Loving You Has Made Me Bananas

[Dogmudgeon]

Here's one of my childhood favorites, a satire on my father's childhood favorites (and performed by someone my father actually knew). The song was popular in 1967, if memory serves.

--p!

Loving You Has Made Me Bananas

(Spoken) From the Hotel Sheetz in downtown Plunketville, the Nalumkian Broadcasting Company presents the music of Pete DeAngeles and his Loyal Plunketvillevanians here in the beautiful gold, yellow, copper-steel Iron Ballroom of the Hotel Sheetz in downtown Plunketville, ultimately the uptown section of downtown Pottstown. Stay with us, won’t you, and enjoy the sweetest music this side of the Monongahela river, one mile high, two-and-one-half blocks from the center of Old New Orlean. Ah, there’s gaiety, merriment and dancing in the Hotel Sheetz nightly. Now, to get things under way, Pete and his Loyal Banditos play a medley of old standard favorites, commencing with “Your Red Scarf Matches Your Eyes”, “Close Cover Before Striking”, “Your Father Had The Shipfitter Blues”, and “Loving You Has Made Me Bananas”. This beautiful picture and lovely lyric, portrayed vocally by Dickie Ryan.

(Sung)
Oh, your red scarf matches your eyes,
You closed your cover before striking
Father had the shipfitter blues
Loving you has made me bananas

Oh, your red scarf matches your eyes,
You closed your cover before striking
Father had the shipfitter blues
Loving you has made me bananas

Oh, you burned your finger that evening
While my back was turned
I asked the waiter for iodine
But I dined alone

Your red scarf matches your eyes,
You closed your cover before striking
Father had the shipfitter blues
Loving you has made me bananas

Oh, you burned your finger that evening
While my back was turned
I asked the waiter for iodine
But I dined alone

Oh, your red scarf matches your eyes,
You closed your cover before striking
Father had the shipfitter blues
Loving you has made me bananas

(©1966 Guy Marks)

[regnaD kciN]

1. I remember that one...

...although, when they used to play it on the radio in Boston, they started it after the spoken part -- that's new to me.

Now, anyone remember "Cinderella Rockefella" or "Gimme Dat Ding"...?

[mcscajun]

2. Oh yeah! That's a Dr. Demento Show favorite.

:)

Haven't thought of that little ditty in Years!

"The song was popular in 1967, if memory serves." Close -- 1968. Was HUGE among my friends at the time. We were a twisted little bunch, what can I say. There was a Spike Jones revival going on then, too. "There goes the winner - Beetlebaum!"

[Dogmudgeon]

3. A kick for Mr. Marks

What a Guy, that Mr. Marks was.

He "mentored: Tim Conway and Harvey Korman, if it makes any difference.

I think his real name was Mario Scarpo.

--p!
Ah, there’s gaiety, merriment and dancing in the Hotel Sheetz nightly.