COME ON-A MY HOUSE
Created on 02/02/2007Latest update on 29/08/2023
Artist: Kay Armen
Author: Ross Bagdasarian/William Saroyan
Label: Federal
Year: 1951
Real name: Armenuhi Manoogian, Armenian singer/actress, daughter of wrestler 'The Terrible Turk'. Both of the authors were also Armenian, basing this song on an Armenian folk tune. First used in Saroyan's off-Broadway play The Son (1950). The amounts of exotic fruit displayed in the lyrics (to lure you in) makes part of the Armenian hospitality tradition. Bob Dylan in his Philosophy Of Modern Song (S&S '22) bluntly exposes it as a Little Red Riding Hood song.
Covers:
- 1951:
Rosemary Clooney [n°1 US]
- 1951:
- 1951:
- 1951:
- 1951:
Stan Freeman [parody as Come On To Stan's House; he played the harpsichord part on Clooney's hit version]
- 1951:
Ross Bagdasarian [author with narration by coathor William Saroyan]
- 1961:
- 1962:
- 1982:
- 1994:
- 2001:
- 2004:
- 2005:
- 2018:
See also: Witch Doctor.
