A novelty song is written mainly to provide humor to its listeners. The lyrics are often funny and ridiculous. Some novelty songs are parodies of popular songs that were released in the music industry. If you want to have your own collection of novelty music, here are a few ways to help you get started.
- Begin with popular novelty songs. To get you started with your collection, some hit novelty songs that we can suggest are ‘How Much Is That Doggie in the Window' by Patti Page, ‘Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini' by Brian Hyland, and ‘Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh' by Allan Sherman. Even the songs from the animated music group called ‘Alvin and the Chipmunks' are considered novelty.
- Visit a couple of record stores. Record stores are great sources of novelty music records. The thing with scouting different record stores is to be patient when searching for titles in their display shelves. Having an artist and a title in mind before getting inside a record store will also make your search much easier. Another idea is to visit specialty and hobby stores because they may carry novelty music records.
- Drop by yard sales in your area. Most people sell their music collection in yard sales, so why not take advantage of it? Look at your community message boards or community magazines for yard sale announcements in your area. You might actually be able to find records of novelty songs from your neighbor's music collection.
- Visit Amazon and eBay to find novelty music records. Amazon and eBay are great sources of novelty music records online. Some popular titles that you can find are Dr. Demento's and "Weird Al" Yankovic's novelty music compilations. You can also visit iTunes under the Comedy and Novelty music category to get digitized versions of novelty songs added to your collection.
- Visit ‘The Novelty mp3 Music Collection' website. The website www.noveltymusic.net features different novelty songs, even in the TV themes, children's and Christmas categories. You may actually find some elusive novelty song titles in this site.
- Visit April Winchell's website. April Winchell is a popular voice actor and radio personality who maintains a website featuring a diverse collection of novelty music. By diverse we mean ‘Darth Vader's Theme' in ukulele version and Nirvana's hits sung in Icelandic.
- Surf around YouTube. Look up a novelty song you already know on YouTube. Then, after watching a video of it or using it, check out the other recommended videos that YouTube thinks are like the first one. You can find all kinds of related music this way. You can also type “novelty” into the search box. YouTube provides a list of popular searches, such as “novelty songs of the 60s.”
After listening to all of the songs in your novelty music collection, we are sure that you are bound to have cases of ‘earworms' where song lyrics are stuck in your head. Listen to your novelty music collection with your friends and family and enjoy loads of laughter while listening to the lyrics.
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