My dad used to sing this once in a while when I was a kid. He had the perfect, deep voice for it. Dad was born in 1921 and I suspect that, as a child of the Depression, he identified more with the song than he let on.
Amusing coincidence: my father was also born in 1921 and used to sing it occasionally when I was a child. Although he might have (according to my brother) have sung one _fishball_ instead
Thank you to whoever posted this. My great-grandmother used to sing this to me when I was a child. It was a song that was meant to be humorous back in the WWII era. I was too young to understand and I would cry. LOL. She was my favorite person. Thank you.
@@RadicalCaveman Dude was so poor that he couldn't even get a full plate of meatballs, and they wouldn't even give him bread to go with it. And then he's loudly ridiculed by the waiter, who announces to the whole restaurant that he's only buying one meatball. I'd say you are empathetic if you felt sadness from the song.
My mother sung this to me as well (She's a millennial), my mother lost her marbles so I can't really ask her about it. I guess I finally know where this song came from. I heard this briefly in a video, and learned this wasn't some song she made up.
The singer is Patti Clayton. She had considerable popularity in the 1940s and 1950s. I love her low tones. I could listen to her sing all day. She could make the telephone book into a torch song.
It spawned a Beatles career!!. A quote from George Harrison. It was the first song he can remember singing. "I liked music since I can remember. I can remember One Meat Ball, very early, Hong Kong Blues, that’s one of the first songs I can remember (I must have been about four) a real bluesy song. Those were happy times. I went out with my parents from when I was a baby and we went out a lot. I remember being at one place or another, dancing at the club or at old Mrs. Such and Such. I remember as a baby standing on a little leather stool, singing ‘One Meat Ball.’" - George Harrison
I see from some of the posts that it has been recognized how very old are the origins of this song, and how the universal themes have caused it to be revived through generations. Here's the way that I was introduced to it; around sixty years ago this was presented by a guest on the Captain Kangaroo children's show, and a reference was made to the hard times that folks had in the depression era and since. How wonderful that many entertainers have sought to be role models, teaching empathy and understanding to children, and how shameful that some of the best children's shows of today are being vilified for doing the same thing.
I had an Italian Restaurant in Otego, NY. I ran a special one week. I had spaghetti and 2 meatballs or spaghetti with 1 meatball. No bread with 1 meatball.
Gosh, I remember this song as a kid. In Chicago it was sung by this guy that sung songs for us kids, 'Two Ton Baker' the music maker. They would be super funny songs. He would have on cartoons and the little Rascles, Laurel and Hardy. Good Memories!
This was in my mother's book of chords and tabs and we sang it regularly when I was a kid. I've looked before and never found the right one, until I saw this.
My husband says he remembers this song from his childhood days during WW2 and afterward. Says he and his dad would sing it everytime his mom made Swedish meatballs for supper.
My father had the glass record and gramophone that you wind (no electricity) to play this record. This was the 80s and we were way behind the times. This song holds a special memory for me though.
Really?!? Was it a live bootleg or something like that? It's the kind of thing he would often jump into during his concerts, but I don't recall hearing him do it on a regular album (and I've got 'em all!).
@@mjemigh3304 You're right. I looked back at "Somebody Elses Troubles" on Wikipedia and it's not on the playlist. That's the only Goodman album I liked as a whole and played it regularly. I saw Steve a couple of times live but I wouldn't have learned the song in my head from that. I distinctly remember singing along with the album but I don't see it anywhere on youtube. Very strange....
@@harrylazard805 The only thing that I see that's even close is Dave Van Ronk, but if you're not a folk music nut (like me), it's unlikely that you heard it there. Oh, well....another mystery from our long-ago lives, I guess. I have them pretty often these days.
@@harrylazard805 Oh! One more story. When I was in college, Phil Ochs was scheduled to do a concert. Stevie was his opening act. I hadn't heard of him, and his first album had just recently come out. Stevie went over GREAT! Then, when Ochs hadn't shown up, the Concert Committee offerd to refund anyone who didn't want to stay for a second Goodman set as the main act. NOBODY asked for a refund, and EVERYBODY stayed! I saw him every chance I got after that.
This was originally a Harvard students' song from the 1850s and was about fish balls, Probably the later influx of Italian immigrants changed the substance (spaghetti with meatballs). The art historian Bernard Berenson, who had been a poor Harvard student, used to sing it nostalgically after becoming rich and renowned.
f The first time I heard this was back in the '50's.Some comic (I don't remember) would sing it on the Ed Sullivan show.The next time I heard it was the Dave Von Ronk version.Since I like Dave I think I like his version the most of all.
