Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies From: GUEST,Blind Mike Date: 13 Jan 10 - 02:16 PM Anybody know the rest of this one to the tune of "If I Only Had A Brain" ? At conventions by the hour I squirt my water flower just like a legionair. (forgot this line) 'Cause there just ain't no denyin' that I'm nothing but a square. |
Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies From: clueless don Date: 04 Jan 10 - 11:35 AM On 31 Dec 09 - 01:06 PM GUEST,Bob in Toronto asked about parodies of college fight songs. I'm not sure this is the one you are remembering, but I remember a bit of a parody of the Notre Dame fight song, something like: Pray, pray for old Pivnick Tech! We're going to get it right in the neck! send [???] of taps on high ... or something like that. Don |
Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies From: GUEST Date: 03 Jan 10 - 01:03 PM was cats, chicks and hipsters dig me and dig me good...... |
Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies From: beeliner Date: 01 Jan 10 - 02:24 AM '"Potrzebie" is alleged to be Polish for "I had one grunch but the eggplant over there."' Any Polish speakers here know the actual translation? I read somewhere that Al Feldstein saw the word on a billboard in Poland and just thought it was a funny-looking word. I think that it may mean 'You need', as an advertisement might say, 'You need [our product]', but I'm not sure. Back in the late 1950's, MAD had 'celebrity guest writers' in nearly every issue, which were usually visualizations of well-known comedy routines, such as Danny Kaye's "I'm Five", Orson Bean's "Two Chinese Guys Who Go to an American Restaurant", and Wally Cox's "My Friend Dufo (What a Crazy Guy)". But Ernie Kovacs did some original material for the magazine. |
Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies From: GUEST,Bob in Toronto Date: 31 Dec 09 - 01:06 PM I've been trying to find the parodies of college fight songs MAD did in the late 60's or early 70's. The only one I remember partially is the Notre Dame one "Stomp on their backbones, break all their bones". Other songs included similar lyrics. Anyone know where to find them? HAppy New Year! |
Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies From: GUEST,R Harris Date: 27 Dec 09 - 01:47 AM I enjoyed reading through these posts. I remember one song: Charley, Charley, bicycle built for two On my Harley, down Central Avenue We'll tear up the town till sundown Old ladies we will rundown And we won't stop for no darn cop On a Harley thats built for two. I remember the ending of "War" (sung to More) War, brings us soldiers that are strong and good War, brings us John Wayne films from Hollywood War, brings our TV newscasts more Scenes of blood and death and gore That's what living color's for. |
Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies From: GUEST Date: 24 Dec 09 - 12:46 AM How about the parody of "West Side Story" called "East Side Story"? Two gangs, one led by Kennedy, the other by Nikita Khrushchev. "When you're a Red", sung by Krushchev: When you're a Red you're a Red all the way From your first Party purge to your last power play! .... You're always a friend Of every brand-new nation The spies that you send Inflame the population That's infiltration! |
Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies From: RangerSteve Date: 13 Dec 09 - 12:45 AM Guest - thanks for that Jabberwocky parody. My friend and I memorized that when it came out originally (1966 or 67), but I eventually forgot a lot of it. It's one of my favorites. |
Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies From: GUEST,CampBarlow Date: 12 Dec 09 - 11:16 AM Sung to the tune "Silver Bells". Same issue as previous post. How I memorized these from 1973 is beyond me. Drivers weaving, signs unheading down the highway they race. You can tell it's the season of Christmas. Wildly weaving, sometimes heaving with the cops giving chase, and with each fatal crack-up you'll hear... Count the toll count the toll It's Christmas time on the highway... |
Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies From: GUEST,CampBarlow Date: 12 Dec 09 - 11:09 AM Sung to the tune "It Came Upon A Midnight Clear" in the same issue that "O Little Town Of Washington" was published back in the early 70s. The plane we boarded last evening dear to start on our holiday spree, we read three books and enjoyed our meal and saw a movie for free. We pulled our seats back and slept 'till dawn and chatted together past noon. It's been a pleasure and now let's hope that we'll be taking off soon! |
Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies From: GUEST,Cuilionn (the lang-lost) Date: 18 Nov 09 - 12:02 PM The Legend of the Ad-Men (Mad Mag parody of Jabberwocky) Twas Brillo, and the G.E. stoves did Proctor-Gamble in the Glade. All Pillsbury were the Tastee loaves And in a Minute Maid. "Beware the Station Break, my son, The voice that lulls, the ads that vex, Beware the Doctor's Claim and shun That horror called Brand-X!" He took his Q-Tip swab in hand, Long time the Tension Headache fought, So Dristan he by a Mercury, And Bayer break'd in thought. And as in Bufferin Gulf he stood, The Station Break, with Rise of Tame, Came Whisking through the Pride-hazed wood, And Cream-Rinsed as it came! "Buy one, buy two, we're almost through!" The Q-Tip Dash went Spic-and-Span, He Tide Airwick, and with Bisquick, Went Aero-Waxing Ban. "And hast thou Dreft the Station Break? Ajax the Breck, Excedrin boy, Oh Fab wash day! Cashmere Bouquet!" He Handi-wrapped with Joy. Twas Brillo and G.E. Stoves Did Proctor-Gamble in the Glade All Pillsbury were the Tastee Loaves And in a Minute Maid. |
Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies From: clueless don Date: 18 Nov 09 - 08:58 AM I believe I have the original record - I think it came stapled within one of the magazine issues. Don |
Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies From: mrmoe Date: 18 Nov 09 - 08:43 AM .....and who will forget, "she got a nose job"....I have a digitized copy of the album with that song - "Mad Twists Rock & Roll" - if anyone wants it |
Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies From: GUEST Date: 18 Nov 09 - 08:03 AM It's A Grand Old Flag It's a grand old flag, it's a good plastic bag and we get it on all of our clothes. A guy can play the live-long day and have it wherever he goes. It is lots more fun than a doll or a gun, you can wave them around like flags. But should old acquaintance be forgot, keep your head out of plastic bags! This is the way I remember this wonderful parody. I can never remember the real lyrics, as the above successfully replaced the real lyrics in my memory bank. :) |
Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies From: GUEST,Me Date: 12 Nov 09 - 09:29 AM One more... This is to the tune of The Marine's Hymn. Think "From the Halls of Montezuma..." From the slums of Baltic Avenue, to the Boardwalk and Park Place. We will buy up all the properties, build hotels in every space. ...don't remember... and then finishes with: But we can not even start the game until somebody finds the dice! |
Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies From: GUEST,old fart Date: 12 Nov 09 - 09:26 AM the only thing I remember about the bridge parody is: Bid a heart, bid a spade, bid a game that can't be made, as the bridge team goes rolling along. And then later... Shout out 3 No Trump load and strong!!! |
Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies From: Homeless Date: 11 Nov 09 - 11:08 PM This song taught me the evils of plagerism. A dedicated reader of MAD in high school, one day I walked into English class and a friend asked if I done my homework. When I said we didn't have homework, he responded that we were supposed to have written a song parody. In a panic, I sat down and started scribbling the first two thirds of this, which I'd read earlier in the week, since not turning in anything was worse that copying. After grading all our papers, the teacher was so impressed with my paper that she wanted me to read it aloud, in front of the whole class. You never saw a more paniced high school junior in your life. I was terrified that someone else read MAD and would announce my transgression. It was enough horror to last a lifetime - I haven't plagerized since. (and the song is burned into my memory, after 20+ years) Mine eyes have seen the glory of an army that's co-ed of a navy where the captain has to subdivide the head of an air force where they issue flowered sheets for every bed The times are changing now Glory, glory basic training never was more entertaining there's more action, who's complaining? The times are changing now. They are wearing battle outfits that are full of fancy frills they're a credit to the union and we call 'em G.I. Jills if George Patton were alive today he'd take off for the hills The times are changing now Glory, glory foes they'll shake up armed attacks they're sure to break up then they'll freshen up their make up The times are changing now They are trained to shoot a rifle and they show no signs of fright they're as strong as any man and never run from any fight that's unless one gets a headache and she tells you, "not tonight" The times are changing now Glory, glory tell her mister if she struggles when you've kissed her no one likes a draft resister the times are changing now. |
Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies From: GUEST,Guest, SF Date: 11 Nov 09 - 08:48 PM (Sung to the tune of Oh Little Town of Bethlehem) Oh little town of Washington How still we see thee sleep Thy Senate's bare no one is there And Nixon's in Palm Beach Though congressmen forsake thee We know why they're not here Thy filth and slime and slums and crime Might mar their Christmas cheer With shotguns and police dogs we guard our homes and stores Alive we'll stay this Christmas day If we don't go outdoors! |
Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies From: GUEST,anon Date: 02 Nov 09 - 06:36 PM Pox upon thee little fellow, creep and fink with stripe of yellow. The gang you squealed on has the urge to strum and sing your funeral dirge. Into the drink you should have went, neatly cased in wet cement. Delinquency can be a blight when guys like you don't do it right. Seeing you I hate to think that I was once a lousy fink. |
Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies From: GUEST,Jack o' Spades Date: 12 Oct 09 - 11:34 AM Glad to see I'm not the only retro-minded Mad Mag lover... I crack up on the days that I wake up with one of the old 70s or 80s parodies in my head. The "Oh Susanna" parody that I mostly remember went something like this; Well, I come from California with a bandaid on my knee Cause I rumbled with Hell's Angels and they nearly crippled me Well I tried to meet the leader's chick he didn't take it kind The acid bath he gave me man, it left me nearly blind Holy Hannah! He pushed me 'neath a train Now my skull is in some canyon And they're mailing me my brain! There are so many to remember. Has the magazine ever put out a book of their old parodies? |
Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies From: GUEST,MrChris Date: 07 Oct 09 - 04:52 PM just encountered this website. Haven't looked through all the previous posts, so this might be duplicative. But like other posters, it's amazing how many of the Mad parody songs I remember by heart. Here's one: (to the tune of "I'm Looking over a Four-Leaf Clover" - about Christopher Columbus) I had a notion to cross the ocean That never'd been crossed before I thought for certain that Asia I'd reach Now something tells me I've hit the wrong beach. No pearls are sold here, there ain't no gold here Just rain and disease galore. How did I do it? I really blew it! When I hit the New World shore. |
Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies From: GUEST,bytaman Date: 01 Oct 09 - 10:03 PM Does anyone remember a parody of the Beatles "Do You Wanna Know A Secret? It was called, "Do You Wanna Eat A Bagel". I am only assuming it came from MAD magazine because a couple of older boys down the street where I grew up in Brooklyn were big MAD magazine fans and used to play "Do You Wanna Eat A Bagel" on their guitars. Thanks! |
Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies From: GUEST,wandrews Date: 12 Sep 09 - 06:19 PM Don't number your juvenile poultry before the proper process of incubation has been materialized! |
Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies From: gatyamgal Date: 05 Sep 09 - 11:32 PM While I am on this thread. I am looking for the lyrics to the tune of the caissons go rolling along. It was a song about playing the card game bridge. I recall some of the lyrics as being something about taking a trick and seeing your partner getting sick. And about bid a heart play a spade, .... a play that can't be made. My parents were hard core bridge players. They would complain about people that didn't know how to play their cards right. If anyone recalls this parody, please share it. |
Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies From: gatyamgal Date: 05 Sep 09 - 11:26 PM Haven't been here for a long time. Glad I found this thread. I used to love to sing Mad Magazine parodies when I was a kid. They were almost all we had before weird al. One I really liked and it is still relavent today is a song I call the weatherman song. I can't remember if that is the original name or not. Here are the lyrics Seventy six degrees is what we'll predict with one hundred and ten degrees by the shore To be followed by days and days Of an air pollution haze. That is what we weathermen adore We always play safe and say there's a chance of rain Or we say partly cloudy partly clear We use words like "maybe" "perhaps" and "possible" Just in case, the weather changes here We're predicting sunny weather on the coast of Spain Who'll know if it is so here in the U. S. In Pago Pago we can say there is a hurricane Who has changed her name to Bess Predicting weather is a rewarding job Whether we're right or wrong we still know Our jobs are quite safe and sound While there's weather still around Give three cheers for wind and sleet and snow. There is a karaoke website where I sang the song. Check this out. http://www.singsnap.com/snap/r/ae9d31ee |
Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies From: GUEST,sinenomine Date: 05 Sep 09 - 09:06 AM I was looking for Mad's fight songs (GM fight song, dentists' fight song, teamsters' fight song, etc.) and found them here. I'm pretty sure the last verse of the teamsters' fight song is wrong on this site. I think the last verse goes like this: So its hi hi hey, when we want a raise in pay We shout out our grievance loud and strong And when ere we like, we just call a strike And the country stops rolling along. |
Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies From: Taconicus Date: 29 Aug 09 - 03:35 AM Ah, I still sing them. The following are totally from memory. From "If Consumer Products Had Their Own Theme Songs": To the tune of "On the Street Where You Live" (note: Raleigh cigarettes came with coupons you could save and exchange for prizes.) We have never had a stuffed moose before. For a stuffed moose we have never had a use before. Now we've forty three; Raleigh sent them free. We just love all the gifts that they give. People stop and stare at our landing strip. It took 50 million coupons to gain ownership. Raleigh sent it free with a warranty. We just love all the gifts that they give. And oh, just look at our ceiling; You can see a chimpanzee too. We love the glorious feeling That we're saving up to get him the Bronx Zoo. Every day we smoke forty packs or so And those coupons we are saving great stacks, you know. When our son turns four, we'll save even more. We just love all the gifts that they give! The following are from "If Professions Had Their Own Theme Songs": Dentists: [Someone already gave this one, above.] Barbers (to the tune of George M. Cohen's "Over There"): In his hair, in his hair, Sprinkle goo, spill shampoo, in his hair. Give that man a crew cut, or try a new cut. But make sure you cut off his hair. In your chair, in your chair, Give your views, while he stews in your chair. Keep on gabbin', complainin', crabbin', 'Cause he can't get up till you're finished with his hair! |
Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies From: GUEST,(Dr.) John S. Sultzbaugh Date: 29 Aug 09 - 02:41 AM Of all the MAD Magazine song parodies I wish I had memorized (and I did soak up a few), one of the most perennially relevant is one I read briefly as a college freshman in 1968. Here's some quick background: I had been sentenced to an all-male Ivy-League wannabe thanks to its snob-appeal, although I hated the snobbery that abounded there. I had to convince my folks that I had a stake in my own future, and I spent three miserable semesters before peptic ulcers and Penn State rescued me. Now the grandest intimidator for keeping fellows there was the draft-fed war in Vietnam, which MAD addressed in a parody that shall apparently never become irrelevant. It was a take-off on one of the most beloved songs of the 1960's, "More," and was aptly labeled "War." I can recall its second line, "War helps to keep the population down;" and its transition: "War brings the USO's/And war brings the John Wayne shows/Yes, war brings us much enjoyment/It cuts down on unemployment!" I believe this issue in question was published at nearly the same time that MAD also parodied the musical "Camelot" with "Can A Lot;" perhaps they were in the same issue. Can anyone find the entire lyrics for "War?" Thanks! |
Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies From: GUEST,Corgihound Date: 24 Aug 09 - 12:11 PM I thought it was "I have one grunch but the eggplant over YONDER!" |
Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies From: GUEST,Summerdan Date: 27 Jul 09 - 11:53 PM West Side Story became East Side Story (Khrushchev): Tonight Nikita made an error, His wife's a holy terror, A case of dynamite. My favorites were "Carols For All Occasions". I still all the lyrics to three remember three. They began: They Come on April Fifteenth, Dear Deck the walls and fences; Golly, Isn't trick or treating jolly? I'm looking for that smart aleck Who sends all the comic valentines. I think there were more. |
Subject: RE: Mad Magazine song parodies From: GUEST,McMonty Date: 22 Jul 09 - 04:55 PM Those songs you remember can be found on the "Absolutely MAD" DVD available through Amazon. It is 50+ years of the magazine --every issue in PDF format. Issue #110 from the 1960's has "Songs Of Food." This has been so hard to locate and here, I guess, is why: From Wikipedia: Legal issues Mad Magazine provoked an early legal backlash against parody when in 1961 the magazine published a songbook in which various topical ditties such as "The Last Time I Saw Maris", "Albert Einstein," and "There's No Business Like No Business" were included (in poem format; with a parenthetical phrase after each title, stating "Sung to the tune of..."). Several music publishers joined in a suit taking the magazine to court. The matter was eventually decided by the U.S. Supreme Court, which declined to review the decision by a lower court dismissing the suit against Mad. |
Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies From: robomatic Date: 19 Jul 09 - 08:18 PM One of my favorite memories is when but a lad going through Soviet Customs with a Mad Magazine in an outside pocket of my shoulderbag. The picture was Alfred E Neumann done up in WWII bomber pilot duds- The issue had a take-off of "Catch 22". The powerful battle image got a lot of second takes from the Russians but I got through just fine. |
Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies From: GUEST,Firebrand Date: 19 Jul 09 - 08:09 PM I remember some songs from the 60's. One was about the periodic table. (Do Ra Mi) Why do I remember these?!!! O - the sign for oxygen Ra - that's radium so rare Ti - is tin for making cans As - is arsenic so beware F - for florine that we drink N- for neon lights that glow S for sulfur what a stink Which brings us back to O |
Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies From: GUEST,RealOldFred Date: 24 Jun 09 - 10:01 AM Once upon a midnight cautious while I pondered weak and nauseous Over some advertising copy I had done for Woolworth's Store, While I nodded nearly napping suddenly there came a yapping As of someone loudling yapping, yapping at my office door. "'Tis some client there," I muttered, "yapping at my office door. Only this and nothing more." Then I felt my terror worsen for my guest was not a person In there stepped a cocker spaniel; naturally I jumped in fear, Tried to climb an oaken panel, ripping there my new grey flannel, But the Spaniel merely stood there speaking out with voice so clear, Speaking out like Jack Lescoulie in voice both loud and clear: Quoth the spaniel, "Drink Blatz Beer." I marvelled that this dog ungainly spoke commercials very plainly, How he spoke the message clearly, selling points he underscored, For I could not help agreeing that no living human being Ever yet could mouth a slogan without sounding slightly bored. Most announcers being human can't help sounding slightly bored. Quoth the spaniel, "Buy a Ford." Thus this dog with voice like Murrow, made my heavy brow unfurrow. Thoughts of fortunes I could make now made me shake down to my knees. But the spaniel set my grieving then by turning tail and leaving. Naturally I begged him tarry crying out, "Stay with me, please!" Chasing him right down the hallway crying out "Stay with me, please!" Quoth the spaniel, "Eat Kraft Cheese." Found in the 1961 School Magazine of the Maltese Royal Naval School, Tal-Handaq! Take a look! |
Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies From: GUEST,saferg Date: 05 Jun 09 - 12:34 PM I am trying to find the lyrics to "There's a rumble on the next street" It's sung to the tune of "On the sunny side of the street" I know most of the words but there's one line that escapes me. It goes: Grab your brass knuckles and bat, wear your new black leather jacket Your in for a treat There's a rumble on the next street. If anyone knows all of the lyrics, please post them. It's been driving me crazy for years. |
Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies From: Leadfingers Date: 04 Jun 09 - 06:44 AM As Haruo said earlier . A Parody of Mad Mag IS Scary !! |
Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies From: Tug the Cox Date: 03 Jun 09 - 10:26 AM Alfred E. Neumann. 'What, me Worry?' |
Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies From: kendall Date: 03 Jun 09 - 09:44 AM MAD was my favorite magazine when I was a teenager. |
Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies From: clueless don Date: 03 Jun 09 - 08:20 AM There was another parody of "Oh What a Beautiful Morning" in MAD's send-up of Oklahoma, titled 007 (Oh-Oh-Seven.) It set the James Bond world to the Oklahoma songs. I only really remember the last line of the chorus, which was something like "I have a jolly good feeling, I will kill someone today!" Or maybe it was "bloody good" instead of "jolly good". Don |
Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies From: GUEST,james Date: 02 Jun 09 - 11:38 PM Here's how I remember one of "Oh What a Beautiful Morning." There's a bright golden cyst on his elbow. There's a bright golden cyst on his elbow. His throat is as weak as an old dried-up creek and I think that his kneecap is starting to leak. And the rest is lost to me. I never memorized it any farther than that. Long Live MAD |
Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies From: GUEST,Nanci Meek Date: 29 May 09 - 01:23 AM http://www.geocities.com/imokproductions/groundround.html Ground Round parody updated When you eat meat but hate the meat that you've eaten then you've surely got Gound Round It's so unnerving when they're constantly serving in an eating spot Ground Round It may be called a chopped steak, salisbury or beef patty No matter what it's called it's always overcooked and fatty What can you do? Sound off at your table there and proudly pound on the table Stand up on your chair and shout... Ground Round! Why did I have to eat Ground Round! Piled on my plate I see Ground Round! Why did I have to eat Ground Round....Ground Round..... When you eat meat and puke the meat that you've eaten then you've surely got ECOLI! It's so unnerving when the burger they're serving is a little pink ECOLI! You'll break into a sweat with diarhea kidneys failing They'll rush you to emergency and then you'll start your wailing What can you do? Sound off on your gurney there and loudly pound on the doctor stand up on a chair and shout Ground Round! Why did I have to eat Ground Round! Ecoli in the meat Ground Round! Why did I have to eat Ground Round! Ground Round! |
Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies From: GUEST,Ding Dong Date: 01 May 09 - 01:13 AM Anyone remember the old school lunchroom song, (to the tune of Off we go, into the wild blue yonder") Off we go, into the lunchroom yonder, pushing boys out of the way. Forward girls! Start moving down the counter. Grab your grub, fill up your tray (clankety, clank, clank) Try the beans, they were prepared last Friday, and the meat's tough as a mule. The soup is cold. The bread's got mold, Yeccch! Anything beats the lunchroom at school. And there was another in the same series, about trying to call in sick to school: (to the tune of "As the Cassons go marching along" or whatever it's called) (sorry, don't remember the beginning... as the fake-out go coughing along Start to heave, fake a chill...anything so you'll look ill as the fake-outs go moping along. For it's high, high hoo Let's all fake the Asian flu Call out your symptoms loud and strong (hack, hack) For we'll feel enthused, when the teacher says "Excused" When the fake-out go coughing along. |
Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies From: GUEST,REETAH Date: 18 Apr 09 - 07:09 PM From an early food parody: (To the tune of "Oh, What a Beatiful Morning") There's a bright golden glaze on the eggroll There's a bright golden glaze on the eggroll The hot egg foo yung really pleases the tongue The tea's in the pot and the waiter's named Chung Oh what a glorious dinner Oh what great moo goo gai pan We're having twenty-eight courses Thanks to the family plan They give it to the Sound of Music: Dough- means cash for all of us 'Ray- for musicals like this Me- a star, so big that by Far- it really couln't miss So- insipid is the plot La-did-da although we know Te-di-ous it is a lot It will bring us back much Dough, dough, dough, dough...... |
Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies From: DebC Date: 07 Apr 09 - 09:31 PM I still can't believe I remember this one: Sung to the tune of "You're a Grand Ol' Flag" She's a mean old bag She's a nasty old bag And forever she's filled us with hate But we treat her sweet and kiss her feet And tell her we think she's great Let her curse at us We will not raise a fuss When she starts in to scream and nag For we are all counting on what we'll get From the will of that mean old bag Debra Cowan |
Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies From: GUEST,guest eric Date: 07 Apr 09 - 04:29 PM the one i remember is sung to were off to see the wizard were off to see the guru. that glorius guru og ours. the things hes got is better than pot and full of fantastic powers. if you want to spin like a u.f.o. the guru of ours will make it so we know we know we know we know we know now off in to the wild blue younder we go and thats all i remember |
Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies From: GUEST,guest Date: 31 Mar 09 - 10:35 AM underdog, i have some more lines (but not all): I remember, I remember the house where I was born The little bathroom down the hall where 19 raced each morn, My 13 brothers hated me, my sisters felt the same Mom never called my down to eat – she didn't know my name I remember, I remember the walls so pale and white Would turn a vivid bloody red when mom and dad would fight --jb |
Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies From: GUEST,David Z Date: 27 Mar 09 - 07:50 PM "Sing Along with Mad" had a group of songs as sung by historical figures or at historical events. The one I remember best is to be sugn by Leonardo da Vinci, to the tune of "There's No Business Like Show Business": There's no genius But no genius Like my genius, you see Go to Venice, Naples, Rome or Pisa You will find nobody half as smart People really dig my Mona Lisa They think that she's a Great work of art There's no talent Like my talent The whole world will agree I've designed machines in which a man can fly I've charted planets up in the sky I can even add, subtract and multiply Oh gee! I'm glad I'm me! |
Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies From: GUEST,StayatHomeDad Date: 30 Jan 09 - 06:06 PM BLUE CROSS A bad experience with a medical coverage program. Sung to the tune of: "Blue Skies" Blue Cross Had me agree To a new Blue Cross Policy! Blue Cross Said I would be Happy that Blue Cross Covered me! Then I took a fall, Leg in a splint; They said that I Should read the fine print! When a very high Fever I ran, They told me I Took out the wrong plan! That's Blue Cross! There seems to be Plenty for Blue Cross! None for me! |
Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies From: Donuel Date: 29 Jan 09 - 07:47 PM My blue heaven parodied in "My blue shelter" about a fallout shelter. Mad sells a dvd of all thier past issues. |
Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies From: GUEST,.gargoyle Date: 29 Jan 09 - 05:19 AM Appropriate for this coming tax season - to the tune of "It Came Upon a Midnight Clear" circa approx 1963.
They come on April 15th dear
Tax men are never moved by tears
Robin - What great history. This explains the wonderful freedom we American folks enjoy ... some of parodies have rivaled the originals in popular success.
Regarding comic books, Seduction of the Innocent was one of the books exposing the scandleous drawings in pulp media. Its 1954 publication helped bring about legislation. Parade of Pleasure was another book. There is place for trading the comics seductionoftheinnocent.org We loved "It's a Gas" an early 1960's "paper vinyl magazine insert" with belching sounds.
Sincerely, |
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