I recently found this LP at a flea market for $1. It is a 4 record album with a variety of songs on it, all selected for their apparently "fun" attributes.
The record was released by Heartland Music in 1986 and features a number of semi-novelty type songs and various one-hit wonders including: Short Shorts by the Royal Teens, Sugar Sugar by the Archies, Splish Splash by Bobby Darin, Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka-Dot Bikini by Brian Hyland, Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh (A Letter From Camp) by Allan Sherman, Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavor by Lonnie Donegan and They're Coming to Take Me Away Ha-Haa! by Napoleon XIV.
Aside from the sort of lazy lumping of all of these songs into some kind of music genre known simply as "rock", this album delivers what it promises. It's a lot of fun to listen to.
There is an absolutely ridiculous commercial for this record that claims that these songs are culled from a time when, "rock had no message, no meaning, no nothing but pure fun." This is a perfect example of an attempt to profit off of nostalgia for a time that never existed; A music industry practice which I am equally frustrated by and fascinated with. And you know what? It's a really fun record to listen to.
Here's a link to the commercial:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nP_qlLKzSQ
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