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Subject: ChuckyG's favorite novelty songs - what are some of yours?
Written By: ChuckyG on 06/18/11 at 1:42 pm
I made a list of my all time favorite novelty songs recently. Mostly "Weird Al", and a bunch of stuff that the good Doctor used to play during the 80s when I was still able to get him on the radio in the Boston area. I stuck to songs, no strictly comedy bits.
What are some of your favorite novelty songs? Post some youtube links if you got 'em.
Here's my all-time favorite...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nJ30dodvdc
Tom 'T-Bone' Stankus, "Existential Blues"
I've seen yellow stripes in the middle of a road before, but kids,
uh, never quite that wide!"
I spent an hour once with a copy taped off the radio writing out the lyrics to this song on the paper bag book cover on my 8th grade algebra book.
Subject: Re: ChuckyG's favorite novelty songs - what are some of yours?
Written By: whistledog on 06/19/11 at 12:34 am
Excellent list. Karma for Kiler Pussy. That song is fantastic!
Here's some I enjoy ...
Willis "The Guard" and Vigorish (aka Buckner & Garcia) - Merry Christmas in the NFL (1980)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veYwOJpkvHo
Wide Boy Awake - Chicken Outlaw (1982)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uK2v3350FP8
Bad Manners - My Girl Lollipop (1982)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_N1qQZL550
Big Daddy - Dancing in the Dark (1985)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OG7nj9s96TY
The Cartoons - Doodah (1999)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeFGYdvo0C0
The Baseballs - Hey There Delilah (2009)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQeh4jhVzxU
Subject: Re: ChuckyG's favorite novelty songs - what are some of yours?
Written By: wildcard on 06/19/11 at 2:08 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBfwRiat8Ro
Subject: Re: ChuckyG's favorite novelty songs - what are some of yours?
Written By: ChuckyG on 06/20/11 at 1:36 pm
Excellent list. Karma for Kiler Pussy. That song is fantastic!
Here's some I enjoy ...
Willis "The Guard" and Vigorish (aka Buckner & Garcia) - Merry Christmas in the NFL (1980)
I think I've heard this one too many times over the years, to the point where I don't care for it anymore
Wide Boy Awake - Chicken Outlaw (1982)
not sure that really counts as a novelty song... though I have always liked it
gotta check the others out
Subject: Re: ChuckyG's favorite novelty songs - what are some of yours?
Written By: ChuckyG on 06/20/11 at 1:37 pm
Ray Stevens "Gitarzan"
ooh... I forgot all about Ray Stevens... gonna have to go through his stuff now
Subject: Re: ChuckyG's favorite novelty songs - what are some of yours?
Written By: wildcard on 06/20/11 at 1:59 pm
some others I like that I don't think you have listed are
Grandma Got Run over by a Reindeer - Elmo & Patsy
Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavor - Lonnie Donegan
Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini - Brian Hyland
My Boomerang Won't Come Back - Charlie Drake
Beep Beep ( Little Nash Rambler) , Surfin Bird, Grandma Got Run over by a Reindeer, Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavor, My Boomerang Won't Come Back, are favorite favorites and yellow bikini more when I saw a spider driving a Lamborghini.
Subject: Re: ChuckyG's favorite novelty songs - what are some of yours?
Written By: Henk on 06/20/11 at 4:07 pm
One that didn't make it outside the Australia/New Zealand region, as far as I know:
Mother Goose - Baked Beans
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqjpxEYWZk0
Some others that may or may not qualify as 'novelty'...
The Chaps - Rawhide
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWMDuRZBnnw
Captain Sensible - Wot
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pqC563bX_w
Subject: Re: ChuckyG's favorite novelty songs - what are some of yours?
Written By: Step-chan on 06/20/11 at 9:22 pm
I'm trying to figure out I like that are novelty songs.
The closest I can think of is some stuff from Tim Wilson, like Church League Softball Fistfight.
Subject: Re: ChuckyG's favorite novelty songs - what are some of yours?
