# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2009, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-novelty-songs/494664/41 "2009-04-29T13:36:01Z")
Earache My Eye ---
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2009, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-novelty-songs/494664/42 "2009-04-29T13:47:17Z")
“Transfusion” by Nervous Norvus: \*Slip the blood to me, Bud Shoot the juice to me, Bruce Pass the crimson to me, Jimson Pass the claret to me, Barrett Put a gallon in me, Alan\* Second “Telephone Man” by Meri Wilson. ---
**Author:** ![acetylene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@acetylene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/acetylene)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2009, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-novelty-songs/494664/43 "2009-04-29T13:58:36Z")
[Boogie in Your Butt](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIcnJ-DLeeA) by Eddie Murphy ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2009, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-novelty-songs/494664/44 "2009-04-29T14:10:03Z")
Most of mine (especially Tom Lehrer) are already listed, but here are three more: “Monster Mash” by Bobby (Boris) Pickett “Hey, There Little Red Riding Hood” by Sam the Sham “Hail to the Colo-Rectal Surgeons (Workin’ Where the Sun Don’t Shine)” by Bowser & Blue ---
**Author:** ![Claire\_Beauchamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ec9cab/32.png) [@Claire\_Beauchamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Claire_Beauchamp)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2009, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-novelty-songs/494664/45 "2009-04-29T14:39:14Z")
> [@cosmosdan](#): > > One of the great Pun Novelty songs [Wet Dream](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6l1GvDWtccI) by Kip Oddotta Oh god I love that. LOL I don’t really think of “Cover of the Rolling Stone” as a novelty song, but if you’re going to include that, then you gotta include “Life’s Been Good” by Joe Walsh I think. Then, on an unrelated-except-in-my-own-mind note, there’s “Uneasy Rider” by Charlie Daniels. “I ain’t even got a garage, you can ask my wife.” ---
**Author:** ![Saintly\_Loser](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saintly_loser/32/4045_2.png) [@Saintly\_Loser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saintly_Loser)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2009, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-novelty-songs/494664/46 "2009-04-29T14:41:03Z")
Mojo Nixon’s _Elvis Is Everywhere_. Also his _Orenthal James (Was A Mighty Bad Man)_. What the hell, pretty much anything he ever recorded. Including _Don Henley Must Die_ and _Debbie Gibson Is Pregnant With My Two-Headed Love Child_. Not sure exactly what counts as a “novelty song”, but if these qualify, they’re a few of my favorites. ---
**Author:** ![initech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/439d5e/32.png) [@initech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/initech)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2009, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-novelty-songs/494664/47 "2009-04-29T14:44:25Z")
“One More Minute” by Weird Al. ---
**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, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-novelty-songs/494664/48 "2009-04-29T14:47:39Z")
Dam these are some fun songs. I may have to include a few on the occasions I dust off my act and do a night Uneasy Rider would be great. More contempoary are “Title of the song” done by an accapela group that also does My enormous Penis both on Youtube {at work can’t link} and The revenge Song and Trauma to the Groin by a Bob and Tom guest aslo on YT ---
**Author:** ![schnuckiputzi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecb155/32.png) [@schnuckiputzi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/schnuckiputzi)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2009, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-novelty-songs/494664/49 "2009-04-29T14:48:23Z")
Jonathan Coulton has some great ones, including “Re: Your Brain”, IMO, the best zombie song ever, “Curl”, and “Strollertown”. ---
**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, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-novelty-songs/494664/50 "2009-04-29T14:48:46Z")
> [@initech](#): > > “One More Minute” by Weird Al. Great Song. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2009, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-novelty-songs/494664/51 "2009-04-29T14:52:19Z")
“I Lost on Jeopardy”, by Weird Al (and most of his other stuff, too) Pretty much everything by Alan Sherman whom I grew up listening to, I didn’t learn of Tom Lehrer until I was an adult. I memorized all the songs from Sherman’s album, “My Son the Nut” and still sing them to this day. I use “I See Bones” regularly at work when looking at x-rays. ---
