Here comes the Judge.

ah - THAT'LL be it then Tony... it was definitely a song that she sang. Late sixties/early seventies?

You are correct. I'm pretty sure I bought it when we still lived in Macclesfield - and we left there in 1964. Oo-er I'm feeling my age now. Stephen's telling me to put it down.

OK - you got us going. Good old google. Here Comes The Judge was a hit in the UK for Pigmeat Markham. It reached number 25 in the british charts in late July 1968. For more on the Porcine Fleshy one see:

I have had the dubious pleasure of listening to my mum singing this to me again this morning, thanks to this thread. She can still remember the words as well!

Laugh In, the comedy TV show....It's all com'n back to me now. Yes...., Sammie Davis would be on this show and he'd dress up as a Judge, it all came from this Pigmeat Markham guy's record. It was so darn popular back then. Everybody was walking around doing an imitation.

I'm pretty sure that Here Comes the Judge was also used in The Banana Splits TV show in the sixties

But I may be mistaken... it was all such a long time ago

Wasn't that the show with the chimps? Lance Link , secret chimp.

It was a Hanna Barbera live action show, interspersed with cartoons, featuring four actors dressed up in 'wacky' cartoon like costumes and going by the names of Fleagle, Snorky, Bingo (I think) and I can't remember the fourth one. A punk rock version of The theme song, performed by The Dickies, became a minor hit on this side of the Atlantic in the seventies.

Fer Crise Sake, of course it was "Rowan and Martin's Laugh In," staggeringly popular show from about 1966-69. Goldie Hawn got her start there. 'Here Come Da Judge' was an on-going skit based on a burlesque comedy routine. The show also popularized the phrases 'sock it to me,' (which resulted in a bucket of water thrown on the person saying it,and 'veerrryy interesting' said with a German accent by a guy dressed in a WWI German soldiers outfit. In the News Of the Future segment, 1969, they predicted that in twenty years Ronald Reagan would be retiring from his second term as President and the Berlin Wall would be destroyed. The news channels replayed that segment a few times in 1989. Just goes to show that a couple of clowns can do a better job of predicting the future than the CIA.

My mum used to sing that... "here comes the judge" in a deep voice, when I was little. What's it from?

they should chop his hands off, that'll learn him

I read about this case late last year, wasn't he reported by a stenographer he saw him banging his gavel under the bench?

Here Comes The Judge, was a comedy routine by Sammie Davis Junior during the early 70's on American Television. Sammie Davis Jr, I'm assuming you may have heard of him, was a one eyed, African-American singer/actor/entertainer with quite some measure of success and a member of the famous Brat-Pack (Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Joey Bishop, etc....). He's been dead for a while now. One of his hit records was "Candy Man"

Didn't he refer to himself as 'a one-eyed black jew'? He died penniless apparently, leaving his widow flat broke.

Ha, yes Ive heard of him. That'll be where it's from then... was it a song? Missi - banging his gavel under the bench. You are a one.

I think it was a "hands free" device, banging his gavel would not be the case. IE, he hooked it up beneath his robes and let it run. I could be wrong though, never actually seen such a thing, but I do know a few other stories....I had a doctor friend who told me once.........errrrrr, never mind.

'Here comes the judge' was a comedy single here by some American bloke. I have it at home - I'll try and dig it out when I get home late tomorrow.