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