If you enjoy dark humor, these classic novelty songs are nearly guaranteed to tickly your funny bone, even if you don't want to admit it.

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 ...

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 ...

Sheb Wooley’s ‘The Purple People Eater’ took advantage of a unique recording trick, and became one of the best novelty songs ...

Back in March 2011, an eighth grader named Rebecca Black uploaded a novelty music video financed by her parents to YouTube, and inadvertently found herself in the hailstorm of viral infamy. Her tune, ...

This is the third and infal article in a three-part series on the history of holiday music. The first article described the origins of holiday music and the second covered the 19th-century reinvention ...

Jim Lauderdale’s new album, When Carolina Comes Home Again, finds the country/Americana star making one of his periodic visits to his bluegrass roots. The hook for this project is that Lauderdale is ...

Play some Hawaiian music and soon the sounds of aloha float by on a gentle tradewind. You smell the perfume of plumeria in the air and hear the whispering of palm trees. Perhaps its soothing, relaxing ...