When most people think of novelty songs, they think of funny tunes with light lyrics. Classics like “The Purple People Eater,” “They’re Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa!” “The Streak,” and pretty much ...

In the ’80s and ’90s, nothing was a bigger cultural tastemaker than MTV. Long before it became the home to endless reality shows, it played nothing but music videos 24 hours a day. If you wanted to ...

While these 1970s songs are amazing, they were best-suited for their era, and would have likely flopped if released today.

Is there a music genre less respected than novelty music? Well, disco, but we weep not for the dead. The novelty song, which for our purposes here is defined as "a comical or nonsensical song," is ...

This is the third and infal article in a three-part series on the history of holiday music. The first article described the origins of holiday music and the second covered the 19th-century reinvention ...

No Halloween party is complete without the perfect playlist. Halloween songs are a staple of spooky season, from goofy novelty songs like “Monster Mash” to high energy pop hits like “Heads with Roll.” ...

The Baha Men hit, released 25 years ago, occupies a distinctive spot in music and sports history, along with “Macarena” and other novelty earworms A quarter century ago, the world was gripped by a ...

She was barely in her teens when a novelty song made her a household name. At 60, Sharon Cuneta remains a defining figure ...