# What's your favorite novety song that most people haven't heard **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 17, 2020, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-novety-song-that-most-people-havent-heard/915550 "2020-07-17T05:16:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2020, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-novety-song-that-most-people-havent-heard/915550/1 "2020-07-17T05:16:27Z")
Mine is the one about the girl who only likes her man for his Willie Nelson impression: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/TSNYGoQI8Hg/maxresdefault.jpg "Barry Kirwan - She Only Loves Me For My Willie") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSNYGoQI8Hg) ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2020, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-novety-song-that-most-people-havent-heard/915550/2 "2020-07-17T05:35:09Z")
Da Yoopers are moderately well-known in Michigan and Wisconsin, but pretty obscure everywhere else. My favorite song of theirs is “Rusty Chevrolet.” [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/aeZ0BUc3kMw/maxresdefault.jpg "Da Yoopers: "Rusty Chevrolet"") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeZ0BUc3kMw) ---
**Author:** ![Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/face_intentionally_left_blank/32/288_2.png) [@Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Face_Intentionally_Left_Blank)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2020, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-novety-song-that-most-people-havent-heard/915550/3 "2020-07-17T06:01:50Z")
[Lawn Dart](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4UnpbWM-vQ), by _Ed’s Redeeming Qualities._ [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/P4UnpbWM-vQ/maxresdefault.jpg "Ed's Redeeming Qualities - Lawn Dart") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4UnpbWM-vQ) I heard this about 30 years ago on a college station. Kind of a light, dry, dark humor. . .I feel like I’m critiquing a wine. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2020, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-novety-song-that-most-people-havent-heard/915550/4 "2020-07-17T06:09:27Z")
[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/nN9DaTXV0b0/maxresdefault.jpg "Yello - Waba Duba") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nN9DaTXV0b0) ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2020, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-novety-song-that-most-people-havent-heard/915550/5 "2020-07-17T06:11:39Z")
https://www.youtube.com/embed/-Ue5F57dZMU?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque&list=RD-Ue5F57dZMU ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2020, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-novety-song-that-most-people-havent-heard/915550/6 "2020-07-17T06:27:44Z")
Linda Laurie - “Ambrose (Part 5)”: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/b8Z4SFc3uho/hqdefault.jpg "Linda Laurie - Ambrose (Part 5) (1958)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8Z4SFc3uho) (Probably well-known among people who know obscurities.) Susan Christie - “I Love Onions”: [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/V-mhdIVwky0/hqdefault.jpg "Susan Christie - I Love Onions") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-mhdIVwky0) (Classic annoying/catchy novelty song.) Dufflecoats - “Don’t See Me Soon”: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/QyK9DrF329A/hqdefault.jpg "Dufflecoats - Don´t see me soon") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyK9DrF329A) (Good old-fashioned Indie Pop from a band on The Waaaaah! CD. This song isn’t on it, though.) Dufflecoats - “Motorbikesong”: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/zZXumhkU3PU/hqdefault.jpg "The Dufflecoats - Motorbikesong") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZXumhkU3PU) (More Dufflecoats. Faster, more upbeat, imagine a hipster on a cafe cruiser.) Mariya Takeuchi - “Plastic Love” [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Gj47G2e1Jc) (Japanese “City Pop” from 1984. Recently got big on YouTube.) ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2020, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-novety-song-that-most-people-havent-heard/915550/7 "2020-07-17T06:28:02Z")
[My first MP3 player](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_PMP300) around 20 years ago came with a CD of sample MP3s from various indie artists. Two of my favorite songs from the CD are _Albert Einstein Dreams_ [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/IXD8lAlDjMw/hqdefault.jpg "Albert Einstein Dreams Naked to the world") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXD8lAlDjMw) And _[Taking Up Space](https://www.lyricsondemand.com/k/kierankanelyrics/yourejusttakinupspacelyrics.html)_. I’m not sure if these fit the definition of “novelty songs” but they surely must fit “most people haven’t heard them”. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2020, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-novety-song-that-most-people-havent-heard/915550/8 "2020-07-17T06:46:17Z")
