Barracuda (Heart) Hound Dog (Elvis; Ma Rainey; Big Mama Thornton) Hot Dog (Elvis) Tiger Man (Elvis; Rufus Thomas) Tiger (Fabian) I Am The Tiger (ABBA) I've Got The Tiger By The Tail (Ray Charles) Bear Cat (Rufus Thomas) Honky Cat (Elton) Nashville Cats (Lovin' Soonful - an animal AND a place name! WO!) Buffalo Soldiers (Bob Marley) And Your Bird Can Sing (Beatles) Blue Jay Way (Beatles) Rocky Racoon (Beatles) I Am The Walrus (Beatles) Harry The Hairy Ape (Ray Stevens) A Dog's Life (Elvis) Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except For Me And My Monkey (Beatles) Bluebird (Paul McCartney) Snowbird (Anne Murray) Teddy Bear (Elvis) Too Much Monkey Business (Chuck Berry; Elvis) Three Cool Cats (Coasters; Beatles) A Horse With No Name (America) I'll Be Doggoned (Marvin Gaye) Wild Horses (Rolling Stones) Cold Turkey (John Lennon) Free Bird (Lynyard Skynyard) Mary Had A Little Lamb (Paul McCartney) You Can't Roller Skate In A Buffalo Herd (Jim Stafford) Spiders And Snakes (Jim Stafford) Piggies (Beatles) Song Of The Shrimp (Elvis) Do The Clam (Elvis) Crawfish (Elvis) Muskrat Love (Captain & Tennille) Muskrat Ramble When The Swallows Come Back To Capistrano Mustang Sally (Wilson Pickett) Octopus' Garden (Beatles) Mississippi Squirrel Revival (Ray Stevens) Running Bear Free As A Bird (John Lennon) Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport (Rolf Harris) Me And You And A Dog Named Boo How Much Is That Doggie In The Window? Little Red Rooster (Rolling Stones; Howlin' Wolf?) Milkcow Blues Boogie (Elvis) Teddy Bear Picnic Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer (Gene Autry, etc) Bird Dog (Everly Bros) Skybird (Neil Diamond) La Paloma Blanca If I Could Talk To The Animals (Rex Harrison) Animal Instinct (Elvis) Lions And Tigers And Bears Wolf Call (Elvis) Muleskinners Song Candida (I know, it's a yeast - is this really the what the dude is singing?) What's New, Pussycat (Tom Jones) They Shoot Horses, Don't They Bat Out Of Hell (Meatloaf) Disco Duck (Rick Dees) Leave My Kitten Alone (Beatles) Baby Elephant Walk (Henry Mancini) The Pink Panther (Henry Mancini) Dooley's Junkyard Dogs (James Brown) Hey Bulldog (Beatles) I Dig A Pony (Beatles) A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square (Vera Lynn) See You Later, Alligator (Bill Haley) El Toro (Elvis) The Bullfighter Was A Lady (Elvis) Cattle Call The Mickey Mouse Club March Butterfly (Charlie Gracie) Butterflies Are Free Clambake (Elvis) Wild Horses - Perry Como Doggin' Around-Jackie Wilson Pony Time-Chubby Checker Ride Your Pony-Lee Dorsey Leave My Kitten Alone-Little Willie John Let's Turkey Trot-Little Eva Mickey's Monkey-Miracles I Go Ape-Neil Sedaka The Monkey's Uncle-Annette Paper Tiger-Sue Thompson Walkin' My Cat Named Dog-Norma Tanega Walking The Dog-Rufus Thomas The Monkey Time-Major Lance Ape Call-Nervous Norvus Harry The Hairy Ape-Ray Stevens Hound Dog Man-Fabian The Duck-Jackie Lee Hot Diggity (Dog Ziggity Boom)-Perry Como Shaggy Dog-Mickey Lee Lane The Horse-Cliff Nobles Dead Skunk in the Middle