Jim Leonard wrote: > As far as guilty pleasures are concerned, I was always a sucker for the > novelty hits as a kid, things like "Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot > Bikini" and "The Purple People Eater." Among my favorites were these singles > which would excerpt other current hits of the day and splice in the key > lyric at the appropriate time. Remember those? They were often set up as an > interview, and the answers to the interviewers questions were the excerpts. > Q: "What was he wearing?" A: "A white sport coat, and a pink carnation" (a > Marty Robbins hit back in the day).
These songs even have a name: break-in songs, the most well known being "Flying Saucer", the first of a bunch of them by a couple of US DJ's whose names I don't recall.
