| Novelty Songs
Posted: 5/26/2008 11:03:51 AM | | what are some of your favourite novelty songs that you remember/listen to from time to time...just to put a smile on your face?? I re-discovered "My Ding - A -Ling" on the weekend...and love the simple stupidity of the song. Excellent! Another I remember is "Beans In My Ears" by the Serendipity Singers....What are some of the novelty songs that you like/remember? (I'm off to play wit my ding - a ling.......) | |
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Posted: 5/26/2008 11:20:56 AM | Here's a couple
I Hope You Die-John Wing
http://sharebee.com/6d2871e3
If You Play Your Cards Wrong-Rodney Carrington
http://sharebee.com/72a546ed
Still Gonna Die-Old Dogs
http://sharebee.com/ffeeb86f | |
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Posted: 5/26/2008 1:44:00 PM | The Funny Farm!
They're coming to take me away... ha ha.... they're coming to take me away... he he, ho ho, ha ha, to the Funny Farm.... Where life is beautiful all the time and I like to see those nice young men in their nice white coats, they're coming to take me away!!!
Wasn't That a Party?
The Irish Rovers..... I even have that on my playlist on my profile!!
And of course:
THE RODEO SONG!!
Well, here comes Johnny with his pecker in his hand, he's a one ball man and he's off to the rodeo......... 
Love it!!
Thanks for the reminder of the song My Ding-a-ling....... that is such an awesome song too!! Except for the song worm now running through my head!! hehehehe
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Posted: 5/27/2008 5:38:25 PM | David Bowie - The Laughing Gnome. Released in 1966 and re-issued in 1973 at the height of Ziggy and a number 1 UK hit.
Ha ha ha, he he he, i'm a laffing gnome and you can't catchme  | |
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Posted: 5/27/2008 7:03:54 PM | Nina Gordon- Straight Outta Compton
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6D5xpCgETk
Dynamite Hack-Boyz in the Hood
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMlPVpXtkJY
Ben Folds-****es aint Shit
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSJxvi767kQ
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Posted: 5/28/2008 6:36:21 AM | LMAO.......I remember the "My Ding-A-Ling" song
Another one I remember is "Giddy-up, Giddy-up, and ride the pony" | |
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Posted: 5/28/2008 11:35:11 AM | One of my housemates has tonnes of cheesy and novelty songs. My favourite is probably The Worzels - Combine Harvester.
There's one called "He's turned emo" by a band that I forget the name of but it's on YouTube somewhere. | |
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Posted: 5/30/2008 7:17:58 AM | Can you remember these classics
Zig and Zag- Them Girls
Cartoons- Witch Doctor
Timmy Mallets- Itsy Bitsy
Mr Blooby- Mr Blobby
Benny Hill- Ernie | |
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Posted: 6/3/2008 5:37:52 PM | | I always thought "Valley Girl" by Frank and Moon Zappa was pretty funny. | |
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Posted: 6/3/2008 8:31:35 PM | Don't forget Little Bar of Soap.
I love Sopor Aeternus' version of it. To know that something that silly is being sung by a german transgendered goth vampire is just too delicious. | |
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Posted: 6/4/2008 10:15:14 PM | | This song was done in the 20s My Big 10 Inch. Aerosmith did a version in the 70s. They were singing about the 10 inch record a 78 rpm. Also Shaving Cream, an old Dr. Demento classic. | |
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Posted: 6/7/2008 2:31:56 PM | Ah, novelty songs - gotta love 'em!
'My Ding a Ling' is one of my faves.
Also, 'The Curly Shuffle' (anyone remember that?) by Jump 'N the Saddle.
That was always on MTV in the 80s, back when the used to play music videos. 
And 'Frank's 2000" TV' - definitley one of Weird Al's best.
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Posted: 6/7/2008 3:37:31 PM | What about..."Disco Duck" ???
Talk about a stupid song......but it Quacks me up !!!!!! | |
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Posted: 6/8/2008 7:54:28 AM | Bobby brown by frank zapper,fantastic
Or anything by weird al....take the p1ss out of everything from starwars to lost. | |
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Posted: 6/8/2008 11:41:00 AM | Snoopy vs. The Red Baron
The Royal Guardsmen
neat little 1960's novelty song
goes great with this r/c airplane themed video
http://www.veoh.com/videos/v289450P78THKSH?c=NextPT109 | |
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Posted: 6/8/2008 8:58:48 PM | I have so many...most of them are from the 80's
Camper Van Beethoven - Take the Skinheads Bowling
Blotto - I Wanna Be A Lifeguard
The Dead Milkmen - Punk Rock Girl
Devo- Whip It!