I don’t know about “most people” because they have their popularity. But these are somewhat local to me so you guys probably don’t know them. Full of early 80s misogyny. [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/myQ3eKcE-Fo/hqdefault.jpg "Monte Video And The Cassettes - Shoop Shoop Diddy Wop Cumma Cumma Wang Dang (1983)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myQ3eKcE-Fo) [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/BMSIvMLtUyc/hqdefault.jpg "Life Begins At Forty - Dave & The Dynamos (1983)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMSIvMLtUyc) [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/n8frPD7DgqI/hqdefault.jpg "The Knobz - Culture") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8frPD7DgqI) ---
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[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/X3CrLRdwM8c/hqdefault.jpg "Gotta Get To Your House - THE MUSIC OF DAVID SEVILLE") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3CrLRdwM8c) ---
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B.A.C.O.N. and E.G.G.s [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/WI9vyHu8xco/hqdefault.jpg "Homer & Jethro - B.A.C.O.N & E.G.G.S.") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WI9vyHu8xco) ---
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“There’s Another Trumpet in the Sky” Used to hear it on Doug Pledger Polka Party KSMO [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/SUW1zGGIsxo/hqdefault.jpg "Bobbie Comber (1932)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUW1zGGIsxo) ---
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I’d say Christine Nelson’s “Driving Test” song, but it’s not on the Internet. Here’s “[Marvin](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRGLbPYc6UA),” the only thing of hers I can find. Blotto’s [“Heavy Metal Head”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyJSetm6U0k) is one of several of their works. And, of course, there’s Bowser and Blue with [Working Where the Sun Don’t Shine](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlCLHf76q_w) ---
**Author:** ![74westy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/74westy/32/3950_2.png) [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2020, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-novety-song-that-most-people-havent-heard/915550/13 "2020-07-17T15:04:40Z")
[![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qa8r-yQ8Hs8) Gloria Balsam screeching “Here, Fluffy. Where are you! Where are you”. A bad, bad morning DJ in town used to play this around 1990 when I was working the morning shift. ---
**Author:** ![Drummond\_Bays](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8edcca/32.png) [@Drummond\_Bays](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drummond_Bays)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2020, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-novety-song-that-most-people-havent-heard/915550/14 "2020-07-17T18:28:15Z")
[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/c4enHS4SGUQ/maxresdefault.jpg "the merry wives of windsor has anyone seen my cock happily ever afte") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4enHS4SGUQ) ---
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[![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wddsjUAUTss) NSFW language and trigger warning This was popular on KROQ (LA) back in the 80s. ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2020, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-novety-song-that-most-people-havent-heard/915550/16 "2020-07-17T18:56:06Z")
[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/r6MTTkGsz3E/hqdefault.jpg "Red Peters- Ballad Of A Dog Named Stains") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6MTTkGsz3E) Ballad of a Dog Named Staines performed by Red Peters on the Howard Stern Show. ---
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To me, Weird Al is at his best when he does an original song, sometimes emulating someone else’s style perfectly without parodying their work. **Dare To Be Stupid** and **I’ll Sue Ya** are great, done spot-on in the style of Devo and Rage Against The Machine, and **One More Minute** is a great breakup song. ---
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A few favorites: Todd Snider: Beer Run [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/bWIB9LAfu0o/maxresdefault.jpg "Beer Run - Todd Snider") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWIB9LAfu0o) Statistician’s blues: https://www.youtube.com/embed/IUK6zjtUj00?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque&list=RDbWIB9LAfu0o Jonathan Coulton: SkullCrusher Mountain [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/9O-ra3RZeHk/hqdefault.jpg "Jonathan Coulton - Skullcrusher Mountain") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9O-ra3RZeHk) Isn’t it enough to know that I ruined a pony for you? Maybe I used too many monkeys. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2020, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-novety-song-that-most-people-havent-heard/915550/19 "2020-07-17T22:39:43Z")
This classic by Styx is something that people generally do not believe exists until they hear it, and sometimes not even then. It was a #1 request on the “Dr. Demento Show” for many years, so “obscure” may not be the right word for it. [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/qB-nGVqNciE/hqdefault.jpg "STYX - Don't Sit Down On the Plexiglass Toilet") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qB-nGVqNciE) (19 posts and nobody else mentioned it?) ---
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