Best Novelty Song On K-Tel's "Looney Tunes' Compilation

I loved the Alan Sherman as a kid, tho it gave me a very odd idea of what Ulysses was like. I also used to think "The Streak" was hilarious. Even as a kid, I knew Charlie Drake was shit. At least half of these don't seem to have made it over to the UK in any memorable way.

Little Red Riding Hood - Sam the Sham & The Pharaohs

Haha, I like the Charlie Drake song! There's some nicely-delivered moments ("My boy Mac! Why? What's wrong with him?") even if the whole thing is kind of a limp noodle.

I think I liked Charlie D's version of "Splish Splash" but that's a decent tune anyway.

Voted for "Hello Mudduh Hello Faddah" anyway. Don't think I've heard it for 20 plus years and can still remember huge chunks of it.

Listened to this a lot as a kid! Gotta be "They're Coming to Take Me Away."

"Kookie, Kookie (Lend Me Your Comb)" rules!

"Baby, you're the ginchiest"

"I've got smog in my noggin"

Bob McFaddens "The Mummy" came back to life just so he could buy a copy of Kookie Kookie Lend Me Your Comb!

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As a kid I enjoyed deciding which of the characters on the front cover went with which acts. Seemed reasonable that the Frankenstein guy had something to do with either Dinner With Drac or Haunted House - and in hindsight it seems obvious that the guy at front left is supposed to be Napoleon XIV. The rest are up for grabs though - I think in my mind the sunglasses dude was Nervous Norvus.

Mother-In-Law - Ernie K-Doe

This is a novelty tune? Best of the bunch, regardless.

I was going to start a novelty poll that included Purple People Eater and Monster Mash

THEY CALL HIM THE STREAK YIBBA YIBBA

Little Red Riding Hood for the win, but this thread needs more Joe Perkins

Tough. But "Hello Mudduh, Hello Fadduh".

It's not that the Whoolery's are big Obama fans they just don't like people joking about a serious matter concerning any leader of the country.

"I'm assuming if it were, 'Assassinate McCain' you'd feel the same way?" asked reporter Nate Eaton.

"No question about it," replied Whoolery.

Oh man, Idaho...sometimes I do not miss you at all. You and your almost-literate embarrassing journalism.

Form, content...just some fucking terrible paragraphs.

um...wrong thread.

Is this on cd now or something? I can't decide which "Nervous Norvus" to vote for.

"Transfusion" has a really great, murky sound on the chorus, "Ape Call" has the Tarzan yell... both have some great lyrics. "Be zorch, Daddy-O" vs "I'm a cotton-pickin' mess of contusions."

Ape Call is always Jacksonville Florida's WAPE 95.1 theme to me:

Napoleon XIV. Would have faced tougher competition on Rhino's "Dr. Demento" compilation though.
(And where are Barron Knights????!!!=

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Nervous Norvus deserves better than this.

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Slip the claret to me Barrett.

He was surely one of the first people in the world to combine pop songs and musique concrete?

Bob McFaddens "The Mummy" came back to life just so he could buy a copy of Kookie Kookie Lend Me Your Comb!

― zappi, Saturday, October 11, 2008 6:16 PM Bookmark

omg, thank you for turning me on to this! What a hilarious plot detail!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTvpQjl8SWw

"I don't try to scare people,
I really came back to life to buy a copy of 'Kookie, Kookie, Lend Me Your Comb'
But people run from me! Watch what happens when I walk up to somebody!"

hahaha and the beatniks make fun of the mummy for buying it!!

I found via Amazon that most of the Nervous Norvus is pretty good! Tiny Tim has done superior work elsewhere.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_U7Ku9jAlE

yikes at this animation

So crazy that this thread got revived today - I had "Transfusion" playing in my head on the way to work today!

Maybe a dangerous choice of driving music!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q71Y0GSjAUA
"I don't try to scare people,
I really came back to life to meet Paul McCartney!"