At Tramps, the Presidents proved they were more than a one-dimensional novelty band.

Terry Dactyl and The Dinosaurs was an English novelty band, that issued a few recordings in the early 1970s.

Chic are not a 1970's novelty band.

Also Chic were a lot more than a novelty band - with a comment like that your musical credentials seem decidedly wobbly.

As for calling Chic a novelty band: I was teasing.

But the Sauter-Finegan Orchestra was not a novelty band; if it had been, it might have met with more commercial success in its original 50's incarnation.

His final thought was that "novelty bands should learn to stick to novelty".

Brown started doing freelance recording work with New York dance and novelty bands, then joined the band of Harry Yerkes.

In 1948/9 he led a "novelty" band briefly but took a jazz band into The Cafe Society in 1950.

Some of the songs had previously been released by Batt's novelty band The Wombles, several becoming Top 10 hits.