Best Music PARODIES of THE GOLDEN ERA

[Paul Roerich]

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Dour old fascistic Carl Orff has been long overdue for a lighthearted drubbing. It doesn't get more brilliant that this:



[video=youtube_share;nIwrgAnx6Q8]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIwrgAnx6Q8[/video]

 

[Paul Roerich]

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Then there's Spike Jones, who made a living out of mangling. Nothing was immune:



[video=youtube_share;T7u0ghPuaEE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7u0ghPuaEE[/video]

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Another master of the song parody was Stan Freberg

Try (1952)
song parody of Johnnie Ray's Cry

[video=youtube;2ePCbP3V2XU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ePCbP3V2XU[/video]

C'est Si Bon (1954)

[video=youtube;lUSTFJltCwE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUSTFJltCwE[/video]

The World Is Waiting For The Sunrise
song parody of Les Paul and Mary Ford's recording

[video=youtube;Bo-nOFyHDow]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bo-nOFyHDow[/video]

 

[BigFitz]

Alright, this isn't "vintage" by lounge standards (it is almost 30 years old) but Weird Al's "Eat It" makes my list. He's hilarious immitating Michael Jackson's moves.
[video=youtube;ZcJjMnHoIBI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=ZcJjMnHoIBI[/video]

 

[dhermann1]

When I was about 6 years old, around 1953, I and my friends ALL did hilarious parodies of Johnny Ray's Cry. He was REALLY over the top.

 

[1961MJS]

Hi

Back in college days 79 through 83, one of the Chicago stations played a John Wayne Gacy parody called Just another kid in the crawl (Space) to the tune of Pink Floyd's Just Another Brick in the Wall. I won't go for BEST parody, but certainly original.

Later

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Steve Dahl and Teenage Radiation -- Do You Think I'm Disco? (1979)
song parody of Rod Stewart's Do You Think I'm Sexy.

This one brings back a lot of memories. I remember this from when I was in high school.

[video=youtube;4LAApU-QHfI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LAApU-QHfI[/video]

Steve Dahl was a Chicago disc jockey who became best known for presiding over the infamous Disco Demolition Night at Comiskey Park on July 12, 1979.

[video=youtube;I1CP1751wJA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1CP1751wJA[/video]

 

[C44Antelope]

Any Allan Sherman fans? How about Homer and Jethro?

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Allan Sherman -- Crazy Downtown (1965)

[video=youtube;oQVAmqM9J-s]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQVAmqM9J-s[/video]

 

[davidraphael]

It started out as this:

Gracie Fields "Sing As We Go"

[video=youtube;3I9C_aUKcmU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=3I9C_aUKcmU[/video]


and ended up like this:

Monty Python "Sit On My Face"

[video=youtube;CxVKtNkQAtw]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=CxVKtNkQAtw[/video]

 

[Paul Roerich]

Oh those Python kids...!

 

[Edward]

[video=youtube;co6-tYS9k1U]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=co6-tYS9k1U[/video]

The Beatles pulled off a lovely parody of the Beach Boys type "All-American" with a bit of a twist in this (actually my favourite Beatles song by far, and one of the very few in which, to my ear, their performance lives up to their ability as composers):

[video=youtube;PxyISsA0Oh0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxyISsA0Oh0[/video]

The Beatles themselves were beautifully sent up by The Rutles, which highlighted in particular the musical genius of Eric Idle and Neil Innes.

[video=youtube;297zDxqzUJo]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=297zDxqzUJo[/video]

Evil Dead: The Musical has a couple of lovely songs which really are wonderful parodies of particular styles. In particular, I would single out:

Cabin in the Woods

[video=youtube;EN_wnHYOxkE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EN_wnHYOxkE[/video]

and All the men in my life keep getting killed by Candarian Demons

[video=youtube;yx2m1sfupmI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yx2m1sfupmI[/video]

 

[LizzieMaine]

I'm not able to view this thread from home due to the heavy You Tube content, but checking in from work I see a lot of material here that isn't relevant to the Era. There were plenty of musical parodists at that time, from Billy Murray to Spike Jones to Mickey Katz to Stan Freberg. Let's keep future posts on this topic to Golden Era relevance, please. I've changed the title to reflect this requested thrust.

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Fanny Brice -- Cooking Breakfast For The One I Love (1930)
First introduced by Miss Brice in the film Be Yourself, what I love about this song is that it also contains a sort of self parody. The song was also recorded by a number of artists who performed it straight.

[video=youtube;rFzJJpiXUog]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFzJJpiXUog[/video]

Annette Hanshaw -- Cooking Breakfast For The One I Love (1930)

[video=youtube;iBS2p475X_8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBS2p475X_8[/video]

 

[dhermann1]

The late great Anna Russell started doing this in the 1950s, tho this rather poor video is from much later. Every word she says is true. (Maybe somebody can find a better video of this.) It is a complete and totally accurate explanation of Wagner's Ring Cycle. 20 hours worth of opera boiled down to 20 minutes. She suffered through it so that you won't have to. Brilliant and hilarious.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7934013448528553422#

 

[Patrick-Pong]

[video=youtube;VwSacN8nJvI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwSacN8nJvI[/video]

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

[video=youtube;nI9Nbt7oJG0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nI9Nbt7oJG0[/video]