Top 10 Songs About Soup

10cc Sing Their Ode to Minestrone (YouTube Video)

…plus three fun facts.

Fact One: One of the five original flavors of Campbells’ Soup was oxtail. Those are hard to come by these days…

Fact Two: The biggest months of the year for Campbells’ are November and December, when Grandmoms all over the planet dump cans of Mushroom Soup into those green bean casseroles for Thanksgiving.

Fact Three: There are 32 different pieces in Andy Warhol’s soup can series. One of them, Pepper Pot, sold for $11 million at auction.

Now, on to our show…

10: 10cc – “Life Is a Minestrone” – Served up with cheese…

9: Barenaked Ladies – “I Love You” – “I like soup/and I like ice cream sandwiches too…”

8: Frank Zappa – “Soup N’ Old Clothes” — Instrumental from Shut Up ‘N’ Play Yer Guitar…

7: David Soul – “Black Bean Soup” – So awful it should be higher on the list…

6: Guy Clark – “Cold Dog Soup” – A little name-droppin’ from Guy…also recorded by Lyle Lovett…

5: King Crimson – “The World’s My Oyster Soup Kitchen Floor Wax Museum” – Don’t ask, just listen…

4: John Hartford – “Gentle on My Mind” – “I dip my cup of soup back…”

3: Slim Gaillard and Leo Watson – “Avocado Seed Soup Symphony” – From back in the days of radio shows…

2: Jimmy Buffet – “I Will Play for Gumbo” – And a side of parottheads..

1: Robert Wyatt – “Soup Song” – A Depression-era blues song, written by Maurice Sugar and also covered by Pete Seeger…

More of Michael’s Top 10 picks can be found here …