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"Money for Nothing/Beverly Hillbillies*" is a song by "Weird Al" Yankovic. It is a cover of "Money for Nothing" by Dire Straits with the lyrics replaced by those of The Beverly Hillbillies theme song. The music video, which appeared as part of Yankovic's film UHF, is a parody of the "Money for Nothing" music video.
On December 20, 1988, Yankovic recorded "Money for Nothing/Beverly Hillbillies". The song features the lyrics of The Beverly Hillbillies theme song altered slightly and set to the tune of "Money for Nothing". The song appears in its entirety within UHF as a computer-animated dream sequence, framed as if it were part of a music video. [1]
"Weird Al" Yankovic in 2003 "Weird Al" Yankovic is a multiple Grammy Award -winning American musician, satirist , parodist , accordionist , director , television producer, and author. He is known in particular for humorous songs which make fun of popular culture or parody specific songs by contemporary musical acts, or both.
The "Weird Al" Yankovic Video Library is a VHS release of most of "Weird Al" Yankovic music videos to date. The VHS contains 12 music videos: "Fat" (from Even Worse album) "Smells Like Nirvana" (from Off the Deep End album) "Like a Surgeon" (from Dare to Be Stupid album) "Eat It" (from "Weird Al" Yankovic in 3-D album)
"Money for Nothing/Beverly Hillbillies" (Mark Knopfler, Gordon Sumner, Paul Henning, arr. "Weird Al" Yankovic) [13] – 3:11 Parody of "Money for Nothing" by Dire Straits; [14] the song features the slightly altered lyrics of the theme song from the television series The Beverly Hillbillies which are set to the tune of Dire Straits' single. [4]
“Weird Al” Yankovic: I wanted to celebrate the 10-year anniversary of my last album by doing a medley of what I thought were a dozen of the biggest songs of the last 10 years. I just kind of ...
Al Yankovic [1] Original song. 1988 "Fat" Jay Levey [1] Parody of "Bad" by Michael Jackson: 1989 "Money for Nothing/Beverly Hillbillies" Parody of "Money for Nothing" by Dire Straits "UHF" Original song, lead single on the soundtrack for "Weird Al"'s feature film UHF: 1992 "Smells Like Nirvana" Parody of "Smells Like Teen Spirit" by Nirvana
Here are “Weird Al” Yankovic’s 2025 tour dates: June 13-14, 18, 20-21: Las Vegas (Venetian Theatre at The Venetian Resort) June 23: Salt Lake City (Maverik Center)