The Great American Novelty

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Re-run with "A Boy Named Sue".

That was my idea too--maybe just here, informally. "Werewolves" or "A Boy Named Sue"?

I like "Sue," but "Werewolves" for me.

I love the David Lindley version.

Something that made me laugh: I mentioned this poll to some friends, we got talking about it, and we realized that Ray Stevens' biggest hit was a non-novelty song, "Everything Is Beautiful."

Re-run with "A Boy Named Sue".

― The Fields o' Fat Henry (Tom D.), Saturday, July 4, 2020 7:41 PM (one month ago) bookmarkflaglink

speaking of novelty hits, I just head "Dawn of Correction" (#36, 1965) by the Spokesmen, an answer record to "Eve of Destruction" performed by guys who wrote "At the Hop" "You Don't Own Me" "Rock'n'Roll is Here to Stay" etc. Very neolib lyrics:

You tell me that marches won't bring integration
But look what it's done for the voter registration
Be thankful our country allows demonstrations
Instead of condemnin', make some recommendations

You missed all the good in your evaluation
What about the things that deserve commendation?
Where there once was no cure, there's vaccination
Where there once was a desert, there's vegetation
Self-government's replacing colonization
What about the Peace Corp. organization?
Don't forget the work of the United Nations

A playlist I was listening to just reminded me of this piece of crap, which I thought might belong in this thread:

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

Turns out, it was a hit nearly everywhere but the US: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaddap_You_Face#Charts

A rare way to go, America from me, then!

A Czech interpretation written by Zdeněk Borovec, "Já na bráchu blues", performed by Helena Vondráčková and Jiří Korn, was a hit in Czechoslovakia in 1981.