best use of giggling in a song

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Van Morrison at the end of "He Ain't Give You None," when he goes, "You can leave now if you don't like what's happening, heh heh." It's already an outrageously creepy song, but that line and the giggles really elevate the creepy factor. You start to wonder if maybe the joke is that you can't leave.

Lily Dale, Monday, 13 January 2020 07:23 (four years ago) link

“Delicious” by Jim Backus and Phyllis Diller (I think?)— mentioned up thread— is my perennial “the party is over, goodbye” selection choice

flamboyant goon tie included, Monday, 13 January 2020 20:54 (four years ago) link

seven months pass...

I did a guest episode on this podcast about novelty songs to discuss The Laughing Policeman and the history of laughing songs, if that sounds like something people want to listen to today.

https://headballetpod.podbean.com/e/james-errington-on-charles-penrose/

Anti-Cop Ponceortium (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 30 August 2020 13:59 (three years ago) link

The only answer is the sampled baby giggling in “Are You That Somebody?”

I think that’s more of a “coo”?

I would vote for “Brain Damage,” though I see it’s been mentioned & summarily dismissed above.

“Pizza House!” (morrisp), Sunday, 30 August 2020 17:37 (three years ago) link

idk that baby is grown now, we should ask them if it’s a “giggle“ or a “coo”

whiney on the moon (voodoo chili), Sunday, 30 August 2020 17:43 (three years ago) link

Most annoying giggle: Joni Mitchell, "Big Yellow Taxi" - damn near ruins the song for me.
― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee)

I love that moment...Janet Jackson gets mentioned a couple of times; doesn't she laugh in "When I Think of You"? (Maybe a laugh isn't a giggle.)

clemenza, Sunday, 30 August 2020 17:51 (three years ago) link

There ought to be threads for chuckles, guffaws, and snickers, too.

clemenza, Sunday, 30 August 2020 18:01 (three years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unDORvhKhAc

bamcquern, Sunday, 30 August 2020 18:50 (three years ago) link

Gangsta of Love by the Geto Boys, bushwick Bill cracking up while saying the first girl he ever slept with “opened up my butt cheeks and started licking out my asshole“

flopson, Sunday, 30 August 2020 19:55 (three years ago) link

ORANGE!

pomentiful (pomenitul), Sunday, 30 August 2020 20:17 (three years ago) link


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