Way OT, looking for soms old song titles

[jeeperjohn]

Take a look at #1.
there is something happening here, what it is aint exactly clear, theres a man with a gun over there....everybody stop hey whats that sound everybody look whats goin round - Google Search

[CJ7Taz]

Originally Posted by Jim_Lou

I think a few years later than '60. '63 or '64 is my guess.

The Battle of New Orleans
Johnny Horton
Written by Jimmy Driftwood
Length 2:33
Columbia 41339
Billboard Hot 100 number-one single June 1, 1959 – July 12 (6 weeks)
Billboard Hot 100 Number-one single of the year 1959
B-side – “All For the Love of a Girl”

[Jim_Lou]

'59, eh? Just shows one should never pay attention to anything I say! Thanks for bursting my aura of omniscience!

Good to see ya around!

[CJ7Taz]

I’ll toss you up an easy one. What was the popular parody song to it in the same year? Title and artist?

[LEVE]

Would that be:

• The Battle of Kookamonga”
• Single by Homer and Jethro
• Homer and Jethro at the Country Club

Now that streches my mind back to the 1950's far more than I want to remember.... My brain hurts.

BATTLE OF KOOKAMONGA
Homer & Jethro

Note: This is a parody of BATTLE OF NEW ORLEANS by Johhny Horton
Note: There is a falsetto voice which I designate by "F"

In nineteen and fifty-nine we took a little hike
With our scout master down to Lake Oneeganite
We took a little pizza and we took some saurkrauts
And we marched along together till we heard the girl scouts

CHORUS
We're the boys from Camp Kookamonga
Our mothers sent us here for to study nature's ways
We learned to make sparks by rubbing sticks together
But if we catch the girls then we'll set the woods ablaze

F: And I was mad because me mother sent me up here ha-ha-ha

Well we crept up to the water and we see the girls a-swimmin
There musta been a hundred of them pretty young women
They looked so fine even birds forgot to sing
We lay down in the poison oak and didn't say a thing

CHORUS

F: Hey will one of you fellas scratch my back?

Well our counselor said we could take them by surprise
If we didn't say a word till we looked them in the eyes
We kept real still and we had our eyes aglued
We saw how they were dressed they were swimming in the
Welll now...

CHORUS

Well they ran through the briars and they ran through the brambles
They ran through the bushes where a rabbit couldn't go
They ran so fast even we couldn't catch them
And we can even hike all the way to Buffalo

F: Hey fellas wait for me

Well we ran right after them till everyone was pooped
So we rested for a moment and our forces we regrouped
Then we saw the girls behind some evergreens
Captured by a company of United States Marines

CHORUS

F: Aww those big guys get everything

Well they ran through the briars an they ran through the brambles
They ran through the bushes where a rabbit couldn't go
They ran so fast even we couldn't catch them
And we can even hike all the way to Buffalo

FALSETTO CHORUS
A-rootie-toot-toot a-rootie-toot-toot
Ah we are the boys from the boy scout troop
We don't smoke and we don't chew
And we don't go with the girls that do

(fade out of calling and whooping)

[jeepjunky]

Thanks for the help, the winners were
1. Buffalo Springfield, for what its worth.
2. Johnny Horton, Battle of New Orleans

As for the google, never thought of that.
Thanks again