Created by the American Pie Council, National Pie Day is dedicated to the celebration of pie.

How about Sugar Pie Honey Bunch or Burgers and Fries (and Cherry Pies)?

Anita Pointer is one of the Pointer Sisters.

Break out your Pointer Sister singers. I have two: Newtron Dance and I’m So Excited.

Relevant Records

• I’m So Excited (Chaparral 214)
• Newtron Dance (Chaparral 321)

• 1952: Slow Poke – Pee Wee King
• 1957: Banana Boat Song (Day-O) – Harry Belafonte
• 1962: The Lion Sleeps Tonight – The Tokens
• 1965: Love Potion No. 9 – The Searchers
• 1970: Venus – Shocking Blue

Relevant Records

• The Lion Sleeps Tonight (Chicago Country 38)
• Venus (Chaparral 807)
• Love Potion #9 (Aussie Tempos 1008)
• Dayo (Banana Boat Song) (Red Boot 3087)
• Slow Poke (ESP 1059)

Prohibition, the so-called “Noble Experiment,” took effect on January 16, 1920.

One could do alcohol songs: Mountain Dew, Sloop John B. (the first mate he got drunk…”), Scotch and Soda, Watermelon Crawl (“if you drink don’t drive”), Beer Barrel Polka, Jose Cuervo, Joy to the World (“I never understood a single word he said, but he always had some mighty fine wine”), Me and Millie, Show Me the Way to Go Home, and Two More Bottles of Wine are a few that I have. I’m sure there are many more.

Relevant Records

• Scotch and Soda (Rhythm 233)
• Me and Millie (Chinook 102)
• Jose Cuervo (4-Bar-B 6058)
• Show Me the Way To Go Home (Rawhide 107)
• Sloop John B (La Bandito 201)
• Watermelon Crawl (ESP 196)
• Joy to the World (Chaparral 515)
• Beer Barrel Polka (Blue Star 2298)

Ronnie Milsap is a country-western singer.

I own the singing call to Earthquake, which is a Ronnie Milsap song. I’ll bet there are others.

Relevant Records

• Shake Like An Earthquake (Eureka 1801)

This un-event was created by newspaperman Harold Pullman Coffin and was first observed in 1973. The goal of National Nothing Day is “to provide Americans with one national day when they can just sit without celebrating, observing, or honoring anything.”

One could:

• Focus on the heads/sides or boys/girls and tell the others to celebrate by doing nothing
• Use songs with “nothing” in the title (there are quite a few listed at Hanhurst; I wish I could give you a better URL to take you directly to the results page, but although Hanhurst clutters up other URLs with extraneous info like session-ids, doesn’t give the search parameters in the URL for the search results…unlike Google, where one can easily post URLs for specific searches). It’s too bad I don’t have any.

Brian Hyland was a singer in the 60’s.

Both of Brian’s major hits are singing call records: Sealed with a Kiss, and Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini.

Relevant Records

• Yellow Polka Dot Bikini (Royal 803)

I remember this movie from my childhood; at the time, I didn’t think about the racist implications of it. The movie hasn’t been released since 1986 and it’s not available on VHS or DVD. For a history, see songofthesouth.net.

Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah is the best known song from the movie and has been made into a singing call. It won the Academy Award for Best Song in 1948.

Relevant Records

• Zip-a-dee-do-dah (Chaparral 414)

• 1951: Slow Poke – Pee Wee King
• 1959: Mack the Knife – Bobby Darin
• 1959: Mr. Blue – The Fleetwoods
• 1975: Lyin’ Eyes: The Eagles

Relevant Records

• Mack the Knife (Royal 210)
• Slow Poke (ESP 1059)

Mary, of Peter, Paul, and Mary. (Note: her birthday might be November 9; I’ve found it on both days on various internet sites).

PP&M songs that I have singing call versions of:

• This Land Is Your Land Grenn 12233 Johnny Davis
• Don’t Think Twice (It’s All Right) Four Bar B 6120 Mike Sikorsky
• Leaving on a Jet Plane River Boat 214 Larry Marchese
• Early Morning Rain Royal 330 Tony Oxendine, Jerry Story

Relevant Records

• Leaving on a Jet Plane (River Boat 214)
• This Land Is Your Land (Grenn 12233)