By Billboard Staff. In how many other songs does someone escape cannibals and swim the ocean, all in time to stop his baby back home from cheating on him?
The results in this chart are not affiliated with any mainstream or commercial chart and may not reflect charts seen elsewhere. "You look like you got whupped with an ugly stick," replies Jerome. Helping matters along was none other than Mr. Howell from "Gilligan's Island," Jim Backus (or, if you like, Mr. Magoo), cackling in his inimitable way while he and his New Year's Eve date get absolutely plastered on champagne. Songs are listed strictly in the year that they were originally released in. The Top 10 Biggest Doo-Wop Songs of All Time, Best Oldies Singers and Bands of the '50s, '60s, and '70s, "Stranded in the Jungle," The Cadets (1956), "The Purple People Eater," Sheb Wooley (1958), "Delicious!," Jim Backus and Friend (1958), "The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don't Be Late)," The Chipmunks with David Seville, "The Flying Saucer Pt. And sometimes they score. (Put Another Nickel In) Music! In fact, the man born Jimmy Drake had an ulterior motive that wasn't morbid at all: a former truck driver, he'd experienced every single one of these maniacs on the road personally. (You remember: "Bare Necessities."). 6/10/2020. The groove's still hot, though, even if it doesn't have any of the classic Bo "hambone" rhythm, and while the jokes are a mixed bag, these guys definitely sound like they're having fun. These songs are ranked based on their initial and lasting popularity, as well as their influence and impact on the evolution of rock and related genres. Supposedly, songwriter David Seville (who'd already scored a hit writing Rosemary Clooney's "Come On-A My House" with playwright William Saroyan) was inspired to write this charming/annoying novelty after his son, Adam, kept asking him when Christmas would get here. Music! Phil was an all-around entertainer and garrulous bon vivant who's probably most remembered as the voice of Baloo the Bear in the original Jungle Book.
Copied to clipboard. Silly even for a novelty hit of its era, "Purple People Eater" is one of those cultural hiccups that goes so deliriously and relentlessly over the top it bypasses questions of art and taste entirely. (It apparently had a tendency to get stuck in overdrive.). The rest is history. Top 10 Burt Bacharach and Hal David Songs, The Top 50 Cartoon Characters of All Time, 25 Best Country Pop Crossover Songs of All Time. (In a rock n' roll band, of course.) To play the horn on his head like a saxophone. Good times. Here, he cleverly gets a lot of comic mileage out of what he isn't saying: the "clomp clomp clomp" of the chorus denotes an object that bothers the hell out of everybody, from his boss to his wife to a random homeless man. And it turns out in the big reveal that the Rambler hasn't even left second gear yet. One of Pop's greatest mysteries, born by a record with a one-word lyric? Here are the best novelty songs of the 1950s.
But some of those late shows were pretty thrilling, and they filtered into that suburban den around the same time, leading to a plethora of rock songs about the golden age of b-movies. St. Peter even damns him to hell in the afterlife for bringing it with him. The other songless novelty on this list comes from the undisputed king of '50s recorded parodies, Stan Freberg, who scored lots of minor hits with his brand of gentle satire.
Contrary to popular opinion, the party girl "friend" of the label isn't a young Phyllis Diller... yet no one can seem to agree on who it is. One of the weirder and darker novelty records of the era, "Transfusion" is indeed about replacing someone's blood -- in this case, after a series of hot rod accidents. 01 of 10 "Stranded in the Jungle," The Cadets (1956)
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Supposedly there was even more dialogue, but it was too, uh, hardcore for Chess to release. Immoral? But like all good rockers, these doo-woppers threw in lots of drama and mugged it to the hilt. Here, he parodies radio soap operas, which, despite having no visuals, were at least as silly and overwrought as the ones lingering on TV today. It's likely that Seville, who'd already hit the charts on his own with "Witch Doctor," wanted to find a way to utilize his tape-speeding routine again the way he did on the follow-up, "The Bird On My Head." It's easy to see now why the Establishment considered rock 'n roll a form of junk culture: it was mass-produced and utilitarian rather than ornate and refined, the sonic equivalent of TV dinners and the Late Late Show.
His etymology's also suspect: he's not a purple monster who eats people, he's a monster who eats purple people. Click to copy. Find the top 100 Pop songs for the year of 1950 and listen to them all!
Either that or his pronunciation of "corpsuckles.". The 50 Best Songs of 2020 (So Far): Staff Picks. A steadily accelerating mini-opera of a novelty sung by a trio of collegiate cut-ups, this Number Four hit was torn squarely from the trade headlines of 1958: a Cadillac, the epitome of Cold War class and comfort, being taken over on the road by a Nash Rambler, the first of the lighter, speedier, more fuel-efficient compacts.
Here we have an alien of some sort or perhaps one of those irradiated giant mutations that stood in for our apocalyptic fears back then, and what is he here for?