From: jackson@JADE.UCDAVIS.EDU
Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
Subject: Coffee songs
Date: 6 Jan 93 23:53:35 GMT
Reply-To: jackson@JADE.UCDAVIS.EDU
Organization: Geology Department, University of California, Davis

A few months ago I compiled a list of coffee songs.  Here it is.  Feel free to
add your 
own suggestions.

"Good Morning Coffee" -- Greg Brown (A very nice version appears on the latest
Newport Folk Festival compilation; this version begins with Java Jive and goes
on from there.)
"Caffeine"  -- Patty Larkin (on I'm Fine)
"Coffee at Midnight" -- No Strings Attached (on Coffee at Midnight)
"Java Jive" -- The Inkspots, Manhattan Transfer, Jim Kweskin
"Coffee Achiever"  -- 76% Uncertain
"Black Coffee in Bed"  -- Squeeze (on Sweets from a Stranger)
"Coffee Cantata"  -- J. S. Bach
"Sanka Cantata" -- P. D. Q. Bach (lost)
"Maxwell House Blues"  -- Mississippi John Hurt (also as "Coffee Blues")
"Coffee for Mama" -- Lightnin' Hopkins (also as "Coffee Blues"; this is
different from John Hurt's
"Coffee Train"  -- David Thomas and his Wooden Birds (on Monster Walks the
Winter Lake)
"Double Latte!"  --  Slam Suzanne 
"Kids On Coffee"   -- The Descendents (on Enjoy)
"The Coffee Song"  -- Osibisa [1976]
"The Coffee Song"  --  Cream
"The Coffee Song (There's lots of coffee in Brazil)" -- Frank Sinatra
"Ein kopje koffie (One cup of coffee)" -- V.O.F. De Kunst (The Art Company)
[1987] (NL)
"Coffee Homeground"  -- Kate Bush (on Lionheart)
"Black Coffee" -- Janis Segal
"Black Coffee"  --  k.d. lang (on Shadowland), Peggy Lee, Julie London, Sinead
O'connor
"Black Coffee" -- Black Flag
"C-O-F-F-E-E" -- ?? (a round, recorded by the Short Sisters on "A Little
Gracefulness".  Variously heard in English and German, with different spellings
of course)
"You're the Cream in my Coffee" -- Teresa Brewer, Fats Waller
"Coffee Shoppe" -- Margaret Whiting
"Second Cup of Coffee" -- Gordon Lightfoot
The Arabian Dance in Nutcracker (coffee).
From Act I of Don Giovanni: DG ordering up chocolate, coffee, &c.
"Coffee" -- Cassandra Amesley (to the tune of simple gifts, on Solid Ground,
words in "Rise Up Singing", p 253)
"Demon Java" -- Steve Key, David Goldfinger (possibly recorded?)
"Good Cup of Coffee" -- Vance Gilbert (on his cassette Face to Face)
"Java Junkie" -- not recorded, but seen in a "Bob 'n Dave" cartoon
"Caffe Latte"  -- The Limbomaniacs (available on a 12" single)
"One More Cup of Coffee (The Valley Below)" -- Bob Dylan
"Koffie, koffie"  -- Rita Corita
"Caffiene Zombie" -- Duck's Breath Mystery Theater (on Born To Be Tiled from
Rounder)
"Caffeine, Nicotene, Benzedrene, and wish me luck" -- Jerry Reed
"Sludge" -- Trevor Rabin
"A Cup of Coffee" -- Ramblin' Jack Elliot  (heard in a live concert)
"Coffee's Ready" -- Pop Wagner (on "Coffee's Ready")
"Coffee Break" (from How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, about
coffee breaks)
"La Chanson du Caf'e" -- Beausoleil  (on Live! From the Left Coast)
"Java Blues" -- Rick Danko (on solo album), also Dr. Feelgood
"I Don't Sleep, I Drink Coffee Instead" -- Brenda Kahn
"Starfish & Coffee" -- Prince
"Smoking Cigarettes and Drinking Coffee Blues" -- some country artist
"Cigarettes and Coffee" -- Otis Redding
"Juan Valdez" -- Richard Davis (jazz)
"Why I Like Coffee" -- Bob Nell (jazz)
"Mocha Spice" -- Emily Remler
"A Proper Cup of Coffee" -- Cosmotheka, and Trout Fishing in America (on Truth
is Stranger than Fishin')
"Forty Cups of Coffee" -- Bill Haley and the Comets.
"Java" -- Al Hirt, among others (instrumental)
"Fesh Cuppa Coffee" -- David Maloney
"Let's Have another cuppa coffee" -- by Irving Berlin, also Enric Madriguera and
his Hotel Biltmore Orchestra (Paper Moon s.t.)
"Coffee in the Morning, Kisses in the night" -- Lew Sherwood with Eddie Duchins
Orchestra
"Percolator Twist" -- ?? (the Ventures?)
"Percolator" -- Spyro Gyra
"Percolator" -- Crystal
"Cafe cola'o" -- Raphy Leavitt y la Selecta
"Moliendo Cafe" -- Jose Feliciano
"Cafe" -- Malo
"Ron y Cafe" -- Angel Parra
"Ojala que llueva cafe" -- Juan Luis Guerra y 4.40
"Couleur, cafe" -- Serge Gainsbourg
"Cup of Coffee" -- John McCutcheon
"Instant Coffee Blues" -- Guy Clark
"Instant Karma Coffee House" -- Loud Sugar
"Cup of Coffee, a Sandwich & You" -- Gertrude Lawrence & Nick Lucas
"Coffee Time" -- Michael Formanek (Jazz instrumental)
"Coffee Beans" -- Moondog (Moondog 2 album)
"Coffee in a Cardboard Cup" -- Mandy Patinkin
"Java Java" -- Opafire
"Java Jive" -- Andy Shepherd (I'm not sure if this is different from the
Inkspots' and Manhattan Transfers' version)
"Coffee Break" -- Billy Taylor (jazz)
"Have another cup of espresso" -- Shel Silverstein
"Black Coffee" -- Humble Pie, Ike & Tina Turner
"Let's take a coffee" -- Logic System (ex-members of Yellow Magic Orch) (on
To-gen-kyo)
"Coffee" -- Gordie Gordo & the G-Men
"One Cup of Coffee" -- Bob Marley(?)
"Pot of Coffee" -- the Pinchers (reggae)
"One Cup of Coffee" -- Paul Schaefer (on Coast to Coast)
"Keoka Coffee"  -- Carla Sciaky (on In Between)
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