# Favourite Novelty Songs **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 28, 2009, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-novelty-songs/494664 "2009-04-28T20:57:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2009, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-novelty-songs/494664/21 "2009-04-29T03:19:21Z")
Pretty much anything by Lehrer. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2009, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-novelty-songs/494664/22 "2009-04-29T03:29:30Z")
[Snoopy vs The Red Baron](http://lh6.ggpht.com/_Vf9cgYA4CxY/RxIjzlJxXzI/AAAAAAAABHU/kA6PvmEr6oQ/s400/Zion%2007%20322.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Greg\_Charles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/839c29/32.png) [@Greg\_Charles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greg_Charles)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2009, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-novelty-songs/494664/23 "2009-04-29T04:43:34Z")
[The Laughing Gnome](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8thn6BbzVs4&feature=related) by David Bowie. “'Ere now, what that’s clicking noise?” “That’s Fred. He’s a metro-gnome!” ---
**Author:** ![BaneSidhe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c5a1d2/32.png) [@BaneSidhe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BaneSidhe)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2009, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-novelty-songs/494664/24 "2009-04-29T05:19:39Z")
Anything by Ray Stevens gets my vote. My dad got me hooked thru “Shriner’s Convention” when I was a kid. Between us yelling “YOU’RE THE ONLY ONE WHO’S GOT A FEZ WITH A PROPELLER ON TOP!!” and making motorcycle revving noises for about a month, my mom was so close to killing us, then finding where Ray Stevens lived and beating him to death for the song. Tom Lerher is a fave too. “Poisoning Pigeons In The Park” especially. ---
**Author:** ![Alastair\_Moonsong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3e96dc/32.png) [@Alastair\_Moonsong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alastair_Moonsong)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2009, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-novelty-songs/494664/25 "2009-04-29T05:21:29Z")
**Voltaire:** [Brains](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgDvRi3h_0w) [When You’re Evil](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUITn7I9-f0) **MC Lars:** [This Gigantic Robot Kills](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvaFDqJleWM) [iGeneration](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhY5k_5WPCA) [Hot Topic is Not Punk Rock](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjmmZEq5b-8&feature=related) [Space Game](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=js6qvQJ48c8) **Dr. Bombay:** [Calcutta](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6r1GrApjiM) [S.O.S.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q94pHFb8hVo&feature=related) [Rice and Curry](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTiMV1Vv1Tw&feature=related) **Caramell:** [Vad Heter Du](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QnHzov9jxo) [Diskotek](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43VWIFSkljs&feature=related) **Dr. Steel:** [Planet X Marks the Spot](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0dOUX46e2o) [Back and Forth](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVvlVHdLCx0&feature=related) [Build the Robots](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ci9CCvTHvpM&feature=related) [Childhood A-Go-Go](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkf1qiIScmw) **Zombie Girl:** [Creepy Crawler](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOKUnUOXYig) [Blood, Brains, and Rock 'n Roll](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qs6E2ig_5QY&feature=related) Anything by **Tom Lehrer** Possibly more that I cannot currently remember. ---
**Author:** ![kitemaker\_chuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a88e4f/32.png) [@kitemaker\_chuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitemaker_chuck)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2009, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-novelty-songs/494664/26 "2009-04-29T05:42:54Z")
**"Let It All Hang Out!"** by the Hombres ---
**Author:** ![Covered\_In\_Bees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ab992/32.png) [@Covered\_In\_Bees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Covered_In_Bees)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2009, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-novelty-songs/494664/27 "2009-04-29T07:15:30Z")
“[Tunak Tunak Tun](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bAN7Ts0xBo)” - Daler Mehndi Not sure if it counts as “novelty” but it’s definately a joke song among my group of friends. If we need something wacky, this gets played eventually. ---
**Author:** ![BigBertha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d78d45/32.png) [@BigBertha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigBertha)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2009, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-novelty-songs/494664/28 "2009-04-29T07:23:27Z")
Oh my god-Guitarzan was my first. I’m A Lumberjack and I’m Okay Do The Nothing by Martin Mull Hard Magic by Divine ---
**Author:** ![BigBertha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d78d45/32.png) [@BigBertha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigBertha)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2009, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-novelty-songs/494664/29 "2009-04-29T07:30:21Z")
forgot I Don’t Wanna be a Homosexual by Sloppy Seconds ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2009, 8:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-novelty-songs/494664/30 "2009-04-29T08:08:32Z")
