November's Music: Comedy songs for a Blue T-day

My father remembered a version of this one from his childhood (I've found a number of people remember extra or improvised verses to this one), though I suspect he learned his "Ain't We Crazy" from the older, second recording below:





Constant readers here know I'm a lifelong Smothers Bros. fan, due in part to receiving Aesop's Fables the Smothers Brothers Way as a one of my first records to play on my portable phonograph ca. 1968...no tracks from that album are easily swipable, but this charming medley, with Donovan Leitch and Peter, Paul & Mary, from the Smo Bro CBS series, is worth the time:



And, being as I was a child of the mid-'60s, my first babysitters, at least, made sure I heard and saw the Monkees:


Which of course set me up for appreciation of the likes of the Kinks




Or the Zombies (even if this ragged copy of "Come on Time" as messed with and worked into a trailer for Bunny Lake is Missing kills most of the the humor of the "Just Out of Reach" reworking the band did...see the fine Big Beat-label complete Zombies recordings set to hear how "Come on Time" should sound.)




And Utopia




And the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band




(and if you've missed it somehow over the years...George Harrison on Rutland Weekend Television, which might or might not've directly led to Bonzos and Pythons forming the Rutles)


And Gil Scott-Heron


Not actually one of Mose Allison's wittiest songs, but in a similar mode:


As opposed to this live reading of his classic:


And a nice, if slightly long, a cappella version:


And speaking of classics:




Nellie McKay:




Garfunkel and Oates (note the climbing budgets)






And for a genuine T-day song, Howard Kremer as Dragon Boy Suede:

(and another rap from DBS in the spirit of giving and appreciation)


Happy Thanksgiving, folks...
For more of this month's forgotten music, see the links at Scott Parker's blog.