Written By: Nathan on 06/21/11 at 8:19 pm
Rock Me Amadeus, also Earth Girls Are Easy by Julie Braun.
Subject: Re: ChuckyG's favorite novelty songs - what are some of yours?
Written By: whistledog on 06/21/11 at 8:49 pm
Rock Me Amadeus
This one, definately not a novelty song. Still a good song though.
Subject: Re: ChuckyG's favorite novelty songs - what are some of yours?
Written By: loki 13 on 06/22/11 at 5:02 pm
This one is a favorite of mine.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PejFLQ1ZxNA
Subject: Re: ChuckyG's favorite novelty songs - what are some of yours?
Written By: ChuckyG on 06/23/11 at 3:56 pm
some others I like that I don't think you have listed are
Grandma Got Run over by a Reindeer - Elmo & Patsy
Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavor - Lonnie Donegan
Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini - Brian Hyland
hate the Grandma song after so many decades of torture...
the others I have in my regular list... still gotta move them over I guess.
Subject: Re: ChuckyG's favorite novelty songs - what are some of yours?
Written By: agrimorfee on 06/24/11 at 6:12 am
This one, definately not a novelty song. Still a good song though.
Well, sort of a novelty in the broader sense; It is a rap song in German about a classical composer after all, so that is pretty novel. Will post a short list later.
Subject: Re: ChuckyG's favorite novelty songs - what are some of yours?
Written By: philbo on 06/28/11 at 10:35 am
ooh... I forgot all about Ray Stevens... gonna have to go through his stuff now
I remember The Streak coming out (so to speak) way back.. though my favourite of his is probably the Bricklayer's Song.
I've had a lot of mileage out of a small number of Benny Hill songs: Ernie, The Andalucian Gypsies (which has one of my all-time favourite couplets in: "My wife is one in a million, often have I heard that said
But you are not one in a million, you look like you're won in a raffle instead"
Does anyone here know this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKpuU2k1zD0
Subject: Re: ChuckyG's favorite novelty songs - what are some of yours?
Written By: Peregrin on 07/22/12 at 8:42 am
Glad to see Philbo mentioned this:
Ernie (The Fastest Milkman In The West)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8e1xvyTdBZI&feature=related
Subject: Re: ChuckyG's favorite novelty songs - what are some of yours?
Written By: ChuckyG on 07/23/12 at 2:44 pm
Glad to see Philbo mentioned this:
Ernie (The Fastest Milkman In The West)
OMFG, some limey doesn't want yanks to see Benny Hill videos. Blimey!
Subject: Re: ChuckyG's favorite novelty songs - what are some of yours?
Written By: Peregrin on 07/23/12 at 3:40 pm
OMFG, some limey doesn't want yanks to see Benny Hill videos. Blimey!
That may be true, but don't forget, I am a limey convict (at least, geographically), so I want to foist Benny upon the seppos!
Subject: Re: ChuckyG's favorite novelty songs - what are some of yours?
Written By: ChrisBodilyTM on 07/23/12 at 9:15 pm
Mike Bauer (as Bob Dylan) - "Friday"
Weird Al:
Amish Paradise
Smells Like Nirvana
Eat It
Fat
The Saga Begins
Jurassic Park
Gump
Headline News (Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm)
Trapped in the Drive-Thru
White & Nerdy
I Lost on Jeopardy
My Bologna
Money For Nothing/Beverly Hillbillies*
Bob Rivers:
AquaClaus
I Am Santa Claus
Cheney's Got a Gun
Be Claus I Got High
Kevin Federline - "Popozao" (just kidding ;D)
Vanilla Ice - "Ice Ice Baby"
Chipmunks - "Chipmunk Song"
Dave Seville - "Witch Doctor"
Sheb Wooley - "Purple People Eater"
Rick Dees - "Disco Duck" (Yes... :-[)
Bobby "Boris" Pickett "Monster Mash"
Allan Sherman "Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah"
Styx "Mr. Roboto"