“Cover of the Rolling Stone” by Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2009, 10:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-novelty-songs/494664/31 "2009-04-29T10:09:44Z")
[![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhaDtSBmIrI) The Merry Minuet, Kingston Trio. Still applicable! ---
**Author:** ![maplekiwi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a4c791/32.png) [@maplekiwi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maplekiwi)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2009, 11:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-novelty-songs/494664/32 "2009-04-29T11:23:08Z")
“If it wasn’t for your gumboots” by NZ comedian Fredd Dagg "Does Your Chewing Gum Lose its Flavour on the Bedpost Over Night " Lonnie Donegan “My voice keeps Changing On Me” the version I know was John Hore but it may have been a cover ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2009, 11:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-novelty-songs/494664/33 "2009-04-29T11:34:52Z")
In the 1970s I seemed to have the only copy of National Lampoon’s _Lemmings_ in Australia. I had bought it secondhand and no-one had heard of it. I used to play it as though it was a serious music concert and my stoned friends would be in raptures as it unfolded. Belushi’s _Lonely At the Bottom_ piss take of Cocker, Chevy Chase doing Denver in _Colorado_ - “hey, Colorado’s calling me…HEY YOU” and Christopher Guest doing _Positively Wall Street_. And of course Farmer Yassir praising the peace loving suicidal hippies - “long hair, short hair what’s the difference once the head’s blowed off?” I wish Graeme hadn’t lost it, I’d put it on now. ---
**Author:** ![cosmosdan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a6a055/32.png) [@cosmosdan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cosmosdan)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2009, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-novelty-songs/494664/34 "2009-04-29T11:47:46Z")
Lots of Good ones here. When I did a single act I used to include a lot of novelty songs. I tried to talk the band into doing GiTarzan knowing the audience would love it live but they were far too cool for such nonsense. I’d record Dr Dimento looking for new funny songs to do. Dead Puppies was a good one. For raunchy novelty songs the audience loved The Rodeo Song “You Piss Me Off!! You Fucking Jerk” and the Asshole Song “Were you born an asshole or did you work on it your whole life?” and Seven Old Ladies an old Irish Pub tune. One of the great Pun Novelty songs [Wet Dream](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6l1GvDWtccI) by Kip Oddotta ---
**Author:** ![Zabali\_Clawbane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ecd19e/32.png) [@Zabali\_Clawbane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zabali_Clawbane)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2009, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-novelty-songs/494664/35 "2009-04-29T12:02:03Z")
Fish Heads by [Barnes and Barnes](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnes_and_Barnes) is a favorite of mine. ---
**Author:** ![cosmosdan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a6a055/32.png) [@cosmosdan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cosmosdan)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2009, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-novelty-songs/494664/36 "2009-04-29T12:03:46Z")
King Tut ---
**Author:** ![Zabali\_Clawbane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ecd19e/32.png) [@Zabali\_Clawbane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zabali_Clawbane)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2009, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-novelty-songs/494664/37 "2009-04-29T12:03:53Z")
Also, Particle Man, The Sun Is A Mass Of Incandescent Gas, Istanbul Not Constantinople, and Dead, (to name just a few) by They Might Be Giants. ---
**Author:** ![Zabali\_Clawbane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ecd19e/32.png) [@Zabali\_Clawbane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zabali_Clawbane)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2009, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-novelty-songs/494664/38 "2009-04-29T12:09:58Z")
Forgot Birdhouse In Your Soul by TMBG! ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2009, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-novelty-songs/494664/39 "2009-04-29T12:15:24Z")
> [@blondebear](#): > > [Snoopy vs The Red Baron](http://lh6.ggpht.com/_Vf9cgYA4CxY/RxIjzlJxXzI/AAAAAAAABHU/kA6PvmEr6oQ/s400/Zion%2007%20322.jpg) OK, I gotta ask: What on earth does your link have to do with the song? ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2009, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-novelty-songs/494664/40 "2009-04-29T12:47:09Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > [ **The Bonzo Dog Band** > [The Intro and the Outro](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Bxv_HLwT7U) > Death Cab for Cutie > [Urban Spaceman](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbLDI5lNdRQ) > The Equestrian Statue > Beautiful Zelda > My Pink Half of the Drainpipe > Dr. Jazz > Jazz: Delicious Hot, Disgusting Cold > Ali Baba’s Camel > Hunting Tigers out in “Indiah” > Look Out There’s a Monster Coming. No mention of Bonzo would be complete without the haunting “Tubas in the Moonlight.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-novelty-songs/494664.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-novelty-songs/494664.md?page=3)