of the Road - Loudin Wainright 3rd Bulldog - Fireballs Green Mosquito - Tune Rockers Inch worm - Danny Kaye I'm a hog for you - Coasters Scrimp boats - Jo Stafford May the bird of paradise - Little Jimmy Dickens Blue bird over the mountain - Ercel Hickey (Beach Boys) I tat I saw a prett cat - Mel Blanc Monkey time - Major Lance Puppy love - Paul Anka Puppy love - Barbara Lewis (diff song) Gonna find me a blue bird - Marvin Rainwater Bumble bee - Lavern Baker/Searchers Peter rabbit - Dee Jay & Runaways Yellow Bird by ? White Bird by It's a Beautiful Day (?) Hungry Like the Wolf- Duran Duran The Bluebird of Happiness - Jan Peerce (1948) & Lee Andrews & The Hearts Walking My Cat Named Dog You and Me and A Dog Named Bo How much is That Doggie in the Window Birds of a Feather "Hot Canary" -instrumental from early 50s. Redone as "Hep Canary" by Johnny and the Hurricanes. "Baby Elephant Walk" -Henry Mancini (you didn't say they have to be PETS!) Alley Cat - another instrumental. The Siamese Cat Song - Peggy Lee (from "Lady and the Tramp") The Whistler and His Dog - an OLD, OLD one by Sousa. Our Hour (The Puppy Love Song) - Spike Jones (1947, but recently reissued on CD) The Cat Came Back - ? (country singer in the late 50s made a version) Pretty Polly - Mel Blanc The Children's Marching Song (with the line "Give the dog a bone") "The Unicorn" by the Irish Rovers, 1967 I think, "Alley Cat" by Bent Fabric "The Horse" Cliff Nobles & Co. "If I Could Talk To The Animals" by David Niven "At The Zoo" by Simon & Garfunkle "The Birds & The Bees" by Jewel Akins Old Shep by Elvis Hound Dog - Elvis Two Hound Dogs - Bill Haley & The Comets Yellow Bird - Harry Belafonte? What's New Pussycat? - Tom Jones The Lion Sleeps Tonight Tiger Rag Baby Elephant Walk Fins - Jimmy Buffett Tie Me Kangaroo Down Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer Mockingbird Rockin' Robin "Apeman" - The Kinks "Cat Scratch Fever" - Ted Nugent "Fox On The Run" - Country Gentlemen (on my top 100 country songs & versions) "Listen To The Mockingbird" - Patti Page "When The Red, Red Robin Comes Bob',Bob', Bobbin' Along" - (Patti Page or Dinah Shore?) "Foxy Lady" (qualifying ?) - Jimi Hendrix Experience "(She's A) 20th Century Fox" - Jim Morrison & The Doors "Bird On A Wire" - Leonard Cohen "Dogs And Ferrets" - Steeleye Span "(Everybody's Got Something To Hide, 'scept For) Me And My Monkey" - Beatles "Born Free" - Roger Williams "Leave My Kitten Alone" unreleased cover track by The Beatles "Bird Dog" - Everly Brothers "Stop Doggin' Me Around" - Jackie Wilson "White Bird" - It's A Beautiful Day 1967 "Walkin' The Dog" - Rufus Thomas "Year Of The Cat" - Al Stewart "Bluebird" - Paul McCartney & Wings (popular song image, huh?) "Kitty Come Home" - Kate & Anna McGarrigle "The Duck" - (somebody or other?) "The Fish" - Mindy Carson (1956) "The Fish" - Bobby Rydell (1961?) I love my dog - Cat Stevens I'm a Tiger - Lulu "Bye-bye Blackbird" - Rosemary Clooney or The McGuire Sisters Alley Cat, The Fabric, Bent Atomic Dog Clinton, George Bad Dog No