Coffee Croons & Tea Tunes

I had this blogpost bookmarked (found via Cafe Metaphoric) where I found some cool coffee songs to add to my ever-growing coffee/tea music collection, but now I find that the links to the mp3's are gone!  Well, it's a great coffee post, anyway, lots and lots of well-written coffee info, worth a read.  There's quite a good list of coffee songs there, but the comments here include a some more coffee songs, some of which I've never heard.  Or heard of.  I guess I need to expand my musical horizons.  Thanks to these posts and Kat's coffee and tea posts, etc, I'm getting quite a nice collection.

But, as you'll see, there are still some holes in my database.  Missing album titles, etc.  And I was surprised to realize how few tea tunes I have!  Must work on that.  Of course, this will be an ever-growing list.  If you know of a song about tea or coffee that's not on this list, please post in the comments.  I'll include mp3's when I have them, for a limited time.  And I guess I better borrow this blurb from Locust St., just to cover my butt, which I'm somewhat fond of and would rather not lose:

All songs are posted for a very limited time and are imported at a low bit rate level. They are meant to encourage purchase of the original albums. Please do not direct link to them. If you are the copyright holder of a posted song and do not want the song posted, by all means contact me and I will remove the song.

Coffee Croons and Tea Tunes

Title	Artist	MP3	Album
TEA Songs
Afternoon Tea	The Kinks	Listen / Mp3	Something Else by the Kinks
Have a Cuppa Tea	The Kinks	Listen / Mp3
Pennyroyal Tea	Nirvana	Listen / Mp3	Lyrics & Chords Unplugged in New York
Tea for Two	Blossom Dearie	Listen / Mp3
Tea for Two	Doris Day	Listen / Mp3	Tea for Two/Lullaby of Broadway
Tea for Two Cha Cha Cha	Tommy Dorsey	Listen / Mp3	The Best of Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra
Tea & Sympathy	Jars of Clay	Listen / Mp3	Much Afraid
When I Take My Sugar to Tea	The Boswell Sisters	Listen / Mp3
When I Take My Sugar to Tea	Cleo Laine w/ Dudley Moore on keys	Listen / Mp3	Smilin' Through
COFFEE Songs
40 Cups of Coffee	Ella Mae Morse	Listen / Mp3	The Very Best of Ella Mae Morse
A Cup of Coffee, A Sandwich and You	Buffalo Bills, Barbershop Quartet	Listen / Mp3	The Buffalo Bills: AIC Masterworks Series
Another Cup of Coffee	Brook Benton	Listen / Mp3
Black Coffee	Ella Fitzgerald	Listen / Mp3	The Intimate Ella
Black Coffee	Lacy J. Dalton	Listen / Mp3	Anthology
Black Coffee	Peggy Lee	Listen / Mp3	Best of: 1952-1956
Black Coffee	Rosemary Clooney	Listen / Mp3	Love
Black Coffee	Patricia Kaas	Listen / Mp3	Jazz a Saint-Germain
Black Coffee in Bed	Squeeze	Listen / Mp3	Singles 45's and Under, 1982
Cafe au Lait	Duke Ellington	Listen / Mp3	Such Sweet Thunder, 1957
Calliandra Shade (The Cappuccino Song)	Ian Anderson (Jethro Tull)		Rupi's Dance
Cappuccino	MC Lyte	Listen / Mp3
Cigarettes and Coffee	Otis Redding	Listen / Mp3
Cigarettes and Coffee Blues	Lefty Frizzell	Listen / Mp3	Look What Thoughts Will Do, 1958
Coffee and Conversation	Joni Mitchell	Listen / Mp3
Coffee and TV	Blur	Listen / Mp3	Lyrics Video The Best of Blur
