The Greatest Novelty Songs

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And then comes the punchline which has haunted anyone who shares the forename ever since, the oft repeated refrain “Gordon is a moron. Gloriously cheesy and the staple of parties across the land, ‘Kung Fu Fighting’ reached Number 1 in the UK and more than a dozen other countries. At the time this was released, the show was just halfway through its second season in the US, and was only broadcast on satellite TV in the UK (I remember it coming to terrestrial TV, on Channel 4, much later in the mid-nineties).

Do you mean sales in 1975 as in the sales at the time rather than the sales since then including streaming/downloads etc?In this article, I've highlighted what I think are 15 of the most memorable hit novelty songs from the '60s and '70s.

As sentimental songs were the mainstay of Tin Pan Alley, novelty and comical songs helped to break the monotony, developing in the twenties and thirties as signs of the times.Largely instrumental (apart from the words “Mouldy Old Dough” and “Dirty Old Man” being growled occasionally) was written by Rob Woodward and Nigel Fletcher and recorded by Lieutenant Pigeon. It was a perennial at my school discos, but I didn’t like it aged nine and haven’t chosen to hear it for the better part of thirty years.