OK, here's a challenge for our resident music buffs...

Name as many novelty/comedy songs performed by mainstream artists (i.e. no Weird Al or other artists that exclusively do novelty/comedy songs) that you can think of. They need not be singles that charted, deep cuts are fine.

Johnny Cash Boy Named Sue

Styx Plexiglas Toilet (Hidden track from The Serpent is Rising)

Aerosmith Big Ten Inch Record

He does his share of noveltyish songs

Broken Cigarette; Big Red Rocket of Love; Wiggle Stick; Bales of Cocaine; etc etc

Harry Neilsson - The Coconut Song

J. Geils Band No Anchovies, Please

:D I love that track....

The theme song from the 1970s animated series is a hidden track on Adios, Amigos

What they were doing there, I don't know.

Chuck Berry: My Ding-A-Ling

Beatles: Yellow Submarine

Charlie Daniels: Ballad of the Uneasy Rider

Frank Zappa: Don't Eat the Yellow Snow

He could do some serious good music but he liked to play.

Valley Girl
Teenage Prostitute

The man was a fuggin genius - he could be serious and silly and the book he wrote was great. We lost a lot when he died.

Khash

I think it should.

but it turns out that what the guy is screaming is a cookie recipe. Very funny.
Can't remember the name of it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1zL13LvxS8


And the ever-popular alternative version Where'd the Motherfuckin' Cheese Go At?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFn4uX5R9bk&feature=related

dumb videos, good songs.

Can't believe I got the title wrong. D'oh!

sung by the Four Aces the flip side of "Its A Woman's World" in 1959

Just think Brown

He had an album years ago entitled "Everybody Loves a Nut", which was full of novelty songs: "Boa Constrictor", "Dirty Ol' Egg-Suckin' Dog", "The One on the Right is on the Left", and others.

Elvis - not so much a novelty, but an unintentional screw-up in a live performance of "Are You Lonesome Tonight" has been a cult classic on radio for years now:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anzKcrHC-6s

Toledo Ohio and ForestLawn by John Denver

Oh gosh, there's a ton. Johnny Cash had a ton of them.

which is one reason I don't think they were pretentious so much as just British.

"I'm in Love With My Car" is hilarious.

Because i think "Please play this song on the radio" is pretty hilarious :D

Lily (My one and only). It's a darkly comedic song about a stalker:


lily, my one and only
i can hardly wait till i see her
silly, i know i'm silly
cause i'm hanging in this tree
in the hopes that she will catch a glimpse of me
and thru her window shade
i watch her shadow move
i wonder if she.......?
lily, my one and only
love is in my heart and in your eyes
will she or won't she want him
no one knows for sure
but an officer is knocking at my door
and thru her window shade
i watch her shadow move
i wonder if she could only see me?
and when i'm with her i feel fine
if i could kiss her i wouldn't mind the time it took to find
my lily, my one and only
i can hardly wait till i see her
oh lily, i know you love me
cause as they're draggin me away
i swear i saw her raise her hand and wave (goodbye)

Onomatopoeia
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7cgAurE2Bk

Song of the Viking
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bO95rnkoKY4&feature=related

Jesse (NSFW)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7HqqrvMQjg

An Elpee's Worth of Tunes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLslLszuue8



Lots more....in fact, Bang the Drum All Day fits in the category, I'd say

I'm not sure if these would count or not, but how about-

Van Halen's version of Happy Trails? or the Louis Prima song, Just a Gigolo?

Tom Waits - What's He Building in There..or most any Waits song? Jockey Full of Bourbon, The Piano Has Been Drinking...

Joni Mitchell - Twisted, with a little Cheech Marin at the end?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKIQSo7JbKQ

He had far more novelty country hits than serious ones but did have a charted serious single in "King of the Road". Novelty hits included "Chug a Lug", Dang Me" and "You Can't Roller Skate in a Buffalo Herd".

Louis Armstrong - Cheesecake

<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ainGwdBlbes>

Soul Heaven by E. Rodney Jones on the Chicago label TwiNight was a nice break-in tribute to Jimi Hendrix, Billy Stewart, Nat King Cole, Sam Cooke, and others.

"It's the Real Thing" Coca Cola promo by the New Seekers and a much better version done by the Ivor Raymonde Orchestra

7-Eleven promo - "Dance The Slurp" funky Slurpee song that was on the Brainfreeze compilation by Cut Chemist and DJ Shadow