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	DFS Funny Song Almanacs!
		Welcome to the Funny Song Almanacs, your ultimate source for all things comedy, novelty, and dementia.
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	songs.davesfunstuff.com (430 words)

	Encyclopedia: Novelty songs
		A novelty song is a song, usually in a recorded form, that defies the usual categorisation of music, or may not even be music.
		Most novelty songs are the work of 'one hit wonders', but occasionally an artist may make an erratic career out of novelty songs.
		Sometimes a novelty song may be made by a singer famous in another sphere, such as comedians, actors, or even sports stars.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Novelty-songs (214 words)

	Novelty Lights (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The appeal to novelty (also called argumentum ad novitam) is a logical fallacy in which someone claims that his or her idea or proposal is correct or superior because it is new and modern.
		Novelty songs are frequently unexpected hits, and may bring their authors or singers unexpected, though often temporary, fame.
		Some novelty songs are the work of 'one hit wonders', but some mainstream artists do occasional novelties, and a few artists have made successful careers out of novelty songs.
	www.blownspeakers.com /pages3/62/novelty-lights.html (804 words)

	Novelty song -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: )
		A novelty song is a (A short musical composition with words) song, usually in a recorded form, that defies the usual categorisation of music, or may not even be music.
		These songs are usually of a humourous nature, such as a (Humorous or satirical mimicry) parody, or a comedic take on (Click link for more info and facts about current events) current events or (An interest followed with exaggerated zeal) fads.
		Sometimes a novelty song may be made by a singer famous in another sphere, such as (A professional performer who tells jokes and performs comical acts) comedians, (A theatrical performer) actors, or even (An active diversion requiring physical exertion and competition) sports stars.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/n/no/novelty_song.htm (437 words)

	Introduction: Froggy's Novelty Song Lyric Collection
		Novelty song lyrics are often slangy and full of topical references of the time.
		While some of these songs are undoubtably better than others, they all have some portion which I consider either particularly enjoyable or particularly illustrative of the novelty song of the period.
		While this is no doubt partly because these songs are all products of their time and culture, it is also due to the fact that composers and publishers tried to imitate in "formula pieces" songs which had already proven commercial successes.
	www.geocities.com /Cag03/Novintro.html (1648 words)

	GRAMMY.com
		Spike Jones is arguably the king of the novelty song.
		For those people over the ages of 35 or 40 who grew up listening to radio, various novelty songs may be particularly keen aspects of their youthful remembrances.
		He also achieved hit singles with such novelty songs as "Ahab The Arab" and "Harry The Hairy Ape." These were two of four Top 40 novelty songs he scored in the '60s.
	www.grammy.com /features/2004/0609_weirdal.aspx (1101 words)

	Bubblegum pop - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bubblegum rock is also reminiscient of pre-rock novelty songs such as "Abba Dabba Honeymoon" and "The Hut Sut Song," which hit the charts in the late 1940s, and hipster foolishness like Slim Gaillard's "Cement Mixer (Puti Puti)".
		This hybrid of RandB, garage rock, novelty songs, and nursery rhymes later surfaced in the post-Beatles era in songs like "Wooly Bully" (by Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs, 1964), which emphasized a hard-driving Tex-Mex beat and absurd lyrics.
		However, the song was closer to RandB garage band music, and missing the element of nursery rhyme/nonsense lyrics that would be introduced by staff songwriters Joey Levine and Elliot Chiprut.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bubblegum_pop (1382 words)

	Novelty Songs - Fixture On The Popular Music Charts
		Novelty songs have always been a fixture on the popular music charts--and they probably always will be.
		Novelty material, however, seems have been released with much greater frequency, and gone to achieve much greater commercial success, during the interregnum spanning the decline of classic rock 'n' roll in the late 1950s up through the eve of the British Invasion.
		Songs like the Barbarians' "Are You a Boy or Are You a Girl" (1965) and the Fraternity of Man's "Don't Bogart Me" (1968) were undeniably funny, but possessed a hard edge (the underlying message portion) which lifted them out of the novelty category.
	www.jeffosretromusic.com /novelty.html (1222 words)

