Novelty Songs

[Drusilla]

What's your favourite and most hated novelty song?
I like 'You're the Lady' by Esther and Abi Ofarim, but hate 'Shaddap You Face' by Joe Dolce.

[madein1978]

I hate, nay LOATHE The mr blobby song by Mr Blobby, funny what people like sometimes!

[madein1978]

I like Vindaloo by Fat Les for the 98 world cup, and I like World in Motion by New Order for the 1990 World Cup, england en-ger-land!! and I don't even like football!

[diana.m]

I like vindaloo too! I absolutely can not see why everyman and his dog seems to like Come on Arlene by dexies midnight runners. I think its the worst song ever!

[Dark Angel]

"Come on Barbie, lets go party" whoah whah whoah..

[Dark Angel]

Sorry, the above is the favourite, its silly but kind of catchy. The worst is the Chicken Dance.

[jemarris]

baa baa black sheep by the singing sheep gets my vote, I think it's the chicken's rendering of the 1812 overture at the end that really makes it.Worst for me is renne & renata.

[emmagleb]

Can't believe no one has mentioned 'The Laughing Gnome' but Davis Bowie, 'The Gnu Song' by Flanders & Swann (in fact, anything my Flanders & Swann is worth a giggle!) and 'The ketchup Song' by Las Ketchup (who are actually the daughters of a famous Spainish singer called Il Tomate) - they're all great ones and good for a lift on a rainy day.

Loath and hate the Crazy Frog, anything by Goldie Lookin Chain, and Vindaloo....

And the underground song.... AWESOM!!

[GMH]

That Esther and Abi song was called Cinderella Rockerfella. Sorry if someone's always mentioned this! That sub-Frank Ifield "you're the lady" singing on it deserves to be put in the list.

Here are mine:

Baby Love by the Supremes - OK, quite a normal song, but to me it is as soppy as the women's lingerie department in Mark's and Spencer's.

Uptown Girl by Billy Joel - Again, a normal song, but I can almost imagine Joe Pasquale singing it in his annoying voice. Sorry, but it doesn't gel with me. It's when he goes "and when she's working.." in the middle of the song.

For novelty songs, how about Keith Harris and Orville's song? They actually played a clip of that on Ken Bruce's Popmaster quiz a couple of weeks back.

Norway's 1978 Eurovision entry could also be a great candidate... (Sorry to any Norweigians reading this).