A feline reader, Valderbar of Catnip & Catnaps, has suggested a song for this week's Friday Cat Blogging. Valderbar has excellent taste (aside from her questionable decision to share her life with hairless talls) so I am happy to follow her guidance on this.
For your listening pleasure: I've Got Cats! written and performed by a hairless tall, Rick Cowling.
If music performed by cats is more to your taste, try The Viking Kittens (flash -- found long ago at scribblingwoman) or Cat Song (also flash.)
Then there's Cat in the Chicken Chowmein. (OK, so the photo doesn't go with the song. Close enough.) Or perhaps you are more interested in music you can share with your cat, in which case The first music CDs especially for cats and cat-owners is the place for you (via growabrain.)
The best cat who ever deigned to live with me had his own song: Honky Cat. Honky came along (and was named, by a friend who had the right) long before the song. Honky Cat the song became very popular; every time it came on the radio (which was often) Honky would jump up on the table to sit close and listen. Honky the cat also became very popular; he converted many cat-haters in his time.
Twenty-two years since he left me, and I still miss Honky.
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What a great tribute to Cats!
I lost my cat last year - a year ago this month...he was 11 years old and I had him since he was a kitten - even now if I turn my head suddenly sometimes I can get a glimpse of him sitting in the places he loved to sit most.
Posted by: Susan | 20 August 2004 at 07:33 PM
Not much of cat person, but i dug the lyrics to "Honky Cat" - thanks for the link.
Posted by: Dave | 21 August 2004 at 08:36 AM
now, was this the cat who crawled up the chimney and got stuck? or was he the one who stayed in a drawer for days without letting you know he was in there?
just curious....
Posted by: cindy | 21 August 2004 at 05:35 PM
Um mm, well, it wasn't exactly a drawer, but yes -- that one.
This is also the cat that, every place we lived (and there were many) had a neighbor who supplied him with sardines and cream.
"Where's Honky?" "Oh, visiting the neighbors."
Posted by: SB | 22 August 2004 at 10:10 AM
Honky looks like my Gus.
Posted by: Erin | 22 August 2004 at 02:00 PM
I had to mention my new site I'm working on. It's called Irish Drinking Songs for Cat Lovers. I hope to finish it in October 2005, but right now I have a few cat mp3s you can listen to and download for free.
Most cat lovers who've heard it love it. Hope you do too.
Posted by: Marc Gunn & The Dubliners' Tabby Cats | 26 April 2005 at 11:00 AM