	Novelty singer Max Surban gets serious - SATURDAY SPECIAL (July 17, 1999)
		The novelty number became a hit in one week, according to Max and he received the princely sum of P50.
		These composers and their songs may not be well-known in Manila but according to Max, they are quite familiar to the Visayan audience.
		Max has already composed more than 300 songs in his 27-year career, many of them big hits, but he says the royalties from the songs have not made him a rich man. He remembers talking to an American composer who told him that in the US, one hit song could make a songwriter rich.
	www.inq7.net /saturday/jul99wk3/spc_7.htm (924 words)

	Title List of Songs (Site not responding. Last check: )
		This song is the epitome of the focus on the mother during World War II as the key and most important component of the family unit and the soldiers' lives.
		The song is sung by a soldier who wants his sweetheart to cheer on his exploits and be proud to see him in uniform.
		The song is narrated by a woman who is used to going around with many men but has now adjusted her lifestyle to include soldiers.
	libwww.syr.edu /digital/images/b/Belfer78/titles.htm (1858 words)

	History of Novelty Songs in Popular Music - Fad Songs (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Novelty songs are different from most popular songs in that they usually have an invisible expiration date with the exception of Christmas Songs and to a lessor extent, Halloween Songs.
		Sometimes you can't tell the difference between a novelty song and an odd pop song written on purpose.
		Songs like Lindbergh (The Eagle of the U.S.A.) and Lucky Lindy (both 1927) celebrated Charles Lindbergh's historic non-stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
	www.popculturemadness.com /Music/NOVELTY.html (820 words)

	Review The Golden Age of Novelty Songs: By Steven Otfinoski - Computer Toaster (Site not responding. Last check: )
		This book is fairly complete, including not only what I would consider novelty songs but also parodies and one-hit wonders.
		What I got was a sentence about every song with a pun in the title the author could think of.
		Jimmy Buffett is not a novelty song singer, it must be added.
	computertoaster.com /reviews/asinsearch_0823076946 (228 words)

	Novelty Nook: The Nineties
		The title song is Christmas through the eyes of Santa's reindeer, possibly a first, and other highlights include "I Got Dumped For Christmas," "Santa, Welcome To the Modern World" and "Christmas Tree." The overall performances and sound quality are a little amateurish, but "Grandpa" makes it all worthwhile.
		If you're still unsure of the thrust of this song, the second tune is "Holiday Affair." Yes, this is the same Bill Mumy who was the child star of "Lost in Space" and also is a member of novelty-meisters Barnes and Barnes of "Fish Heads" fame.
		And the title song is funny, as are some of the other parodies, especially "The Chipmunk Commitment Song"; you don't often hear covers of Alvin and his pals.
	www.mistletunes.com /novel90.html (3027 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Arts Friday Review \| Various Artists, The Complete Motown Singles Vol 1: 1959-61
		Most of these songs, in fact, are barely distinguishable from the general run of popular music being produced in America at the time.
		Each of these songs is based on a powerful central idea, and each was a national hit.
		A novelty song called Buttered Popcorn finds the young Supremes, on their first visit to the studio, enunciating a lyric of quite breathtaking - and possibly unconscious - lubriciousness.
	www.guardian.co.uk /arts/fridayreview/story/0,12102,1409793,00.html?gusrc=rss (653 words)

	- Novelty Songs
		It should be noted, however, that while this song capitalized on the CB craze, the CB craze also capitalized on this song.
		The CB fad was never bigger than while this song was on the top of both the pop and country charts (though Sam Peckinpah made a movie called Convoy in 1978).
		Despite the lack of a clear PC movement at the time, the vertically-challenged called for a ban of this song which, as usual, meant the rest of us were going to have to hear even more of it.
	www.super70s.com /Super70s/Music/Novelty_Songs.asp (1893 words)

