I'm Han Solo - Kinect Star Wars

As you may know if you're a long suffering That Song Blog devotee, I have a love of parody and novelty songs. An old school form of flattery- you knew your song had made it when someone took the piss out of it. I also love Star Wars and have a giant man crush on Han Solo (I mean who doesn't?).

So then we have this:

And my head explodes.

I think my favourite move has to be the shoulder brush, but it's all amazing. It's a parody of Ridin' Solo by Jason Derulo (only one million times better) as featured in the video game Kinect: Star Wars.

Also, does Lando seem like the more natural dancer to anyone else? Han's incredible but I sincerely doubt the dude has rhythm. But Lando! Lando could dance you straight into his boudoir for some late night gas mining. *geek swoon*

Never Hit Your Grandma With A Shovel - Spike Jones

Spike Jones was an American bandleader and musician renowned for creating satirical, unusual and comedic pop songs from the 1940s through to the early 1960s. It's one of the early recordings we are looking at today, the absolute gem Never Hit Your Grandma With A Shovel.

The title is rather self explanatory as to the content of this little ditty. What's truly remarkable about the song is how well it's aged. Novelty numbers, especially older novelty numbers, are often products of their own time. Jones has managed to sidestep this problem with Grandma by playing it so completely straight.

The barbershop harmonies never wink to the listener that the song is anything less than sweet and heart felt pop. By the time the group is rolling their R's recommending a rock instead of a shovel you will be laughing, enraptured and thinking unwholesome thoughts about your Grandma. Really, what more can you ask of a pop song than that?