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In one of Al's many appearance's on The Dr. Demento Show, he described this song as something one might expect to hear if James Taylor and Charles Manson ever collaborated on a song. "Gotta Boogie" "Weird Al" Yankovic (1983) Original, in the style of 1970's Disco music. "Grapefruit Diet" Running with Scissors (1999)
At 11 minutes and 23 seconds, it is the longest song Yankovic has ever recorded. With the exception of the choruses and occasional bridges, the track is mostly a spoken word narration about a made-up person's life in Albuquerque, New Mexico , after winning a first-class one-way airplane ticket to the city.
"She said, 'I love that you're weird — let's make a joyous song about it.'" "The things that other people don’t understand about Corinne make them who they are and really special," says Barton.
UK band the Spinners released a version of the song as "Strangest Dream" on their 1965 album More Folk at the Phil. [48] Swedish rock band Hep Stars recorded the song in both English and Swedish, releasing the Swedish version as a single while featuring the English version on their second studio album The Hep Stars , which was released in ...
Run-DMC, "Christmas in Hollis" The 1987 Special Olympics charity album, A Very Special Christmas, had some incredible contributions from A-list artists like Madonna, Whitney Houston, Bruce ...
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The song was number 15 on VH1's 50 Most Awesomely Bad Songs Ever, named by Rolling Stone as the "15th Most Annoying Song", [20] and ranked at number 31 on Blender's list of the "50 Worst Songs Ever". [21] The Huffington Post Canada ranked this song at number 29 on its list of "50 Worst Canadian Songs Ever". [22]
The theme song can be found on Yankovic's album Running with Scissors (1999) as "The Weird Al Show Theme". It tells the story of how Al came to live in a tree and get a television show, including references to the fabricated life story in The Compleat Al , such as having worked in a nasal decongestant factory.