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