Top Novelty Songs


Rank All Time Artist Song Subgenre(s) Other Genre(s) Year
1
2004
Spike Jones Der Fuehrer's Face Musical Comedy 1942
2
2907
Clarence "Frogman" Henry Ain't Got No Home New Orleans R&B 1956
3
3531
Spike Jones and His City Slickers Cocktails for Two Musical Comedy 1945
4
3772
Merle Haggard Okie from Muskogee Bakersfield Sound 1969
5
4021
Tex Williams & His Western Caravan Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette) Talking Blues, Western Swing 1947
6
4554
Right Said Fred I'm Too Sexy Dance-Pop 1991
7
5485
Katerine Louxor, j'adore Electropop, French Pop 2005
8
5663
Buchanan and Goodman The Flying Saucer (Parts 1 and 2) Sound Collage 1956
9
5717
Bobby Darin Splish Splash Rock & Roll 1958
10
6168
The Hollywood Argyles Alley-Oop Rhythm & Blues, Rock & Roll 1960
11
6368
Chuck Berry My Ding-a-Ling Pop Rock 1972
12
6434
Archie Bleyer Hernando's Hideaway Traditional Pop 1954
13
6724
Bobby 'Boris' Pickett and the Crypt Kickers Monster Mash Halloween Music, Pop Rock, Vocal Group 1962
14
7017
Afroman Because I Got High Comedy Rap, West Coast Hip Hop 2000
15
7444
Spike Jones and His City Slickers All I Want for Christmas (Is My Two Front Teeth) Christmas Music, Musical Comedy 1948
16
7842
Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen Hot Rod Lincoln 1971
17
8748
C.W. McCall Convoy Truck Driving Country 1975
18
9667
Brian Hyland Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polkadot Bikini Bubblegum, Teen Pop 1960
19
9703
Shirley Ellis The Name Game Pop Soul 1964
20
9761
David Seville Witch Doctor Rock & Roll 1958
21
9762
Sheb Wooley The Purple People Eater Halloween Music, Rock & Roll 1958
22
9821
Billy Jones Yes We Have No Bananas 1923
23
9840
The Bloodhound Gang The Bad Touch Dance-Pop 1999

Songs "bubbling under" the all-time top 10000:
Patti Page The Doggie in the Window Traditional Pop 1953
The Mike Flowers Pops Wonderwall Lounge, Musical Parody 1995
Monty Python Always Look on the Bright Side of Life Film Soundtrack, Musical Comedy, Satire 1979
Ray Stevens The Streak Country Pop 1974
Nervous Norvus Transfusion Rock & Roll 1956
Rosemary Clooney Come On-a My House Traditional Pop, Vocal Jazz 1951
The Timelords [The KLF] Doctorin' the Tardis Plunderphonics 1988
Phil Harris & His Orchestra The Thing British Dance Band 1950
Napoleon XIV They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa! 1966
The Ran-Dells Martian Hop Doo-Wop 1963
Steve Martin King Tut 1977
Napalm Death You Suffer Grindcore, Noisecore 1987
The Beatles Her Majesty Folk Pop 1969
Jamies Summertime, Summertime Doo-Wop, Teen Pop 1958
Lou Reed New York Telephone Conversation Novelty Piano, Singer/Songwriter, Vaudeville 1972