The Greatest Novelty Songs

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Weird Al" Yankovic would emerge as one of the most prolific parody acts of all time in the 1980s, with a career that would span four decades; he would join Cliff Richard in being one of the few acts to have at least one top-40 hit in the U. and was followed by Beck's cover of Bonnie Tyler's " Save Up All Your Tears", which narrowly missed out on chart inclusion by peaking at number 84. S. radio throughout the 1970s and 1980s, to the point where it was not uncommon for novelty songs to break into the top 40. Bob The Builder: The Album also featured Bob’s cover of Crocodile Rock, with guest vocals from Elton bloody John himself.

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In the United Kingdom, the novelty hit has mainly become a feature of the " Christmas chart battle" [23] (apart from a few viral hits found earlier in a year), with novelty act LadBaby [24] [25] reaching Number One five times in a row, [26] with all five songs being parodies of other popular songs reworked to incorporate a running gag that revolves around sausage rolls. Today " They're Coming to Take Me Away Ha-Haa" remains one of the most unusual major hit songs ever. Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer" and its silly story of grandma stumbling out into the snow drunk on Christmas Eve has become an unlikely Christmas classic.Matthews' Southern Comfort was led by Iain Matthews, who despite his membership in other noted folk rock groups such as Fairport Convention and Plainsong, never had another hit as a performer. Marvin have had many hits in their own rights, including numerous number ones, while The Young Ones cast members Rik Mayall, Adrian Edmondson and Nigel Planer have made other chart appearances as part of their spoof band Bad News (with Peter Richardson). Bonus trivia: Other soaps got in on the act too, much later on, but their cover singles didn’t reach the heights of Every Loser Wins. Indeed, heard away from the telly, on a child-appeasing car compilation, his oddly soulful depictions of camaraderie in the workplace were rather moving - at least if you allowed yourself to forget that he was singing about his friendship with some slightly camp road maintenance vehicles. However, the UK singles chart compilers (now the Official Charts Company) did not credit her with having number one hit, in a situation similar to the fate of BAD II's " Rush", the AA-side of preceding number one, " Should I Stay or Should I Go" by The Clash.

of UK top-ten singles in 1979 - Wikipedia List of UK top-ten singles in 1979 - Wikipedia

Allmusic describes "Pump Up the Volume" as "a one-hit wonder of rare influence," owing to its importance in the history of sampling and electronic dance music. However they were combined under the main Band Aid entry in various British Hit Singles books, giving the act an achievement of its first four records at number one. As in the case of "Holy", the new version of "Anywhere Away From Here" was combined with the already charting original by the Official Charts Company, with no additional credit for the choir. In addition to 3 physical formats and 3 digital bundles, an unlimited number of digital variants of the featured song may be combined for a chart position.Please note that initially the disc [22] was listed as a double-A side record with the flip side being "I Talk To The Trees" by the American actor-director Clint Eastwood [23] [24] (rather than the reggae deejay). Overall, eighteen different singles peaked at number-one in 1979, with Blondie, Gary Numan and The Police (2) having the joint most singles hit that position. The song features Australian voice actor Lee Perry reading an essay written by American newspaper columnist Mary Schmich over a gentle backbeat.