A little man walked up and down And found an eating place in town He looked the menu through and through To see what 15 cents could do One meatball One meatball He could be full with one meatball
Is there a place where I can download this video? I haven't been able to locate it on iTunes, and as the song is sort of an inside family joke, I'd like to download it for my mother and uncle.
For more information about "One Meatball" and its writers, please see www.argosymusiccorp.com/HyZaret/HyZaret.html#Meatball I found a video on RUclips showing Frank Sinatra and Lou Costello singing the song, but I'm quite sure Frank Sinatra never recorded it.
This irritating song was hot stuff for some reason during the era of Jumping Jive. There are lots of allusions to it from the day in other songs. Personally, I don't get what the attraction was. Thanks for putting it on, however. Watch it and think of visiting the skunk cage at the zoo.
This video is fascinatingly bad. The awkward language of the song, the awkward songstress, the visual gags that don't work on any level... it's an amazing clusterfuck. "Hey Sal, try wiggling your mouth from one side to another for no reason! It's funny!" "Hey Lou! We want this guy to win in the end... so pull a full piece of bread out of your jacket as awkwardly as possible."
You idiot this is way better than cardi B Justin Bieber Taylor Swift Katy Perry Sia and other artists of today especially rap so you should just keep that to yourself and not comment if you don't like this
My dad used to sing this once in a while when I was a kid. He had the perfect, deep voice for it. Dad was born in 1921 and I suspect that, as a child of the Depression, he identified more with the song than he let on.
Amusing coincidence: my father was also born in 1921 and used to sing it occasionally when I was a child. Although he might have (according to my brother) have sung one _fishball_ instead
Thank you to whoever posted this. My great-grandmother used to sing this to me when I was a child. It was a song that was meant to be humorous back in the WWII era. I was too young to understand and I would cry. LOL. She was my favorite person. Thank you.
Maybe you understood better than the grownups. The song is actually quite sad.
My nana used to sing me this aswell! and I used to think it was sad too! 😂
@@RadicalCaveman Dude was so poor that he couldn't even get a full plate of meatballs, and they wouldn't even give him bread to go with it. And then he's loudly ridiculed by the waiter, who announces to the whole restaurant that he's only buying one meatball.
I'd say you are empathetic if you felt sadness from the song.
Believe it or not it was originally written in 1851 as one fish ball
My mother sung this to me as well (She's a millennial), my mother lost her marbles so I can't really ask her about it. I guess I finally know where this song came from. I heard this briefly in a video, and learned this wasn't some song she made up.
The singer is Patti Clayton. She had considerable popularity in the 1940s and 1950s. I love her low tones. I could listen to her sing all day. She could make the telephone book into a torch song.
My dad's 93 and still sings this. I didn't like it as a kid, but now that I'm a senior, I can appreciate it 😮❤
It spawned a Beatles career!!.
A quote from George Harrison. It was the first song he can remember singing.
"I liked music since I can remember. I can remember One Meat Ball, very early, Hong Kong Blues, that’s one of the first songs I can remember (I must have been about four) a real bluesy song. Those were happy times. I went out with my parents from when I was a baby and we went out a lot. I remember being at one place or another, dancing at the club or at old Mrs. Such and Such. I remember as a baby standing on a little leather stool, singing ‘One Meat Ball.’"
- George Harrison
My dad remembered this from when he was a kid. I miss you Dad.
I miss mine, too. He heard this song as a youth in the 40s and actually sang it to me.
I see from some of the posts that it has been recognized how very old are the origins of this song, and how the universal themes have caused it to be revived through generations. Here's the way that I was introduced to it; around sixty years ago this was presented by a guest on the Captain Kangaroo children's show, and a reference was made to the hard times that folks had in the depression era and since.
How wonderful that many entertainers have sought to be role models, teaching empathy and understanding to children, and how shameful that some of the best children's shows of today are being vilified for doing the same thing.
I had an Italian Restaurant in Otego, NY. I ran a special one week. I had spaghetti and 2 meatballs or spaghetti with 1 meatball. No bread with 1 meatball.
Gosh, I remember this song as a kid. In Chicago it was sung by this guy that sung songs for us kids, 'Two Ton Baker' the music maker. They would be super funny songs.
He would have on cartoons and the little Rascles, Laurel and Hardy. Good Memories!
The food shortages of WWII partially inspired this, but my parents told me that meatballs were typically very large at that time.
