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“The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia” was a strange hit in 1973. Riding the trend of kudzu noir that followed In the Heat of the Night, yet sung by an actress best known as a cast member ...
There is an alternate version of the song, which is played during the end credits of Spy Hard where the lyrics are changed from "The name of this movie is Spy Hard / They call it Spy Hard / You're watching Spy Hard / It's the theme from Spy Hard!" to "The name of this movie was Spy Hard / They called it Spy Hard / You just saw Spy Hard / It's the end of Spy Hard!
A short live-action clip displays the song as "The Ballad of Jed Clampett" by George Newman (Yankovic's character in UHF). David Silverman, later of Simpsons fame, designed the characters seen in the animated music video. In the original videos, the guitars simply have neon-styled effects added to them.
Spy Hard is a 1996 American spy parody film starring Leslie Nielsen (who also executive produced) and Nicollette Sheridan, parodying James Bond and other action films.The introduction to the film is sung by comedy artist "Weird Al" Yankovic, and it was the first film to be written by Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer, who went on to write and direct parody films such as Date Movie, Disaster ...
The Official Music of "Weird Al" Yankovic: Al Hits Tokyo (1984) "Weird Al" Yankovic's Greatest Hits (1988) The Best of Yankovic (1992) The Food Album (1993) Permanent Record: Al in the Box (1994) Greatest Hits Volume II (1994) The TV Album (1995) The Best of "Weird Al" Yankovic (1999) The Saga Begins (2000) The Essential "Weird Al" Yankovic (2009)
In 2022, for the film WEIRD: The Al Yankovic Story, Yankovic rerecorded the track as well as four others.In the film, Yankovic first plays the song in a bar. Different from the album version, it starts out with just Yankovic and the accordion, and near the end of the first verse Jim Kimo West, Steve Jay, and Jon Bermuda Schwartz spontaneously join in on guitar, bass, and drums.
The song's title, not mentioned in the lyrics, derives from a tagline that appeared in teaser trailers and the film poster [1] for The Phantom Menace: "Every saga has a beginning". "The Saga Begins" was released as a single from the 1999 album Running with Scissors , and later appearing on the compilation album The Saga Begins .
The song begins with Al talking about a traumatic childhood, living "in a box under the stairs in the corner of a basement half a block down the street from Jerry's Bait Shop (You know the place)" and being force-fed sauerkraut by his mother for his own health until he turned 26½ years old.