Novelty songs we enjoy as music
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I know novelty or gag songs are written more to tickle the funny bone than stir the soul, but there are a few joke songs out there that I honestly enjoy beyond the point where I just think they’re goofy. I was thinking, for instance, that Tim And Eric’s song " Petite Feet " has a Hall and Oates-style catchiness that makes me wish it were a full, fleshed-out tune. (I also always secretly yearn to hear " Peanut Butter Jelly Time " at someone’s wedding reception—it’s stupid, but I would seriously dance my ass off to that song.) What are some novelty songs you enjoy unironically? —Claire Zulkey
Tasha Robinson I’ll start by necessarily acknowledging the elephant in the room in any discussion of novelty songs that can be enjoyed for their songcraft: “Weird Al” Yankovic has made a career out of crafting them. Everyone knows him for his parodies, but he doesn’t ever get enough credit for his originals, which are often clever, well-observed style pastiches of other bands (a favorite of mine is “Everything You Know Is Wrong,” styled after They Might Be Giants), and are sometimes just really catchy, silly pop songs. (Yes, I sing “Melanie” to myself on car trips.) That aside, probably the novelty-ish album I’ve listened to most in the past decade has been the soundtrack to A Mighty Wind , the Christopher Guest mockumentary sending up folk music and professional folksingers. Songs like “Never Did No Wanderin’,” “Blood On The Coal,” and “Potato’s In The Paddy Wagon” (the last one a deliberately horrible story-song prominently featuring Jane Lynch and Parker Posey) are funny and biting at the same time, pitch-perfect mockery of folk music, but also hooky songs in their own right, worth listening to even after the novelty fades.
I have to like the music as much as (or more than) the humor for a novelty song to work.
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And rightfully so: The lyrics aren't what you'd call highbrow humor, but the music is such a spot-on parody of Manilow's late-'70s sound that, at least as of this writing, it's cited right next to the work of “Weird Al” Yankovic in Wikipedia's article
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On uncle earl's farm
I use the ulna bone
That is in my arm
Moo-Yah!
Everybody knows the bones
Just had to find a way
Everybody know what I'm talking 'bout
That's how I'll get an A
My body's many parts
And this is where it starts
Phalanges I have 10
And Metatarsals then
I got some Tarsals too
I'll put them in my shoe
The Fibula is next
According to my text
Then comes the Tibia
That ain't no Fibia
And now up to my knee, yeah, yeah, yeah
That's the patella to me
Chorus:
We're doing the bone dance
You study the answers
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Again and again til I get it right
We're doing the bone dance
You dance and you learn it
And we won't mess up this test
We'll get it perfect
And now I take it home
With the Parietal bone
It might be crazy
But we learn that way
Temporal and frontal too
And now we're finally through
That makes two hundred & six
I found a way that clicks
Chant: Bone Thugs in the house
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You study the answers
Again and again till I get it right
We're doing the bone dance
You dance and you learn it
And we won't mess up this test
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