World of Weird Al Yankovic

How would you classify Al's voice? I don't think he's exactly a tenor, tho' he certainly can do the high notes. Baritone?

I'd say Al is definitely a tenor. The pitch of his normal speaking voice is one clue. So are the songs where he's contrasting a "natural" singing style with outrageous lyrics, like "You Don't Love Me Any More" and "Good Old Days." And I think I read something where he said, in answer to a question about the truck drivin' song, that he had to record it first thing in the morning, when his voice was lower. But I find it impressive that he can manage to sound so convincing at both extremes of his vocal range.



And congratulations on the third Al head!

On the subject of Al's voice...



I did a Google search, and Lisa Popeil (who helped Al learn not to kill himself singing - thanks Lisa!) has a website...



http://www.popeil.com/



Lisa is singing on the 11th AL-bum... it says so on the info on her at weirdal.com.



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On the subject of Al's voice...

I did a Google search, and Lisa Popeil (who helped Al learn not to kill himself singing - thanks Lisa!) has a website...

http://www.popeil.com/

Lisa is singing on the 11th AL-bum... it says so on the info on her at weirdal.com.

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That's probably why Al did a song about her father.

That's probably why Al did a song about her father.

Do you mean like in gratitude? I'm not too sure about that. According to the box set booklet, Al said that he was already writing the song by the time he first found out about Lisa via a magazine article.

I actually found the Lisa Popeil site while I was trying to find out about Sam Popeil. Most of what I could find was actually about Ron - as I am sure you can imagine.



There wasn't much info on Sam, and some of it was not too flattering. I wonder why Al wrote about him and not Ron. The reading I did on Ron was pretty interesting.





But I still don't get the whole spray on hair thing. Help me, Mr. Popeil!

I found it odd that about a week ago, I was watching TV and saw a commerical for that spray on hair! I immediately pointed and went, "Mr. Popeil!"



It showed a couple of his commercials. I think I was watching the Sci-Fi channel.

They're still selling it? Oy vey.

They're still selling it? Oy vey.

Wait...I was watching the X-Files! Scully was watching the TV and there's Mr. Popeil on her TV!



One of the rare times I've actually watched the X-Files.



-CindyBob

There wasn't much info on Sam, and some of it was not too flattering. I wonder why Al wrote about him and not Ron. The reading I did on Ron was pretty interesting.

Oh yeah, Ron is da man, but I'm not sure if he was taking such a public part in his company at the time as he does now.



And also, Sam was the granddaddy of the idea of ordering anything off the TV, so I guess for the intent of the song, it was taking a more historical look rather than a modern look.



But still, I recall someone mentioning a recent Ronco infomercial in which Ron made his entrance to the song "Mr. Popeil."

The Saga Begins and Amish Paradise had great lyrics but Your Horoscope for Today and Hardware Store had great vocals. They're all great, though.