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Sucker

I'm a sucker for meaningless-yet-mildly-amusing trivial tidbits. While looking up the news story for the birthday bash of the Purgatory Cherubs to confirm that it was the 50th anniversary of the Oakland chapter alone, I happened to click through to the page on "American Pie". There I came across some amusing tidbits in the "Covers and parodies" section:

In 1999, parodist "Weird Al" Yankovic did a Star Wars-inspired lyrical adaptation of "American Pie" entitled "The Saga Begins" ...

I've heard it, pretty amusing.

While McLean gave permission for the parody, he did not make a cameo appearance in its video, despite popular rumour. However, he has stated that at live shows he almost starts singing Yankovic's lyrics, due to his children playing the song so often.

Heh.

There is a Mathematical parody "Mathematical Pi" (hear it here). It almost mimics the real song, except for the "sevens" in the chorus.

Sadly, the links provided seem to be dead now. Pity, I really wanted to hear it and pass it on to Daughter Number Two.

["Killing Me Softly", written about Don McLean] created a unique Grammy situation: in 1973, Flack won Record of the Year, beating out "American Pie", a song by McLean; in 1974, she won the same award for a song about McLean. Flack and McLean have performed "Killing Me" Softly together in concert at least once.

Quotation marks added; the contributors for this page seem to have something against punctuation.

Anyway, I, for one, seem to be easily amused. But at least I haven't spent years and years trying to puzzle out the hidden meaning of a pop song. I mean, I like the song and all, but it some people seem to have put some excessive energy into analyzing it, energy that could have been put to better use doing something more useful. Like drinking heavily.

Posted by Ken S at March 30, 2007 08:19 AM | TrackBack (0) |