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Novelty One Hit Wonders
- Artist
- Hedgehoppers Anonymous
- Year
- 1965
- Song
- It's Good News Week
- Chart
- UK 4
This unusual name was actually a British pop band from the mid-60s. Originally known as the Trendsetters and produced by Jonathan King, this five-piece band was composed entirely out of Royal Air Force pilots. Their debut singles, a downright sacastic "It's Good News Week" became an unexpected smash Top5 hit in 1965. Unfortunately, their popularity was short live and they broke up the very next year.
- Artist
- Frank Gallop
- Year
- 1966
- Song
- The Ballad of Irving
- Chart
- 34
Frank Gallop was a New York radio and television personality from 1950s all the way through 1970s. Aside from broadcasting careeer, he used to released a couple of singles during the 1960s. One of them, the tale of good-for-nothing gunman became a surprise Top40 hit in 1966. It was the only chart success in his long career.
- Artist
- The Detergents
- Year
- 1965
- Song
- Leader Of The Laundromat
- Chart
- 19
The Detergents was a short-lived band who suddenly rose to national recognition with the not-so-tragedy love story "Leader of the Laundromat". This parody of Shangri-Las' hit "Leader of the Pack" became a surprise Top20 hit in 1965. This instant success was followed by an full album and some tours the following year. But their popularity was quickly faded and they split in 1966.
- Artist
- "Little" Jimmy Dickens
- Year
- 1965
- Song
- May The Bird Of Paradise Fly Up Your Nose
- Chart
- 15
James Cecil "Jimmy" Dickens was a famous country comedy singer who scored several country hits. In 1965, he made the biggest hit in his career with the novelty tune "May the Bird of Paradise Fly Up Your Nose". The song became a huge crossover hit which topped the country chart and Top20 on pop chart. He scored a couple more country hits, but never again on pop territory.
- Artist
- Royal Guardsmen
- Year
- 1966
- Song
- Snoopy vs The Red Baron
- Chart
- 2
The Royal Guardsmen was a rock band formed in Ocala, Florida, who gained a brief fame during the later half of the sixties with the singles "Snoopy vs. The Red Baron". This novelty song, which was inspired by Snoopy from the comic strip Peanuts, became a sensational hit and almost topped the chart in 1966. Unfortunately they could not came up with another big hit and finally disbanded in 1969.
- Artist
- Napolean XIV
- Year
- 1966
- Song
- They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa!
- Chart
- 3
Jerry Samuels was a recording engineer who sometimes recorded the song under the name "Napoleon XIV". He had one surprising hit "They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa!" which hit no.3 on Billboard chart in 1966. It became one of the weirdest singles in rock history and created many controversial issues, even before it was banned on many radio stations.
- Artist
- The Fifth Estate
- Year
- 1967
- Song
- Ding Dong! The Witch Is Dead
- Chart
- 11
The Fifth Estate was an American bubblegum band in the late 1960s who will be forever remembered for their children tune "Ding Dong! The Witch is Dead". Inspired by 1939's film 'The Wizard of Oz', the song became a no.11 hit in 1967. They tried to follow with more bubblegum songs but all went nowhere, before called it a quit a couple years later.
- Artist
- Whistling Jack Smith
- Year
- 1967
- Song
- I Was Kaiser Bill's Batman
- Chart
- 20
Probably the most famous whistle song of all-time. This novelty record, dubbed as "I Was Kaiser Bill's Batman", was a work of a British producer Noel Walker who recorded it in 1967 with a team of backed whistlers, electric organ, guitar, bass guitar and trap drums. More singles and LPs soon followed, but none could repeat the same success as that one whistling record.
- Artist
- Bill Cosby
- Year
- 1967
- Song
- Little Ole Man (Uptight, Everything's Alright)
- Chart
- 4
Before Bill Cosby would become a world-famous stand-up comedian and television/film actor as he was known today, he gained a brief fame as a musician. His best work was the parody of Stevie Wonder's "Uptight (Everything's Alright)". A confusing story "Little Ole Man (Uptight, Everything's Alright)" actually became a Top5 hit in 1967 - and the only hit song in his long career.
- Artist
- Senator Bobby
- Year
- 1967
- Song
- Wild Thing
- Chart
- 20
In 1966, an American comedian Bill Minkin joined force with an American television host Dennis Wholey and his friends to form a band called The Hardly Worthit Players. The following year, they released a comedy singles, in which Minkin immitated the vocal style of Robert F. Kennedy singing "Wild Thing" for the fictional election campaign. The record became a surprised top20 hit in US.
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