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Novelty records that you think are genuinely good?!

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Slipperydick Enthusiast

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Anything from Harry Champion makes me smile. That guy was what you'd call prolific and a half.
Could just be that they are familiar, as they are to anyone my age who grew up hearing sunday lunchtime [s]radio[/s] wireless though.

Not really songs, but most of Stanley Holloways monologues amuse me as well, kids love em, especially Albert and the lion.

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[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1441901199' post='2862826']
Telestar and Surfin' Bird. Novelty records? Really?
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Ha, yes - these are the kind of thing I was trying to describe in the in the original post, so for me Telstar, Surfin Bird, Popcorn, Quantum Leap (perhaps), Laurie Anderson Superman, Video Killed the Radio Star, are kind of borderline novelty/pop. 'Novelty' obviously isn't quite right judging by some of the terrible music that has been launched into this thread :)
But you get the idea?

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[quote name='chris_b' timestamp='1441895634' post='2862751']
My next suggestions were going to be Star Trekkin and Bernard Cribbins.

I'll have to make do with Charlie Drake, Tanglefoot and My Boomerang Won't Come Back and Nellie The Elephant by that band, whose name I've forgotten.
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Chrlie Drakes Boomerang wont come back would upset some people on here's PC sensitivity. Its also the song that drove Rolf Harris to start writing a parody about winkles. ( No not Two little boys-winkles as in shellfish) :P

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[quote name='operative451' timestamp='1441901003' post='2862820']
I can't work out how to do the embed thing...
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Change the https:// to http://

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[quote name='operative451' timestamp='1441901003' post='2862820']
This is seriously my favourite record of all time. I want it played at my funeral.

[url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8sfrg4bFoc"]https://www.youtube....h?v=Y8sfrg4bFoc[/url]

I can't work out how to do the embed thing...
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great example!

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Nelly The Elephant is my fave

Just though of another: TV Stars by the Skids, B side to Into The Valley from memory, pays homage to Ena Sharples and Albert Tatlock

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Anything by Spike Jones, but especially "You always hurt the one you love" and the Hawaiian Love Chant with the opening lyrics "as the sun pulls away from the shore and our boat sinks slowly in the West....."

The Monster Mash. Boris Picket and the Krypt Kickers.

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[quote name='tauzero' timestamp='1441894331' post='2862729']
Anything by Flanders and Swann.
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Also anything from Frank Sidebottom's impressive repertoire.

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Are these two along the lines you're looking for:

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFYxCIr-Byo"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFYxCIr-Byo[/url]

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qrriKcwvlY"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qrriKcwvlY[/url]

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The Goodies Rule OK - 1975. I loved their version of "Wild Thing" when I first heard it watching this show. I still prefer it to the Troggs version, though obviously the sound is more down to whoever the sessionists were on it. This track was the B-side to their novelty hit "Nappy Love" on Bradley Records (don't ask me how I know that :blush: )

Bill Oddie was apparently one of the most successful UK songwriters of the late 70s, due to record sales and the greatest hits album they made.

[url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tdx5p1ftNI"]http://www.youtube....h?v=1tdx5p1ftNI[/url]

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[quote name='Big_Stu' timestamp='1441914870' post='2862987']
The Goodies Rule OK - 1975. I loved their version of "Wild Thing" when I first heard it watching this show. I still prefer it to the Troggs version, though obviously the sound is more down to whoever the sessionists were on it. This track was the B-side to their novelty hit "Nappy Love" on Bradley Records (don't ask me how I know that :blush: )

Bill Oddie was apparently one of the most successful UK songwriters of the late 70s, due to record sales and the greatest hits album they made.

[url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tdx5p1ftNI"]http://www.youtube....h?v=1tdx5p1ftNI[/url]
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Tim Brooke-Taylor is "playing" a Burns Sonic Bass!

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Anything by Tom Lehrer but Poisoning Pigeons In The Park is a fave.
http://youtu.be/yhuMLpdnOjY

Also, the Wombles had some great tracks on their albums, often parodying popular styles... I suppose we've got Mike Batt to thank/blame for that!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgXrkMi1At8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxwoSg_M_vE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fv0_3yYITA4

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tedmanzie Proficient

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[quote name='Mykesbass' timestamp='1441913534' post='2862966']
Are these two along the lines you're looking for:
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Interesting lyrically but I don't think they have the [i]sonic novelty[/i] to put them in my [i]wanted[/i] pile!

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Not going to be everybody's cup of tea, but I'm quite fond of


[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfeyUGZt8nk[/media]

By the time it finishes I've forgotten it's a novelty & been transported back to a dodgy club in the late 90s.

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How about this. Mouldy Old Dough
[url="https://youtu.be/aO5GWJJP3FM"]http://youtu.be/aO5GWJJP3FM[/url]

Not sure if this is classed as a novelty, but it always comes across as one to me. The Strawbs

[url="https://youtu.be/KdOCWUgwiWs"]http://youtu.be/KdOCWUgwiWs[/url]

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Right Said Fred - I'm Too Sexy (nice Hendrix/Third Stone From the Sun motif to boot)

Jasper Carrott - Funky Moped (most bought it for the Magic Roundabout b-side)

Great shout above for Benny Hill and Ernie.. and rare to see a video/film on Top of the Pops at the time.

And a great shout also for Lieutenant Pigeon (being a Cov Kid one of the abiding memories of the time was seeing them on Top of the Pops and one of the band wearing a City away top - green and black stripes - in an era when grown men never wore football tops, other than to play football. Brian Johnson/Geordie did similar with a Newcastle top on TOTP a year later).

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[quote name='tedmanzie' timestamp='1441916670' post='2863007']
Interesting lyrically but I don't think they have the [i]sonic novelty[/i] to put them in my [i]wanted[/i] pile!
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Now that is niche :D

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[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1441917351' post='2863020']
How about this then?

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OQEkXr1FSM[/media]
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Like it! Scores high on the quirky weirdness but low on the 'pop' (i.e. popular) scale!

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