Episode 80 – Rock N Roll vs parody
Rock N Roll Bedtime Stories
English - February 09, 2022 05:58 - 45 minutes - 31.3 MB - ★★★★★ - 81 ratingsMusic History Music Comedy Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
The guys trace the origins of mock n’ roll from Bach to Dr. Demento, Weird Al and the internet.
SHOW NOTES:
Songs used in this episode: Bach “Peasant Cantata”; Spike Jones and his City Slickers “Cocktails for Two”; Tom Lehrer “The Masochism Tango”; Stan Freberg “Nuttin for Christmas”; Allan Sherman “Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah”; Spirit “I Got a Line on You”; Weird Al “Belvedere Cruisin’”; Alex Melton “American Idiot”.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parody_music
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parody_mass
https://interlude.hk/bach-makes-joke-peasant-cantata/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spike_Jones
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122018506
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hello_Muddah,_Hello_Fadduh_(A_Letter_from_Camp)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stan_Freberg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Lehrer
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/644173/dr-demento-ruled-radio
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Demento
Full 1991 episode of the Dr Demento show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cdnb8Z9IxmQ
Full 1986 episode of the Dr Demento show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbYcPmo9d2w
https://www.yahoo.com/news/meet-dr-demento-man-discovered-weird-al-fish-heads-222028433.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%22Weird_Al%22_Yankovic
Belvedere Cruisin’ – Weird Al demo – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwaY5Ibz83w
https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/alex-melton-youtube-pop-punk-covers