It’s popular in just about every form…well, not so with gospel…but it’s tradition goes back to minstrelsy: the song that has a humorous hook or a running joke to share or maybe a bandleader who takes us into new a ridiculous territories. We’ve got a lot of novelty tunes of this nature to bring you this week on Deeper Roots… a bit of a departure from our normal fare but it’s all for the fun. We’ll hear country sounds from Johnny Cash and Roger Miller, tearjerkers and rock therapy from Mabel Scott, The Chips, and Tiny Hill, and some classic novelty sounds from Danny Kaye, Spike Jones (of course), and Fats Waller.
| No. | Artist | Title | Album | Buy |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cab Calloway | The Scat Song | Novelty Songs 1914-1946: Crazy & Obscure |  |
| 2 | Slim & Slam | Groove Juice Special | Slim Gaillard & Slam Stewart Columbia (Disc 3) | |
| 3 | Slim & Slam | Sploghm | Slim Gaillard & Slam Stewart Columbia (Disc 2) | |
| 4 | The Ink Spots | Mama Don't Allow | Flashbacks, Vol. 2: Novelty Songs 1914-1946 Crazy & Obscure | |
| 5 | Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five | Dad Gum Ya Hide Boy | The Aladdin Story (Pt. 1) | |
| 6 | Ella Mae Morse | Milkman Keep Those Bottles Quiet | The Morse Code [Disc 1] | |
| 7 | Danny Kaye | Tchaikowsky (And Other Russians) | Flashbacks, Vol. 2: Novelty Songs 1914-1946 Crazy & Obscure | |
| 8 | Stan Laurel & Oliver Hardy | Bed Strings | Novelty Songs 1914-1946: Crazy & Obscure | |
| 9 | Jimmy Durante | Inka Dinka Doo | Novelty Songs 1914-1946: Crazy & Obscure | |
| 10 | The Chips | Rubber Biscuit | The Doo Wop Box, Vol. 2 Disc 2 | |
| 11 | Lonnie Johnson | Wipe It Off | Raunchy Business: Hot Nuts & Lollypops | |
| 12 | Tiny Hill and His Orchestra (Vocal Tiny Hill) | Hot Rod Race (1951) | Your Hit Parade..Golden Goofers [Time-Life] | |
| 13 | Ross & Sargent | Nellie the Nudist Queen | Flashbacks, Vol. 2: Novelty Songs 1914-1946 Crazy & Obscure | |
| 14 | Spike Jones | Ta-Hu-Wa-Hu-Wai (Hawaiian War Chant) | Flashbacks, Vol. 2: Novelty Songs 1914-1946 Crazy & Obscure | |
| 15 | Spike Jones | Der Fuhrer's Face | Novelty Songs 1914-1946: Crazy & Obscure | |
| 16 | Loudon Wainwright III | Dead Skunk | Dr. Demento 30th Anniversary Collection: Dementia 2000: Disc 2 | |
| 17 | John Prine With Melba Montgomery | We Must Have Been Out Of Our Minds | In Spite Of Ourselves | |
| 18 | John Prine/Iris Dement | In Spite of Ourselves | In Spite of Ourselves | |
| 19 | Roger Miller | Chug A Lug | 20 Hits | |
| 20 | Johnny Cash | A Boy Named Sue | At Madison Square Garden | |
| 21 | Red Ingle and the Natural Seven (Vocal 'Cinderella G. Stump' (Jo Stafford) & Red Ingle) | Temptation (Tim-Tayshun) (1947) | Your Hit Parade..Golden Goofers [Time-Life] | |
| 22 | Roy Newman | I Can't Dance (I've Got Ants In My Pants) | Stompin' Singers & Western Swingers ([Disc 1] Hot Mama Stomp) | |
| 23 | Freddie Jenkins' Harlem Seven | I Can't Dance (I Got Ants In My Pants) | Sounds Of Harlem Vol. 1 (Hep) | |
| 24 | Fats Waller | Your Feet's Too Big | The Joint Is Jumpin' | |
| 25 | Leon Redbone | Your Feets Too Big | Any Time | |
| 26 | Mabel Scott | Catch Em Young Treat Em Rough Tell Em Nothing | Blues Women | |
| 27 | Hank Penny | Catch 'Em Young, Treat 'Em Rough, And Tell 'Em Nothin' | Crazy Rhythm: The Standard Transcriptions | |
| 28 | Hank Penny | The Freckle Song | Vintage Songs of Sex, Drugs & Cigarettes | |
| 29 | The Light Crust Doughboys | Pussy Pussy Pussy | Western Swing 40 Bootstompers From The Golden Age [Disc 1] | |
| 30 | Eddie Cantor | Hungry Women | grimriper2u@yahoo.com | |
| 31 | Arthur Godfrey\The Too Fat Trio | Too Fat Polka | Mairzy Doats-44 Wacky Hits [Disc 1] | |
| 32 | Rudy Vallee And His Connecticut Yankees | When Yuba Plays The Rhumba on The Tuba | gimriper2u@yahoo.com | |
| 33 | Cliff Edwards | I'm No Fool | The Collection | |
| 34 | Loretta Lynn & Conway Twitty | You're The Reason Our Kids Are Ugly | 20 Greatest Hits | |