Novelty Songs Flashcards
Lil Red Riding Hood
Little Red Riding Hood
2 similar songs with different lyrics
Lil Red Riding Hood- Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs 1966 (written by Ron Blackwell)
Little Red Riding Hood- the Big Bopper 1958 (written by the Big Bopper)
Sheb Wooley
Sometimes performed as Ben Colder
1958- Purple People Eater
Shaky Breaky Car
Bert Convy
1958 single
The Monsters Hop/The Gorilla
The Big Bopper
Jiles Perry Richardson, J.P. Richardson, Jape Richardson
Died in a plane crash in 1959, along with fellow musicians Buddy Holly and Ritchie Valens, and the pilot Roger Peterson. The accident was famously referred to as “The Day the Music Died” in Don McLean’s 1971 song “American Pie”.
Purple People Eater Meets Witch Doctor
Little Red Riding Hood
Chantilly Lace
David Seville
Ross Bagdasarian, under his stage name David Seville. His song Witch Doctor became a number one hit and rescued Liberty Records from near-bankruptcy. Creator of Alvin and the Chipmunks. Sped up voice recordings for higher pitch.
Witch Doctor, 1958
Jim Burgett
1961- The Living Dead/Let’s Investigate
1961- Jekyll and Hyde/Do I Worry
Earl Patterson and the Darts
1959 vinyl single (45?)
Nightmare Hop
Ready for Love
Bobby “Boris” Pickett & The Crypt Kickers
Monster Mash 1962
The Original Monster Mash is an album by Bobby (Boris) Pickett and The Crypt-Kickers. It was recorded and released in late 1962, following the success of Pickett’s “Monster Mash” single. The Crypt-Kickers included Leon Russell and Gary Paxton. Pickett co-wrote “Monster Mash” with Leonard Capizzi in May 1962. The song was a spoof on the dance crazes popular at the time, including the Twist and the Mashed Potato, which inspired the title. The song featured Pickett’s impersonations of veteran horror stars Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi (the latter with the line “Whatever happened to my Transylvanian Twist?”)
Monster Mash Me and My Mummy Graveyard Shift Sinister Stomp Skulls Gully after Wooly Bully Monster Rap- in the early 80s
The deeply awkward recording of “Let’s Fly Away”
The Ventures
1963 Wipeout and Pipeline
John Zacherle
1962 Album “Monster Mash/Scary Tales”
Weird Watusi Gravy with Some Cyanide Pistol Stomp Dinner with Drac Surfboard 109 Some spooky mother goose tales
Mr Gasser and The Weirdos
Mr. Gasser & the Weirdos was a 1960s novelty music group led by Roth, who was known as Mr. Gasser. Formed in the early 1960s, they released a few bizarre surf rock albums, most notably 1963’s Hot Rod Hootenanny
Surfer Ghoul
Don Hinson and the Rigamorticians
Monster Dance Party 1964
Novelty Halloween album released in the wake of Monster Mash.
Riboflavin Flavored, Non-Carbonated, Polyunsaturated Blood
That Little Old Graverobber Me
Spooky Surf Rock Instrumentals:
Monster Dance Party
Monster Surf Stomp
The Ghouls
Halloween with the Ghouls 1964
Be True to Your Ghoul
The Graveyard Shift
Little Old Lady from Transylvania
Drac’s Deuce
The Ghouls were a studio creation of writer and producer Gary Usher, designed to cash in on two current crazes, hot rod tunes and campy monster movies. Bobby “Boris” Pickett had just hit big with “Monster Mash,” so Usher – who had tremendous success stamping out Beach Boys-like hot rod tracks – decided to combine the two genres in one package, and the Ghouls were born. Officially one album, Dracula’s Deuce, was issued on Capitol in 1964
The Munsters
1964 Album “The Munsters”
Created to cash in on The Munsters T.V. show. We know that the musicians on this quickie session included a guitarist of some renown called Glen Campbell. And on keys was another rising star, Leon Russell.
$1.98 King Size Voodoo Kit
T.V. Monster Show
You Created a Monster
The Munster Creep
The Wrecking Crew sang these monster surf songs?
Screaming Lord Sutch and the Savages
1964 British Earl Rock Singer
She’s Fallen in Love with the Monsterman
Dracula’s Daughter
