I Went To Your Wedding - Spike Jones parody of the original ballad. I used to laugh myself dizzy listening to that.
As a long-time conventioneer, I have to mention filk music..
Here’s a full video clip of “Let’s Duet”, a masterpiece of sexual double entrendre. In the context of the movie, Jenna Fischer is the June Carter to John C. Reilly’s married Johnny Cash-like character, and the sexual tension is running high. A criminally underrated comedy, in my opinion:
I wanna, I wanna, I wanna be an Imperial Engineer
[something, something, something] for half a million years…
I heard that about 35 years ago. That’s all I can remember.
Did you ever run into Filthy Pierre?
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What? No love for “Leader of the Laundromat,” by The Detergents (Ron Dante)?
Also in the country vein there’s “Homer and Jethro”, who won a Grammy for their parody “The Battle of Kookamonga” (parodying “The Battle of New Orleans”). My favourite is “B-A-C-O-N and E-G-Gs” (parodying “D-I-V-O-R-C-E”).
Not sure if it counts as what OP is looking for, but I enjoy when people do folk covers of hardcore rap songs.
https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=870258&highlight=folds
Similar thread from last year: Cases where the parody are more well known than the Original.
There’s evidence On Top of Spaghetti, which was published in 1962, is actually a parody of The Pizza Song, which was released in 1961 by Dick Biondi. The Pizza Song, in turn, was a parody of On Top of Old Smokey.
If this is accurate, then On Top of Spaghetti is a parody of a parody, and I further wonder if this is the only case of a parody of a parody.
It seems like multiple artists have done parodies on the theme “You Picked a Fine Time To Leave Me, Loose Wheel”, each with different lyrics apart from the quoted bit.
YouTube is blocked at work, but here’s an example of some lyrics. But I know I’ve heard other “Loose Wheel” parodies with different lyrics.
George Carlin did his own version of “America the Beautiful” on Class Clown.
When I was much younger, I had my own version of The Guess Who’s “Laughing”:
I should laugh, but I cry,
Because your barf didn’t pass me by
You took me by surprise, I didn’t realize, that you were
Barfing
Time goes slowly, but carries on,
Now that the best meal has come and gone,
You took me by surprise, I didn’t realize, that you were
Barfing
Barfing
Wontcha ya look what you did to me?
You ruined everything I wore when you threw up on me-ee-ee
I go alone now, please stay away,
Because I’m wearing new clothes today
You took me by surprise, I didn’t realize, that you were
Barfing
Barfing
Ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-barf
and so on…
“Stay the blazes home” - Stephen McNeil, Premier of Nova Scotia
DC-area a capella group Da Vinci’s Notebook has “Secret Asian Man”, primarily referring to the espionage documented in the Cox Report.
Just remembered “Hey Little Minivan” by the Austin Lounge Lizards. It is not exactly a Beach Boys song.
On icy mornings when I’m feeling my age,
I’m protected and warm in my steel cage
Her climate control really pumps out the heat,
And her dual air bags just can’t be beat
She’s rated real high by Consumer Reports
And her two front seats have got lumbar support…
Hey, little minivan, we’re goin’ to the pediatrician
In the filk-esque vein, there’s A Shoggoth on the Roof, an entire musical to the score of Fiddler…, with parody Lovecraftian lyrics.
For obvious reasons, it is rarely performed.
Probably Frank Jacobs at MAD (from memory):
I’m looking over
My dead dog Rover
I ran over with the power mower
One leg is missing
The second is gone
Third one’s in pieces all over the lawn
No need explaining
The one remaining
Is stuck to my neighbor’s door
I’m looking over
My dead dog Rover
I ran over with the power mower
Traditional?:
My Bonnie looked into the gas tank
The height of its contents to see
She lit a small match to assist her
Oh bring back my Bonnie to me!
Tune: When Johnny Comes Marching Home
When I was eight days old, me boys, hurrah, hurrah
When I was eight days old, me boys, hurrah, HURRAH
The rabbi came with a big, sharp knife
And I surely thought he would take my life
But all - he - took - was
A little bit off the top
(ooh!)
The Napalm Song
Recalled from either SING OUT or BROADSIDE
Tune: Yellow Submarine
In the town where I was born
Lived a man who went to war
And he told us of his life
In the battle zone where he was based
He’s the pilot of a plane
Blowing bridges up and bombing trains
And they sing this little song
As they merrily fly along
We’re all dropping jellied gasoline, jellied gasoline, jellied gasoline
We’re all dropping jellied gasoline, jellied gasoline, jellied gasoline
Peter, Paul and Mary did a nice multi-parody of Old Blue on their early double live album, including the “children’s music” rock-n-roll version (more doo-wop really).
He “borrowed” the Chemical Elements tune from Gilbert & Sullivan but that’s not quite a parody, merely an amazing exercise.
Damn edit window. Forget that I duped a mention of Lehrer above.
Dr. Z does a lot of medically themed parodies. Most are also “message” songs that are trying to get across some point.
A sample: Readmission | R. Kelly "Ignition (Remix)" Parody - YouTube
I still like Allan Sherman’s brief parody:
On top of Old Smokey
All covered with hair
Of course I’m referring
To Smokey the Bear.
And also borrowed “My Darling Clementine” which he did in various styles
I was just singing that the other day. “Tenderly I kissed her goodbye, picked up my clothes, they were finally dry, but I won’t forget my leader of the laundrymat” (who’s that playing the piano).
When did that get created? Back in 1983 I worked with a guy who would sing that exact phrase over and over because we had an Asian manager with whom he locked horns all the time.
I remember seeing them perform the song at the Lubber Run Amphitheater in the late Nineties but the concept of replacing “agent” with “Asian” is probably older. As noted, these lyrics specifically refer to then-current reports of Chinese agents stealing nuclear secrets.