I’ve always known that if I recorded an album, it would come out, and people would enjoy it!
AL YANKOVICNot 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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My brothers and sisters hated me because I was an only child.
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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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I enjoy all kinds of music. But it is kind of strange when I do parodies, instead of setting up drums and guitar amps.
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My personal taste doesn’t enter into it a lot when I make my decisions as to what to parody.
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I write and write and write, and then I edit it down to the parts that I think are amusing, or that help the storyline, or I’ll write a notebook full of ideas of anecdotes or story points.
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It’s very much a “Weird Al” themed issue, so I’d like to think that there’s a lot of “Weird Al” flavor throughout but I think it’d be generous really to call me an editor.
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Ever since the day you left me, I’ve been so miserable, my dear. I feel almost as bad as I did when you were still here.
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It’s hard to really articulate what the parameters are that make one song parody-able and another song not, but if I can come up with a good enough idea for it, I go for it, and if not, then I have to move on.
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I’ll be mellow when I’m dead.
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I cut my teeth playing rock songs on the accordion when I was a teenager and my friends always thought that was extremely amusing.
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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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I don’t want to hear about this train being derailed! What happened to ‘The Flintstones’?’
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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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Velvet Elvis never puts on weight.
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I’m still a geek on the inside, that’s the important thing.
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