World of Weird Al Yankovic

On Bermuda's website where he has all the musical snippets (as he mentioned at AlFest), the link that plays 30 seconds of Party At The Leper Colony is titled "Bruce Springsteen Meets Bo Diddley." In my mind, that's definitive enough of a source. Never knew about Clarence Clemons though, what's the source there (and why did it fall through)?

I distinctly remember Al mentioning the Clarence Clemons connection in his Dr. Demento Show interview from 2003, when he was promoting Poodle Hat.

Clarence Clemons fell through because he was offended by the song title.

Why, does he know any lepers?

Have you SEEN the E Street Band recently?

Max Weinberg is, without a doubt, a leper.

FredHuggins @ September 15, 2009 11:17 am wrote: Have you SEEN the E Street Band recently?

http://www.instantrimshot.com

Dave

TMBJon @ September 14, 2009 10:03 pm wrote: The reason you can't check Wikipedia for style parody information is that it's relatively subjective. For a parody, it's easy to know what song is being parodied because the answer is a definitive known quantity. For a style parody, we don't always know what Al was working with - especially in the 80s albums.

Overall, I think Wikipedia's articles on Al are all pretty good to excellent. My biggest complaint is the List of songs by "Weird Al" Yankovic article, specifically the style parodies*. I've pretty much given up on that one. The concept is great, but the execution is awful. As many times as I've added the "citation needed" tag, it seems to be ignored and deleted in favor of people adding whatever they feel like. Because one note kind of sounds like some obscure song by some obscure band doesn't make it a style parody. If you think it sounds like something, provide proof, that's all I ask,

Dave

*And to a lesser extent, the style parody guide on this forum. I'd like to see more citations and references here. We should be able to come up with the best definitive style parody guide on the web with a few citations and references here and there.

Adding the hitherto undocumented parody "Now It Is The Christmas Season"...

What's that from?

Dr. Demento Show, from the KMET days.

Lyrics:
Now it is the Christmas season, fa la la la la la la la la la
Testicles will soon be freezin', fa la la la la la la la la la
Time to buy some Coca-Cola, fa la la, la la la, la la la
Don't forget the Ayatollah, fa la la la la la la la la la

Automatic pickle slicers, fa la la la la la la la la la
Anti(?) Veg-o-matic dicers, fa la la la la la la la la la
After Christmas I'll return them, fa la la, la la la, la la la
Or for fun I might just burn them, fa la la la la la la la la la

When your money's all been spent-o, fa la la la la la la la la la
You can listen to Demento, fa la la la la la la la la la
Every Sunday night you'll hear him, fa la la, la la la, la la la
Ninety-seven point four FM, fa la la la la la la la la la

I don't know if Al wrote this. But he's performing it.