**Author:** ![Saintly\_Loser](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saintly_loser/32/4045_2.png) [@Saintly\_Loser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saintly_Loser)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2009, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-novelty-songs/494664/52 "2009-04-29T14:52:50Z")
> [@Claire\_Beauchamp](#): > > Then, on an unrelated-except-in-my-own-mind note, there’s “Uneasy Rider” by Charlie Daniels. > > “I ain’t even got a garage, you can ask my wife.” Funny song, from a guy who turned into a real wingnut later in life. ---
**Author:** ![Jettboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/85e7bf/32.png) [@Jettboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jettboy)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2009, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-novelty-songs/494664/53 "2009-04-29T15:11:34Z")
While not a ‘novelty song’ in the strictest sense of the term, _Cowboy Love_ by the Reverend Horton Heat makes me laugh like a stoned monkey. Dig… \*I know that us as a couple, Will cause talk but I wouldn’t mind, Those cowboys will be pea green with envy, When they see his cute behind. That’s why each night by the campfire, I thank my lucky stars above, For inter-racial cowboy homo 'kinda love \* ---
**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, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-novelty-songs/494664/54 "2009-04-29T15:21:10Z")
> [@Khadaji](#): > > OK, I gotta ask: What on earth does your link have to do with the song? :smack: Nothing, actually. Nice picture though, eh? Let me try it again…[Snoopy vs The Red Baron](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oxzg_iM-T4E) ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2009, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-novelty-songs/494664/55 "2009-04-29T15:45:32Z")
There’s[Junkfood Junkie](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJhWgQxKg4g)by Larry Groce. Also a couple that were popular in the '80s. . .[Teenage Enema Nurse](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BJWAMd2IbI) and [Gidget Goes to Hell](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mviuRqLhndw). I’m not sure how well known the last two are, but they played like crazy in SoCAl and are both really fun songs on their own, novelty aspect aside. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2009, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-novelty-songs/494664/56 "2009-04-29T16:10:49Z")
My Ding A Ling is just awesome. I had an opportunity to sing a bit of it the other day before my younger friends and their all-boy children. None of them had ever heard it. WHAT is wrong with this country when you dont’ know the lyrics to My Ding A Ling?! ---
**Author:** ![Claire\_Beauchamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ec9cab/32.png) [@Claire\_Beauchamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Claire_Beauchamp)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2009, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-novelty-songs/494664/57 "2009-04-29T16:11:25Z")
> [@cosmosdan](#): > > More contempoary are “Title of the song” done by an accapela group that also does My enormous Penis both on Youtube {at work can’t link} Ben Folds just yesterday released an album he compiled of college a capella groups doing covers of his songs. Saw him in concert recently and he had one of the groups on to do a few songs. They not only did something of his but two other contemporary hits (can’t remember what they were … argh). Pretty funny. Also, if you’ve never seen Ben in concert where he covers the Dr. Dre rap [“Bitches Ain’t Shit”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiTiG_Tw_Jg), you’ve missed a true treat. ---
**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2009, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-novelty-songs/494664/58 "2009-04-29T16:43:50Z")
[Prisoner of Love [Aka the Prison bitch song]](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XEGriugHoY) [My Enormous Penis - Da Vinci’s Notebook](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9iiU6NDxIo) ---
**Author:** ![gwendee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/35a633/32.png) [@gwendee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gwendee)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2009, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-novelty-songs/494664/59 "2009-04-29T16:49:46Z")
If Weird Al’s song parodies count then I must cast my vote for Allan Sherman. I like most of them but my favorites are: Here’s To The Crabgrass Old King Louie Sir Greenbaum and one that’s not a parody: Hail to Thee Fat Person ---
**Author:** ![Claire\_Beauchamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ec9cab/32.png) [@Claire\_Beauchamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Claire_Beauchamp)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2009, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-novelty-songs/494664/60 "2009-04-29T17:33:03Z")
If we’re including parodies, there’s also “Bloat On” by Cheech and Chong. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-novelty-songs/494664.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-novelty-songs/494664.md?page=4)