Talk:Novelty song

message: Wow, what's been going on over here?  I can see not wanting too many examples, but now there's not hardly any, including a lot of well-known ones.  Including ones that were red-linked.  Which, if the criteria for talking about anything in Wikipedia is that it has to have a page of its own, well then we'd have a lot less content. Rufus Sarsaparilla 12:10, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Rednex's "Cotton-eye Joe" is just a silly cover of an old bluegrass song; doesn't qualify.  A novelty song is a novelty song because of the actual intent of the song, not how someone later parodies it. Temp4590 (talk) 06:47, 10 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: This article is unclear on the early history; if this was a popular genre in the 20s and 30s, then the history section should mention that, and not start with the 40s.--Prosfilaes (talk) 02:19, 17 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Early history 

message: TS did add some, but removed some, mostly ones with profanity, Christianity insults, etc. I know the guy online, and know he hates Pokemon and anything the slightest bit offensive, so he will remove them. Should we add these back? --Misterλ (TλLK) 21:34, 15 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  TurtleShroom's edit 

message: I never thought I Am The Walrus was a novelty song. If it was, then Glass Onion would be considered one too, as they were written for the same purpose.
75.142.54.211 (talk) 05:33, 13 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  "I Am the Walrus" 

message: Wouldn't you agree that the Ketchup Song is a novelty one? --213.130.253.61 (talk) 01:07, 20 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Aserejé 

message: I only see one of his songs in the list, but Frank Zappa was one of the most notable writers of novelty music. How come he hasn't been mentioned in the History section?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.169.118.4 (talk) 09:15, 11 August 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: He is now. Temp4590 (talk) 06:47, 10 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Frank Zappa 

message: What, exactly, is a novelty instrumental? And, if there is indeed such a thing, shouldn't "Wipe Out (The Surfaris)" and "Tequila (The Champs) also be included?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.81.28.204 (talk) 19:17, 30 August 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: In any case I'm cutting Telstar out. Carptrash (talk) 14:44, 21 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Telstar 

message: A number of the songs on this list do not name the original performers. "The Marvelous Toy" for instance is by Tom Paxton and was only covered by Peter, Paul, and Mary.
59.167.185.220 (talk) 05:41, 21 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Examples List 

message: It appears that musician Al Casey or someone close to him has been editing this page in a promotional manner to insert aggrandizing, promotional, anecdotal, and thus generally unencyclopedic material about a questionably notable song and band. Temp4590 (talk) 06:47, 10 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Promotional edit 

message: Re: [quote] A novelty song is a comical or nonsensical song, performed principally for its comical effect. [unquote]
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novelty_song
Ah-hah ..!!!!
Finally - I have discovered a genre to "call" weird QUIX4U (youtube) videos and audio works.
Thank you Wikipedia..
This thoroughly describes QUIX4U's "extensive collection" of audio re-mastering (creative, derivative, transformative) WORKS such as "this" ...
A NOVELTY SONG (derivative work) - created entirely from the reuse of, and thus in itself a direct parody thereon, the parody derivative works of the world's best known Parodist (Weird Al Yankovic) if he'd actually EVER done a parody work (skit) on another great artist's work - being that of Danger Mouse's OWN:
CRAZY
Re:
K_RAY_Z (the totally novel derivative thereof)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsOvttls7Bs
 
Entitled (simply) as:
"K_RAY_Z ... ? CRAZY ? Z_YAR_K ? (or) G n a r l s _ B a r k l e y - REMIX REMASTERED "really" Crazy ?"
Uploaded onto Youtube by:
QUIX4U
•5 years ago
•675 views
… Silence (& sense) rules for just 28 "Seconds" ((( & ))) & then U2 - will become K_RAY_Z
115.188.57.151 (talk) 00:52, 27 October 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Re: [quote] A novelty song is a comical or nonsensical song, performed principally for its comical effect. [unquote] 

message: Or at least come up with a tighter lead. Right now, there are so many examples, many of them unnecessary. This kind of simple concept can be explained in a few paragraphs. Then we'll have prominent examples. Instead, it seems like the current state is for people to just had songs they like. CarolOfTheForest (talk) 02:12, 26 March 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Can we cut this article down? 

message: some unreferenced stuff out of here, starting with "It is regarded by both music scholars and Sinatra enthusiasts to be perhaps the worst song he ever recorded. "  I'll settle for a reference to either music scholars or Sinatra enthusiasts.  I will also look for a reference since this claim is pretty likely to be true, but . . . ... Carptrash (talk) 17:51, 14 November 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  I am going to start cutting 

message: I know that genre classifications are always debateable. I also realise that Carl Perkin's original of this song (the one listed here as an example) - is much less famous than Elvis Presley's cover which followed soon after, and that is was the Elvis recording that made the track a rock-and-roll / rockabilly standard - but...
...all that said, should Blue Suede Shoes really be listed here as a novelty song? Jmrichardson (talk) 12:48, 9 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Blue Suede Shoes - really a novelty song?