"The Eggplant That Ate Chicago" is a song about alien invasion by Dr. West's Medicine Show and Junk Band. Although often listed as a "one hit wonder", the song did not actually reach the top 40, and its author, Norman Greenbaum, later wrote and performed "Spirit in the Sky" to greater chart success.[2] It was re released on Dr. Demento Presents: The Greatest Novelty Records of All Time, Volume III: The 1960s in 1985.

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In Australia, it appeared on the Festival compilation Operation Big Time![3] in 1967.

Parodies and homages

• Tom Paxton's "The Pizza That Ate Chicago" on Fun Food Songs (Delta, 1999) and Your Shoes, My Shoes (2002)
• "The Aubergine That Ate Rangoon" on Hawkwind's Astounding Sounds, Amazing Music, 1976
• Big Maybelle covered the song on America's Queen Mother of Soul, 2007

Although not strictly following the [foodstuff] that ate [place] formula, there has also been:

• "The Cockroach That Ate Cincinnati" by Rose and the Arrangement in 1974 and, arguably its homage,
• "Cicada That Ate Five Dock" by Outline, 1981

See also

• Attack of the Killer Tomatoes
• The Cockroach that Ate Cincinnati

References

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