100 Clown Songs

Inspired by buying the Hollies For Certain Because.... and coming across 'the Clown' yet another version of the Tears of a Clown trope; so:

1) Tears of a Clown - Smokey
2) Death of a Clown- Kinks
3) The Clown - Hollies

are there a hundred? a thousand?

4) Send in the Clowns -- Stephen Sondheim

5. Dwight Yoakam - Pocket of a Clown

6 - "Cathy's Clown", The Everly Brothers
7 - "Ha Ha Said The Clown" - Manfred Mann

8) "Under A Clown" - xinlisupreme

8. "Cathy's New Clown," John Wesley Harding

whoops, 9.

10. Clowntime Is Over, Elvis Costello

Oops.... wrong board. if a mod could move it to ILM?

ha, I didn't even notice what board it was on. Moved.

11.Ha! Ha! Said The Clown - The Yardbirds

Barnum & Baileys Favorite- Karl King

13. John Wayne Gacy, Jr. - Sufjan Stevens

14. KKKlown - Meta-Matics

15. Charlie Brown--The Coasters (He's a clown, that Charlie Brown)

16.Rambozo the Clown- Dead Kennedys

17. Julius Fučík - Entrance of the Gladiators (aka that scary weird music they play at the circus when the clowns appear). Um, does that count?

can't remember if "The Leather Clown" is a King Missile song or a Kramer/John S. Hall tune

19. The Dickies - Killer Klowns

Back in elementary school
Fourth grade, I think it was
I had this friend, Ethan
During lunch hour
We used to go to eighth street
For pizza and jelly donuts
Sometimes we got an orange Julius
Instead of a donut
Sometimes we got the donuts
But instead of eating them
We'd put them out on the street
And wait for cars to drive over them
But the most fun we ever had was
After eating
Sitting on a stoop
Exchanging sexual fantasies
Sometimes they involved
One of our classmates
Sometimes
It was a movie star
And sometimes
It was our teacher
Who we both suspected
Was sexually repressed
Sometimes I claimed
My stories were real
Like the story about the leather clown
She had short, spiky black hair
Small, but perfectly formed breasts
And was always kitted out
In the same outfit
Leather skirt
Fishnet stockings
Floppy shoes
A big, red nose
A pair of leather wrist bracelets
With spikes
A big, red smile painted on
And a big, shiny horn
Which she would honk and honk during sex
Until she had an orgasm
Whenever the circus would come to town
I would tell Ethan all kinds of kinky
Clown-domination stories
Involving the leather clown
Like the time
She forced me to have sex with her
In the little car
Or the time
She kept spraying me
With the seltzer bottle
Until I obeyed her every command
Ethan and I
We laughed and laughed at these tall tales
But I could tell
Deep down
He was wondering
Whether the leather clown
Was really real or not
And I would let him wonder

20. Crispin Hellion Glover - Clowny Clown Clown

21. "Kinko the Clown" - Ogden Edsl

22. "Clown in Broad Daylight" - Ron Sexsmith
23. "Lay it Down Clown" - The Replacements

24. "See the Funny Little Clown," Bobby Goldsboro

25. Negativland "clowns and ballerinas"

26. Cocteau Twins - "Fifty-Fifty Clown"

Velvet Underground "Femme Fatale" and "All Tomorrow's Parties" both mention clowns for some reason. I don't really understand the use of that word in the lyrics of either, frankly.

29. you am i - cathy's clown (different song to the similarly titled one upthread)

30. apartments - not every clown can be in the circus
31. springfields - clown
32. kevin hewick - cathy clown

who the fuck is this cathy and why do we care about her clown?

33. Moe Bandy - Bandy the Rodeo Clown
34. Joe Stampley - Hey Barnum and Bailey

35. Magnetic Fields - I Looked All Over Town
36. Magnetic Fields - Promises of Eternity
37. Carney Hild Kramer - Clown
38. Happy Flowers - I Crush Bozo

39.Death of a Clown - Kinks

39.Virgo The Clown - Van Morrison

41. XTC - Dear Madam Barnum

WOOT WOOT JUGGALO

43. the laughing clowns - the laughing clowns (did yer know they've reformed for the aus ATP?)

44. MX-80 Sound, "Clown Sex"
45. Lounge Lizards, "My Clown's On Fire"
46. Residents, "Dumbo The Clown (Who Loved Christmas)"
47. Charles Mingus, "The Clown"

Wait, why did I think I Crush Bozo was a song and not an album? Replace that with:
38. "She's A Clown" by Daniel Johnston.

48. Clowns - Too Much Joy
49. Carousel - Mr. Bungle ("look in the mirror and see the clown in yourself")

50. july - my clown

one of my fave psych songs of all time:

51. Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right, here I am "Stuck in the Middle With You"

http://clownalley.blogspot.com/2007/09/bob-dylan.html

52. 'Vesti la giubba', Pagliacci, Ruggiero Leoncavallo

53. When I was down, I was your clown etc - Elton + Kiki "Don't go breaking my heart"

^^^ that whole July album is amazing

54. Little Fluffy Clowns

55. I Want You--Elvis Costello

"Oh no my darling, not with that clown"

56. Harry Nilsson, 1941

"When he looked around, he saw a clown
And the clown seemed very gay
And he set out that night to join that circus clown and run away"

http://vinylobsessions.com/images/Frank%20Sinatra%20Only%20the%20lonely.jpg

http://www.flipsideweb.com/websiteimagesa-h/faye,frances-frenzy-lp.jpg

this album creeps me out. exploito orchestral acid circus music:

http://audiophilianervosa.com/6/ThreeRing.jpg

companion album to three ring circus (same guy made it with bob of sesame street and "groovin' on the sunshine" appears on it as well. some good woozy acid pop on here.):

http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/muppet/images/4/4d/Bobmcgrathfromss.jpg

and everyone needs this too (courtesy of rca records too. they had a fondness for trippy clowns):

http://www.ravensingstheblues.com/pics/591319.jpg

you can hear the klowns here:

The Who, "Dreaming From The Waist"

"Here comes the morning, here comes the yawning, demented clown."

A Flock of Perversions

57 - Bones & the Smiling Mackerel - Kleenex girl Wonder

"A genius from a clown, a city from a townnnn"

58. Harpo - "Rock 'n' Roll Clown"

59. Eire Apparent, "The Clown"

Really disturbing.

"Clown Woman"-Montrose

José José - Payaso.

"In Dreams"--Roy Orbison, especially as sung by Dennis Hopper. Brrr...

"A candy-colored clown they call the sandman
Tiptoes to my room every night
Just to sprinkle stardust and to whisper
Go to sleep. everything is all right.

63. You Killed The Clown - Thompson Twins
64. The Show Must Go On - Leo Sayer

66. Gary Lewis & The Playboys - Everybody Loves A Clown

67. Goldfrapp - Clowns

68. Fancy Clown - Madvillain
69. Clownmaster - Sugar

70. Harlequin - Genesis
71. Cirkus - King Crimson
dunno if this counts but 71.5. Through Electric Gardens - Andy Partridge

Well, given that the thread title is "Clown Songs"...

72. The Clown Song - Thin White Rope

really, thread is this old without Be A Clown? 73: