The Greatest Novelty Songs

Product Information

The Streak, written by Ray Stevens was released in March 1974, the first single from his 16th album Boogity Boogity. In case you’re wondering whatever happened to Sharona Alperin, she went on to become a successful estate agent in Los Angeles.

It even made the charts in the US, which was unusual for a Eurodance track, and became a sports event/kids’ party standard. hit a year later with ‘Jump to the Beat’), however when Lattisaw moved record labels Anita Ward was asked to sing it instead. Bobby "Boris" Pickett never scored another hit before his death in 2007, however ‘Monster Mash’ remains an ever-popular Halloween favourite to this day. Producing 45 episodes over four series, Monty Python members, Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin, went beyond mere comedy, often using their art to comment on political and social issues.

s " Move It On Over", his first hit song, has some humor and novelty elements (about a man having to share the doghouse when his lover kicks him out of the house), but contemporaries (among them Jerry Rivers) disputed this and noted that many men had been faced with eviction under similar circumstances. We had Good Old Arsenal (1971 double team), Blue Is The Colour (Chelsea’s 1972 League Cup final team), I’m Forever Blowing Bubbles (West Ham’s 1975 FA Cup final team) and We Can Do It (Liverpool’s 1977 side). Demento's nationally syndicated radio show gave novelty songs an outlet for much of the country; this lasted through the mid-2000s, when the show (mirroring trends in the genre) faded in popularity until its terrestrial cancellation in June 2010. In 1979, Dutch band Stars on 45 began a short-lived phenomenon—the pop medley—with their hit; Stars on 45 Medley. For three weeks in the early 90s, the UK Singles Chart was topped by a three and a half minute anthem about a man in a large, clumsy, pink and yellow spotted costume.

Religious songs and spirituals such as “Amazing Grace“, “Little Drummer Boy“, “Mary’s Boy Child“, “She’ll be Coming Round the Mountain” not included. Los Angeles indie pop duo The Bastard Fairies covered Brand New Key in a YouTube video accompanied by a band of ukulele players.I think another reason writing this post didn’t bring about a warm Proustian glow is that my repeated plays of ‘Saturday Night’ have reminded me of the dance routine. noted for portraying characters of specific ethnicity or those finding themselves in certain comic or melodramatic situations, . Dickie Goodman faced a lawsuit for his 1956 novelty song " The Flying Saucer", which sampled snippets of contemporary hits without permission and arranged them to resemble interviews with an alien landing on Earth. In December 2014 Jilted John won the One Hit Wonder World Cup feature on the BBC Radio 6 Music Steve Lamacq show. Between the Battle of Britpop and that time every British person with an internet connection bought a dozen copies of an 18-year-old Rage Against The Machine song to piss off Simon Cowell in 2009, the UK has made a habit over the years of dragging the weirdest songs to the front of the public consciousness and leaving them there to fester for just a bit too long.

A book on achieving an attention-grabbing novelty single is The Manual (How to Have a Number One the Easy Way), written by The KLF. Hence why the video for ‘The Stonk’ features Bruce Forsyth, Rowan Atkinson as Mr Bean, and (if my eyes didn’t deceive me) David Baddiel, while it opens with newsreader Angela Rippon being whacked out the way by a red-nosed Big Ben.Other novelty songs in the '70s are Jimmy Castor Bunch "King Kong"(1975), Rick Dees' " Disco Duck" (1976) and The Fools' "Psycho Chicken" [19] (1978). Jimmy Boyd met with the Boston Archdiocese to explain the song, after which the church changed its view.