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Alfred Matthew "Weird Al" Yankovic (/ ˈ j æ ŋ k ə v ɪ k / ⓘ YANG-kə-vik; [2] born October 23, 1959) is an American comedy musician, writer, and actor. He is best known for writing and performing comedy songs that often parody specific songs by contemporary musicians.
Recorded live on The Dr. Demento Show, and performed live in 1981 on Tomorrow Coast to Coast (presented by Tom Snyder), which marks the artist's first TV appearance. "Another Tattoo" Alpocalypse (2011) Parody of "Nothin' on You" by B.o.B feat. Bruno Mars "Attack of the Radioactive Hamsters from a Planet near Mars"
The song's music video broke the records for the biggest music video premiere on YouTube, with 1.66 million concurrent viewers, and the most-watched music video within 24 hours, with 86.3 million views in its first day. [49] It became the fastest video to reach 100 million views, in just 32 hours, [50] and 200 million views, in seven days. [51]
The original use of the term "parody" in music referred to re-use for wholly serious purposes of existing music. In popular music that sense of "parody" is still applicable to the use of folk music in the serious songs of such writers as Bob Dylan, but in general, "parody" in popular music refers to the humorous distortion of musical ideas or lyrics or general style of music.
The video has received over two million views and has been parodied several times on YouTube; the TV3 show The Jono Project ran a series of clips titled Food in a Nek Minnit which parodied a nightly advertisement called Food in a Minute. As a result of the video, the term Nek Minnit was the most searched for word on Google in New Zealand for ...
An avid producer of folk music, he has produced five recordings for the popular Put-in-Bay/Key West performer Pat Dailey, and written over one hundred radio and TV commercials. He still plays many venues, including the Hessler Street and Coventry Street Fairs in Greater Cleveland, Ohio, the Starwood Festival , Put-In Bay, the Burning River ...
At least two people were arrested Saturday amid the chaos and fighting at Put-in-Bay. Police estimated 19,000 converged on the Lake Erie island. Ohio SWAT teams respond to break up fights on Put ...
"Funky Worm" is a song by American funk group the Ohio Players, from their album Pleasure. It peaked at number one on the U.S. Billboard R&B chart in 1973 and also peaked at number fifteen on the Billboard Hot 100. [2] Billboard ranked it as the No. 84 song for 1973.