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Post by mikef6 on Mar 20, 2021 3:48:14 GMT
Jimmy Durante sings in “The Man Who Came To Dinner.” Too bad he doesn’t sing it the song to completion.
Groucho was the King of the novelty song. Hard to pick just one. The tune he picked for his game show theme song had a similar theme to the Durante.
This, from “At The Circus,” is probably the most well-known. I once had a co-worker whose name was very similar to Lydia. She said she had heard about this song every day of her life from everybody she ever met.
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Post by bravomailer on Mar 20, 2021 4:12:45 GMT
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Post by bravomailer on Mar 20, 2021 4:20:00 GMT
Phil Harris's The Thing is worked into The Last Picture Show
Brian Hyland's Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini is used as a torture instrument in One, Two, Three.
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Post by marshamae on Mar 20, 2021 6:21:05 GMT
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Post by wmcclain on Mar 20, 2021 12:06:40 GMT
I don't know about novelty, but Nigel Bruce gives an unexpectedly soulful rendition of "Loch Lomond" in:  |
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Post by marshamae on Mar 20, 2021 12:56:07 GMT
And then there is Basil Rathbone’s music hall turn Beside the Sea
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Post by mikef6 on Mar 20, 2021 13:52:34 GMT
I don't know about novelty, but Nigel Bruce gives an unexpectedly soulful rendition of "Loch Lomond" in: Novelty SINGERS are welcome, too. That is a wonderful moment.
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Post by marshamae on Mar 20, 2021 18:24:44 GMT
I don't know about novelty, but Nigel Bruce gives an unexpectedly soulful rendition of "Loch Lomond" in: Novelty SINGERS are welcome, too. That is a wonderful moment. I always imagine Nigel Bruce having Loch Lommond as his piece to perform at house parties. He sang with such confidence, a real bravura performance, knowing just where to lean in to the accent, when to hold the note out. Love it.
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Post by Rufus-T on Mar 20, 2021 18:32:18 GMT
Not really a novelty song, but a novelty way of singing the song.
Ginger Rogers in Gold Diggers of 1933
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Post by Rufus-T on Mar 20, 2021 18:37:34 GMT
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Post by mikef6 on Mar 20, 2021 18:58:23 GMT
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Post by manfromplanetx on Mar 20, 2021 20:38:30 GMT
"The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo" a popular British music hall song published in 1891 by Fred Gilbert featured in The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) Sung as a cappella... Joseph Cotten, Dolores Costello, Anne Baxter,Tim Holt, Agnes Moorehead and Ray Collins 
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Post by bravomailer on Mar 20, 2021 20:44:00 GMT
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Post by manfromplanetx on Mar 20, 2021 20:48:45 GMT
Not to sure if this fits here ? ... STRANGER IN TOWN (Leigh Harline / Mort Greene) Station West (1948) sung by Burl Ives welcoming Haven (the stranger) to town  A stranger in town Where a stranger ain't welcome Should take some advice And turn right around The stranger should leave Go back where he came from And live a long life Away from this town He'd live a long life Away from this town… |
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Post by marshamae on Mar 20, 2021 22:23:14 GMT
Even though this is planted in a Cole Porter musical it was composed for another show, DuBarry was a lady, and it is the essence of a novelty song....
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