Tag Archives: Novelty

Hailing from Durham, NC, Clark & the Hot Nut products were the best Animal Home frat music group: Dark, raunchy, and steeped in R&B. Famous along the Southern East Coastline for showing up on stage in fur-covered jock straps, their live display made them best dogs on the faculty circuit …

Austrian comedian Gernot Kulis was created in August 11, 1976, in St. Paul (Carinthia). He was raised aiming to turn into a professional soccer participant, but after graduating from senior high school, he begun to am employed at an exclusive radio place (Antenne Steiermark) and became a humor article writer …

Comedy rockers the reality Rockets shaped in Edinburgh, Scotland, when vocalist, guitarist, and songwriter Kenny Haining met bassist Greg Haddow and drummer Steve Orr in university. Inspired from the rise of the web and the next access to unlimited info, the trio shaped the reality Rockets and started playing local …

Best known like a panelist for the long-running humor/commentary display 7 Tage, 7 Köpfe (seven days, 7 Mind), comedian and acting professional Bernd Stelter has already established a string of successful standup albums in his local Germany, combined with the occasional novelty strike. After Stelter spent years operating the humor …

Shortly just before they adopted the billing Chas & Dave, Chas Hodges and Dave Peacock recorded a self-titled 1974 LP beneath the name Oily Rags. During the record, they’d been functioning mainly as songwriters and program music artists, but American manufacturer Bob Thiele was impressed more than enough with their …

The type of entertainment that Mrs. Mills became well-known for in the 1960s have been performed for years and years. Since the invention from the piano, people would interact with tracks played in the “Aged Joanna.” Through the ’50s, Winifred Atwell and Russ Conway got made effective chart careers from …

Primarily the solo project of Second City’s Tony Mendoza but ultimately expanding to add other Chicago-based improv veterans like Joanna Beuse, Thea Lux, and Tom Vale, the self-dubbed “goof-pop” group Let’s Escape This Terrible Sandwich Shop (frequently abbreviated mainly because LGOOTTSS) began formulating using their make of Apples in Stereo-meets-They …

Bongos, Bass, & Bob is a music humor trio whose associates are Penn Jillette (from the humor/magic duo Penn And Teller) (bass), Dean J. Seal (bongos), and Rob “Working” Elk (electric guitar). The group’s lone album, Never Brain the Sex Pistols, Here’s Bongos, Bass, and Bob (What the heck Were …

The Salutations recorded several singles, both novelty cuts and like ballads, for various brands in the first and mid-’60s, but were not able to split either the pop or R&B graphs. The group, that was also called Vito as well as the Salutations, documented for House, Kram, Rayna, Herald, Regina, …

This hilariously inept Detroit bowling alley/lounge band was fronted by Ernie “King” Uszniewicz (b. 1945) from 1969 to 1979. The crudest tenor saxophonist in the annals of rock and roll & roll, Ruler Uszniewicz (pronounced “you-snev-vitch”) & the U-Tones acquired only one one, issued on an area label through the …