Biscuit Norwood, Daron Bird Dog Everly Brothers Black Cat Jackson, Janet Black Cat Bone Collins, Albert & Johnny Copeland Black Dog Led Zeppelin Cat's Eyes Fame, Georgie Cleopatra's Cat Spin Doctors Cool Cat Blues Fame, Georgie Courageous Cat & Minute Mouse TV Diamond Dogs Bowie, David Doggy Dogg World Snoop Doggy Dogg Doghouse Polka Wagner, Babe Dogs Pink Floyd Doin' The Dog Knack Ev'rybody Wants To Be A Cat Disney Felix The Cat TV Given The Dog A Bone AC/DC Hot Dog Presley, Elvis Hound Dog Presley, Elvis How Come My Dog Don't Bark Dr. John How Much Is That Doggie In The Window Page, Patti Josie & Pussycats TV Memory (Cats) Streisand, Barbra My Cat Fell In The Well Manhattan Transfer Oh Where, Oh Where Has My Little Dog Gone? Little Richard Pussycat Moon Webster, Katie Rene & Georgette Magritte With Their Dog After The War Simon, Paul Rosalie / Scald Dog Dr. John Siamese Cat Song, The McFerrin, Bobby Stray Cat Strut Stray Cats Top Cat TV Underdog TV Walking The Dog Thomas, Rufus Gonna Buy Me A Dog--The Monkees Fish Heads--Barnes & Barnes "Cats in the Cradle" Harry Chapin Three Little Fishes - Kay Kyser Too Many Fish in the Sea - Mitch Ryder The Bird's the Word - Rivingtons Me and You and a Dog Named Boo - Lobo "Tie me Kangaroo Down, Sport" - Rolf Harris "Surfin' Bird" by the Trashmen "Brontosaurus Stomp" by the Piltdown Men "Mickey's Monkey" by Smokey Robinson "Blackbird" by the Beatles "Me and You and a Dog Named Boo" Lobo "King Kong--Your Song" Bobby "Boris" Pickett "Year of the Cat" Al Stewart "Muskrat Love" (ack!) Captain and Tenille "Running Bear" (why do I keep thinking it was Ray Preston?) "Fight of the Bumblebee" by Al Hirt, as the theme for "Green Hornet" > And your Bird can Sing- Beatles > Bird's the Word- Rivingtons > Bird Dog- Everly Bros > Birds and Bee- Jewel Aiken > Birdland- Chubby Checker > Boll Weevil Song - Brook Benton > Blackbird - Beatles > Mocking Bird - Charlie & Irez Foxx > Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport - Rolf Harris > Horse with No Name - America > Horse - Cliff Nobels > Fly Robin Fly - Silver Convention > Doggin' Around - Jackie Wilson > Pony Time - Chubby Checker > Ride Your Pony - Lee Dorsey > The Snake - Al Wilson > Snowbird - Anne Murry > Spiders & Snakes - Jim Stafford > Surfin' Bird - Trashmen > I'm a Walrus - Beatles > Yellow Bird - Arthur Lyman > Yellow Dog Blues - Johnny Maddox > Bluebird - Buffalo Springfield > Muskrat Love - Captain & Tennille > Alley Cat - Bent Fabric > Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer - Gene Autry > Baby Elephant Walk - Lawrence Welk > How Much is That Doggie in the Window - Patti Page > Cat in the Window - Petula Clark > Eye of the Tiger - Survivor > Disco Duck - Rick Dees > Walkin' My Cat Named Dog - Lobo > Mickey's Monkey - Miracles > One Monkey Don't Stop No Show - Honey Cone > I've Got A Tiger By The Tail - Buck Owens Copy Cat- Cadillacs Jay Walker- Cadillacs Three Cool Cats- Coasters Turtle Dovin'- Coasters Glowworm- Mills Brothers The Chicken and the Hawk- Joe Turner The Juicy Crocodile- Cellos