Hey Mr Custer…do you mind if be excused the rest of the afternoon? by Larry Verne
One of my favorite comedy songs. Among many…
**Beep Beep[/]…While riding in my cadilac what to my surprise…a little nash rambler was following me… by The Playmates.
Heartbreak hotel…by Stan Freeberg of course.
To name a couple more. Y’all got a favorite comedy song?
Thanks Reeder. Now I have that song stuck in my brain bucket right before bedtime.
I’ll probably have dreams about one-eyed, one-horned flying purple people eaters.
Ahh come on, ther aren’t THAT many Indians…
It…was…an
Itsy-bitsy
Teeny-weeny
Yellow polka-dot bikini…
I’m ashamed to admit this but…
“The day the squirrel went beserk
In the First Self-Rightgeous Church,
in that sleepy little town of Pashalula!”
Tom Paxton’s “Marvelous Toy:”
It went Zzzzzzzzzip! when it moved,
And BOP! when it stopped,
and * WHIRRRRRRR when it stood still.
I never knew just what it was,
And I guess I never will.*
The Snoopy/Red Baron Christmas song is pretty good, too.
The Vatican Rag.
The Cockroach that Ate Cincinnati.
You HAVE to hear The Fleshtones version of this from the Hitsburg USA album.
Other cool novelty covers are The Cramps version of “The Crusher” and the New York Dolls covers of of “Bad Detective” and “Stranded In The Jungle”
Not sure who does it, but “My Boomerang Won’t Come Back” makes me laugh every time I hear it, as does “The Curley Shuffle”, The Squirrels “Oz On 45”, the Rolling Stones “Dear Doctor”, “Shaving Cream”…I could go on and on…
Jon
Where have all the novelty songs gone?
I’m a huge Tom Lehrer fan, and I’m always up for funny Frank Zappa material. My buddy Mike introduced me to both years ago, through his Dr. Demento 2 CD set.
“Witch Doctor” by Ross Bagdasarian (AKA Dave Seville)
“Dead Puppies”- can’t remember the name of the artist
“I’m Looking Over My Dead Dog Rover”.
“Fish Heads”, and the “I Had Sex With” trilogy- Barnes and Barnes
“With Her Head Tucked Underneath Her Arm”, don’t know the artist on that one, either
“My Baby’s Got Rabies”
“Those Two Dreadful Children”- Cruella De Ville
And there’s one, I think it was by Tom Leherer, can’t remember the title…
“About a maid, I’ll sing a song,
sing rickety, tickety, tin
About a maid, I’ll sing a song
who didn’t have her family long,
not only did she do them wrong,
she did every one of them in…”
I’m a sick puppy, I admit that freely.
Anything and everything by Spike Jones and the City Slickers
“Guitarzan,” “Ahab the Arab”, the aforementioned “Mississippi Squirrel Revival”, “Three Legged Man”, by Ray Stevens.
And of course, that immortal classic by Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, “The Yellow Snow”
I was a Dr. Demento devotee when I was younger. I don’t know if he’s available here in the Las Vegas market.
Charlie Drake. One of my favourites. 
Some Funny Songs Here. (a little bit on the naughty side- just a little bit)
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“Keep your mind on your drivin’
Keep your hands on the wheel,
Keep your[something] eyes on the road ahead.
We’re havin’ fun,
Sittin’ in the back seat,
Kissin’ anda huggin’ with Fred.”
“James , James, hold the ladder steady,
James, James, you come and I am ready…”
Don’t know who did either song, but they are from the 50’s, or very early 60’s. The second one is about eloping, not some bizarre, vertigo-inducing sexual practice.
“Seven Little Girls Sitting in the Backseat” by Paul Evans.
Sue Thompson. Another great song by John D. Loudermilk, who wrote a lot of novelties.
No one has mentioned Stan Freberg yet?
What, nobody meantions Allan Sherman or Weird Al? Or are they just too obvious?
Another vote for Tom Lehrer, a man who can rhyme “Oedipus” with “Platypus” , and turn a Revival hymn into “We Will All Go Togetgher When We Go.” Not to mention a song in which almost every word is the name of a chemical element. (“There’s antimony, arsenic, alumiunum, magnesium…”)
I loved one about taking off your skin and dancing around in your bones. And what about “Who put the benzadrine in Mrs. Murphy’s Ovaltine?”
Loved Dr. Demento as a kid!
“Monster” by the B-52s.
“There’s a monster in my pants
And he does a dirty dance
When I let that monster out
All the women scream and shout”
Anything by the Bonzo Dog Band, but especially “The Intro and the Outro,” “My Pink Half of the Drainpipe,” “Tent,” “Humanoid Boogie,” “Hunting Tigers Out in Indiah,” “Ali Baba’s Camel,” “I’m Bored,” and their versions of “Monster Mash,” and “The Sound of Music.”
Blotto’s “I Wanna Be a Lifeguard” (Link to MP3), “We are the Nowtones,” “She’s Got a Big Boyfriend,” and “My Baby’s the Star of a Driver’s Ed Movie.”
Shel Silverstein/Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show – “Roland the Roadie and Gertrude the Groupie,” “On the Cover of the Rolling Stone.”
Cream – “Mother’s Lament” (Oh, your baby had gone down the plughole . . . * )
Detergents – “Leader of the Laundromat” (“Who’s that playing the piano?”)
Martin Mull – “Dueling Tubas,” “(How Could I Not Miss) A Girl Your Size,” “Licks Off Of Records,” “Ukelele Blues,” “Normal,” and “Santa Doesn’t Cop Out on Dope.”
*Man, that sounds pretty dirty out of context.
“Let me tell you about Ahab, the A-rab, sheik of the burning sands…”
Actually that was the first record I ever bought. It was a 45 so you know how long ago that was, and knowing my inability to throw anything away, I probably have it around here someplace.