Velvet Elvis never puts on weight.
AL YANKOVICI have a long-standing history of respecting artists’ wishes.
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My velvet Elvis means the world to me. Although he may not be worth much dough, he means more to me than some old Rembrandt or Van Gogh.
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There’s a lot of different ways that a song would be a challenge to parody.
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When I go to my live shows it’s often a multigenerational audience, a family bonding experience.
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I’ll bet every great thinker and leader we’ve got Could see all kinds of things other people could not!
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I did have a child, and I was reading a lot of picture books to her, but at the same time writing a children’s book was something that I’d been wanting to do for many years, pretty much since the start of my career.
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So that was a joke that I continue up to this very day.
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Not any specific one, but I was a huge fan of Frank Jacobs, I guess he wrote the plurality of the song parodies for MAD, Sam Hart, a few others, but that was also where I was first exposed to the art form of song parodies.
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There are a lot of songs that would ostensibly be a good candidate for parody, yet I can’t think of a clever enough idea.
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By the time I’m in the studio recording my parody, 10,000 parodies of that song are on YouTube.
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It’s hard to force creativity and humor.
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I try not to go the obvious route all the time, but sometimes the most obvious is actually the best.
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Now with internet culture it seems like everyone is doing music parodies. And they’re not all good!
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Right now I’m listening to a lot of Top 40 music, because THAT’S MY JOB.
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That’s a big part of my life – doing things that I’m not prepared to do.
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I know now that everything I write, I’m going to put out, and I’ll have to live with it for the rest of my life.
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