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These classic songs from the 1960s are so good, even today's younger generations can see their appeal, decades after they ...

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 ...

“Monster Mash” was originally written as a parody of several pop fads that have faded away, but the song is an American novelty song that lives on like a vampire. In the early 1960s two cultural ...

It is thought and said that the 1960s was the decade when pop exploded in all its shapes and forms - the decade when there was an explosion of creativity, social change, and technological advancements ...

Best known for novelty songs like "King of the Road," Miller was also a serious songwriter who wrote ballads for artists such as Ray Price. Miller's '70 album A Trip in the Country is newly available.