	Epinions.com - A few songs for April
		Yes, it’s a song for the film soundtrack, but it’s still so inexcusably daft, so ridiculously grandiose and operatic, as to be impossible to consider as anything other than a joke.
		And songs like The Lovecats are arguably novelty songs for all the resemblance they bear to the main body of the band’s work.
		But their Christmas song is a particularly shameless example of silliness, Christmas Time (don’t let the bells end), a silly overwrought and unrelentingly likable stomp through the Christmas season with tongue held firmly in cheek.
	www.epinions.com /content_3850543236 (1234 words)

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		On the whole album, aside from vocals, and maracas on one song, there are only two overdubs, and that's an extra 12-string guitar during the freakout on "You'll Never Miss Me," which I think is the last vocal song on the album...
		The songs are memorable, and in fact that's been proven, as they have all survived the test of 36 years time.
		The song structures are interesting and not particularly predictable, and the performance is, at very least, sincere.
	www.etext.org /Zines/ASCII/CosmikDebris/august97.txt (21317 words)

	Matterhorn Project, MUH!, moo song, MOO!, Cow Song, cows, cow bells, yodelling, alpine horns, Swiss, Switzerland
		There are cows singing and bells tingling, yodelling and alpine horns, all supported by an infectious eigthies disco-beat and a slightly spaced-out sense of humour.
		We had been thinking about a new Cow Song for a while and the many enthusiastic reactions on the TV show finally gave us the kick to go into the studio and make a new Cow Song.
		I am from America and I heard your MUH song while travelling through Switzerland (I was staying in a hostel in the Alps to do some hiking).
	www.matterhornproject.com (712 words)

	The Golden Age of Novelty Songs: By Steven Otfinoski
		This fond look at one of music's most enduring genres examines novelty songs in a definitive narrative that pays tribute to the men and women whose bizarre humor has given us a chuckle, a groan, and a barrel of laughs.
		Golden Age of Novelty Songs covers fifty years of novelty songs and their singers; from Spike Jones to Weird Al, Stan Freberg to Little Jimmy Dickens, crossing musical genres to provide a range of facts and trivia details.
		Enjoy a fun examination of the eccentric natures of these novelties, their origins, and their impact in a title which peppers fl and white photos throughout.
	www.literacyconnections.com /0_0823076946.html (439 words)

	Parlor Songs MIDI Collection October 1999 Featured Covers
		Since much of the joy of these novelty songs this month is in the lyrics, we will be providing most of the lyrics for you to enjoy.
		Here is a case of a novelty song that is musically a beautiful waltz.
		Musically the song is quite sophisticated and with a different set of lyrics could be a much more serious work.
	parlorsongs.com /issues/1999-10/oct99feature.asp (1826 words)

	Cosmik Debris' Dr. Demento interview
		Cosmik: We're coming to the end of the first century of recording here and lots of people are familiar with the last thirty or forty years of music, but the early history of the century is not known at all by most music lovers.
		But that first song he sent me was amusing, not as good as what he does now of course, but it was amusing enough for me to put it on the air.
		(On) that particular song I think they were reaching for something that could get played by your more adventurous people on the radio, so they avoided the obviously proscribed four-letter word on that song, but that isn’t true on the rest of the album.
	www.cosmik.com /aa-january00/demento.html (3927 words)

	Richard Morse - The musician who knows more than 2000 songs - Albums (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The one cover tune on the album is the title track, which Richard included as a tribute to the late, great Country Dick Montana.
		In response to requests from fans for an album of the most popular songs from his live shows, Richard's newest album, "Plugged", is a non-stop roller coaster ride through 20th century popular music.
		The 50s and 60s are represented by medleys of songs from Elvis (Jailhouse Rock, All Shook Up, Let's Have A Party), the Beatles (Can't Buy Me Love, All My Loving, Help!), and the Beach Boys (Surfin' USA, Fun Fun Fun, Surf City), the latter with Richard once again on 6 layered vocal parts.
	people.freenet.de /2000-songs/albums.htm (514 words)

