You guys aren’t’ going back far enough:
I have that one in our itunes collection. It makes my, uh, hahrt sing.
You’d be surprised how often “tempo, Teddy” can be worked into a conversation. Fore shore.
A Batman-themed parody of Escape Club’s "Wild Wild West, entitled “Adam West”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdVJWyoncdU
And here I thought I would be the first person to jump in to mention “99 Dead Baboons”! Then again, it was likely just a bit naive to think so, given the significant segment of folks on this board who grew up on Dr. Demento.
A Whiff of Kansas (A.K.A. Someone Broke Wind). Parody of Dust in the Wind.
Leader Of The Laundromat. Parody of Leader of the Pack.
Stairway to 7-11. Parody of Stairway to Heaven.
Gumball Wizard. Parody of Pinball Wizard.
Monster Ash. Parody of The Monster Mash. (Tim Cavanagh has quite a few good ones.)
“See My Vest” as sung by C. Montgomery Burns.
I’m not sure if this counts as parody since it’s probably more akin to something like a cover, but I’ll put it here because of the comedic value.
You may have seen this video floating around over the past year or so.
From the same people…
In both cases, I don’t know whether those count as parodies or pastiches.
That Rutles song is a genre parody of early Beatles sound, which it partly accomplishes via pastiche (it borrows almost – but not quite – intact bits of “She Loves You,” “I Want to Hold Your Hand,” and “All My Loving,” but also has entirely new material, mainly in the verses).
I have the 45 RPM record, which must be extremely valuable by now. I probably could sell it for $5 on eBay.
Within the confines of the “same music, parodic lyrics” box, Tom Lehrer’s “The Elements” comes to mind, but few others.
Not exactly loaded with punchlines, but “Starry Eyes” by The Records, a general tale of life in rock 'n roll song, was rewritten and covered by Too Much Joy as a recounting of when they got busted for covering 2 Live Crew songs onstage. It’s got some good wordplay (“…the writ has hit the fan.”) but it’s not comedy per se.
ETA: thought of another, though once again it’s not much of a knee-slapper. The Dead Kennedys’ rewrite of “I Fought The Law” which is about Dan White’s murder of Harvey Milk. (“The law don’t mean shit if you’ve got the right friends/That’s how this country’s run/Twinkies are the best friend I ever had/I fought the law and…”) There are probably a lot of lesser-known punk songs that could come into play here.
“Concrete Road”, a parody of “Country Roads”:
More Rutles - the wonderful Neil Innes sings Cheese And Onions.
Parody or pastiche? What @JKellyMap said.
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19 (Not Out) was a parody of 19 by Paul Hardcastle and was pretty funny – it was a takedown of English cricket in the 80s. I can’t post YouTube videos from where I am right now – maybe someone can post it for me.
Some pretty inside-cricket jokes that I didn’t get in the US in the 80s, but it was very funny anyway.
Ha, I had that song on a British import compilation album and I found it weirdly compelling. I’ll try to post a YouTube video, hopefully correctly following the Discouse rules for doing so that I’ve never bothered learning…
Thanks for posting that! I liked their use of the same “I didn’t even know what was going on” in a different context (no idea what was happening during the Vietnam war vs. being totally clueless in cricket and getting crushed by the other team).
Marty Feldman Eyes, Bruce Baum’s parody of Kim Carnes’ Bette Davis Eyes.
Sometimes mistaken for Weird Al or The Presidents of the United States of America, but actually it’s neither:
How about Randy Rainbow? I haven’t seen anything he’s done that wasn’t gold, but if we must be specific, I’ll say this parody of Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds.
Donald in the John with Boxes
How about Melanie Safka, singing about Psychotherapy?