Coffee Blues	Mississippi John Hurt	Listen / Mp3	Rediscovered
Coffee Break	Soundtrack	Listen / Mp3	How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying: The New Broadway Cast Recording (1995 Revival)
Coffee Grinder Blues	Jaybird Coleman	Listen / Mp3	Alabama Blues: 1927-1931
Coffee House Blues	Lightnin' Hopkins	Listen / Mp3	Blues Masters: The Very Best of Lightnin' Hopkins, 1951
Coffee in Brazil	Andrews Sisters	Listen / Mp3
Coffee in a Cardboard Cup	Mandy Patinkin	Listen / Mp3	Mandy Patinkin
Coffee in the Morning and Kisses in the Night	The Boswell Sisters	Listen / Mp3	That's How Rhythm Was Born, 1934
Coffee Monkey	Bottle Rockets
Coffee Rhumba	The Peanuts	Listen / Mp3
Coffee Song	Jars of Clay	Listen / Mp3
Coffee Stain	Sarah Harmer	Listen / Mp3	You Were Here
Couleur Cafe	Serge Gainsbourg	Listen / Mp3	Couleur Café, 1964
Cup of Coffee	John McCutcheon	Listen / Mp3
Don't Forget the Coffee Billy Joe	Tom T. Hall	Listen / Mp3	In Search of a Song The Rhymer and Other Five and Dimers, 1973
Ei Wie Schmeckt (from the Coffee Cantata)	J.S. Bach		Bach: The Coffee Cantata
I'll Have Another Cup of Coffee	Claude Gray	Listen / Mp3	Sweet Country Inspiration
Instant Coffee Blues	Guy Clark	Listen / Mp3	Essential Guy Clark
Iodine In My Coffee	Muddy Waters	Listen / Mp3	Iodine In My Coffee, 1952
Java	Al Hirt	Listen / Mp3
Java Jive	The Ink Spots	Listen / Mp3	20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of The Ink Spots, 1941
Java Jive	Manhattan Transfer	Listen / Mp3	Manhattan Transfer
Let's Have Another Cup of Coffee	Fred Waring's Pennsylvanians	Listen / Mp3	Memory Lane, 1932
O' Blessed Holy Caffeine Tree	David Needham/C.Torres, J.Allyn	Listen / Mp3	David Needham Original
One More Cup of Coffee	Bob Dylan	Listen / Mp3	Desire, 1976
One More Cup of Coffee	The White Stripes	Listen / Mp3	The White Stripes, 1999
Percolator	The Ventures	Listen / Mp3	The Ventures Play Telstar/Ventures in Space
Proper Cup of Coffee	Andrews Sisters	Listen / Mp3	Best of the Andrews Sisters - Import
Saint Caffeine	John Gorka	Listen / Mp3	After Yesterday
Second Cup of Coffee	Gordon Lightfoot	Listen / Mp3	Don Quixote
Smelling Coffee	Chris Rice
Starfish & Coffee	Prince	Listen / Mp3	One Nite Alone...Live!
The Coffee Song	Cream
Too Much Coffee Man	Bob Dorough	Listen / Mp3	Too Much Coffee Man
Two Beds and a Coffee Machine	Savage Garden
What I Want Is A Proper Cup Of Coffee	Trout Fishing in America	Listen / Mp3	Big Trouble
You're the Cream in My Coffee	Emmett Miller	Listen / Mp3	The Minstrel Man from Georgia, 1929
You're the Cream in My Coffee	Ruth Etting	Listen / Mp3	Ten Cents a Dance
You're the Cream in My Coffee	Marlene Dietrich	Listen / Mp3	Marlene Dietrich

Comments

[Jeannette]

Java Jive by The Manhattan Transfer is a great song.

[sakai miyuki]

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I like teas very much so I drink a lot of tea every day.
What about tea?
very nice drink ,no tea no life

[sakai miyuki]

I love tea.
lipton　tea　is　delicious

[Titof69.fr]

Hi. 'Couleur Café' from Serge Gainsbourg. Great Song, heavy lyrics... but in french

[D.J. la Fée]

YAY ! I am home !