	In 1995, Allen Forte wrote a book called The American Popular Ballad of the Golden Era, 1924-1950. It analyzes ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		To demonstrate, he discusses the role of the ethnic novelty song in turn of the century vaudeville, considering German, Jewish, Irish, Italian and native novelty songs and comparing Berlin’s work to his contemporaries.
		One of the differences between his early and later songs is that at the beginning he--like the composers around him--wrote Irish, Italian, German and Jewish songs.
		When Berlin was alive, he was so protective of his songs that all text citations were prohibited, making written analysis difficult.
	www.pitt.edu /~atteberr/jazz/articles/HAMM.html (630 words)

	The Worst Songwriter of All Time - From "(How Much Is) That Doggie in the Window?" to Barbra Streisand's "People." By ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		And Merrill followed it with an even bigger song, "(How Much Is) That Doggie in the Window?" a hit for Patti Page--or, to give her her formal title, "The Singing Rage Miss Patti Page." Posterity hasn't been that kind to Patti and her four-legged friend.
		All six songs were by Bob Merrill, all were arranged with Miller's unrelenting jolliness (whooping French horns throughout), and all were smashes.
		When she first sang the song, in the musical biography of Fanny Brice, Funny Girl, it was about precisely the opposite: Fanny was so obsessed with her public identity that she'd neglected the personal; she could love audiences but not individuals.
	slate.msn.com /id/2898 (1223 words)

	'Mash' reworked to zing Bush on environment policies
		The spooky, deadpan voice driving the perennial Halloween hit "Monster Mash" is still alive (who knew?) and has recorded a new version of the song, with lyrics lambasting President Bush's policies on global warming and climate change.
		"Monster Mash" remains one of the most popular novelty songs of all time, with sales of 4 million copies.
		It entered the charts as a hit in three different years: 1962, 1970 and 1972.
	www.suntimes.com /output/people/cst-ftr-mash19.html (239 words)

	Everything Christmas - Top 10 Novelty songs (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The time to be jolly has, for many decades now, also been the time to be silly.
		This is our Top 10 list of some of the funniest Holiday Songs.
		This song is sure to have the family giggling in no time.
	www.everythingchristmas.com /story/newstory/noveltysongs.asp (185 words)

	Guardian \| The 10 novelty songs
		It's a mantra we have all forlornly repeated as last orders approach and the bar staff appear not to even register your existence.
		A perfect example of how a song can be stupid and profound at the same time.
		Because no focus group in the world could ever tell you that a gay skinhead and his brother could reach Number One in the UK and US by listing a load of things for which they're 'too sexy'.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4861410-110428,00.html (693 words)

	BEATLES NOVELTY RECORDS (Site not responding. Last check: )
		William Shatner) songs that are deliberately and outrageously Beatlesque (e.g.
		A note about "break-in" songs: These are songs in which someone (usually a DJ) asks questions that are "answered" by bits of popular songs.
		There is some debate as to which Beatles songs are being parodied by which Rutles songs, and some are more style parodies than take-offs of a particular song.
	www.recmusicbeatles.com /public/files/faqs/novelty.html (5586 words)

	45s.com - Novelty Songs - 45 RPM Records -- Search for records, 45-rpm-records -- vinyl records from 1950 to 1990, ...
		45s.com - Novelty Songs - 45 RPM Records -- Search for records, 45-rpm-records -- vinyl records from 1950 to 1990, using a database with detailed information on of over 20,000 hit songs.
		Here is a list of the great novelty and silly songs, courtesy of 45s.com, the greatest source for music and music information.
		If you would like to order records of any of these songs, you may print this page, and then search for the songs in our search engine and add the songs to the shopping cart.
	www.45s.com /music/greatest-songs/novelty-songs.htm (116 words)

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