1950s novelty songs

Subject: RE: 1950s novelty songs
From: The Sandman
Date: 07 May 26 - 03:29 AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNF_hGf627c
close the door they are coming through the window

Subject: RE: 1950s novelty songs
From: Sol
Date: 07 May 26 - 06:32 AM

"The Middle Of The House"

Subject: RE: 1950s novelty songs
From: Sol
Date: 07 May 26 - 06:38 AM

"Hernando's Hideaway"
Probably the greatest decade for novelty songs. There's loads of them!

Subject: RE: 1950s novelty songs
From: GUEST,jim bainbridge
Date: 07 May 26 - 07:01 AM

are they traditional yet, Dick?

Subject: RE: 1950s novelty songs
From: The Sandman
Date: 07 May 26 - 08:53 AM

you had better ask Bob Davenport

Subject: RE: 1950s novelty songs
From: GUEST,.gargoyle
Date: 07 May 26 - 11:43 AM

TRANSFUSION
Song by: Nervous Norvus (aka Jimmy Drake)
DOT recording 1956

(tires skidding, thump, breaking glass, before each set of verses)
Tooling down the highway doing 79
I'm a twin pipe papa and I'm feeling fine
Hey man, dig, that was that a red stop sign
Transfusion, transfusion
I'm just a solid mess of contusions
Never, never, never gonna speed again
Slip the blood to me, Bud


I jump in my rod about a quarter to nine
I gotta make a date with that chick of mine
I cross the centre line man you gotta make time
Transfusion, transfusion
Oh man, I got the cotton picking convolutions
Never, never, never gonna speed again
Shoot the juice to me, Bruce



My foot's on the throttle and it's made of lead
But I'm a fast ridding daddy with a real cool head
I'ma gonna pass a truck on the hill ahead
Transfusion, transfusion
My red corp-suckles are in mass confusion
Never, never, never gonna speed again
Pass the crimson to me, Jimson

I took a little drink and I'm feeling right
I can fly right over everything, everything in sight
There's a slow poking cat I'm gonna pass him on the right
Transfusion, transfusion
I'm a real gone paleface and that's no illusion
I'ma never, never, never gonna speed again
Pass the claret to me, Barrett

A rolling down the mountain on a rainy day
Oh, when you see me coming better start to pray
I'ma cutting up the road and I'm the boss all the way
Transfusion, transfusion
Oh doc, pardon me for this crazy intrusion
I'm never, never, never gonna speed again
Pump the fluid in me, Louie

I'm burning up the highway early this morn
I'm a-passing everybody, oh, nothing but corn
Man, outta my way, I don't drive with my horn
Transfusion, transfusion
Oh, nurse I'm gonna make a new resolution
I'm never, never, never gonna speed again
Put a gallon in me, Alan

Oh, barnyard drivers are found in two classes
Line crowding hogs and speeding jackasses
So remember to slow down today
Hey daddy, oh
Make that type, O huh
Atta boy

Sincerely,
Gargoyle

Jimmy Drake made a career of novelty songs in the 1950's for his full discography ... songpoemmusic.com/drake/discog.html

Subject: RE: 1950s novelty songs
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 07 May 26 - 01:18 PM

Purple People Eater was the late 1950s.

1958's Beep Beep - Little Nash Rambler was certainly a popular novelty.

And at the very end of the decade (1960) you could consider Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini by Brian Hyland.

There are a lot of songs excluded if you stick to the 50s. The 60s were prime for those kinds of songs (Monster Mash by Bobby Pickett in 1962, In the Year 2525 by Zager and Evans in 1969, to say nothing of all of the novelty songs by Ray Stevens, as illustrated with his Guitarzan album in 1960.

Subject: RE: 1950s novelty songs
From: Acorn4
Date: 07 May 26 - 01:48 PM

There was song about a bubble car that I think might have been fifties?

Subject: RE: 1950s novelty songs
From: Acorn4
Date: 07 May 26 - 01:51 PM

Found it:-Bubble Car - Beep Beep

Subject: RE: 1950s novelty songs
From: Acorn4
Date: 07 May 26 - 01:53 PM

Actually the same as Stilly River's post - but in UK bubble cars didn't look like the one in the video. Sone were made of old Messerschmidt cockpits.

Subject: RE: 1950s novelty songs
From: The Sandman
Date: 07 May 26 - 03:25 PM

i remember bubble cars as austin a 30s

Subject: RE: 1950s novelty songs
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 07 May 26 - 03:58 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTS8MMqhMxY
Right Said Fred

Subject: RE: 1950s novelty songs
From: JennieG
Date: 07 May 26 - 06:12 PM

I seem to remember a previous thread on novelty songs which went for many posts, with lots of inspiration.

Because I started it going.

Subject: RE: 1950s novelty songs
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 07 May 26 - 11:00 PM

Well there it is! 1950s novelty songs* started October 19, 2008. And in the first post are some of them named here.

There appear to be quite a few of them. "Novelty" tends to imply new or scarce. I wonder if there is another term for these compositions?




*Tracked down using the Lyrics and Knowledge Search, and with no results, moving next to clicking on Max's Handmade Magic Multi-Site Search. The one result was JennieG's thread.

Subject: RE: 1950s novelty songs
From: Acorn4
Date: 08 May 26 - 04:00 AM

In many ways it's sad that this kind of song would stand no chance of getting in the charts these days.

Subject: RE: 1950s novelty songs
From: clueless don
Date: 08 May 26 - 06:45 AM

There was a particular genre of novelty song (possibly mentioned in that other thread) produced by someone named Dickie Goodman. They each consisted of a narrated story with little clips of recorded songs inserted. I actually owned (may still do) a 45 of one of these, titled "Berlin Top Ten", and another one titled "Batman and his Grandmother", though that one was definitely from the 60s.

Don

Subject: RE: 1950s novelty songs
From: JennieG
Date: 08 May 26 - 06:51 AM

Thank you, SRS! Oh my, 2008....just the other day.....