Songs that sound like Circus/Carnival Music..

The first three that come to mind.

Beatles - Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!
The Supremes - The Happening

 

Yes - Circus of Heaven

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Anything Dire Straits...

 

Is this like fairground music? A lot of the keyboards (piano and organ, really) on Madness records sound - intentionally I think - that way... prime example would be this:

 

If you're looking for something in more of a creepy vein. . .

 

Goodbye Cruel World - James Darren, early 1960s.......

 

I'm trying to think along these lines...

...and also how his surname is pronounced.

 

Parts of the Doors' Alabama Song (Whiskey Bar)

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Baja Marimba Band - The Portuguese Washerwoman. Every time I play it, my wife asks when the clowns in the little car are going to be here. Naturally, I turn it up louder.

 

The intro to this..?

 

Bob has a clownish side.

 

Todd Rundgren--The Night the Carousel Burnt Down

 

George Harrison's Wonderwall--"Cowboy Music".

 

Three Dog Night - "The Show Must Go On"
Blue Magic - "Side Show"

I think these two songs actually charted at the same time.

 

The great classic: Procol Harum, Shine On Brightly, In Held 'Twas In I/pt.2: 'Twas Teatime At The Circus"

'Twas tea-time at the circus: King Jimi, he was there
Through hoops he skipped, high wires he tripped, and all the while the glare
of the aching, baking spotlight beat down upon his cloak
and though the crowd clapped furiously they could not see the joke."

"Twas tea-time at the circus, though some might not agree
as jugglers danced, and horses pranced and clowns clowned endlessly
But trunk to tail the elephants quite silent, never spoke
and though the crowd clapped desperately they could not see the joke."

 

@Tristero The whole "Love You" album.

 

troggy beat me to it ... cheesy, blatently circus-y, but still worth a look.

 

The Coasters--Little Egypt (Ying Yang)

 

Nektar - Down To Earth (entire album)

 

Talking of the BB's - this...

... especially when it gets going with the slide trombones.

 

Rush "Carnies" has a little circus-like music in the intro.

 

Certainly, the title track.

 

Steve Hackett - Carry On Up The Vicarage (intro)