silly songs from yester-year

[66 mustang]

here are two to start with.

Pac-Man Fever

East Bound and Down (gotta love the movie)

[hardrock80srule]

I love Pac-Man fever and east bound and down . Silly songs however would have to be Weirld Al Yankovic. How he was ever to legally take the songs and change them the way he did without law suits everywhere amazes me.

[Bubbasmama]

Oh gosh.....

 

"Hey baby I'm your telephone man"........remember that one? So silly.

 

I have NO idea who sang it...or any more of it, but the telephone guy at the place I used to work would come in my office singing that to me almost every day.

[Lobo]

CB Savage....cannot remember who it was by...but man silly shite....actually any of the C.B. songs were.....ummmm

[Lobo]

Dead Skunk in the Middle of the Road...Stinking the Highway up....not sure what the actual title is but the early to mid seventies had a serious attack of "silly" songs

[Nelson]

Oh gosh.....

 

"Hey baby I'm your telephone man"........remember that one?  So silly.

 

I have NO idea who sang it...or any more of it, but the telephone guy at the place I used to work would come in my office singing that to me almost every day.

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I think it's the boy band where Bobby Brown (Mr. Whitney Houston) used to belong to.

[Nostromo]

Wildwood Weed by Jim Stafford

 

"Smokin' that wildwood flower got to be a habit,

We didn't see no harm.

We thought it was kind of handy,

Take a trip and never leave the farm!"

 

FYI: Telephone Man by Meri Wilson peaked at #18 in 1977. The song is a Dr. Demento favorite.

[MAGICTOUCH]

Kill The Wabbit...by...______________

[Bubbasmama]

Guitarzan ~ Ray Stevens

The Streak ~ Ray Stevens

 

whoa..... Showing Age ~ MJ

[JSpillman]

Ain't Got No Home by Clarence "Frogman' Henry

[JLPRocks]

Disco Duck by Rick Dees

 

.....gets no more silly than that....

[dog2020]

My Ding-A-Ling - Chuck Berry

[hsf]

Weird Al - everything

 

Not that his changed lyric parodies aren't great, but some of his original stuff is even better. I never was a big fan of the polka compilations (where he'd play polka versions of a verse/chorus of some popular songs of the day). But, the rest of the songs were good to gem-ish.

[davesworld]

Chick-a-boom by Daddy Dewdrop

 

Looks hard for a CD with that on it.

 

Have to agree Disco Duck and Pac Man are two classics.

 

Does anyone remember Popcorn by Hot Butter?

[hsf]

Weird Al - everything

 

Not that his changed lyric parodies aren't great, but some of his original stuff is even better.  I never was a big fan of the polka compilations (where he'd play polka versions of a verse/chorus of some popular songs of the day).  But, the rest of the songs were good to gem-ish.

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OK, I feel totally dumb now. Even though Weird Al's been around for over 2 decades, he TOTALLY wasn't from "yester-year". (Plus, I missed that when I typed anyway.)

 

[davesworld]

Wasn't the Lone Ranger from yester-year??????

[Evil Rick]

CB Savage....cannot remember who it was by...but man silly    shite....actually any of the C.B. songs were.....ummmm

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Rod Hart is the guy that does the version I have.

 

Anything by Bob Rivers always cracks me up.

[koogles]

A few novelties that come to mind:

 

PARANOIMIA- The Art of Noise feat. Max Headroom!

DON'T CALL ME DUDE- Scatterbrain

THE CURLY SHUFFLE- Jump in the Saddle

YOU LOOK MAHVELOUS- Billy Crystal

RAPPIN' DUKE- Shawn Brown (John Wayne raps!)

CITY OF CRIME- Tom Hanks & Dan Akroyd rap!

THE SUPER BOWL SHUFFLE- The Chicago Bears '85 rap!!

 

As you can see, rap and novelty once went hand in hand!!

[Crathopper]

*Dead Skunk in the Middle of the Road...Stinking the Highway up....not sure what the actual title is but the early to mid seventies had a serious attack of "silly" songs.*

 

 

1973

Dead Skunk - Loudon Wainwright III

 

Now there's a name destined for stardom.

[Chris]

Up Up And Away (In my Beautiful Balloon)- dont know who sings it but its corny...

[JSpillman]

Joy To The World - Three Dog Night

(Jeremiah was a bullfrog, was a good friend of mine,

I never understood a single word he said,

but I helped him drink his wine)

[Metaltexan]

Silly:

 

Sugar, Sugar - The Archies

96 Tears - ? and the Mysterians

[Metaltexan]

Up Up And Away (In my Beautiful Balloon)- dont know who sings it but its corny...

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The Fifth Dimension

[JSpillman]

Drop Kick Me Jesus, Through The Goal Posts Of Life

 

Don't know the artist and I don't think I've every heard the whole song, but I have heard the title chorus and had completely forgotten about it until I saw the NFL highlights of Doug Flutie's PAT yesterday and now the damn thing won't stop playing in my head.

[MIKE S]

Does anyone remember Popcorn by Hot Butter?

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I'll admit that I'm old enough to remember that one(1972!) - I had one of those K-Tel LPs back then with that tune on it & remember hearing it on the radio many times as well..