The Greatest Novelty Songs

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We Have No Bananas"; playful songs with a bit of double entendre, such as "Don't Put a Tax on All the Beautiful Girls"; and invocations of foreign lands with emphasis on general feel of exoticism rather than geographic or anthropological accuracy, such as " Oh By Jingo! Ich bin ein Stonker… announces JFK, while Neil Armstrong claims one giant Stonk for mankind… Even Shakespeare isn’t safe: Shall I compare thee to a summer’s Stonk?

its all about young norm and his exploits in trying to pick up women with the very suave pick up line, 'g'day! It was subsequenty picked up by EMI and introduced by Kid Jensen on Top of the Pops as “one of the most bizarre singles of the decade”. It’s a faithful cover of Tommy Roe’s 1969 original: slightly more frenetic, glossier in that early nineties sort of way, with a baggy Madchester beat. After having drunk too much eggnog and forgetting to take her medicine, she staggers out of her family's house late Christmas Eve, is run over by Santa Claus' entourage, and found trampled at the scene the next morning. In this article, I've highlighted what I think are 15 of the most memorable hit novelty songs from the '60s and '70s.The unit fought during the German invasion of Greece but surrendered after fighting a rear-guard action near the Corinth canal. M, the electronic music project led by Robin Scott, reached the dizzy heights of Number 2 with their synth-pop anthem ‘Pop Musik. Ray Stevens has had an amazing career beginning in 1958 and, believe it or not, continuing through to this very day.

Every player in Alf Ramsey’s squad was handed a Ford Cortina 1600E – quite the machine back then – and, of course, there was the Esso coin collection and other branded merchandise flying off the shelves everywhere.

The second line of the song (or third, depending on how much you count the "ooh aah ooh aah" refrain) features the song's protagonist claiming he "threw a pitchfork at your dog to keep quiet". By now it’s clear that the British public need no excuse to send utter dross to the top of the charts.

Blobby’ – the creators know they’re unleashing something horrendous on the world, and show a complete lack of contrition. Sustained by one part mis-developed sense of irony and two parts awful taste, the UK charts have been a weird place for a long, long time now. There were many other well-known odd songs in the 1950s and 1960s that did not make the charts, such as “Frankfurter Sandwiches”.It was an even bigger hit Stateside where it topped the Billboard 100 and sold more than a million copies. Firstly, the Rugby World Cup didn’t start until 1987 and, secondly, if rugby is the first thing that springs into your mind, you should probably be in the advanced Higher class instead of being stuck in here with this lot. The farting and the children’s chanting ( Blobby, Oh Mr Blobby, Your influence will spread throughout the land…) are constantly interrupted by sudden and incongruous swerves into dance and rap, by key changes and a rising and falling tempo. It's has a long, and somewhat wandering monolog that tells a true story about a Thanksgiving Day event in Guthrie's life. It was a perennial at my school discos, but I didn’t like it aged nine and haven’t chosen to hear it for the better part of thirty years.