Country music is full of serious songs about life, love, loss, and several other topics. However, the genre has a lighter side as well. Some of country music’s biggest artists have recorded a novelty ...

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 ...

In the ’80s and ’90s, nothing was a bigger cultural tastemaker than MTV. Long before it became the home to endless reality shows, it played nothing but music videos 24 hours a day. If you wanted to ...

Barret Hansen, best known worldwide by his on-air moniker, Dr. Demento, has announced his retirement. After more than five decades of broadcasting novelty songs and making countless listeners laugh, ...

From romantic tune to Insidious soundtrack nightmare, Tiny Tim’s Tiptoe Through the Tulips became one of the creepiest songs ...