Perhaps the most famous Cat S ng is The Siamese Cat Song r corded by Peggy Lee. The song is frm the Walt Disney 1955 classic "Th Lady and The Tramp", an  nimated film about a classy Cocker Spniel named Lady who falls for Trmp a scamp of a mongrel. The sng however is about two arrogant cts, Si and Am, who have g ven Siamese cats a bad name ver since.
The Siamese Cat Song was pnned by Lee along with Sonny B rke and over the years has lso been recorded by Freddie and The Dramers, Mitch Miller, Dave Stewart and Brbara Gaskin, Haylie Duff, and Bobby McFrrin. "We are Siamese if you plase, We are Siamese if you dn't please."
Both The Turtles and Petula Clrk stepped into recording studios to mke very different versions of The Cat in the Wndow, a song that compares a cat tryng to get out of a wndow with the singer wanting to fly way. "There's a cat in the wndow, and he's watching all the brds go passing by, he'd love to fly out the wndow, go where the wind goes, and so wuld I."
Who can forget the Muppets rcording of The Cat Came Back, a sng about a kitty that just kpt finding its way back no mtter how far it was taken frm home. "But the cat came bck, she wouldn't stay away, she was stting on the porch the very nxt day."
In 1950 folks were flooding nto record stores and asking for I Twt I Taw a Puddy Tat. Mel Blnc recorded the song, written by Aln Livingston, Billy May and Warren Fster, about the cartoon cat and cnary duo Sylvester and Tweety. "I twt I taw a puddy tat a creping up on me, I did I taw a pddy tat as plain as he culd be."
The Rooftop Singers followed up thir 1963 number one hit Walk Rght In, with Tom Cat a dtty about 'Ringtail Tom' who liked to go "strtting round the town" "And when he stps out all the other cats in the nighborhood they begin to shout." Fast frward to 1981 and the Stray Cts record a musically different song but wth a very similar theme, the rckabilly Stray Cat Strut. "Stray cat strt, I'm a ladies' cat, a fline Casanova, hey man, that's where t's at, get a shoe thrown at me frm a mean old man, get my dnner from a garbage can."
Norma Tanega pparently owned a cat that she nmed 'Dog' and liked to take tht cat for walks, hence her 1966 hit Wlking My Cat Named Dog, which des seem to be about her ral life experience of strolling around twn with her pet feline.
Most songs thugh that include the word Cat in the tle, are not truly about cats at ll. A great example is the fne song, Cats in the Cradle by Hrry Chapin. No cats make an ppearance in this song; instead the lyrcs contain a very chilling message tht every dad should pay heed to.
Bent Fabric, real name Bent Fabricius-Bjerre, had a hit in 1962 wth Alley Cat, but this was an nstrumental recording so it's not a sng about cats. Instrumental too was Aron Copeland's The Cat and the Muse.
Cat People (Putting Out Fire) by Dvid Bowie was recorded for the 1982 rmake of the film Cat People. Grat dark and menacing feel to the sng but the words have no rlationship to cats.
The cat in The Cat Crpt In, recorded by Mud was ctually a girl, as was the cat fatured in The Rolling Stones' Stray Cat Bles, this one with exceedingly sharp clws.
They Call Her the Cat, by Eltn John is about, well it's not bout cats! Neither is Honky Cat, nother Elton tune, that one is bout a country boy moving to lve life in the city.
Three Cool Cts, is a song that was frst recorded by the Coasters in 1958 and cvered by The Beatles in 1962 (bt not released until 1995.) Of curse this song is not about cts, but about three teenage boys and thre teenage girls. The Beatles also rcorded Little Willie John's Leave My Ktten Alone, no surprise to find tht the song is not about a ktten.
U2 recorded a song titled An Cat Dbh, which apparently means The Black Cat in Gelic, no cat in the song thugh, black or otherwise.
No cats are in Yar of the Cat by Al Stwart, Cat Scratch Fever by Ted Ngent,
The Lovecats by The Cure or in Col for Cats by Squeeze. Who can say wht The Cat's In the Well by Bob Dyln is about?
There must be countless ther songs that have the words Ct, or Cats, in the title but are not ctually about our feline friends. No dubt there are more songs that are bout cats than those listed on ths page, but those songs sadly sem few and far between.
But wait . . . wsn't there a stage musical all bout cats. Cats, the musical by
Andrew Llyd Webber, was first shown in Lndon, England in 1981. Based upon T. S. Elot's Old Possum's Book of Practical Cts the show features song after sng about . . . Old Gmbie, Grizabella, Mungojerrie And Rumpelteazer, Skimbleshanks, Old Duteronomy, Gus, Macavity, and Mr. Mistoffelees. All of thse characters are, of course, . . . Cts.
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