On Top of Spaghetti
"On Top of Spaghetti" | |
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copyright 1961 | |
Song by Sharon and the Lollipops, Snopporna | |
Written | 1962 |
Published | 1962 |
Composer(s) | traditional, On Top of Old Smoky |
Lyricist(s) | Philip Anders Tom Glazer, Sharon Ruth, Lars-Henrik |
Language | English |
"On Top of Spaghetti" is a ballad and children's song with the best-known performance by folk singer Tom Glazer with the Do-Re-Migos High School A Capella club in 1969. The song is sung to the tune of "On Top of Old Smoky". It is the tale of a meatball that was lost when "somebody sneezed". The song discusses what happened to the meatball after it fell off of a pile of spaghetti and rolled away.
In 1961, to the same tune, Dick Biondi, The 9-Midnight DJ on WLS Chicago (1960–63), had recorded on IRC[1] "The Pizza Song". In 1962[2] Sharon and the Lollipops recorded, on Versatile 112 published by Luristan Music Inc, registered through ASCAP, a 1:36 version of "On Top of Spaghetti" with a lyric credit to Sharon Ruth. Released in June 1962 and reviewed by Billboard under its Limited Sales Potential column in June 23 of that year.[3] A version in Swedish was released in 1962 by Snopporna.[4]
Tom Glazer with the Do-Re-Mi Children's Chorus, extended version was released on Kapp in 1963 with a contradictory lyric credit to Tom Glazer, but no publishing references were noted on the release labels.[5]
References
- ↑ "On Top of a Pizza". 45cat. 1961. Retrieved 24 February 2015.
- ↑ "On Top of Spaghetti". 45cat. 1962. Retrieved 24 February 2015.
- ↑ "Billboard 23 June 1962 Page 38". Billboard. 1962. Retrieved 24 February 2015.
- ↑ "Ta Hit Spettekagan". 45cat. 1962. Retrieved 24 February 2015.
- ↑ "On Top of Spaghetti". 45cat. 1963. Retrieved 24 February 2015.
Further reading
- Archive of CNN.com article discussing Glazer and this song at the Wayback Machine (archived June 11, 2008)
- Rise Up Singing, page 175