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‘The Purple People Eater’: The Story Of Sheb Wooley’s Novelty Hit

Sheb Wooley’s ‘The Purple People Eater’ took advantage of a unique recording trick, and became one of the best novelty songs ...
American Songwriter

3 Dark Novelty Songs You Won’t Want to Admit You Laughed At

If you enjoy dark humor, these classic novelty songs are nearly guaranteed to tickly your funny bone, even if you don't want to admit it.
American Songwriter

A Novelty Song About a Self-Made Cadillac Christened the Psychobilly Genre and Was Johnny Cash’s Last to Top the Country Chart

Johnny Cash often revealed the lighter side to some of his darker-themed songs of crime, despair, death, and other murder ...
The San Bernardino Sun

Here’s how the song ‘Monster Mash’ came to be

“Monster Mash” was originally written as a parody of several pop fads that have faded away, but the song is an American novelty song that lives on like a vampire. In the early 1960s two cultural ...