Devo-Peekaboo
Frank Zappa - Valley Girl
Styx - Mr. Roboto
Dr. Demento - STar Trekkin'
Thomas Dolby - She Blinded Me With Science
Trio - DA DA DA
The Vapors - Turning Japanese
Of course ANYTHING by Weird Al
AC/DC - Big Balls
The Arrogant Worms - Canada's Really Big
Barenaked Ladies - If I had 1,000,000 dollars
Focus - Hocus Pocus
Tim Curry - I Do The Rock
Those are just off the top of my head....
i also like weird and bizarre covers of songs, like a swedish Polka version of Van Halen - Jump complete with accordion... | |
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Posted: 6/9/2008 9:13:55 PM | Singing row row row yer boat a couple dozen times in the car on a long road trip gets the rest of the car all medieval on you....  | |
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Posted: 7/2/2008 5:19:50 AM | Chick-A-Boom - Big Daddy Dewdrop
Gimme Dat Ding - The Pippins | |
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Posted: 7/2/2008 7:21:47 AM |
Also, 'The Curly Shuffle' (anyone remember that?) by Jump 'N the Saddle. Yeah, that was a classic! Also:
They're Coming To Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa - Napoleon XIV
Monster Mash - Bobby "Boris" Pickett & the Crypt Kicker Five
King Tut - Steve Martin
The Streak - Ray Stevens
Surfin' Bird - The Trashmen (the Ramones also covered it) | |
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Posted: 7/2/2008 11:03:29 PM | | I like some of these: Benny Bell - Shaving Cream, Frank Gallop - The Ballad Of Irving, Alfred E. Neuman - It's A Gas, The Vestibules - Bulbous Bouffant, and Eddie Lawrence - The Old Philosopher. | |
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Posted: 7/3/2008 4:56:11 AM | | Anything by the Flight of the Conchords. | |
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Posted: 8/2/2008 4:59:02 PM | the Driving Stupid: Horror Asparagus Stories -- I heard this on Dr. Demento once. Go figure! ;)
Butterbeans and Suzie: I wanna hot dog for my roll -- VERY risque vaudeville / novelty hit from 1925.
R. Crumb and the cheap suit serenaders: My girls ***** -- also very risque! Released in 1978 on a 78 rpm record.
The Who: Dogs -- a tune about betting on dogs.
The Who: Dogs part 2 -- nice guitar by Pete with Keith Moon barking on the music breaks.
The Who: Boris the spider -- dark humour by Mr. John Entwhistle
The Who: Cobwebs and strange
most anything by Tom Lehrer: Poisoning pigeons in the park, Oedipus rex. He's quite the pianist too.
Todd Rundgren had a few novelty hits: emperor of the highway, onomatopoeia, an elpee's worth of tunes, we got to get you a woman... His album "A wizard, a true star" had a lot of novelty / experimental / psychedelic stuff going on. | |
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Posted: 8/2/2008 5:14:25 PM | When I was a wee lad it was Bobby Boris Pickett's "Monster Mash." My parents actually owned the album where it came from.
Offhand, Sheb Wooley's "Purple Peter Eater."
More recently, Afroman's "Because I Got High." (2001) 
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Posted: 8/3/2008 4:52:06 PM | | Have you ever heard Judy Garland's version of "Purple People Eater"? It's from one of her live LPs I had on vinyl as a kid (and somehow my mother had no idea I was gay...) it still cracks me up to just think of such a dynamic artist taking on such a goofy song. You can here a tiny clip here: http://www.last.fm/music/Judy+Garland/_/Purple+People+Eater+(Live)+(2002+Digital+Remaster) | |
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Posted: 8/3/2008 5:14:23 PM | I recommmend anything by Alestorm from their album, "Captain Morgan's Revenge": They profess themselves as "Scottish Pirate Metal."
With songs such as "Wenches and Mead," "Set Sail and Conquer," "Nancy The Tavern Wench," and "Terror On The High Seas," they take Novelty to a new and chessier level. | |
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