Not as Important as Real Music

Most novelty songs are written to make people laugh rather than stirring up emotions deep inside of their soul, but a lot of these songs are very enjoyable, even when they are plain goofy.  I am not trying to point you in any particular direction, but when I think about novelty songs, I think of “Weird Al” Yankovic, Shel Silverstein, Ray Stevens or Tom Lehrer as these guys wrote some really great novelty songs.  I am certain that everyone has a favorite novelty song and I expect this challenge to be a lot of fun this week.

Last week we had Human Speech where the theme was to find songs that include the lyrics Sounds, Talk, Voice, Words suggested by Di of pensitivity101.  This week the theme is Novelty songs suggested by Di of pensitivity101.  Take some time to read the posts of other bloggers who respond to this music challenge, and even better, read as many of them as you are able to as you will probably find many enjoyable songs and it is quite possibly that you will learn a thing or two.  Share your music with others and post a video, try do some research and let everyone know something about the song that you post.  Tell everyone why you like the song, whether it was a hit, or what you think the song is about.  Show the lyrics, let’s all listen to our favorite songs and explore some new music.  Try to find a song that fits the theme, then write your post and create a pingback, or you can just place your link in the comments section.

Suggestions
• Try to use the prompt words or at least conform to a general theme, as you see it. If the song you select does not meet the criteria, then please explain why you chose this song.
• It would be good if you could post the lyrics to the song of your choice, as this is helpful for the people that want to follow along with the music.
• Please try to include the songwriter(s) – it’s a good idea to give credit where credit is due. It would also be a good idea to give credit to the singer and the band associated with your song.
• Your post can be as long or as short as you want it to be, but please try not to include too many videos as that just makes it take longer to look at all of the other posts.
• Link to the YouTube video, or you can pull it into your post, so others can listen to the song.
• Ping back to this post or place your link in the comments section below.
• Read at least one other person’s blog, so we can all share new and fantastic music and create amazing new blogging friends in the process.
• Feel free to suggest future prompts.
• Have fun and enjoy the music.

This week I will be writing about the Daddy Dewdrop song ‘Chick-A-Boom’, and next week, I will be writing about the song ‘Hopelessly Devoted To You’ by Olivia Newton-John.  The upcoming prompts will be:
September 18, 2022 – Australian music
September 25, 2022 – Sweet, Honey, Sugar, Candy, Chocolate suggested by Angie of King Ben’s Grandma
October 2, 2022 – Died at the age of 27 club
October 9, 2022 – User Choice