Ok, link seems dead. here's a new one to the same song.

Excellent song. My search for "Monkey" turned up several tracks in my library, of which this seems the most appropriate.

Background on the great Johnny Otis

Wait a minute. This is the "bunny" site. The "monkey" site is down the block, chump.

Er, chimp.

I would like to upload "One Monkey" by Gillian Welch, but yousendit.com seems to be down right now.

OK, here's the Gillian Welch song.

Sound and fury, signifying monkey?

I hadn't heard this version, but I have heard about five others. I took a class on rap and african-american culture, and the prof whipped through a bunch of different signifying monkey tracks, including a 12-minute one that was pretty great, but I can't seem to find now.

I have been looking all over for a version of the Signifyin' Monekey ditty that I heard back in the late 60's or early 70's and was hoping that you or members the other members could help me out.

The song, though I'm not positive of it as being set to music, was more of a rhyme but with a definite rhythm.

The version posted by jonmc is pretty close as is one by Willy Dixon from iTunes - but not quite what I remember...

It started out:

"Down in the jungle where the coconuts grow
there's the "sig na fide est" monkey that the world ever knowed."

It went on and the next part I remember was something like:

"No admission, pay at the door. Pull up a chair and sit on the floor."

It was spoken pretty fast, but not sung - almost a rap had such been around at that time.

If anyone has it or even the lyrics I would love to get them!

Thanks!

Here's 'Monkey Theme,' by the Infesticons featuring Saul Williams, and 'Monkey Hips and Rice,' by the Dub Narcotic Sound System

And, since I'm doing Radio Mecha anyway, I queued up these two songs, and some other primate-related numbers.

Curiously, I spent a lot of yesterday leafing through this lovely book of Johnny Otis' artwork.