The Greatest Novelty Songs

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I notice that as part of the current ‘the nineties were the best decade ever’ movement, there are attempts to cast this as a ‘90s dance classic, up there with ‘Rhythm Is a Dancer’ and ‘Ebeneezer Goode’.

Weird Al" Yankovic, one of the most famous parody artists of all time, has written a few songs that are more beloved than the songs he spoofed.The technique (which Dickie Goodman had also used on "The Flying Saucer") would inspire a number of other knockoffs, including The Nutty Squirrels and Russ Regan's one-off group Dancer, Prancer and Nervous. With all the love and respect due to the British institution they absolutely are, the fact remains that they mostly do farmers' versions of vaguely popular songs. Alongside their stand-up routine, Cheech and Chong produced a number of comedy films, and released a number of novelty songs and albums – including 1985’s Born in East L. Left some of the tub-thumping behind long enough in the middle of the song to personalise things by name-checking Willie Morgan and Denis Law.

However, Bob the Builder did have another number one single a year later with a cover of Lou Bega's " Mambo No. Brand New Key was also known as “The Rollerskate Song” because of its reference to roller skates in the. For some reason, we let a small blue frog with an all-too visible penis stay at number 1 for four entire weeks in 2005. There were World Cup songs hogging the airwaves at the drop of a Mexican sombrero in 1970, a German tirolerhut in 1974 and an Argentinian gaucho hat in 1978. Donegan's version was recorded live at the New Theatre Oxford on December 13, 1958, and was first released in his native U.In this article, I've highlighted what I think are 15 of the most memorable hit novelty songs from the '60s and '70s.

There was an everyday quality to the lyrics, it was just throwaway and had a quirkiness that I wanted to copy. Not least because Vic Reeves would become one of the most popular television stars of the decade: ‘Shooting Stars’, ‘Big Night Out’, and ‘The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer’ were all big comedy shows: surreal, anarchic, all capturing the spirit of the time. With lyrics describing Best Film nominee Pan’s Labyrinth, Minnie Driver sang a parody of the song at the 2007 Spirit Awards. You need a strong stomach to listen to it even now: the mix of banjos, fiddles and heavy synths makes me feel very tense, something the horse and gunshot sound effects don’t do much to alleviate, while the aggressive chanting makes me wonder if hell is actually being locked in an eternal barn dance. In 1960, 16-year-old Brian Hyland had a novelty hit with the song " Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini", by Paul Vance and Lee Pockriss, which topped the Billboard single chart.In 1993, " Mr Blobby" became the second novelty song to reach the coveted Christmas number one slot in the UK, following Benny Hill's 1971 chart-topper " Ernie (The Fastest Milkman in the West)". The video builds on this theme – I’m genuinely not sure if they were going for something funny, or for something more like a horror movie.