love the 2nd one you listed, one of my faves.

[Gardeaux08]

5. This was the STRANGEST 80's song...

Wet Dreams
by Kip Addotta

Lyrics:

It was April the forty-first
Being a quadruple leap year
I was driving in downtown Atlantis
My barracuda was in the shop
So I was in a rented stingray
And it was overheating

So I pulled into a Shell Station
They said I'd blown a seal
I said, "Fix the damn thing
And leave my private life out of it
Okay pal?"

While they were doing that
I walked over to a place called the Oyster Bar, a real dive
But I knew the owner
He used to play for the Dolphins
I said "Hi Gil"
You have to yell, he's hard of herring

Think I had a wet dream
Cruisin' thru the Gulf Stream
Ooh Ooh Ooh Ooh
Wet dream

Gil was also down on his luck
Fact is he was barely keeping his head below water
I bellied up to the sandbar
He poured me the usual

Rusty snail, hold the grunion
Shaken not stirred
With a peanut butter and jellyfish sandwich on the side
Heavy on the mako

I slipped him a fin
On porpoise
I was feeling good
I even dropped a sand dollar in the box for Jerry's squids
For the halibut

Well the place was crowded
We were packed in like sardines They were all there to listen to the big band sounds of Tommy Dorsal
What sole

Tommy was rockin' the place with a very popular tuna
Salmon Chanted Evening
And the stage was surrounded by screaming groupers
Probably there to see the bass player

One of them was this cute little yellowtail
And she's giving me the eye
So I figured this is my chance for a little fun
You know, piece of Pisces

But she said things I just couldn't fathom
She was too deep, seemed to be under a lot of pressure
Boy, could she drink
She drank like a . . .
She drank a lot

I said "What's your sign"
She said "Aquarium"
I said "Great, let's get tanked"

Think I had a wet dream
Cruisin' thru the Gulf Stream
Ooh Ooh Ooh Ooh
Wet dream

I invited her to my place for a midnight bait
I said "Come on baby, it'll only take a few minnows"
She threw me that same old line
"Not tonight, I gotta haddock"

And she wasn't kidding either
Cause in came the biggest, meanest looking haddock
I'd ever seen come down the pike
He was covered with mussels

He came over to me and said
"Listen, shrimp, don't you come trollin' around here"
What a crab
This guy was steamed
I could see the anchor in his eyes

I turned to him, I said
"A-balone, you're just being shellfish"
Well, I knew it was going to be trouble and so did Gil
‘Cause he was already on the phone to the cods

The haddock hits me with a sucker punch
I catch him with a left hook
He eels over
It was a fluke but there he was
Lying on the deck, flat as a mackerel
Kelpless

I said "Forget the cods Gil
This guy's gonna need a sturgeon"
Well, the yellowtail was impressed with the way I landed her boyfriend
She came over to me, she said
"Hey, big boy, you're really a game fish
What's your name"
I said "Marlin"

Think I had a wet dream
Cruisin' thru the Gulf Stream
Ooh Ooh Ooh Ooh
Wet dream

Well, from then on we had a whale of a time
I took her to dinner, I took her to dance
I bought her a bouquet of flounders
And then I went home with her
And what did I get for my trouble
A case of the clams

Think I had a wet dream
Cruisin' thru the Gulf Stream
Ooh Ooh Ooh Ooh

Wet dream
Cruisin' thru the Gulf Stream
Ooh Ooh Ooh Ooh

Wet dream
Cruisin' thru the Gulf Stream
Ooh Ooh Ooh Ooh


Yes, I know...kind of funny but pretty bad all the same.

[fleabert]

6. this nails it, the style I mean, just with fruits and veggies!

someone HAS to remember this!

[China_cat]

8. Was it Zappa maybe?

A Prune is a Vegetable, Too?

(Sorry, can't find the lyrics)

[fleabert]

11. Thanks, but see below, someone found it! Weird, but I loved it.

I do like zappa though, you reminded me I should download some of his stuff. :-)

[ET Awful]

9. That was like a staple item on the Dr. Demento Show :)

That's the first one that came to mind for me too.

[zbird]

7. Could this be it?

Life In The Slaw Lane -- Kip Adotta
---------------------


It was Cucumber the 1st. Summer was over. I had just spinached a long
day, and I was busheled. I'm the kind of guy that works hard for his
celery, and I dont mind telling you I was feeling a bit wilted. But I
didn't carrot all, 'cause otherwise, things were vine. I try never to
dis-paragus, and I don't sweat the truffles. I'm outstanding in my
field, and I know that something good will turnip eventually. A bunch
of things were going grape, and soon I'd be top bananna. At least,
that's my peeling.

But that's enough corn. Lend me your ear, and lettuce continue. After
dressing, I stopped over to the grain station. I got there just in
lime to catch the nine e-lemon as it plowed toward the core of
Appleton, a lentle more than a melon-and-a-half yeast of Cloveland.


Life In The Slaw Lane,
They say plants can't feel no pain,
Life In The Slaw Lane,
I've got news for you,
They're just a frail as you...

No one got off at Zuchinni, so we continued on a rutabaga. Passing my
usual stop, I got off-acado. I hailed a passing yellow cabbage and
told the driver to cart me off to Brocklin. I was going to meet by
brother across from the eggplant, where he got a job at the Saffron
station pumpkin gas. As soon as I saw his face, I knew he was in a
yam. He told me his wife had been rasin cane.

Her name was peaches, a soiled, but radishing beauty with huge gourds.
My brother had always been a chestnut. But I could never figure out
why she picked him. He was skinny little stringbean who had always
suffered from cerebral parsely. It was in our roots. Sure, we had
tried to weed it out, but the problem still romained. He was used to
having a tough road a hoe, but it irragated me to see Arti choke. And
it bothered my brother to see his marriage go to seed.



Like most mapled couples, they had a lot of growing to do. Sure, they'd
sewn thier wild oats, but just barley, if you peas. Finally, Peaches
had given him an ultimatoe. She said, "I'm hip to your chive, and if
you don't stop smokin' that herb, I'm gonna leaf you, for Basil, ya
fruit!" He said he didn't realize it had cumquat so far. Onion other
hand, even though Peaches could be the pits, I knew she'd never call
the fuzz.



So I said, "Hay... we're not farm from the Mushroom. Let's walk over."
He said, "That's a very rice place. That's the same little bar where
alfalfa my wife." When we got there, I pulled up a cherry and tried
to produce small talk. I told him I hadn't seen Olive, not since I
shelled off for a trip to Macadamia, when I told her, "We can't
alope." The time just wasn't ripe. She knew what I mint.

When we left the Mushroom, we were pretty well juiced. I told Arti to
say hello to the boysenberry, and that I'd orange to see him another
time.

Well, it all came out in the morning peppers. Arti caught Peaches that
night with Basil, and Arti beet Basil bad, leaving him with two
beautiful acres. Peaches? She was found in the garden. She'd
been... pruned.



Well, my little story is okra now. Maybe it's small potatoes. Me?
Idaho. My name? Wheat. My friends call me Kernel. And that's Life
In The Slaw Lane. Thank you, so mulch.


It's a garden out there...

[fleabert]

10. OMG! yes!

I can't put a melody to it, but from the part about peaches, it has to be it! Now I can try and find it on a download, thank you!
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