Earache My Eye
“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.
Boogie in Your Butt by Eddie Murphy
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
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.”
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.
“One More Minute” by Weird Al.
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
Jonathan Coulton has some great ones, including “Re: Your Brain”, IMO, the best zombie song ever, “Curl”, and “Strollertown”.
Great Song.
“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.
Funny song, from a guy who turned into a real wingnut later in life.
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 *
:smack: Nothing, actually. Nice picture though, eh?
Let me try it again…Snoopy vs The Red Baron
There’sJunkfood Junkieby Larry Groce. Also a couple that were popular in the '80s. . .Teenage Enema Nurse and Gidget Goes to Hell. 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.
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?!
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”, you’ve missed a true treat.
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
If we’re including parodies, there’s also “Bloat On” by Cheech and Chong.