[Mr. Blooming Tea]

Wow!! I never knew there are many songs about coffee and tea. :)

[Gremlin]

I was also going to say Afternoons and Coffeespoons. It's by the Crash Test Dummies.

[Rosel]

Cup of Brown Joy, by Elemental
Everything stops for Tea - Jack Buchanan

[ZEN]

i have some tea songs for you.
1. Tea - Brandon Benson
2. Drink Tea (For the Love of God) - Kula Shaker
3. T.U.S.A. - Masters of Reality
4. Tea for Tillerman - Cat Stevens
5. Easy Wind - Grateful Dead (this has a line in the song that goes something like "gotta find a woman be good to me. Won't hide my liquor try to serve me tea."
6. Tea & Theatre - The Who
7. Cups and Cakes - Spinal Tap
8. Tea in the Sahara - The Police
9. Earl Grey - Fleetwood Mac

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[Amy]

One more idea -- "Tom's Diner" by Suzanne Vega is partly about coffee

[Amy]

One more tea song -- "Chrysanthemum Tea" from the Stephen Sondheim musical Pacific Overtures. (I prefer the Original Bway Cast from the 1970s; but the song is also on the early 2000s Broadway Revival.)

Thanks for a great list!

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[Solaris]

Thank you all a lot,
always thought of creating a compilation of coffee songs, this is great!
And i have got another song to add, "Coffee´s Cold" by Abigail Washburn.

[Ray Ardry]

Heres another one.Very nice sound.

I Need A Cuppa Joe

http://www.lotorc.com

[Christy]

Lovely list! I am so happy to see the Kinks on here.

Their song "Have a Cuppa Tea" is on the album Muswell Hillbillies.

[elizabeth]

hi i´m from Mexico and i want to say you ,congratulations!!!! your list is amazing thanks for all the songs about coffee it´s delicious ;)

[Adam G]

I don't know if this is already listed-- there's a song whose lyrics are:

I've always called it the coffee song, it's a round.

C-O-F-F-E-E
Don't drink too much coffee
Not for children is this Turkish drink
makes them nervous and unable to think
C-O-F-F-E-E
fine wine instead for me

[Jen]

This music is FANTASTIC!

[james]

"Black Coffee" by Humble Pie. I'm not sure if it's original or a cover.

[musicalman1234]

The coffee song by Frank Sinatra

[Jeff]

hey everyone
listen to this one

http://cdbaby.com/cd/fantasea

check out track # 10 - COFFEE

thanks

[Jenn]

This list is fantastic, thanks for compiling it! Here's a coffee shop one that's adorable:

"Falling in Love at a Coffee Shop" by Landon Pigg

[Bad Good]

Does anyone know of a song by a country singer with a really low voice, first words are "Coffee Black, Cigarette...

[Nikki]

What about Your So Vain by Carly Simon?

[Amber Nordvik]

Oops, sorry for not adding this to the last post, but there's a section about coffee in JBE's song "Someday Cafe", but that one's a hair more depressing...

[Amber Nordvik]

"Stress" by Jim's Big Ego is a hilarious song with an extended verse on coffee (and espresso). It also happens to be one of my favorites. (I think it may be the one Rye was looking for.)

[caffeinated]

has anyone mentioned Michelle Featherstone's Coffee and Cigarettes?
and Coffee Cup by Breaking News. the first one i first heard on a One Tree Hill episode, i think, or Grey's Anatomy. the second one is a jazz song which i like also. check them out as well. :)

great compilation by the way, i really appreciate it! :D

to the coffee lovers,
j

[Mike]

AWOL did a song called Coffee on the collection Ska: The Third Wave, Volume 2.

http://lyric.uuxfer.net/bands/awl/coffee.php

[A nice cup of tea song]

A nice cup of tea song by Joe Beagle

listen for free at

http://www.myspace.com/poptasticfun

or just click the A nice cup of tea song link above..