Boll Weevil- Fats Domino Little Bee- Fats Domino The Rooster Song- Fats Domino Skylark- Clovers Too Much Monkey Business- Chuck Berry Bluebird of Happiness- Lee Andrews & Hearts Milkcow Blues Boogie- Elvis Presley Honey Bee- Spiders The Barking Dog- Crew Cuts How Much Is That Hounddog in the Window- Homer & Jethro Here Comes Peter Cottontail- ? Pigs Idea - The Cats and the Fiddle Hep Cat's Holiday - The Cats and the Fiddle We Cats Will Swing For You - The Cats and the Fiddle When Elephants Roost in Bamboo Trees - The Cats and the Fiddle Public Jitterbug #1 - The Cats and the Fiddle Tiger Rag - Mills Brothers Love Bug Will Bite You - Mills Brothers Bird in the Hand - Mills Brothers Yellow Bird - Mills Brothers Birds of a Feather-Frank Sinatra Spider's Web-LaVern Baker Pig Latin Blues-Todd Rhodes Hog Maw and Cabbage Slaw-Todd Rhodes Jungle Bunny-Fabulous Pearls Hambone-Dee Clark Kangaroo Hop-Dee Clark The Barking Dog-Crew Cuts Every Dog-Gone Time- Orioles Shrimp Boats-Orioles Bar Fly-Orioles Count Your Blessings Instead of Sheep-Orioles Mustang-Rockin' R's Pork and Beans-Solotones Little Turtle-Joe Bennett/Sparkletones Bird Watchin'-Spinners Jimmy Wilson Call Me Hound Dog Big Town 103 Frank Motley New Hound Dog Big Town 108 Cupids My Dog Likes Your Dog Decca 30279 Freddy Mitchell Moondog (1952) Derby 493 Volare Bros. Bird-a-dog Dot 15824 Little Murph & the All Stars My Dog Loves Your Dog Epic 9207 Diablos The Way You Dog Me Around Jay Johnston Walk A Dog Freedom 44018 Jack and Jill Red Dog MGM 12670 Bill Davis Trio Wailin' For Moondog Okeh 7033 Patti Jerome My Doggie Wags His Tail Rama 219 Joe Montgomery Coll Cat Abbott 189 Peppermint Harris There's a Dead Cat On The Line Aladdin 3141 Ray Stevens(Yes it's the same guy) Cat Pants Capitol4030 Bullmoose Jackson Bearcat Blues King 4551 McCoys Full Grown Cat RCA 7354 Miller Sisters Ten Cats Down Sun 255 Billy & Lilly Aolysius Horatio Thomas the Cat Swan 4030 Ray Campi Caterpillar TNT 145 Chordettes Hummingbird Cadence 1267 Sammy Hagan & Viscounts Wild Bird Capitol 3818 Robins A Little Bird Told Me Knight 2008 John Lee Hooker Bluebird Blues Modern 886 Lee Mitchell A Little Blue Bird Told Me Phillips 3530 Ray Whittaker See The Little Birdies Ray Note 3 Schuyler Bros. The Snake Sunbeam 110 Richard Barrett The Snake and the Bookworm 20th Cent fox 150 Victorians Cowbell Rock End 1033 Blues Rockers Calling All Cows Excello 2062 John Zacherle Lunch With Mother Goose Cameo 139 Gum Drops Pigeon King 5051 Chuck Sims Little Pigeon Trend 000X Bobby Christian The Spider and the Fly Wing 2102 Sammy Turner The Flying Flea RCM 3702 Commandos Pony Express Symbol 906 Joe Turner When the Rooster Crows Fidelity 3000 Teardrops Jellyfish Dot 15669 Gene Morris I Crawfished Winston 1032 Jerry Demar Cross-eyed Alley Cat Ford 1003 Billy Bland Chicken In the Basket Old Town 1016 Lloyd Price Chicken and the Bop KRC 301 Clarence Samuels Chicken-hearted Woman Excello 2093 Jack Larson Roaches Fraternity 853 Carpets Chicken Backs Federal 12269 Dee Clark Kangaroo Hop Falcon 1002 Five