Thanks for posting this. I only today heard of this singer and of this song and I have been listening to country and pop for years! It was played during morning drive on Sirius' Willie Nelson music channel. Love the guitar riffs on this, and his voice at the beginning reminded me a bit of Burl Ives.
@TheHuey88 No..it's not racist..it's far from it. the song makes a reference to someone in his life making a monkey out of him because of the reaction he got for being nice. The moron who told you it was racist is a racist himself because all he hears is monkeys, peanuts, and swinging from trees. It's funny how losers like that can equate nearly everything they hear and see to racism and are the first and only ones to say it.
ljimmie2, I'm wonderin if you have Roy Drusky's Rainbows and Roses (I think thats what it's called), WHere the blue and lonely go, such a fool and white lightning express. I don't mean to be overwhelming I just like Roy Drusky.
No, this is not the original version of of this song. I guess he was with Mercury when he recorded the original version, but I am really not sure about that because we were too poor to spend money on luxuries like records and record players. In the early sixties my brother-in-law gave me my first transistor (2) radio so it is possible that he was still with Decca when he first recorded this song.
Yes Bill Anderson wrote this song. He had the course "peel me a nanner etc..." and like someone else mentioned it did take him about two years to write the verses. When the song was first pitched to Roy Drusky he had a hard time not beleiveing they weren't joking with him.
The Geezinslaws also did a good version of this song.
Mistertbones 9 months ago
Thanks for posting this. I only today heard of this singer and of this song and I have been listening to country and pop for years! It was played during morning drive on Sirius' Willie Nelson music channel. Love the guitar riffs on this, and his voice at the beginning reminded me a bit of Burl Ives.
wesinalabama 9 months ago
A black guy told me to stop playing it in the car said it was racist. Is it?
TheHuey88 11 months ago
@TheHuey88 No..it's not racist..it's far from it. the song makes a reference to someone in his life making a monkey out of him because of the reaction he got for being nice. The moron who told you it was racist is a racist himself because all he hears is monkeys, peanuts, and swinging from trees. It's funny how losers like that can equate nearly everything they hear and see to racism and are the first and only ones to say it.
umoron1 11 months ago
@TheHuey88 Hell no! The songwriter is calling himself a monkey, not anyone else.
EbenezarGold 2 weeks ago
Boy have we come a long way in music.
The onion brought me here
DELPHIIII 1 year ago
@DELPHIIII
Yeah, we've come a long way in a bad way. Music sucks these days.
shelton705 11 months ago 5
@DELPHIIII yeah, music used to be whimsical and happy. now its shallow, sexual, and nearly identical
DillonDemas 10 months ago
PEANUTBUTTERJELLYTIMEFTW!
ThePatriotLV 1 year ago
Seananners
MysticBoner 1 year ago 7
ljimmie2, I'm wonderin if you have Roy Drusky's Rainbows and Roses (I think thats what it's called), WHere the blue and lonely go, such a fool and white lightning express. I don't mean to be overwhelming I just like Roy Drusky.
comeonfolks 1 year ago
SEANANNERS FTW
AutoJew 1 year ago 3
No, this is not the original version of of this song. I guess he was with Mercury when he recorded the original version, but I am really not sure about that because we were too poor to spend money on luxuries like records and record players. In the early sixties my brother-in-law gave me my first transistor (2) radio so it is possible that he was still with Decca when he first recorded this song.
dwilli48 1 year ago
Yes Bill Anderson wrote this song. He had the course "peel me a nanner etc..." and like someone else mentioned it did take him about two years to write the verses. When the song was first pitched to Roy Drusky he had a hard time not beleiveing they weren't joking with him.
robgallob 2 years ago
my name is nanner :)
SouthernGirl1227 2 years ago
Yes this was the voice. Listen! "Jodi and the Kid"...
Grifiki 2 years ago
Great lyrics!
zaaritha 2 years ago
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This may be why Adolf HItler killed all the Jews. This made me want to rape a water buffalo...and eat a nanner.
MyAxIsASax 2 years ago
didn't bill anderson write this
mikemike4315 2 years ago
Yes, Bill Anderson wrote this song. I heard him say on some program that it took him two years to write it.
dwilli48 2 years ago
I have this on a CD called Kooky Kountry, but it's not the original. Thanks for uploading the original version!
travis7310 2 years ago
This isn't the original version by Roy Drusky.
charliebradley1979 2 years ago
It's not? It sounds like it.
travis7310 2 years ago
@travis7310 it was recorded on mercury. i have a vinyl copy on mercury vinyl.
ToddInLN52254 1 year ago
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Kittielips 2 years ago
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Kittielips 2 years ago
I have had this song in my brain all my life. Now I know where it came from.
mjy34222 2 years ago 2
Wonderful!
prairielily25 2 years ago