Bent Fabric and other '60s phenomena

Alley Cat

You would not believe what I went through to get this!! I was on a search for Leroy Anderson pieces I remembered from hearing them on Captain Kangaroo, and found a ton of them (Fiddle-Faddle, The Typewriter, Plink-Plank-Plunk, etc.) Then I started hearing this piano piece in my head, over and over, and thought: could this be Leroy Anderson? It didn't seem quite right. But I couldn't get it out of my head. It had a simple, whimsical piano melodly played over the repetition of one note. But how on earth would I ever find the title?


Thank God for random associations. I remembered seeing an episode of Mad About You where the couple was on a dance floor, and this song came on, and Helen Hunt started doing all these silly cat movements. But googling cat songs got me nowhere.


Then I thought: by era? It had a '50s sound. Popular piano pieces of the 1950s? I went on YouTube, and (incredibly) the title Alley Cat came up in about a second, and I knew I had struck gold.


And yes, people do dance to this, line dance even.


Meow-meow-meow-meow! (But who the hell is Bent Fabric??)