Favorite novelty songs?

[Khephra]

For me it has to be either Fish Heads or Dare to be Stupid.

[Lautremont]

1. "The Streaker" by Rudy Ray Moore

which is entirely different than "The Streak."

[Richardo]

2. "Pico and Sepulveda"

"La Breaaaaaaa
Tar pits...
Where nobody's dreams
Come true."

I listened to a lot of Dr. Demento in the 70s.... ;-)

[CO Liberal]

3. "Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah" (a Letter From Camp)

By the late, great Allan Sherman - a big hit in the Summer of 1963.

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Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh! (a Letter From Camp)
Allan Sherman

Hello Muddah, hello Fadduh,
Here I am at Camp Grenada
Camp is very entertaining
and they say we'll have some fun if it stops raining.

I went hiking with Joe Spivy
He developed poison ivy
You remember Leonard Skinner
He got ptomaine poisoning last night after dinner.

All the counselors hate the waiters
And the lake has alligators
And the head coach wants no sissies
So he reads to us from something called Ulysses.

Now I don't want this should scare ya
But my bunkmate has malaria
You remember Jeffrey Hardy
They're about to organize a searching party.

Take me home, oh muddah fadduh, take me home, I hate Grenada
Don't leave me out in the forest where I might get eaten by a bear.
Take me home, I promise I will not make noise or mess the house with
other boys, oh please don't make me stay, I've been here one whole day.

Dearest fadduh, darling muddah,
How's my precious little bruddah?
Let me come home if ya miss me
I will even let Aunt Bertha hug and kiss me.

Wait a minute, it stopped hailing,
Guys are swimming, guys are sailing,
Playing baseball, gee that's better,
Muddah Fadduh kindly disregard this letter.

http://www.lyricsxp.com/lyrics/h/hello_muddah_hello_fadduh_a_letter_from_camp_allan.html

[stlchic]

4. "Wet Dream" by Kip Adotta

"Boy, could she Drink! She drank like a... well, she drank a lot. I said, "What's your sign?" She said, "Aquarium." I said "Great! Lets get tanked!!""

A fixture on the Dr. Demento show (many years ago), when I still had the opportunity to listen to it.

:silly:

[SheilaT]

5. Purple People Eater.

n/t.

[salvorhardin]

6. Carmen Miranda's Ghost

(is haunting spacestation 3)

[northzax]

7. well, it's a tie

either the classic "I'm My own Grandpa" or Ray Stevens' "Mississippi Squirrel Revivial."


Well, when I was a kid I'd take a trip every summer down the Mississippi
To visit my granny in her antebellum world
I'd run barefooted all day long climbin' trees free as a song
And one day I happened to catch myself a squirrel
Well, I stuffed him down in an old shoe box, punched a couple of holes in the top
And when Sunday came I snuck him into Church
I was sittin' way back in the very last pew showin' him to my good buddy Hugh
When that squirrel got loose and went totally berserk
Well, what happened next is hard to tell
Some thought it was heaven others thought it was hell
But the fact that something was among us was plain to see
As the choir sang "I Surrender All" the squirrel ran up Harv Newlan's coveralls
Harv leaped to his feet and said, "Somethin's got a hold on me", Yeow!

Chorus

The day the squirrel went berserk
In the First Self-Righteous Church
In the sleepy little town of Pascagoula
It was a fight for survival that broke out in revival
They were jumpin' pews and shoutin' Hallelujah!
Well, Harv hit the aisles dancin' and screamin'
Some thought he had religion others thought he had a demon
And Harv thought he had a weed eater loose in his Fruit-Of-The-Looms
He fell to his knees to plead and beg and the squirrel ran out of his britches leg
Unobserved to the other side of the room
All the way down to the amen pew where sat Sister Bertha better-than-you
Who'd been watchin' all the commotion with sadistic glee
But you should've seen the look in her eyes
When that squirrel jumped her garters and crossed her thighs
She jumped to her feet and said "Lord have mercy on me"
As the squirrel made laps inside her dress
She began to cry and then to confess to sins that would make a sailor blush with shame
She told of gossip and church dissension but the thing that got the most attention
Was when she talked about her love life and then she started naming names

Chorus

The day the squirrel went berserk
In the First Self-Righteous Church
In that sleepy little town of Pascagoula
It was a fight for survival that broke out in revival
They were jumpin' pews and shoutin' Hallelujah!
Well seven deacons and the pastor got saved,
Twenty-five thousand dollars was raised and fifty volunteered
For missions in the Congo on the spot
Even without an invitation there were at least five hundred rededications
And we all got baptized whether we needed it or not
Now you've heard the bible story I guess
How he parted the waters for Moses to pass
Oh the miracles God has wrought in this old world
But the one I'll remember 'til my dyin' day
Is how he put that Church back on the narrow way
With a half crazed Mississippi squirrel

Chorus

The day the squirrel went berserk
In the First Self-Righteous Church
In the sleepy little town of Pascagoula
It was a fight for survival that broke out in revival
They was jumpin' pews and shoutin' Hallelujah!

courtesy: www.raystevens.com

[mac56]

8. Guy Marks

Your red scarf matches your eyes
You closed your cover before stri-hi-hi-king
Papa had the shipfitter blues
Loving you has made me bananas!

(Does anyone know the words to the old-time radio intro at the beginning of that song? I remember something about the Blue Room above the Roosevelt Hotel in New Orleans...)

[miss_kitty]

9. Guitartarzan, Wooly Bully, and Alley Oop

I'm sure there are more that would qualify as my 'Favorite novelty songs' but it's early...

oh King Tut, too.

[Beware the Beast Man]

10. "Strokin'"

May not necessarily be a novelty song, but I love it...

[FunBobbyMucha]

11. "My wife thinks you're dead."

Junior Brown. Maybe not technically a novelty song, but damn funny.