Mad Magazine parodies

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
To take away our gold.

Tax men are never moved by tears
Nor tales that may be told.

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,
Gargoyle

Subject: RE: Mad Mag parodies " Blue Cross / Blue Skies ??
From: GUEST,rightonjohn
Date: 29 Jan 09 - 01:37 AM

Might anyone have the words to " Blue Cross " , done to the song Blue Skies ? We just saw a special on our public channel and it was great.
It also went to court to the favor of Mad on making parodies .
Thanks for any help .

Subject: RE: Mad Magazine parodies
From: GUEST,kiti
Date: 28 Jan 09 - 12:33 PM

"No friends or relations on weekend vacations
We won't let it known , dear, that we own a telephone....dear."

pop song from the '30's or 40's... Tea for Two

Mad reader in the 50's... Me worry? Nah.....