Loving You Has Made Me Bananas

"Loving You Has Made Me Bananas" is a song composed and performed by Guy Marks. It parodies big band broadcasts of the era with absurd lyrics:^[1]

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From the Hotel Sheets in Downtown Plunketville The Publican Broadcasting Company presents: The Music of Pete DeAngelis and his Loyal Plunketvillevanians! Here in the beautiful gold, yella, copper, steel, iron ballroom of the Hotel Sheets in Downtown Plunketville, Overlooking the uptown section of Downtown Pottstown! Stay with us, won’t you, and enjoy the sweetest music This side of the Monongahela River! One mile high, two and one half blocks from the center of Old New Orleans! Ah, there’s gaiety, merriment and dancing in the Hotel Sheets nightly! Now, to get things underway, Pete and his Loyal Banditos play a medley of old standard favorites, Commencing with “Your Red Scarf Matches Your Eyes”, “Close Cover Before Striking”, “Your Father Had The Shipfitter Blues”, and “Loving You Has Made Me Bananas”. This picture and lovely lyric portrayed vocally by Dickie Ryan. Oh, your red scarf matches your eyes You closed your cover before striking Father had the shipfitter blues Loving you has made me bananas. Oh, you burned your fingers that evening While my back was turned. I asked the waiter for iodine But I dined all alone.

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It was first released in 1968 on ABC Records as a single with "Forgive Me My Love" on the B-side,^[2] some two years after "Winchester Cathedral" had triggered a revival of this musical form that had fallen out of fashion in the 1950s. It was also released in a stereo LP in 1968 (ABC Records ABCS-648) with additional legitimate 1930s and 1940s hits sung in the same style ("Object of My Affection", "Painted Tainted Rose", "Ti-Pi-Tin", "This Is Forever", "Amapola", "Postage Machine", "Careless", "Little Shoemaker", "Forgive Me My Love" and "Little Sir Echo").

The single was re-released in 1978, reaching No. 25 in the UK Singles Chart.^[3][4]

References

1. J. Jonathan Gabay, Gabay's Copywriters' Compendium: The Definitive Professional Writer's Guide, Routledge, p. 592, ISBN 978-0750683203
2. "Guy Marks - Loving You Has Made Me Bananas / Forgive Me My Love - ABC - UK - ABC 4211". 45cat.com. Retrieved 2016-10-02.
3. Steven Otfinoski (2000), The Golden Age of Novelty Songs, Billboard Books, ISBN 978-0823076949
4. Paul Simpson (2003), The Rough Guide to Cult Pop, Rough Guides, p. 23, ISBN 978-1843532293