VA - Don't Go Near the Eskimos, 28 Classic Novelties [2017]

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VA - Don't Go Near the Eskimos, 28 Classic Novelties [2017]

Ok, Ok, I admit it. I love Novelty songs. Sure, most of them are terrible, filled with poor humor, and often poor taste as well. Yet still, like a moth to a flame, I'm drawn to them.

28-track compilation of U.S. Novelties, encompassing hits, misses, rarities and the downright absurd, issued between 1948 and 1962. The biggest hits featured herein are sides like "Witch Doctor" (the first hit record to use sped-up voices), "Who Put The Bomp (In The Bomp, Bomp, Bomp)", "Kookie, Kookie", "Alley-Oop", "James (Hold The Ladder Steady)", "Mr Custer", "Uh! Oh! (part 2)", "Cinderella" and "Say Man".  Includes early R&R novelties like "Stranded In The Jungle", "Cops And Robbers", "The Flying Saucer (parts 1&2)" and "Along Came Jones" alongside cult classics like "Lone Ranger Gonna Get Married", "Lone Teen Ranger" (sung by a pre-S&G Paul Simon), "The Gorilla", "Nag", "My Wife Can't Cook" and "(She Got A) Nose Job". Standouts among the sheer absurdities are the title track, "Don't Go Near The Eskimos" (a parody of an earlier hit, "Don't Go Near The Indians") and sides like "Armpit No.6", "It's A Gas", "What Is A Fisterris?" and "Gun Totin" Critter Called Jack". In closing, perhaps the Daddy of them all: Ziggy Talent's monumental "Maharajah Of Magador", the spiritual godfather to Ray Stevens' preposterous "Ahab The Arab". It probably goes without saying that many of these sides are as rare as rocking horse manure, and as such are unavailable elsewhere on CD. (jasmine-records.co.uk)

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Track lists

01 Ray Stevens - Ahab the Arab 3:47

02 Jimmy Johnson - Lone Ranger Gonna Git Married 2:47

03 Coasters - Along Came Jones 2:56

04 Ben Colder - Don't Go Near the Eskimos 3:35

05 John D. Loudermilk - The Bully of the Beach 2:22

06 Dellwoods - (She Got A) Nose Job 2:17

07 Screamin' Jay Hawkins - Armpit No. 6 2:30

08 Cadets - Stranded in the Jungle 3:04

09 Homer & Jethro - Battle of Kookamonga 2:37

10 Halos - Nag 2:50

11 Lonnie Russ - My Wife Can't Cook 2:32

12 Boogaloo & His Gallant Crew - Cops and Robbers 2:56

13 Bo Diddley - Say Man 3:11

14 Edd 'Kookie' Byrnes - Kookie, Kookie (Lend Me Your Comb) 2:05

15 Dante & The Evergreens - Alley-Oop 2:56

16 Hollywood Argyles - Gun Totin' Critter Called Jack 3:03

17 Barry Mann - Who Put the Bomp (In the Bomp, Bomp, Bomp) 2:47

18 Larry Verne - Mr Custer 3:03

19 David Seville - Witch Doctor 2:19

20 Sue Thompson - James (Hold the Ladder Steady) 2:11

21 Bert Convy - The Gorilla 1:48

22 Alfred E. Neuman - It's a Gas 2:09

23 Nutty Squirrels - Uh! Oh!, Pt. 2 2:23

24 Ross Jack - Cinderella 3:32

25 Jerry Landis - Lone Teen Ranger 2:21

26 Buchanan & Goodman - The Flying Saucer, Pt. 1 & 2 4:18

27 Joker - What Is a Fisterris 3:00

28 Ziggy Talent - The Maharajah of Magador 3:04

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