10 Joke Songs From the 60s That Accidentally Became Global Hits

10 Joke Songs From the 60s That Accidentally Became Global Hits. What if I told you that one of the most decorated songs in American music history was written about a miserable kid complaining about bugs and bad food at summer camp? Or that a Belgian nun who couldn't speak English beat out every rock band on the planet to sit at number one for four straight weeks? Or that a song with absolutely zero musical notes — no melody, no harmony, not a single chord — sold over a million copies in under a month? These weren't accidents. These were the 1960s.