The Greatest Novelty Songs

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Bromley, Tom We Could Have Been the Wombles: The Weird and Wonderful World of One-Hit Wonders p.51. Penguin books ltd, 2006 Whitney Houston’s I Wanna Dance With Somebody stalled at No2 after this Star Trek- inspired ditty hit No1. It sold 470,000 copies. Utter nonsense from comedian Alexei Sayle, this eventually got to to number 15 in 1984 a couple of years after its original release, in the Hoffman, Dr Frank. "Novelty Songs". Jeff O's Retro Music. Jeff O'Corbett. Archived from the original on February 25, 2008 . Retrieved February 23, 2008. Napoleon XIV They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa! / !aaaH-aH, yawA eM ekaT ot gnimoC er'yehT (1966) [Single]

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Novelty songs are often a parody or humor song, and may apply to a current event such as a holiday or a fad such as a dance or TV program. Many use unusual lyrics, subjects, sounds, or instrumentation, and may not even be musical. For example, the 1966 novelty song " They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa!", by Napoleon XIV, has little music and is set to a rhythm tapped out on a snare drum, a tambourine, and the bare sides of the musicians' legs. Parkes, Thomas. "Wolverhampton's famous binmen swap dancing for singing with shot at Christmas number one". www.expressandstar.com. meantime Sayle had become far better known in the public eye. Sample line: “I keep tropical fish, in my underpants”.One hit wonder? No. A double A-side of I Got You Babe and Soda Pop got to no. 5 the following year. Francis also released a single as Keith Lemon called I Wanna Go On You in 2013 for Text Santa, but it didn’t break the top 40. When a song makes it to the top of the UK singles chart, it can be either garlanded for capturing the hearts and minds of the music-buying public or ear-marked as a future pub quiz question in some obscure one hit wonder songs round. Every once in a while, a so-called novelty song makes it into the top 10 and more often than not, the breeding ground for these singles is on television. a b Keeling, Neal (February 17, 2007). "Search for the Matchstalk singers". Manchester Evening News. We await the day with relish that somebody dares to make a dance record that consists of nothing more than an electronically programmed bass drum beat that continues playing the fours monotonously for eight minutes. Then, when somebody else brings one out using exactly the same bass drum sound and at the same beats per minute (B.P.M.), we will all be able to tell which is the best, which inspires the dance floor to fill the fastest, which has the most sex and the most soul. There is no doubt, one will be better than the other. What we are basically saying is, if you have anything in you, anything unique, what others might term as originality, it will come through whatever the component parts used in your future Number One are made up from." Radio 1 banned this silly number for being “not credible” – but it sold half a million copies to become one of 1984’s biggest hits.

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Chris Tarrant, Sally James, John Gorman and Bob Carolgees (sometimes Lenny Henry contributed as well - so mark that answer as correct too) Angeleyes"/" Voulez-Vous", " Chiquitita", " Does Your Mother Know", " Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)", " I Have a Dream" Robbie Williams and Russell Brand Sing on New Version of Three Lions For Football World Cup | Showbiz News | Sky News". News.sky.com . Retrieved 14 May 2010. The Coffee Song (“They’ve Got an Awful Lot of Coffee in Brazil”) (Frank Sinatra, 1961, re-recording of 1946 version)Shout for England featuring Dizzee Rascal and James Corden (" Shout", 2010) (currently listed in the Official Chart Company's archive as "Shout" by Shout featuring Dizzee and James Corden) [176]