Favorite novelty song?

[Pete70s]

I have several Dickie Goodman singles, as well as an album called "The Original Flying Saucers", which compiled many of the singles by Buchannon & Goodman, Dickie Goodman, John & Ernest, and The Delegates.

I love those recordings, because they are like musical time capsules of the era in which they were made.

[djdave]

Man, did I have my share of Dr. Demento from 1984-1990, and again from 1999 to 2002. Some songs were so overrated, it wasn't funny. And other GREAT ones got only one or two plays.
For the record, a comedy piece is either a sketch (as opposed to a song), or USUALLY a novelty piece done by a comedian performed before a live audience--Allan Sherman and Tom Lehrer, yes--Ray Stevens, no--his "live" effects were dubbed in). A novelty tune is anything out of the ordinary, I even would group the Bloodhound Gang's "The Bad Touch" and the Coasters' "Charlie Brown" here)
A sampling:
We are one (disgusting planet)-Too Sick Chik
The public toilet-Barnes & Barnes
Kill the Backstreet Boys-Tony Goldmark
Another one rides the bus-Weird Al
Anything by Jim Stafford
Anything by Bob & Doug
Any novelty by Frank Zappa (he wouldn't have admitted to it)
I love onions-Susan Christie
It's a gas-Alfred E. Neuman
Bras on 45-Ivor Biggun & the D-Cups
The old philosopher-Eddie Lawrence
Nine coronas-John Mamosser
And Dr. D's sidekick, Whimsical Will-EVERY cut-up he put together! Much more fun than Dickie Goodman! He was even a YL member! (did a post on some California museum)

[Laura--I wuv u all :)]

DJ said:

Nine coronas-John Mamosser
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Is that supposed to be a version of "My Sharona"? It sounds like the title would fit.

[Laura--I wuv u all :)]

Pete70s said:

I have several Dickie Goodman singles, as well as an album called "The Original Flying Saucers", which compiled many of the singles by Buchannon & Goodman, Dickie Goodman, John & Ernest, and The Delegates.I love those recordings, because they are like musical time capsules of the era in which they were made.

Those are so much fun! When I was little, a friend and I tried to make our own, using some records and mom's tape recorder. Well, we wore out the tape recorder and my mom was mad! But we had fun.


One song I really liked (well, it was more of a skit than a song) was "Chaos" by Arbogast & Ross. They used to play it on Dr. Demento sometimes, but I never knew the exact title or artists' names until recently. It was a spoof of '50s radio and took place at a radio station called KOS (pronounced "chaos"). Very cute!