I actually just read it was originally written in 1855 by a Harvard man.
According to Wikipedia, it was originally "The Lone Fish Ball" when it was written in 1855. It was adapted to this version.
and full of bread crumbs!
So he *does* “gets bread with one meatball!”
I first heard this song when my father started singing it recently. He is 89 years old. I thought he was making it up until I found it on Spotify!
Yup, my 90yo MIL started singing this the other day when we were making spaghetti!
Candy Candido's version shows off his incredible vocal range: from the deepest basso to the high squeak of a tiny bug!
Beard this song working as the aid to a 95 year old man named Jack
George Harrison used to sing this song as a child :D. Rip George!
You gets no ketchup with one Mcnugget
I had NO IDEA this was a song! I read it in a book about codfish in elementary school, except the thing was “one fishball.” Wow, what a discovery!
And my grandpa sometimes played it miss you Grandpa he died of colon cancer whenever I was 4 but now I am 10
yea I understand how this song could get stuck in someone's head for 80 years
A wonderful blast from the past! Thank you!
this is my favorite song!
Same LOL
This was in my mother's book of chords and tabs and we sang it regularly when I was a kid. I've looked before and never found the right one, until I saw this.
I love this song. I first heard it by the Andrews Sisters on 78. Its the flip side of Rum And Coca Cola.
Very Interesting. "One Meatball" isn't about one meat ball, and "Rum and Coca Cola" isn't about rum and coca cola.
My husband says he remembers this song from his childhood days during WW2 and afterward. Says he and his dad would sing it everytime his mom made Swedish meatballs for supper.
Not exactly a warm and fuzzy waiter!
The saddest song ever written and performed.
Add to that, "Brother, can you spare a dime?" ruclips.net/video/4F4yT0KAMyo/видео.html
My friends like it when I jam this on the guitar and yell them words! You gets no bread with one meatball
My father had the glass record and gramophone that you wind (no electricity) to play this record. This was the 80s and we were way behind the times. This song holds a special memory for me though.
+DougEs Whurl I have this on a piano roll :-)
The sound is all on the right channel.
It doesn't really matter, does it?
it sounds all right to me
It was recorded before stereo. IE: It's a "Mono" recording.
I'm glad it's not on the wrong channel.
@@kennethen1110 Your comment is meaningless. Plenty of mono recordings on YT and elsewhere play out of both speakers.
My grandma played the piano and sang this song every time we stayed with her down by her house.
The woman singing is Patti Clayton, the original voice of the Chiquita Banana.....I think!
I thought Monica Lewis sang Chiquita 🍌
Listen to The Andrews Sisters version it's good
I like josh whites version the best.
OMG. Candy Candido brought me here and I'm loving this.
Can't wait for these classic songs to make their appearance again
Heard a comedian sing this at The Red Mile in Lexington Ky in the mid 1960s
One of the first music videos.
Used to play this in a Blues Band I was a member of.
Great Song....only lacking, "NO SPAGHETTI!"
Haven't heard this since about 1959
such humour out ot such a sad story...how delightful.
First heard this song on a Steve Goodman album. Interesting to hear about its history and looking forward to seeing more "Soundies" from the past....
Really?!? Was it a live bootleg or something like that? It's the kind of thing he would often jump into during his concerts, but I don't recall hearing him do it on a regular album (and I've got 'em all!).
@@mjemigh3304 You're right. I looked back at "Somebody Elses Troubles" on Wikipedia and it's not on the playlist. That's the only Goodman album I liked as a whole and played it regularly. I saw Steve a couple of times live but I wouldn't have learned the song in my head from that. I distinctly remember singing along with the album but I don't see it anywhere on youtube. Very strange....
@@harrylazard805 The only thing that I see that's even close is Dave Van Ronk, but if you're not a folk music nut (like me), it's unlikely that you heard it there. Oh, well....another mystery from our long-ago lives, I guess. I have them pretty often these days.
@@harrylazard805 Oh! One more story. When I was in college, Phil Ochs was scheduled to do a concert. Stevie was his opening act. I hadn't heard of him, and his first album had just recently come out. Stevie went over GREAT! Then, when Ochs hadn't shown up, the Concert Committee offerd to refund anyone who didn't want to stay for a second Goodman set as the main act. NOBODY asked for a refund, and EVERYBODY stayed! I saw him every chance I got after that.
@@mjemigh3304 I have read Von Ronk's autobiography but hadn't heard his version of this song till about ten years ago...
My Dad used to sing this. USAF 1944-46
Who could have thumbed tis down such an epic.
