Novelty Song
Novelty song (of English. Novelty, " novelty ") is a anglicism the general description in the entertainment music those pieces of music that are perceived as a deviation from the standard in their sound, arrangement, text or lecture form, and especially humorous or include nonsense topics. It is irrelevant whether the song deliberately breaks with conventional and usual style elements or whether the piece only within a different context for innovation was.
History
Novelty songs were one of the most important genres of Tin Pan Alley - phase from about 1907 in the United States. In his book on Irving Berlin Charles Hamm devotes a large section of the novelty songs and divides them into urban, musical and ethnic novelty songs; textually bein think the novelty song amusing or provocative passages. Isaac Goldberg speaks in 1961 by comic ballads that you can hear, but most would not even sing. The forerunner of today's charts, Your Hit Parade, said pieces of music from 20 April 1935 in the categories ballads, rhythmic ballads and novelty songs a. The latter category included comic songs like Yes! We Have No Bananas by Billy Jones ( April 1923, on the banana shortage), the children hit How Much is That Doggie in the Window? by Pattie Page ( January 1953; dog barking ), nonsense songs like Mairzy Doats of the Merry Macs ( March 1944, a superficial nonsense text) or sound effects like in Quiet Village Martin Denny from ( April 1959; jungle noises).
Examples
Even the fear of alien influences was discussed in popular music. To handle The Flying Saucer by Buchanan & Goodman ( August 1956 ) the widespread belief in flying saucers in the form of - thematically appropriate - Samplings big hits on, Sheb Wooley Purple People Eater (June 1958) deals with the one-eyed, one horned purple people eater, the most would like to play in a rock 'n ' roll band. Youth problems with parents or teachers led to amusing texts such as Yakety Yak in (June 1958) and Charlie Brown ( February 1959 ) by the Coasters. Showed these two novelty songs that novelty songs could certainly promote the development of a new musical style.
Comedians such as Allan Sherman, Stan Freberg or Peter Sellers were regarded as authentic interpreters for novelty songs. Peter Sellers took the duet with Sophia Loren Goodness Gracious Me ( October 1960 ) about the relationship of an Indian doctor to his patient to English. Allan Sherman's Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh ( August 1963 ) built on the tune of Amilcare Ponchielli's Dance of the Hours, and treated the letter of a boy from the fictional summer camp "Camp Granada " to his parents, in which the little over bad weather, bad food and bad supervisory staff complained. As the weather gets better, all complaints are invalid. Napoleon XIV surprised with his one- hit wonder They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha Haaa -! (June 1966), as he goes mad picked up because of a runaway dog and the madhouse transport. Snoopy Vs. The Red Baron by the Royal Guardsmen ( November 1966 ) finally tells the story of the dog " Snoopy " from the cartoon series Peanuts who fights against Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen (Baron von Richthofen, or " the Red Baron " ) and defeated him. In the intro of the English original the content is anticipated in German: "Attention! Now we sing together the story of the pig -headed dog and the love Red Baron. "
Weird Al Yankovic is one of the most important impersonation of pop culture. In particular, his puns on famous hits such as Eat It ( for Beat It, March 1984), or Like a Surgeon ( for Like a Virgin; June 1985) were examples of parody services within the Novelty songs.
Effect
Novelty songs differed in the arrangement, text, instrumentation or by adding unusual sound effects from other pieces of music. Due to their deviation from the standard of the usual pop music the general public is aware of them. This has many of the aforementioned hits gives great popularity because their funny lyrics that listeners have amused; Some sellers have even been to the million seller.