| Perhaps the most famous Cat Song is The | | | | which does seem to be about her real life |
| Siamese Cat Song recorded by Peggy Lee. The | | | | experience of strolling around town with her pet |
| song is from the Walt Disney 1955 classic "The | | | | feline. |
| Lady and The Tramp", an animated film about a | | | | Most songs though that include the word Cat in |
| classy Cocker Spaniel named Lady who falls for | | | | the tile, are not truly about cats at all. A great |
| Tramp a scamp of a mongrel. The song however | | | | example is the fine song, Cats in the Cradle by |
| is about two arrogant cats, Si and Am, who have | | | | Harry Chapin. No cats make an appearance in this |
| given Siamese cats a bad name ever since. | | | | song; instead the lyrics contain a very chilling |
| The Siamese Cat Song was penned by Lee along | | | | message that every dad should pay heed too. |
| with Sonny Burke and over the years has also | | | | Bent Fabric, real name Bent Fabricius-Bjerre, had a |
| been recorded by Freddie and The Dreamers, | | | | hit in 1962 with Alley Cat, but this was an |
| Mitch Miller, Dave Stewart and Barbara Gaskin, | | | | instrumental recording so it's not a song about |
| Haylie Duff, and Bobby McFerrin. "We are Siamese | | | | cats. Instrumental too was Aaron Copeland's The |
| if you please, We are Siamese if you don't | | | | Cat and the Mouse. |
| please." | | | | Cat People (Putting Out Fire) by David Bowie was |
| Both The Turtles and Petula Clark stepped into | | | | recorded for the 1982 remake of the film Cat |
| recording studios to make very different versions | | | | People. Great dark and menacing feel to the song |
| of The Cat in the Window, a song that compares | | | | but the words have no relationship to cats. |
| a cat trying to get out of a window with the | | | | The cat in The Cat Crept In, recorded by Mud |
| singer wanting to fly away. "There's a cat in the | | | | was actually a girl, as was the cat featured in The |
| window, and he's watching all the birds go passing | | | | Rolling Stones' Stray Cat Blues, this one with |
| by, he'd love to fly out the window, go where the | | | | exceedingly sharp claws. |
| wind goes, and so would I." | | | | They Call Her the Cat, by Elton John is about, well |
| Who can forget the Muppets recording of The | | | | it's not about cats! Neither is Honky Cat, another |
| Cat Came Back, a song about a kitty that just | | | | Elton tune, that one is about a country boy |
| kept finding its way back no matter how far it | | | | moving to live life in the city. |
| was taken from home. "But the cat came back, | | | | Three Cool Cats, is a song that was first |
| she wouldn't stay away, she was sitting on the | | | | recorded by the Coasters in 1958 and covered |
| porch the very next day." | | | | by The Beatles in 1962 (but not released until |
| In 1950 folks were flooding into record stores and | | | | 1995.) Of course this song is not about cats, but |
| asking for I Tawt I Taw a Puddy Tat. Mel Blanc | | | | about three teenage boys and three teenage girls. |
| recorded the song, written by Alan Livingston, Billy | | | | The Beatles also recorded Little Willie John's Leave |
| May and Warren Foster, about the cartoon cat | | | | My Kitten Alone, no surprise to find that the song |
| and canary duo Sylvester and Tweety. "I tawt I | | | | is not about a kitten. |
| taw a puddy tat a creeping up on me, I did I taw | | | | U2 recorded a song titled An Cat Dubh, which |
| a puddy tat as plain as he could be." | | | | apparently means The Black Cat in Gaelic, no cat |
| The Rooftop Singers followed up their 1963 | | | | in the song though, black or otherwise. |
| number one hit Walk Right In, with Tom Cat a | | | | No cats are in Year of the Cat by Al Stewart, |
| ditty about 'Ringtail Tom' who liked to go "strutting | | | | Cat Scratch Fever by Ted Nugent, The Lovecats |
| round the town" "And when he steps out all the | | | | by The Cure or in Cool for Cats by Squeeze. |
| other cats in the neighborhood they begin to | | | | Who can say what The Cat's In the Well by Bob |
| shout." Fast forward to 1981 and the Stray Cats | | | | Dylan is about? |
| record a musically different song but with a very | | | | There must be countless other songs that have |
| similar theme, the rockabilly Stray Cat Strut. | | | | the words Cat, or Cats, in the title but are not |
| "Stray cat strut, I'm a ladies' cat, a feline | | | | actually about our feline friends. No doubt there |
| Casanova, hey man, that's where it's at, get a | | | | are more songs that are about cats than those |
| shoe thrown at me from a mean old man, get | | | | listed on this page, but those songs sadly seem |
| my dinner from a garbage can." | | | | few and far between. |
| Norma Tanega apparently owned a cat that she | | | | But wait . . . wasn't there a stage musical all about |
| named 'Dog' and liked to take thatcat for walks, | | | | cats. |
| hence her 1966 hit Walking My Cat Named Dog, | | | | |