Folk Songs About Cats

From a list compiled by Susan Kessell.

Leiber and Stoller   "Some Cats Know"   Recorded by The  Coasters.
Cisco Houston   "The Cat Came Back"  
Brooks  Williams    Look What the Cat Dragged In - - How the Nighttime  Sings 
  Reg Guitar Blue Music
Joni Mitchell     Taming the Tiger    Taming the Tiger    Reprise  
the Kinks   “Phenomenal Cat"  "Village Green Presevation  Society"
Eleni Kelakos    CASSIE         I WILL  FLY     
Heidi Muller - My Old Cat - Giving Back -  Cascadia Music
Oscar Brand - the whole album, I Love Cats - Alcazar  Prod.
Anne Hills and Cindy Mangsen - Kitty Alone - Never Grow Up - Flying  Fish
the mother of all cat-song sites:

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/catscats/music.htm
you'll also find a link there to garrison keillor's amazing  recording:  
"songs of the cat", featuring
that  favorite hit song "the in & out song" (written from the 
"cat-at-front-door"  perspective) it's  
brilliant!
Jamie Anderson    When Cats Take Over the  World   NEVER ASSUME/Tsunami
Cheryl Wheeler - Meow - Sylvia Hotel -  Philo
Freight Hoppers - Grey Cat on a Tennessee Farm   Where'd You  Come From, 
Where'd You Go? Rounder
JOAN MORRIS \Poor Kitty Popcorn or the  Soldier's Pet \ Songs of the Civil 
War Era by Henry Clay Work \  Nonesuch
ANDREW MCKNIGHT \ If I Was a Cat \ Traveler \ Falling  Mountain
LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III \ Me and My Friend the Cat \ Album II \  Atlantic
ANNIE BAUERLEIN \ Mugsy Is Fine \ Oasis Acoustic v 12
TAMPA RED  & GEORGIA TOM \ Dead Cats on the Line \ The Slide Guitar v2 \ Col  
Legacy
ROASALIE SORRELS \ Mehitabel's Theme \ Always a Lady \ Philo
DORY  PREVIN \ The Owl & the Pussy Cat \ Children of Coincidence 
Ann Reed,  Through the Window (cat) Afterlife
SHEL SILVERSTEIN \ The Cat and the Rat \  Songs and Stories \
BUDDY MONDLOCK \ The Cats of the Colosseum \ Buddy  Mondlock\Doyle Lewis
CLARA SMITH \ Black Woman's Cat \ Complete Works v5  (26-27)\Document
LESLIE SARONY\Don't Do That to the Poot Puss Cat \ Comic  Cuts\Old Bean
TOM KATZ \ I Taut I Taw a Puddy Tat \ Dumb Ditties \  K-Tel
ED SWEENEY \ Dead Cat Blues \ Scratching the Surface \ Kicking  Mule
ATTILLA THE STOCKBROKER \ The Spenser's Croft Cat \ Scornflakers \ Probe  Plus
ROBERT LEE MCCOY \Mean Black Cat \ Bluebird Recordings 37-38\RCA
ERIC  BOGLE \ He's Nobody's Moggy Now \ Scraps of Paper \ Flying Fish
ED HAYNES \  Talking Cat Blues \ Sings Ed Haynes \ Apache
QUARTET \ Cat Song \ Don't Give  the Place a Bad Name \ New World
ALIEN FOLKLIFE \ Thomas Cat \ Oasis Acoustic  7
CALYPSO FRANK \ The Cat \ Want All Get None \ Herbal
RILEY PUCKETT \ The  Cat Came Back \ Old Time Greats v2 \ Old Homestead
CLARKE BUELING - White  Cat, Black Cat - Minstrel Banjo Style ­ Rounder
Christina Muir: The Cat's  Meow "Feet First" Gaining Ground
Marais & Miranda: But The Cat Came  Back  "Open Air Concert" M&M Music 
Don Freed: You're Nothing But A  Cat  "Off In All Directions"  Bushleague 
Records
Ralph Stanley - The Kitten And The Cat - Freeland

Additional song suggestions? Email Richard Gillmann


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