Jets Crazy Chicken Deluxe 6064 Dave Rich Chicken House RCA 7045 Marvin & Johnny Hey, Chicken Aladdin 3335 Atmospheres Fickle Chicken UA 5023 Lalo Guerrero Take Me Out To The Bullfight Real 1309 "Aba Daba Honeymoon" - Debbie Reynolds & Carleton Carpenter "Ape Call" - Nervous Norvus "The Pum-Pa-Lum (Bad Donkey)" - Steve Lawrence "Bird Dog" - The Everly Brothers "Boogie Bear" - Boyd Bennett "The Doggie in the Window" - Patti Page "Experiments with Mice" - Johnny Dankworth & His Orchestra "Hot Diggity (Dog Ziggity Boom)" - Perry Como "Hot Dog Buddy Buddy" - Bill Haley & His Comets "Hound Dog" - Big Mama Thornton "Hound Dog" - Elvis Presley "I Go Ape" - Neil Sedaka "I'm a Hog for You" - The Coasters "Jo-Jo the Dog-Faced Boy" - Annette "Leave My Kitten Alone" - Little Willie John "(Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear" - Elvis Presley "The Lonesome Polecat" - The McGuire Sisters "Make Like a Bunny, Honey" - Jill Corey with Jimmy Carroll¹s Orchestra "Muskrat Ramble" - The McGuire Sisters "Oh! Susanna" - The Singing Dogs "Pussy Cat" - The Ames Brothers "See You Later, Alligator" - Bill Haley & His Comets "See You Later, Alligator" - Bobby Charles "Teach Me Tiger" - April Stevens "Tiger" - Fabian "Tiger Lily" - Rusty Draper "Torero" - Renato Carosone "(You Hit the Wrong Note) Billy Goat" - Bill Haley & His Comets "Bird Dog" - The Everly Brothers "The Bird on My Head" - David Seville "Bluebirds Over the Mountain" - Ersel Hickey "The Bluebird, the Buzzard & the Oriole" - Bobby Day "Chee Chee-Oo Chee (Sang the Little Bird)" - Perry Como & Jaye P. Morgan "Flamingo l'Amore" - The Gaylords "Gonna Find Me a Bluebird" - Marvin Rainwater "Gonna Find Me a Bluebird" - Eddy Arnold "Gonna Find Me a Bluebird" - Joyce Hahn "The Hot Canary" - Florian Zabach "The Hot Canary" - Florian Zabach "Hummingbird" - Les Paul & Mary Ford "Humming Bird" - Frankie Laine "I Tawt I Taw a Puddy Tat" - Mel Blanc "Little Pigeon" - Sal Mineo "Lovey Dovey" - Clyde McPhatter "Lullaby of Birdland" - The Blue Stars "Mockin¹ Bird Hill" - Patti Page "The Mocking Bird" - The Four Lads "The Mocking Bird" - The Four Lads "Rockin' Robin" - Bobby Day "Song of the Sparrow" - Mitch Miller & His Orchestra "Sweet Bird of Youth" - Nat "King" Cole "Tweedlee Dee" - LaVern Baker & The Gliders "Tweedlee Dee" - Georgia Gibbs "When the Swallows Come Back to Capistrano" - Pat Boone "Yellow Bird" - The Mills Brothers Hound Dog- Elvis Presley >Bird Dog- Everly Brothers >Rockin' Robin- Bobby Day >I'm a Hog For You- Coasters >Old Shep- Elvis Presley "Poor Butterfly" (Hilltoppers) My Pigeon's Gone - The 5 Keys "Count Your Blessings instead of Sheep" (Eddie Fisher) Milk Cow Blues-George Vann Bird Dog- Illinois Jacquet Chicken Shack Boogie-Amos Milburn Hen Party-Amos Milburn Wolf on the River-Amos Milburn There's a Dead Cat on the Line-Peppermint Harris Greyhound-Amos Milburn Cat Hop-Dodgers Hey Chicken-Marvin & Johnny Howling Wolf Blues- Lightnin' Hopkins Cool Bunny-Art Pepper Stewed Pig's Knuckles-Calypso Mac Niles King Kong-Big T. Taylor Every Dog