That was fabulous!
Ive heard this from Josh White and Ralph Archenhold. Who is the woman singing?
Best song
This was originally a Harvard students' song from the 1850s and was about fish balls, Probably the later influx of Italian immigrants changed the substance (spaghetti with meatballs). The art historian Bernard Berenson, who had been a poor Harvard student, used to sing it nostalgically after becoming rich and renowned.
So music videos date back to at least the 40's. Who knew?
search for SOUNDIES
At least it wasn't a meatless meatball!
Josh White wrote the original as 13cents?
Different era, good old days that will never return.
scrapplepig this song was made during The Great Depression
@@Hannah-rx5wb yea that guy is an idiot
Who's the girl singer?
Patti Clayton
My favorite song when I was a wee one. Josh White record
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The first time I heard this was back in the '50's.Some comic (I don't remember) would sing it on the Ed Sullivan show.The next time I heard it was the Dave Von Ronk version.Since I like Dave I think I like his version the most of all.
Candy Candido?
Agree! ruclips.net/video/mE_xaE6sUK8/видео.html
Grew up listening to music like this with my grand pa. Time to jump into a Rat Pack rabbit hole now.
A little man walked up and down
And found an eating place in town
He looked the menu through and through
To see what 15 cents could do
One meatball
One meatball
He could be full with one meatball
15 cents
acer3573 thank you for the correction
I remember this
Wow, I only knew Calvin Russell’s version. 👍
Funny. Like version Louie Prima but this was sad & funny. Ole time americana
gold!
Back when music videos were in black and white.
🤨 If that was all I could afford, I wouldn't even bother to go to a restaurant in the first place.
This was 90 years ago bruh
Ry Cooder covered this on a album inthe 70s.
My dad used to sing this to me as a child, his lyrics were one meatball without the gravy, did he just make this up?
Assuming 'gravy' is spaghetti sauce, no?
lol my friend was singing this song and he sent me this
I like this version. Do you get any gravy with one meat ball?
She just forgot his watermelon
this is way better than Justin Bieber my parents raised me correctly and play swing music for us LOL
Is there a place where I can download this video? I haven't been able to locate it on iTunes, and as the song is sort of an inside family joke, I'd like to download it for my mother and uncle.
ImPrincesspooh has your grandma ever sung this at her birthday dinner cause if so SAME
"Without the gravy" !
My parents raised me correctly once again LOL
alto nível !
That looks like Harpo Marx playing the little man.
we sing this song at camp taconic! thumbs up for 01235
does anyone know if frank sinatra recorded this and where can i get it ????
ruclips.net/video/Qb8tuSACdYE/видео.html
t glass ftw dont tell kinno
For more information about "One Meatball" and its writers, please see
www.argosymusiccorp.com/HyZaret/HyZaret.html#Meatball
I found a video on RUclips showing Frank Sinatra and Lou Costello singing the song, but I'm quite sure Frank Sinatra never recorded it.
This is romans favorite song
we sang this in elementary school hahaha
josh white originally wrote this
No he didn't, but he recorded it best.
without the gravy !!
Or the WATERMALOOOONE XD
The Ron Desantis theme song
Também conhecido como "Um croquete" 😁
1:09 lol
Also.... I can only hear this through 1 ear phone. Mono
"You gets no stereo with one ear phone!"
One does not simply order bread with one meatball
This sounds suspiciously like Ella Fitzgerald.
I think 1.25x speed is better.
American patrol
ok
funny :)
Vendo o original depois do podcast sociedade primitiva com os felas mais based
Try this version as well: ruclips.net/video/mE_xaE6sUK8/видео.html
hehe
This irritating song was hot stuff for some reason during the era of Jumping Jive. There are lots of allusions to it from the day in other songs. Personally, I don't get what the attraction was. Thanks for putting it on, however. Watch it and think of visiting the skunk cage at the zoo.
lol!
This video is fascinatingly bad. The awkward language of the song, the awkward songstress, the visual gags that don't work on any level... it's an amazing clusterfuck.
"Hey Sal, try wiggling your mouth from one side to another for no reason! It's funny!"
"Hey Lou! We want this guy to win in the end... so pull a full piece of bread out of your jacket as awkwardly as possible."
The inability to judge things by any standards other than those of the pop culture of the present day... fascinatingly bad.
You idiot this is way better than cardi B Justin Bieber Taylor Swift Katy Perry Sia and other artists of today especially rap so you should just keep that to yourself and not comment if you don't like this
Troll
Professional onanist much?