Fuck yeah The Muppets. The jug band song reminds me a bit of this from The Muppet Show ... My sister had a copy when we were growing up, but lost it, After she married, her husband tried really hard to find a copy, but... no joy. A couple of years ago I managed to track down a copy of the mp3, zipped it up to Dropbox and sent her a mystery link for her birthday. And waited. I got a call a few weeks later when she'd finally bothered to see what I'd sent. She was in tears for a while. So many childhood memories listening to those tracks so here's a couple more
"Mah Nà Mah Nà" debuted as part of Umiliani's soundtrack for the Italian mondo film Svezia, inferno e paradiso (Sweden: Heaven and Hell [lit. Hell and Heaven]) (1968), an exploitation documentary film about wild sexual activity and other behaviour in Sweden. The song accompanied a scene in the film set in a sauna which gave its original title "Viva la Sauna Svedese" (Hooray for the Swedish Sauna). It was performed by a band called Marc 4 (four session musicians from the RAI orchestra) and the lead part was sung by Italian singer/composer Alessandro Alessandroni and his wife Giulia. The song also appeared on the 1968 soundtrack album released for the film.