When most people think of novelty songs, they think of funny tunes with light lyrics. Classics like “The Purple People Eater,” “They’re Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa!” “The Streak,” and pretty much ...

Is there a music genre less respected than novelty music? Well, disco, but we weep not for the dead. The novelty song, which for our purposes here is defined as "a comical or nonsensical song," is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The creators of VTV are the folks at Vole.wtf. Operating since 2002, the owners describe it as “a weird, random nonsense site.” ...

Sheb Wooley was a double threat, an icon of country music and acting, and he was born on this very day in 1921.

Joe Dolce’s Shaddap You Face has been inducted into the National Film and Sound Archive’s Sounds of Australia. How can we ...

The radio hit parodied the biggest movie of the year.

This is the third and infal article in a three-part series on the history of holiday music. The first article described the origins of holiday music and the second covered the 19th-century reinvention ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Beloved holiday singer Gayla Peevey is celebrating her 83rd birthday. The Oklahoma-born performer became a household name in the ...

In the ’80s and ’90s, nothing was a bigger cultural tastemaker than MTV. Long before it became the home to endless reality shows, it played nothing but music videos 24 hours a day. If you wanted to ...