What are the weirdest songs on your Ipod or mp3 player?

I recently purchased a rather odd collection of old music from Amazon while creating a goofy CD for my mother to listen to while driving. (I should perhaps note that she often has her third-grader great-granddaughter in the car with her, so it wasn't only for my mother.) So right now I've got a great bunch of stuff to dance to and giggle over while I'm supposed to be writing. In no particular order: remember these?

Tiger Rag. Although Louis Armstrong wasn't the original artist on this one, IMHO he's put together the greatest versions, starting in 1930 and continuing to who knows when. All of them are good, but try the earlier ones for the roughest edges and the most amazing range. Who else could make this great jazz number come so alive?

Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah. Allan Sherman released this classic in 1963 on an album appropriately entitled My Son, the Nut. The album held the number one position on Billboard 200 for two months before finally surrendering that place to Peter, Paul and Mary (no one less could win that fight).

The Streak. Ray Stevens has a rare and special talent for the ridiculous, and this silly 1974 song gives a whole new meaning to those words. It, too, reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and can still make me laugh out loud 34 years later. Boogity boogity.

Centerfield. John Fogerty, once the songwriter, lead singer, and guitarist for the swamp-rock band Creedence Clearwater Revival, released this one in 1985 on an album of the same name. It's become required playing at many baseball games around the country and will probably never go out of style. Just hearing it can put me on my feet for a seventh-inning stretch.

Lookin' Out My Back Door. Another Fogerty creation, this one was performed in 1970 during his days with CCR. Although some people claim the imagery was meant to describe a bad trip, Fogerty always claimed it was written to tickle his then three-year-old son, Josh.

Hipposong. Al Stewart is an amazingly talented songwriter, and sometimes he puts out a really off-the-wall song seemingly to prove he can. I just know, while listening to this one, that somebody told him he couldn't write a rhyming song on the word hippopotamus, and this 1993 karma-comment is his response. Yes, it rhymes.

The Monster Mash. Bobby "Boris" Pickett always could do a great Karloff or Lugosi pastiche. This one, performed with his band The Cryptkickers, reached number one on Billboard Hot 100 in 1962, just in time for Halloween, even if the BBC refused to allow it on its cultured air because it was "too morbid." This song has been spoofed in turn by everyone from The Simpsons to Karloff himself and has spawned spin-offs such as Monsters' Holiday, Monster Rap, and Climate Mash.

That's Amore. The moon does not hit your eye like a big pizza pie. Thankfully, nobody told Dino that, and Dean Martin's delightful and affectionate satire on Italian pop culture premiered as part of the soundtrack for the movie The Caddy in 1953, also starring the other half of the famous comedy team, Jerry Lewis. It became one of Dino's signature songs (the other is "Everybody Loves Somebody").

A Boy Named Sue. Oh, yes, let's not forget Johnny Cash. He'd barely glanced through the words to this song, written by Shel Silverstein, prior to giving an impromptu performance in 1969 at San Quentin State Prison in California, and admitted he was astonished at the reception it received. Presumably he was even more so when that recording of the song, rough and with barely any background music, rocketed to number one on the charts.

Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy. Nobody could do it like The Andrews Sisters. This song was recorded in 1941, a year before the United States entered World War II, but hey, we all knew we were going. And it's still one of the greatest dance songs ever recorded.

The Little Old Lady from Pasadena. This song was the entire reason I purchased a bunch of goofy stuff in the first place; my sister had just splurged on a 2008 candy apple Mustang for our 84-year-old mother, and this one is required playing for such a driver in such a vehicle. Released by Jan and Dean in 1964 as a spoof on the used car salesman's standard rhetoric regarding a car's previous owner, if you don't have a heavy foot, this one will give it to you. Sport drivers (ahem) should leave it at home.