The Greatest Novelty Songs

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The song features Australian voice actor Lee Perry reading an essay written by American newspaper columnist Mary Schmich over a gentle backbeat. xxxiv: "The text of a novelty song sketches a vignette or a brief story of an amusing or provocative nature. They continued to proliferate in the early years of the 20th century, some rising to be among the biggest hits of the era. Sorry if you’ve been reading this aloud, but Den of Geek is not liable for the annoyance or destruction of property you’ve just brought upon yourself. Remarkably, ‘The Ketchup Song’ – less about condiments, more about a sleazeball named Diego prowling around a nightclub – is the UK’s 50th best-selling single of the 2000s.

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Fagin reached number 1 in 1985 as part of The Crowd’s charity cover of showtune/Liverpool FC anthem You’ll Never Walk Alone. From Mr Blobby to Red Dwarf's The Cat rapping, the novelty TV spin-off single is a rich UK tradition.

One-hundred and forty-one singles charted in the top 10 in 1979, with one-hundred and thirty-one singles reaching their peak this year. Brookstein is also an album chart one-hit wonder as his album Heart and Soul reached the top on 21 May 2005 and spent five weeks within the Top 75. Scottish musician Nathan Evans released his version of the sea shanty "Soon May the Wellerman Come" on 22 January 2021 with his version being similar to that of British folk group The Longest Johns. The Sunblock record gives Robin Beck two Top 40 hits to her name and so Beck is not seen as a one-hit wonder in the eyes of the OCC. In 1997, the Teletubbies who reached number one the previous week failed to gain it with their single " Say Eh-oh!

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A 1940s novelty song was Spike Jones' 1942 " Der Fuehrer's Face", which included raspberries in its chorus. Although the original charted at number 90 on the Official Sales Chart upon the release of the remixed version, it failed to make it onto the singles chart. The X Factor winner’s single has been number 1 for seven out of 11 years that the show has been on the air, and has only ever been kept off the top spot by charity singles and an extraordinary one-off protest campaign for Rage Against The Machine. The term arose in Tin Pan Alley to describe one of the major divisions of popular music; the other two divisions were ballads and dance music.Captain Sir Tom Moore was a 99-year-old war veteran who raised millions of pounds for the NHS during the COVID-19 pandemic by walking 100 laps of his garden before his 100th birthday. Spirit in the Sky" [134] is a song sometimes credited as a 'three-time one-hit wonder' [135] as it was also a number one hit for Norman Greenbaum [136] as well as Doctor and the Medics, a band who are not actually a one-hit wonder as they also had a hit with "Burn" in 1986 [137] and charted with a cover of ABBA's "Waterloo" with Roy Wood. In 1960, 16-year-old Brian Hyland had a novelty hit with the song " Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini", by Paul Vance and Lee Pockriss, which topped the Billboard single chart.