Recently, while going through old files, I came across a 40-year-old column from a Chicago newspaper listing the dumbest songs of all time. Number one on the list was “Transfusion,” by Nervous Norvous. The song, released in 1956, was about someone who had been in a car accident and needed medical assistance. The song includes such memorable lyrics as, “Shoot the juice to me, Bruce,” “Pour the crimson in me, Jimson,” and “Hey daddy-o, make that Type O.”

Back in the 1950s and ’60s, most of the songs on the radio were about young love or teen angst, but mixed in were numbers known as “novelty” songs. These songs were mostly designed to make listeners laugh, although occasionally they served a more serious purpose.

  
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