[Coren]

Tea songs:
A Decent Cup of Tea - Frank Turner
Tea and Sympathy - Janis Ian
Sunday for Tea - Peter & Gordon
Strange Cup of Tea - Sister Hazel
For the Price of a Cup of Tea - Belle and Sebastian
Have Some More Tea - Smoke
English Tea - Paul McCartney
Gran's for Tea - The View
Toast and Marmalade for Tea - Tin Tin
Cup of Tea - The Adicts
Cup of Tea - Sage Francis
All the Tea in China - Susan Jacks
Coffee, Tea & Sympathy - Robbie Williams
Tea - Brendan Benson
Another Pot O' Tea - Emmylou Harris
The Coffee And Tea Wrecks - The Dandy Warhols

[Andriana]

I have a great new single for coffee lovers called "Coffee Dream." You can see the music video at http://www.youtube.com/1Andriana

or Download on Itunes:

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Hope you like it!

[L T]

Or, better yet, Bach's Coffee Cantata, on of his few secular pieces, written to encourage his daughter to kick the coffee habit.

[L T]

Also check out Coffee Flavored Kisses by Saffire (The Uppity Blues Women); Too Much Coffee by Toni ? ; and search itunes for one called Cuppa Joe; and do you have Java Jive by the Inkspots listed?

[Janice Graves]

I am looking for a song that I heard on the radio recently.

Each verse ends with sitting by the fireside and telling stories about the Christ Child and drinking a cup of Christmas tea. Does anyone know this song or how I can get a copy? Janice Graves dk

[Alberta]

My favorite - Ray Materick's Put the Coffee On Linda

[Leslie]

We have just opened a coffee and tea store online. I love the songs that I have found here.We are looking for someone to put together a "commercial" that we can post on YouYube and My Space. Would love to hear from anyone who has any ideas. Our budget is VERY limited. Our site is: www.theultimatecoffeebreak.com

[Tess]

'ello! I found this entry while searching the Web for "coffee songs", so thanks! :) I'm compiling my own coffee playlist (tea & chocolate are welcome too, of course! I luvvvv all three.) May I suggest a few that aren't in your list?

1) Té para tres ("Tea for three"), by Argentine band Soda Stereo. I don't know if you understand Spanish, but this song is a classic in Latin American rock. The guitar sound is out of this world :)
2) Tea in the Sahara, by The Police.
3) Cup of coffee, by Garbage.

And a big THANK YOU goes for the girl who mentioned the song by The Flash Girls. I love Neil Gaiman, but wasn't aware of this song. Now, if only I could find it...

[Bulldog]

I have been looking for a song about coffee for some time. I think it was in a car commercial once. It's a rap song about coffee. The guy gets up in the morning and "gets a cuppa coffee" then stops on the way to work and "gets a cuppa coffee". Then get to work and goes in the break room and "gets a cuppa coffee". Has another at noon. Another at break time. He's always talking about "gets a cuppa coffee".

Anyone have a clue what the name of this song is and who the artist is?

Any help is greatly appreciated!!

[Rye]

A few others would be "Coffee Mug" & " Coffee & Cigarettes" both by Lagwagon and "Mr. Coffee" by Decendants.

[Otter]

One to add to your list would be the Cranberries "Wake up and smell the coffee "from the album of the same name. It's actually political but does reference coffee.

[portal]

Great job!
In Romania the tea is becoming a show for very rich people.
The books are very interesting but I can't touch them.It would be interesting if you could post this books on a share file.
By the way some interesting chinese or japanese music for tea ceremony?!
Merry Christmas!

[Chris]

Also, Tea and Corpses, written by Neil Gaiman, sung by the Flash Girls.

[Dorinda Read]

I could have written the same e-mail as Steve-June 27,2006. Anyone know how I can get a copy of that song that Delilah wrote?