Novelty Rock is a compilation album by the English rock band Denim. It was released through EMI Records in 1997 and gathers all the B-sides from the "Middle...

A novelty song is a type of song built upon some form of novel concept, such as a gimmick, a piece of humor, or a sample of popular culture. Novelty songs...

Wizard rock (or Wrock) is an evolving type of novelty rock music and filk music themed around the Harry Potter franchise. The music was largely prevalent...

television hit Happy Days, the musical Grease and its film adaptation, and novelty rock act Sha Na Na was part of a resurgence in popular interest in the '50s...

"Splish Splash" is a 1958 novelty rock song performed and co-written by Bobby Darin. It was written with DJ Murray the K (Murray Kaufman), who bet that...

p. E18. "Novelty - Jawbox". AllMusic. Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 4. MUZE. pp. 587–588. MusicHound Rock: The Essential...

Novelty and fad dances are dances which are typically characterized by a short burst of popularity. Some of them, like the Twist, Y.M.C.A. and the Hokey...

"Roland/Zacherley", he also did voice work for films, and recorded the top ten novelty rock and roll song "Dinner with Drac" in 1958. He also edited two collections...

interest in novelty music and earned Denim a support slot with Pulp who were fans of Lawrence and his work. Denim's final release was Novelty Rock, a compilation...

influences for some deathrock acts can be traced to the horror-themed novelty rock and roll acts of the late 1950s and early 1960s such as Bobby "Boris"...

subsequently broke up in 1996. He went on to record numerous solo albums of novelty rock (two for American Recordings and the remainder for several independent...

Child of the Novelty is the second studio album by Canadian rock band Mahogany Rush, led by Frank Marino. It was released in 1974. All songs by Frank...

to a more specific rock and pop subgenre, originating in the United States in the late 1960s, that evolved from garage rock, novelty songs, and the Brill...

included Felony and Hisao Shinagawa, among other novelty, rock, pop, and new wave bands and artists. Rock 'n' Roll's music catalogue now belongs to Volcano...

Billboard’s Pop Albums chart, "Short People" soon gained attention as a novelty song. The song consequently became a major hit on radio peaking at No....

singers such as Marty Wilde and Cuddly Dudley, they recorded several novelty rock instrumentals for Decca Records, the first being "Fried Onions", which...

by Joe Dante. The 1980 song "Cemetery Girls"[unreliable source?] by novelty rock group Barnes & Barnes refers to the episode in its lyrics ("Fresh souls...

user from everyday reality. Musically, the effects may be represented via novelty studio tricks, electronic or non-Western instrumentation, disjunctive song...

Zabagabee: The Best of Barnes & Barnes is the seventh album released by novelty rock group Barnes & Barnes. "Fish Heads" "Blithering" "Soak It Up" "Ah A"...

Novelty is one of the patentability requirements for a patent claim, whose purpose is to prevent issuing patents on known things, i.e. to prevent public...

performed it on NBC-TV for Mitch Miller’s Sing Along with Mitch. The novelty-rock band Barnes & Barnes performed a cover of this song on their 1986 album...

heat rock is the common name for a type of heating source in enclosures for cold-blooded animals to supply heat, in the form of a false novelty rock plugged...

childhood. His first single for Smash was "Mohair Sam", an R&B-inflected novelty-rock number written by Dallas Frazier, which became a top 30 pop hit. It has...

seaside town during the Second World War, included a sweet shop, The Novelty Rock Emporium, at least two banks (the fictional Swallows Bank, which appeared...

Loozanteen is the eighth album from novelty rock band Barnes & Barnes. It was released through Rhino Entertainment. "Loozanteen" "Fire In The Hole" "The...

timbaleros were Manny Oquendo, Orestes Vilató and Nicky Marrero. American novelty rock acts such as Preston Epps and Michael Viner's Incredible Bongo Band capitalized...

early heavy, blues-based hard rock. It developed mainly from the American West Coast, where groups did not focus on the novelty recording effects or whimsy...

Vinci Montaner (backing vocals). The band is known for its original rock novelty songs and often satirical covers of popular songs both foreign and local...

Voobaha is the debut album by novelty rock group Barnes & Barnes. It was originally released in 1980 by Rhino Records, reissued in 1996 by Oglio Records...

later WGN's second Bozo the Clown); impressionist/comic Michael Winslow; novelty rock band Green Jellÿ; and an unknown band called The Mystic Knights of the...