Preparing for the next year in my “Once Upon a Year” series of programs — presented on the first Monday of each month at The Village at Good Samaritan at 10 a.m. and open to the public — I ...

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 Number Ones, I’m reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart’s beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present. Book Bonus Beat: ...

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, ...