What are some novelty, joke or unusual songs that you don’t mind including in your playlist regardless of comedy or whatever?
Consider:
Baby Got Back - Gilbert and Sullivan Style. “She’s little in the middle but she got much back”
Weird Al, Craigslist: “Do you want my styrofoam peanuts?”
Lou Reed, “My Name Is Mok”: “I’m the biggest thing since World War Three”
Anyway, that’s a few off the top of my head.
I always thought that some of the Beatles parody songs that Neil Innes wrote for “The Rutles” could stand on their own as fun little pop tunes. I particularly like “With a Girl Like You” and “It’s Looking Good”.
Speaking of Weird Al, “The Saga Begins” is probably better than “American Pie”. At least it makes sense.
If you like a little twang, you might want to give Unknown Hinson a listen. His tunes have catchy hooks that will stick in your mind, lyrics I personally find hysterical, and MAN that boy can play! Gonna pick one…
Practically anything by Spinal Tap, but especially “Big Bottom.”
I rather like Rubber Biscuit by The Chips (and later the Blues Brothers).
Also like Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini by Bryan Hyland.
And at Christmas, two of my favorites by far are Snoopy vs. The Red Baron by The Royal Guardsmen and I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas by Gayla Peevey.
The Snoopy songs by The Royal Guardsmen.
Knead, you should check out Hayseed Dixie’s “Big Bottom” cover.
Don’t you mean “Snoopy’s Christmas”?
I was always fond of The Battle of New Orleans by Jimmie Driftwood/Johnny Horton. Catchy and educational too!
Almost anything by Half Man, Half Biscuit is worth a listen.
Any thing by Scatterbrain.
King Tut by Steve Martin
I love just about everything by Weird Al. He is the KING of parody! Pure genius…
I love a good novelty/parody song. If it’s done right it’s thing of beauty!
Anyone into musical theatre should check out Forbidden Broadway. Gerard Alessandrin’s lyrics can hit dead on. When Stephen Sondheim first heard his West Side Story parody, he was laughing so hard he was literally banging his head on the wall.
Rita, your rude gyrations are all lousy imitations.
Though we both did West Side Story, yours was like chicken caccatorie.
She got all the glory.
So don’t let that cat in, I’m the firey Latin.
I was the world’s first Anita (we know you were)
Don’t mix us up, I am Chita.
The H to the A to the W King.
I keep telling people Big Bottom is not of the novelty/joke genre.
It’s a love song, and a beautiful one, at that.
[Bruce Willis]
Way ahead of ya, pardner.
[/Bruce Willis]
I’d buy that if the whole song weren’t one big musical joke. I mean, c’mon, three bass guitars?
There’s no musical rule that bars the deployment of an extra two bass guitars in a love song.
Anyway, I was referring to the evocative and poignant lyrics, redolent as they are with images of eternal devotion to the dual concepts of bum cakes and mud flaps.
I was just searching YouTube for Allan Sherman and found this bit with him on The Dean Martin Show.
“Everybody Loves Me, Baby” by Don Mclean.
Not a joke but Chris Daughtry’s cover of Lady Gaga’s Poker Face is unusual.
I’ve always liked the Fendermen’s version of “Mule Skinner Blues”.