The Greatest Novelty Songs

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Loads of people born between the 1940s and 1960s have lost their physical copies of the original "Combine Harvester" single, and have had no choice but to ask their children or nieces and nephews to set up Spotify accounts for them so they can relive the good times. The Wurzels are on tour and at festivals all summer , and released their new single " Old Rosie" at the end of June. Instrumentals may not have been the biggest musical influence in the 1980s, but there were some notable exceptions. 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.

This is an everyday, ordinary tale of everyday adolescent infatuation, and yet it is conceived and performed definitively: a Pop drama, no less. There’s a boogie-woogie rhythm, and a honky-tonk piano… The lyrics are somewhat anarchic, vaguely saucy even, if you try hard enough… OK. Born in 1939, the American singer signed his first recording contract when he was 16 years old and has had hits across several genres of music in the years since.A comedian, a cover of a well-loved classic… It’s not that long since Hale and Pace were bothering the charts with their charidee dance-a-thon ‘The Stonk’.

After that, the show came to a natural conclusion in the early 2000s, and is remembered as one of the best series ever, and as a lesson in how to go out on top. Presumably played in bars across the continent all summer, it smashed straight in at number one when finally released at the start of September. Popcorn has been covered by many artists including: Jean Michel Jarre, Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass, Muse, James Last, Crazy Frog, Blue Man Group, and The Muppets. The song is simple, to the point, and something we can all relate to whether you interpret it literally or as a political statement. Or, rather, it’s a dog whistle for seven-year-olds, who are the only ones for whom this song holds any meaning.The video too is a six-minute long MJ-esque epic, in which Bart takes over a school talent show with his new dance routine (or was it all a dream…?

The following, however, deserve a mention, as they were very well known: “The Gasman Cometh“, “The Hippopotamus“, “I’m a Gnu”, and the paean to the London omnibus, “ A Transport of Delight” (1957). I suppose it's an instrumental, as long as you consider the use of the human voice in yodeling, random vocalizations, and whistling to be an instrument.Chong is a Canadian (though he has since become an American citizen); Cheech moved to Canada in the 1960s to avoid the draft for the Vietnam War – it was in Canadian that the pair met and began working together. The official title of the track was; “Medley: Intro Venus / Sugar Sugar / No Reply / I’ll Be Back / Drive My Car / Do You Want to Know a Secret / We Can Work It Out / I Should Have Known Better / Nowhere Man / You’re Going to Lose That Girl / Stars on 45. For the other, non-edited mixes reveal this to be the filthiest number one single we’ve heard so far on this countdown. They continued to proliferate in the early years of the 20th century, some rising to be among the biggest hits of the era.