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Posted on 07/24/2014 6:37:03 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
After more than 30 years on the charts, comedian-singer "Weird Al" Yankovic earns his first No. 1 album on the Billboard 200, as "Mandatory Fun" debuts atop the list. The album is the first comedy set to top the chart since 1963, and logs the largest sales week for a comedy album since 1994.
"Mandatory Fun" was released July 15 through Way Moby and RCA Records, and sold 104,000 copies in the week ending July 20, according to Nielsen SoundScan. It was promoted by a well-receiveddaily viral video campaign that launched Monday, July 14. Starting with his parody of Pharrell's "Happy," Yankovic released eight music videos for the album through the week on various sites, like The Wall Street Journal, Yahoo, Nerdist, College Humor and YouTube.
"Mandatory" is the first comedy album to top the Billboard 200 since Allan Sherman's "My Son, the Nut" spent eight weeks at No. 1 beginning on the chart dated Aug. 31, 1963. A couple of comedy sets came close since then, including Steve Martin's No. 2-peaking "A Wild and Crazy Guy" back in 1978 and a pair of No. 2 Cheech & Chong titles in the early 1970s.
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but Zepplin did grant Al permission to use a few bars from “Black Dog” in Al’s “Stuck in the Drive-Thru”. The only stipulation is Al’s band (truly a great group of musicians, by the way) had to play it themselves, there would be no sampling of Zepplin allowed. That was something that Zepplin rarely agrees to. Wait, “to which Zepplin agrees.”
I always thought the definition of a one-hit wonder was only one single to hit the Top 40 rather than the Top 10.
The one thing I'll give him is that he can right a song divorced from the source material if that's where the lyrics take him. Going back a ways, "Eat It" is too close to "Beat It", but "I Lost On Jeopardy" is funny on its own with little resemblance to the source material. (Bonus question for the readers: what was the name of the song satirized?)
Fixed it for ya. ;)
Yeah that one’s good too.
“Did I mention the drive-thru?”
Hey, dude... is it true, like, you can get a like a reward and money and stuff for like providing information about drug dealers?
Cuz I wanna turn in Maceman over there, man.
I love his Al TV interviews like this one with Eminem
E: “You know what I’m saying”
Al: “No, I don’t know what you’re saying.”
They play these clips at his concerts.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPwBdnknGIs
Yeah, man, I got something all right, but I don’t think I can open the trunk with it!
“Our Love’s in Jeopardy”?
Actually, for the record, I never bought or sold it when I was in college. I used to just mooch off my many friends, whose names I don't remember. But I do remember listening to their Cheech & Chong albums and getting quite a giggle from them.
Close enough. The song’s title was “Jeopardy.”
Point of order. It's "Hello Muddah, Hello Faduh" ;-)
My kids both love that song. It's a staple for camping.
Isn't that some type of sweater?
And how many people remember that song? It wasn’t very memorable by the time the parody came out.
Well, if you still have it, you're in luck! Because according to E-bay, the original Allan Sherman "My Son the Folksinger" album is now worth a whopping . . .
(Wait for it . . . )
SEVENTY-NINE CENTS!!*
And by the way, it's not "Hello Mother, Hello Father." It's "Hello Mudduh, Hello Fadduh!," as one can plainly see below:
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*As of the time of this post.
"Our Love's in Jeopardy" by the Greg Kihn Band - full disclosure, I remembered the song name, but had to look up the artist.
I just remember his “Pop Hates The Beatles” at the height of Beatlemania
To the tune of “Pop Goes the Weasel”
My daughter needs a new phonograph
She wore out all the needles
Besides, I broke the old one in half
I hate the Beatles
She says they have a Liverpool beat
She says they used to play there
Four nice kids from offa the street
Why didn’t they stay there?
What is all the screaming about?
Fainting and swooning
Sounds to me like their guitars
Could use a little tuning
The boys are from the British Empire
The British think they’re keen
If that is what the British desire
God Save The Queen
No daughter of mine can push me around
In my house I’m the master
But when the British come into town
Gad, what a disaster
Little girls in sneakers and jeans
Destroyed the territory
‘Twas like some of the gorier scenes
From West Side Story
Of course my daughter had to go there
The tickets are cheap, she hollers
I was able to pick up a pair
For forty-seven dollars
When the Beatles come on the stage
They scream and shriek and cheer them
Now I know why they’re such a rage
It’s impossible to hear them
Ringo is the one with the drum
The others all play with him
It shows you what a boy can become
Without a sense of rhythm
There’s Beatle books and T-shirts and rings
And one thing and another
To buy my daughter all of these things
I had to sell her brother
Back in 1776
We fought the British then, folks
Parents of America
It’s time to do it again, folks
When they come back, here’s how we’ll begin
We’ll throw ‘em in Boston harbor
But please, before we toss ‘em all in
Let’s take ‘em to a barber
Sheesh. I screwed it up. It's really "Hello Mudduh, Hello Fadduh"
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