Fish heads ( song ) - wikipedia Fish heads ( song ) `` Fish Heads '' Single by Barnes & Barnes from the album Voobaha B - side `` High School Gym '' Released 1978 Label Lumania Records Songwriter ( s ) Kevin Stevenson `` Fish Heads '' is a novelty song by comedy rock duo Barnes & Barnes, featured on their 1980 album Voobaha. It has often been played on the Dr. Demento show, and is the most honored song in Demento show history. The song is about fish heads and all the things they are not able to do, such as playing baseball, wearing sweaters, dancing, playing drums, or being seen `` drinking cappuccinos in Italian restaurants with Oriental women '' ( the song also notes that fish heads can do some unique things, like get into movies without having to buy tickets ). It is accompanied by a high - pitched chorus, achieved by speeding up the tape, which repeats the original 's chorus : `` Fish heads ! Fish heads ! Roly poly fish heads ! Fish heads ! Fish heads ! Eat them up ! Yum ! ''. Actor Bill Paxton, a filmmaker at the time, directed and appeared in the music video for the song, along with cinematographer Rocky Schenck and Robert Haimer 's girlfriend at the time, Joan Farber, who designed the costume look. The video aired on NBC television on Saturday Night Live, on December 6, 1980 and the following week. Dr. Demento had a cameo as the bum. The song is featured in The Simpsons episode `` Treehouse of Horror VII. '' Alan Arkin sings the song in the movie Indian Summer, which also starred Bill Paxton. Covers Wild Man Fischer released a cover of `` Fish Heads '' on his album Pronounced Normal. Eagle - Eye Cherry released a cover of `` Fish Heads '' as a Desireless B - side. Buck 65 recorded a cover of `` Fish Heads '' set to the music of Wire 's `` Three Girl Rhumba ''. The cover appears on a 2007, tour - only CD - R titled, Heck. 1970s portal References Jump up ^ Barnes & Barnes - Fish Heads on YouTube Jump up ^ Dr. Demento 's TOP 100 ( or so ) DEMENTED HITS ( from Funny 25 's ) - 1974 to 2014 Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fish_Heads_(song)&oldid=788775365 '' Categories : Novelty songs 1978 songs 1978 singles Comedy songs Songs about fish Talk About Wikipedia Italiano Edit links This page was last edited on 3 July 2017, at 12 : 16. About Wikipedia

Question: where did the fish head song come from
Answer: comedy rock duo Barnes & Barnes