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The Greatest Novelty Songs

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In Britain we're willing to commit to a gag in a way that propels the absurd from a quiet chuckle shared between friends to a ripple that can spread across the country – see that whole Boaty McBoatface thing from last year for a prime example. Despite not achieving mainstream success again, The Floaters went on to release four studio albums before their split in 1982. Not sure if Rod was influenced by samba or sambuca when this official single was put together, but it never really caught on. Fellows revived the Jilted John character at the 2008 Big Chill festival premiering a new song about Keira Knightley’s ultra-thin figure. Left some of the tub-thumping behind long enough in the middle of the song to personalise things by name-checking Willie Morgan and Denis Law.

The video builds on this theme – I’m genuinely not sure if they were going for something funny, or for something more like a horror movie. In 1999, Dutch Eurodance group Vengaboys released a cover of ‘Barbados’, retitled ‘We’re Going To Ibiza. One of the most renowned years in British music, during which Britpop, and some of the nation’s best-loved bands, went mainstream. And yes, we will get to all that… But kicking off the year we have something much less fondly remembered.Credit where credit’s due, the whole concept was kicked off by England’s 1970 squad singing Back Home. Dickie Goodman faced a lawsuit for his 1956 novelty song " The Flying Saucer", which sampled snippets of contemporary hits without permission and arranged them to resemble interviews with an alien landing on Earth. nonsensical novelty songs, reproducing the irrational and meaningless side of the twenties, made frequent appearances. The single stayed at Number 1 for three weeks and Coleman later scooped an Ivor Novello award for 'The Outstanding Lyric of the Year'.

And let’s be honest, giving your debut single the same name as your band (or vice-versa) suggests that you’re quite happy in aiming for one-hit wonder status. It was 1971 and Everything Is Beautiful won the award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance for Ray and the award for Best Inspirational Performance for Jake Hess. Grandad was written by Herbie Flowers and Kenny Pickett, and released in November 1970, by Clive Dunn. It was at the Academy Awards when advertising executive Robert Opel streaked past David Niven on live TV. As with Alice Cooper, and Marilyn Manson (two artists to whom I didn’t expect to be drawing a comparison today) people make the mistake of referring to Whigfield as the singer rather than the band (or ‘musical project’ as Wikipedia refers to them).It is his impression of Boris Karloff (the actor who portrayed, among other things, Frankenstein's Monster in a handful of movies in the 1930's) which he duplicated in other songs in later years, but none nearly as successful as the original. Unlike a seemingly nonsensical chart hit like Crazy Frog's "Axel F" – actual lyric: "A ram da am da am da am da weeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa" – this one at least had a message. A 1940s novelty song was Spike Jones' 1942 " Der Fuehrer's Face", which included raspberries in its chorus. The eighties were a more complex beast, because in some ways they started with Blondie, Gary Numan and The Boomtown Rats in 1978-9.

The most complex thing about this record is how many remixes there were, and working out which one was actually getting airplay at the time. It was first published in 1882, and has been recorded in country, polka, and trad-Irish versions, as well as featuring in the movie ‘Urban Cowboy’.s " Move It On Over", his first hit song, has some humor and novelty elements (about a man having to share the doghouse when his lover kicks him out of the house), but contemporaries (among them Jerry Rivers) disputed this and noted that many men had been faced with eviction under similar circumstances. Doop were, you’ll be shocked to realise, from the Netherlands, the one country that can rival masters Germany for Europop cheese. They even managed a second Top 10 single, another hip-hop track (and actually much better than this) ‘Deep, Deep Trouble’.

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