Novelty Songs

moxham123 · Post by **moxham123** » Tuesday Jul 31, 2012

List some of your favorite novelty songs.

Here is a class novelty gem.

Benny Bell - Shaving Cream

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8ffk...eature=related
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weibs · Post by **weibs** » Wednesday Aug 01, 2012

Shaving cream is classic, love that song,
Here's another goodie,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07P538K8 ... ata_player

moxham123 · Post by **moxham123** » Wednesday Aug 01, 2012

The master of the novelty song

Ray Stevens - Guitarzan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OqbbOhoOfQ

DickShackBass · Post by **DickShackBass** » Wednesday Aug 01, 2012

Fishheads!

Andrea

Jasaoke · Post by **Jasaoke** » Wednesday Aug 01, 2012

Does Van Halen count?

I've always like "Beep, Beep" from the Playmates:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5Aae9ReI5Q

f.sciarrillo · Post by **f.sciarrillo** » Thursday Aug 02, 2012

Ray Stevens 'Mississippi Squirrel Revival' 'The Streak' And practically everything else he did - 'The blue cyclone' 'It's me again Margret' 'The monkeys' 'Eric the awful' 'Ahab the Arab'. Man, pretty much all of them.

The Mississippi Squirrel Revival -> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K16fG1sDagU

The Streak -> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtzoUu7w-YM

It's me again Margret -> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Wb2nZR6 ... ure=relmfu

Ahab the arab -> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLB15kBv ... re=related

Then there is Monty Python, who have a lot as well, Here is the 'Lumber Jack Song'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xToPCaNxaow

Mysterytrain · Post by **Mysterytrain** » Thursday Aug 02, 2012

f.sciarrillo wrote:Ray Stevens

The Streak -> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtzoUu7w-YM

I haven't heard that song forever! Freakin' Ethel!

Dead skunk in the middle of the road was about the same time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaN7xuAIjXI

moxham123 · Post by **moxham123** » Thursday Aug 02, 2012

Who remembers this one?

Ray Stevens - Bridget the Midget (The Queen of the Blues)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvFESQmeKpI

Pizon · Post by **Pizon** » Sunday Aug 05, 2012

Leader of the laundromat, by the detergents.

moxham123 · Post by **moxham123** » Monday Aug 06, 2012

Pizon wrote:Leader of the laundromat, by the detergents.

Ron Dante, who was in The Detergents, was also the lead singer for The Archies records as well as The Cuff Links and some other songs and is also a record producer.

Here is a funny video along with this novelty tune

Jimmy Castor Bunch - Troglodyte

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlRXQEA0yj0

moxham123 · Post by **moxham123** » Monday Aug 06, 2012

The sequel to The Jimmy Castor Bunch song Troglodyte was The Bertha Butt Boogie

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LQJYgs1sxc

f.sciarrillo · Post by **f.sciarrillo** » Monday Aug 06, 2012

Jump 'N' The Saddle - The Curly Shuffle.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUwtaQ1HZ-g

StumbleFingers · Post by **StumbleFingers** » Monday Aug 06, 2012

Do modern novelty songs count?

Jon Lajoie - Show Me Your Genitals

That's not even remotely safe for work. Unless you work at the Adult Book Store. Not that I know what those are.

Also, Spinal Tap.

Jasaoke · Post by **Jasaoke** » Tuesday Aug 07, 2012

I've been involved with a recording project since high school, and we have more than our fair share of original novelty songs. (That and jazz)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEpsMMYU ... ature=plcp

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNGvkoYR ... ature=plcp

back in the day, the Cathedral in Altoona had a Christmas 'display':

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rATicG1b ... ature=plcp

Novelty video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VR96s5Jz ... ature=plcp

moxham123 · Post by **moxham123** » Tuesday Aug 07, 2012

Bobby "Boris" Pickett & The Crypt Kickers - Monster Mash

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0R_oDEvYUY

Banned · Post by **Banned** » Tuesday Aug 07, 2012

Jim Stafford

Wildwood Weed

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyY-6oh0Ow8

Cow Patti

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiPAp38b ... re=related

Spiders and Snakes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NxCEjMb ... re=related

f.sciarrillo · Post by **f.sciarrillo** » Tuesday Aug 07, 2012

Thank you for mentioning Jim Stafford, Joe. I totally forgot about him. I have to dig out his cd again.

How about CW McCall?

Convoy...

Here is the theme song from the movie:

http://youtu.be/mAPRrdgYU7o

Here is the original:

http://youtu.be/gI5eT4UmyFY

Here is 'Around the world with the Rubber Duck' (Continuation of Convoy):

http://youtu.be/-HHXcx2byN4

Listening to C.W McCall makes me think of my CB days. My handle was French Fry. Those were fun days.

moxham123 · Post by **moxham123** » Wednesday Aug 08, 2012

One of my favorite novelty songs when I was a kid.

The Ran-Dells - The Martian Hop

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYedQA7nFqQ

songsmith · Post by **songsmith** » Wednesday Aug 08, 2012

Jasaoke wrote:I've been involved with a recording project since high school, and we have more than our fair share of original novelty songs. (That and jazz)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEpsMMYU ... ature=plcp

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNGvkoYR ... ature=plcp

back in the day, the Cathedral in Altoona had a Christmas 'display':

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rATicG1b ... ature=plcp

Novelty video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VR96s5Jz ... ature=plcp

Best local band you never heard. Click the links, if you don't believe me. My favorites are the ones that sound like 70's TV show themes, but it's all good!

moxham123 · Post by **moxham123** » Thursday Aug 09, 2012

I met this Canadian band a few years ago. They had a hit with this song in Canada and gave me their CD. Phil Naro from this group is a singer-songwriter and producer originally from Rochester, New York. He is best known as the frontman for Billy Sheehan’s Talas in the mid-1980s.

I will send this one out to Songsmith

Long Tom And Dusty Danglers - My Country Girl

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=typFVbjv4Ys

songsmith · Post by **songsmith** » Thursday Aug 09, 2012

moxham123 wrote: I I will send this one out to Songsmith

Long Tom And Dusty Danglers - My Country Girl

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=typFVbjv4Ys

Love it! Reminds me of one they used to play on WDVE... it sounded like Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, and the hook-line was "Baby, BLOW ME... a kiss before you leave..."

moxham123 · Post by **moxham123** » Saturday Aug 11, 2012

Vic Venus - Moonflight

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATZU-dG9vIA

Dangerous Denny · Post by **Dangerous Denny** » Saturday Aug 11, 2012

Most anything that Bob Rivers did,like the Twisted Christmas stuff.

bassist_25 · Post by **bassist_25** » Saturday Aug 11, 2012

I actually got a request for this at the gig last night, ironically from a neo-hippie type of girl. I played it years ago when I was doing some sub work, but we've never played it. It actually has a somewhat complex arrangement for a 90s alternative novelty song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEDw9xgSmSc

Unfortunately, this video is missing the beginning section were the bass plays a run based out of some exotic non-Western mode.

bassist_25 · Post by **bassist_25** » Saturday Aug 11, 2012

Jasaoke wrote:I've been involved with a recording project since high school, and we have more than our fair share of original novelty songs. (That and jazz)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEpsMMYU ... ature=plcp

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNGvkoYR ... ature=plcp

back in the day, the Cathedral in Altoona had a Christmas 'display':

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rATicG1b ... ature=plcp

Novelty video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VR96s5Jz ... ature=plcp

That stuff's awesome!