The Hut Sut Song

[beauboebaboomian]

I could have sworn it was "Suet".

[AkiroXKE]

They quoted this song on McHale's Navy, and I just had to hear what the f___ they were talking about!

[doobiesmoke15]

Thumbs up if Horton the elephant brought you here

[SirKevin54]

This is really silly!

[marilea236]

holy crap my grandma used to sing this sometimes.... that's all i know it from.

[gutterballgrrl]

heard it hanging out with grampa -3

[TheGrotesqueReality]

i've herd this song on Dad's Army

[BLUTundGermany]

listen to the when he explains what each word is you will know then...for all you who aren't to savy

[Bloodclub44]

ahahaha wtf this is awsome

[HippieForever13]

3 people don't like adding a little brawla to their hut-sut rawlson on the rillerah :)

[roylopear]

Can you imagine everyone playing this on their record player and radio, everywhere you went? The same thing happened with "Sugar" by The Archies decades later.

[stingerdawg]

My grandpa used to sing this song to us kids back in the 70's...we would all laugh and laugh while he sang, danced and played his harmonica. I never thought it was a real song, just something my Papa made up to make us kids laugh.

[juliabohemian]

This was used in a Muppet Show sketch years ago. I had no idea it was a real song.

Nurse Piggy says:

"Doctor, how can you be singing at a time like this?"

Rolf says "I'm not singing 'at a time like this' I'm singing Hut Sut Ralston."

[CarSVernon]

@juliabohemian I know this from Veterinarians Hospital too :)

[hansjalv]

Swedish Mind Control - FTW!!!!

[MrRJDB1969]

Dig it !!

[bearcub410]

HOW WONDERFUL LOVE THE 1940'S BORN TOO LATE THANKS TOPS !!!!

[DrWhiggs]

The past was weird.

[ElComadreja777]

Great stuff. These days you couldn't do this because someone that's been or has a relative in the nut hose might get offended. Screw 'em.

[rayofmoonshine]

I heard the first few lines were a code for the army that americans would know but germans who were infiltrating american soldiers wouldn't

[thejunbug15]

i heard this on rocko's modern life and I had no idea it was an actual song... wow

[NekoCat86]

Every now and then, I get this song stuck in my head. No idea why. Guess it's just that catchy!

[JubalCalif]

Strangely compelling. I wonder if there was a late 70's disco version. Even if there was, I think the world is ready for a rap version.

[PeeweeLamby]

what the heck? i can barely understand what they're saying. horton was singing this in horton hatches the egg.

[Varangian1915]

Does anyone know if this is actually a Swedish folk song, and what it means?

[consiquent]

I'm Norwegian, and i can can tell you that sounds nothing like Swedish. And it's not a folk song either :D it's just nonsense!

[3zy]

@Varangian1915: This ridiculous tune is about as Swedish as the Swedish Chef from the Muppet Show. Time Magazine, 1941: "This doubletalk, mock-Swedish "serenade" was written by Ted McMichael (of the singing "Merry Macs"), Jack Owens, Leo V. Killion." And as for what it means...well, they didn't know THEN either, so we're totally hosed.

[makrouhi999]

DOES ANYONE REMEMBER A CARTOON (LATE '50s - EARLY '60s) IN WHICH AN ANIMATED ELEPHANT SANG THIS SONG AS HE SAT ON AN EGG IN A NEST WAITING FOR 'SOMETHING' TO HATCH???? HE KEPT SINGING THIS "HUT-SUT" SONG.

[deid4lit]

Sounds like an animated version of 'Horton Hatches the Egg,' but I've never seen it personally. Hope that helps. :)

[Trumpetplayer60076]

GREAT!!!

[tvinmyskull]

Maybe this is the first music video! Genius!!!

[generationll]

Freddy Martin and The DeCastro Sisters did a version of this song back in the 1940s and 50s

[ebiljebus]

I remember a reference to this in Rocko's Modern Life.

[hortondlfn]

FANTASTIC! I first heard this over 25 years ago as a Dr. Seuss character sang it in a "classic" cartoon. I'd never been able to find it since. Great post!

[pharmgirl1008]

Hey I just had a thougt...ya know how Elvis would always just break out in song..in the middle of a movie ...a band just appreared outta nowhere and he would start singing...

Maybe this is how it all started!!...LOLOLOL

[BartelDoo]

If I saw Elvis sing this song I would piss my pants XD

[forgottentenor]

Wow! What a wondeful song!

Lil' Robert

[iiiears]

A trapped treasure hunter sang it in "Ace in Hole. with "Kirk Douglas" as a failed big city reporter grasping at an opportunity to regain his reputation takes a job in a tiny new mexico town.

[tootandcomeon]

Too bad we don't have such meaningful songs today. Just joking. I love this nutty song.

[Taisto]

They begin to sound like they're doing vocal record scratching at 1:55

[FritziRitz]

the Crabby guy is William Irving..was on Our Gangs "Mike Fright"

[rll0123]

Part of this song has been running through my head today over and over, so I did a Google search and got here. This is an awesome clip! I still have no idea where I first heard the song or which brain cell it came out of, but I can understand why the quartet was hauled off by the white coats!

[nayhem]

Always loved the 'angry fat man' character. (0:27, the dinner scene)

[excellentdevice]

I'll have what they're having!

[Cameragirl803]

This is awesome! My grandfather used to sing this all the time! Very cool to hear it today:0) I need to check out your site! *****Jane

[MOTOPAC]

The attendents look like milkmen.

[alkh3myst]

This song, as a duet by Kirk Douglas and William Benedict, is used as a foreshadowing device in Billy Wilder's masterpiece "Ace in the Hole".

[nitewing98]

My mom actually used to sing this song to me when I was a kid. She had some of the words wrong (no wonder, given the words), but it was this song.

[bobblehead67]

My old man sang this around the house all the time. You can hear it on the radio in the background of the breakfast scene in A Christmas Story.

[nycruise]

This is the song sung by title character in the Chuck Jones / Warner Brothers version of Dr. Seuss' "Horton". Think back - I'm sure you'll remember it if you watched cartoons as a kid.

[freestylenut]

Its actually a short by Bob Clampett, not Chuck Jones. Its in Horton Hatches the Egg...too funny, considering the song got stuck in me & my family's head afterward.

[TNAROHfan]

I'll be singing this in the shower I am afraid.

[lgrenzer]

I never heard this before. Are there any other versions of the song?

[FredFnord]

Sure. It's on the Mel Tormé album "That Old Black Magic, and also the compliation album "Mel Tormé's Finest Hour" (a great version if you like Mel Tormé, a lot more laid-back than the other versions), and also on the compliation "The Classic Years of the Merry Macs (a lovely version fronted by Mary Lou Cook).

[amazinrick]

Thanks for posting this!! I'm only in my twenties so I've heard this song on the radio back home but could never track it down because I had never seen the song's name in writing. :)

[bearcub410]

this was a huge hit in the 1940's thanks so much . great!!!!

[nedsparks]

Just in case anyone wonders -- These are The King's Men:

Man in tub: Grafton "Bud" Linn (1909-1968)

Man with electric shaver: Rad Robinson (1910-1988)

Thin singer with the mustache: Jon Dodson (1907-1964)

Man with towel draped on arm: Ken Darby (1909-1992)

[kikuchiyoh]

You've watched it-you can't un-watch it!

Thanks for posting this, I seem to remember this from an old cartoon or short someplace but didn't know what the song was.

[codyki]

Jeepers! Viewer beware! Watch this just once, and this song will stick in your head virtually forever! And there is NO 'uninstall'.