has it's Day-Peppermint Harris Wet Rat-Peppermint Harris Hound Dog-Eddie Hazelwood Two Cats-Harry the Hipster City Mouse and Country Mouse-Harry the Hipster Three Little Pigs-Dick Hugg Bumble Bee--Lavern Baker I Smell A Rat--Big Mama Thornton The Chicken--Cheers Chicken Baby Chicken--Tony Harris Signifying Monkey--Smokey Joe Muskrat Ramble--Freddy Cannon Wings Of A Dove--Ferlin Husky Hound Dog Man--Fabian The Fish--Bobby Rydell Too Many Fish In The Sea--Mitch Ryder (OK, it's in the 60's) I'm A Hog For You--Coasters The Bluebird, The Buzzard and The Oriole - Bobby Day Sing Until the Cows Come Home- Ames Brothers Pussy Cat- Ames Brothers Sparrow in the Treetop- Andrews Sisters Three Little Piggies- Andrews Sisters Pretty Butterfly- Mills Brothers The Be-Bop Mouse- Cellos Love Bug- Clovers Sneaky Alligator- ?(covered by the Diamonds) Monkey Hips and Rice- 5 Royales Every Dog Has His Day- 5 Royales The Cuckoo Bird in the Pickle- Four Aces Baltimore Oriole- Four Freshmen The Average Giraffe- Four Lads Chicken, Chicken- Hilltoppers Little Turtle Dove- Bobby Day A Little Bird- Hollywood Flames Bob-O-Link- Jacks I Ain't Fattenin' Frogs For Snakes-Larks (love this title) Honey From the Bee- Larks Chicken- Olympics Turkey Hop- Robins A Little Bird Told Me- Robins bill haley - hot dog buddy buddy - decca29948 bill haley - two hound dogs - decca29552 freddie bell & bellboys - hound dog - teen101 joe darensbourg & dixie flyers - yellow dog blues - lark moonglows - i've been your dog - champaign nervous norvus - ape call/wild dog of kentucky - dot 15485 wanda jackson - hot dog! that made him mad - capitol3575 charlie adams - cat'n around - columbia21355 elvis presley - milk cow blues boogie - sun215 cheers - chicken - capitol3353 roscoe gordon - chicken (dance with you), the - flip237 charlie gracie - love bird - cameo141 frankie laine - humming bird alan freed & his rock 'n roll band - the grey bear - coral61749
Jo Jo Gunne - Chuck Berry
"Why Do Fools Fall in Love?" - Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers
"Why Do Fools Fall in Love?" - The Diamonds
"Why Do Fools Fall in Love?" - Gale Storm
"Why Do Fools Fall in Love?" - Gloria Mann
"Bad, Bad, Leroy Brown" Jim Croce ("badder than ol' King Kong...and meaner than a junkyard dog...")
"Say, Man" Bo Diddley ("You is sooo ugly that the stork that brought you inta the worl' oughta be ar-RES-ted...")
"Stewball" Peter, Paul, and Mary
"Yackety Yak" The Coasters ("bring in the dog and put out the cat," right?)
Old Rivers - Walter Brennan
Caroline, No--The Beach Boys [not about animals, but barking dogs at the end]
Lucifer Sam--Pink Floyd
At The Zoo--Simon'n'Garfunkel
At My Window--The Beach Boys [about a sparrow]
Old Shep - Elvis
"Wildfire" by Michael Murphy
High Hopes
"Swingin' On a Star"
Run Red Run -- The Coasters
"Lookin' out my back door" - CCR (names a bunch of animals passing by...)
"House At Pooh Corner" - Loggins And Messina
My Blue Heaven
I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
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