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 ...

In an era of rending horrors, nothing smooths those pesky wrinkles out of your brain like a nonsense bop. One of the biggest hits of World War II was the soundtrack to a Donald Duck cartoon. In the ...

You definitely know the song that's now celebrated as the sort of unofficial anthem of the Halloween season, but do you know ...

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 ...

The 1990s are often remembered for the angst of Generation X, but the decade had plenty of novelty songs, too. Calling a song a novelty feels derisive, but it also describes something unique. And the ...

Jaws, the 1975 movie adaptation of Peter Benchley‘s 1974 bestseller directed by Steven Spielberg, became the first feature film to cross the $100 million mark at the box office, and while that is ...