Where were you when you first heard "Batman Smells?" (vanity)

[MNDude]

I'm trying to learn the origins of the playground parody "Jingle Bells, Batman Smells, Robin Laid an Egg...". What year and where did you first here this parody?

[mountn man]

Oh... and Pink Floyd

[momtothree]

“...what do you think Sister Paula would have thought...”

You would have served afternoon detention and I would have been there with you for laughing!!! Washing the chalk boards isn’t as bad as it sounds.

[smedley64]

Yes, I remember the day well. Me and Aunt Polly were in the parlor, sipping tea and eating crumpets. It was the late 60s, and I was ever such a good little boy. A bright, spring day sun bathed the last of the late-winter snow, and melted it. The clouds were wafting by like feathers in the wind and the birds sounded happy and boisterous.

Walking down the street past our opened window, I heard the singing. It was Fast Freddie Phelps. Now they called him fast Freddie because Freddie was fast, ya see. He was fast no matter what he did. He talked fast, he walked fast, he ate fast, he bathed fast, he drove fast, he wrote fast, he ran fast, went through money fast...etc.

"Jingle bells, Batman smells..." and so on, went FF. But he was repeating it so fast, that Aunt Polly, who was already hard of hearing, thought she heard him say something else about Batman smelling and Robin laying eggs.

Aunt Polly, not always being of even temper, yelled out the window... "You keep that foul mouth shut Freddie!"

Freddie ignored her and continued to repeat the song, belching it out merrily and very, very quickly. He walked so fast that he was out of earshot in mere seconds.

In fact, I believe it was April 20th, 1969. I remember the date because on the next day, the police arrested Aunt Polly for the attempted murder of Fast Freddie Phelps. They had found her lurking outside Freddie's window with a gun, muttering to herself about batman's so and so smelling like something or other and Robin laying whatever...

But really, yeah, I first remember it around the late 60s, early 70s.:-)

[JoeProBono]

[Bryanw92]

Oh yeah. It would take a BIG shovel!

[jstark]

I heard Winston Fink (Unbelievable Uglies) sing this in 1967, in Fargo, ND, or Moorhead, MN.

[EGPWS]

Unbelievable Uglies

Good Lord does THAT bring back the memories!

[calex59]

“Whistle while you work, Hitler is a jerk. Mussolini cut his weenie, now it doesn’t work.”

No, but I remember, "When Hitler says we are the master race, I'll spit, I'll spit right in the fuhrer's face".

[dalereed]

What the hell are you blabbering about?

[jjr153]

Here’s my contribution,

Hitler, has only got one ball
Goering, has two but very small
Himmler, has two that are simlar
And poor old Goebbels has no balls at all
(repeat until told to shut up)

And for Christmas

Hark the herald angels shout
One more day till we get out

This was heard over the PA system at St. Barnabas Elementary in the Bronx when 8th grade students were allowed to give the daily announcements. Needless to say when we got back to school after Christmas students were no longer allowed to give the daily announcements. I was in 3rd grade at the time. (1963)

[Cheapskate]

Oh, my best guess would be 66 or 67 in my grade school lunch room. Probably third grade or thereabouts.

[jjr153]

On Top of Spaghetti was Tom Glazer and the Do-Re-Mi Children’s Chorus in 1963.

I won a talent contest singing it in 1964. My prize was a free banana split at the local DQ.

[jjr153]

I’m so glad that I am a Freeper. We have a lot more fun here than the dour hour folks over at kos. I check up on them occasionally just to keep up with what the opposition is up to.

[Vor Lady]

1967 at school; 2nd grade

[dfwgator]

Pretty mild compared to some of the other ditties we sang back in the day.

Joy To The World
The School Burnt Down

The teachers are all dead

We’re looking for the principal
He’s hanging on the flag pole

With a rope around his neck

With a rope around his neck

With a rooo-ooope around his neh-eh-eck

[Vor Lady]

I haven’t thought of that jingle in decades!

[dfwgator]

MacDonald’s is your kind of place
They feed you rattlesnakes

Hamburgers up your nose
French Fries between your toes

The last time I went in there
They fried my underwear

MacDonald’s is your kind of place

[Political Junkie Too]

Okay, who had the bean burrito for lunch?

-PJ

[Godebert]

Not sure what year, but around the same time I learned:

The Addams family started
When Uncle Fester farted;
They all became retarded,
The Addams family!

[Cowgirl of Justice]

Glory Glory Hallelujia
Teacher hit me with a ruler
Came back through the door
With a loaded 44
There ain’t no teacher no more...

And then there is this one:

Whistle while you work
Hitler was a jerk
Mussalini bit his weeny
Now it doesn’t work