Come on-a My House

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"Come on-a My House" is a popular song, written by Ross Bagdasarian and William Saroyan in 1951. It was probably Saroyan's only effort at popular songwriting, and it was one of Bagdasarian's few well-known works that was not connected to his most famous creation, Alvin and the Chipmunks.

The song was a major hit for Rosemary Clooney in 1951; it was the first of a number of fake-dialect songs that Clooney did. Clooney recorded the song with Mitch Miller and his orchestra and harpsichordist Stan Freeman in the early part of 1951, and the song reached #1 on the Billboard magazine charts, staying in the top position for eight weeks.

The song was later performed by Kay Starr, too, who added a few lines with funny, nearly surrealistic details and who ended the song with an even more explicit offer. Della Reese also covered the song in 1952.

The theme of inviting someone in with fruits and nice things to eat, but with the hidden (since taboo in the 1950s) offering of sexual favors, was the inspiration for the later Clooney hit, "Mangos."

The song was later used as the theme for the reality television series The Girls Next Door performed by the Nasty Tales & their orchestra.

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