Novelty records

Neill

Do the young people today have novelty records like we had in bygone days. 

Who remembers  "Mouldy old Dough", "Monster Mash" and "Ernie the Fastest Milkman in the West" 

And isn't this the weirdest thing you've ever seen on TV?

scrumhalf

Is that Whuistling Jack Smith?

He didn't even whistle on the record, they used a session whistler.

Neill

scrumhalf said:

Is that Whuistling Jack Smith?

He didn't even whistle on the record, they used a session whistler.

I don't think he was really called Jack Smith either.  Complete fraud.

Sassafras

Most of Justin Bieber's offerings sound like awful novelty records.

AlexC

Lest we ever forget that Ultavox’s classic New Romantic synth pop masterpiece Vienna was kept off the U.K. number one spot by...
Joe Dolce’s Shaddap You Face.
For weeks on end.

fandango

AlexC said:

Lest we ever forget that Ultavox’s classic New Romantic synth pop masterpiece Vienna was kept off the U.K. number one spot by...
Joe Dolce’s Shaddap You Face.
For weeks on end.

Whassamadda you, hey!
Gotta no respec, hey!


Birdie Song

Mr Blobby

But this is THE one true novelty hit: The Firm’s Startrekkin’

https//m.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZS2-4-iUJ4

Dominic

Grandad by Clive Dunn used to make me cry as a kid .........I was sensitive and sentimental
  Does YMCA count as it's one of my favourite tunes ever ?

Sporky

Sassafras

Most Eurovision songs.

Dominic

Sporky said:

It's got the stamp of Stock Aitken Waterman production all over it !
Don't forget our very own Simon Cowell had a hit with Teletubbies long before Xfactor 

Nitefly

You're The One That I Want, by Hilda Baker and Arthur Mullard - it doesn't get any better than this.  Sadly no youtoob link...

Paul_C

Nitefly said:

You're The One That I Want, by Hilda Baker and Arthur Mullard - it doesn't get any better than this.  Sadly no youtoob link...

Paul_C

Sporky said:

What shocked me the most was that I knew what the song was just from the image

Nitefly

@Paul_C - smashing!  Thank you!

57Deluxe

my very first ever record!!

usedtobe

https://g.co/kgs/iTdsBg
https://g.co/kgs/pSCn8P

mort

57Deluxe said:

my very first ever record!!

Funnily enough that was also my first ever 45.

I preferred the B side, ‘realistic war sounds’ or somthing