Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Here are the covers of the book, out on Amazon, and Kindle on Amazon site





21st CENTURY OLDIES
Volume 1:  Turn Defeat Around
PARODY LYRICS - CATEGORIES FROM A TO B (*)

Sing-along parody lyrics by Fred Landau
21st century current events
sung to the tune of classic popular music

(*) A to B categories include sections on: 

Appalachian Trail with Gov. Mark Sanford & the value of any publicity
A.I.G. bailout - a symbol for this "Lost Five Years" era 
Barbra - what her return to Brooklyn at the new Barclay's meant
Bette Midler - stage triumph hampered by awards snub - but still triumphant 
Adele - pop music symbol for turning adversity to triumph 
Barclays Arena - where did the protesting go? (with the Rolling Stones concert)
American Idol - Jennifer Lopez, of all people, showed how the right person can make a difference

and of course celebrating Barack Obama - from a B.B. King White House visit to "Bye Bye Birthers"

Special extended medley lyrics sections on: the Beatles viewed through 21st century happenings, the lights of Broadway in the 2010's, and Best-Selling Books from the Bard to King Arthur to Airport Security to Astronauts' Wives to Barbara Eden's memoirs (and of course Jonathan Franzen)

The line-up as of right now:


 From A to B: The songs being parodied for 21st century events 
(1960's and 70's with rare exception)

AMERICAN IDOL FOREWORD
Turn the Beat Around

ADELE SECTION
Make You Feel My Love  
Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter 
Fun Fun Fun

APPALACHIAN TRAIL SECTION
Nothing Could Be Finer 
Tonight

A.I.G. SECTION
I Am Woman 
You and Me Against the World  
Leave Me Alone 
We’ll Sing in the Sunshine

BARBRA SECTION
Home (When I Think of Home) 
The Way We Were 
Windmills of Your Mind

BARACK SECTION
Is You Is or Is You Ain’t My Baby (B.B. King version) 
Bye Bye Birdie ("Bye Bye Birthers")

BEATLES MEDLEY SECTION
When I’m 64 
Help 
No No Song (Ringo) 
When I’m 64 #2 
I’m Happy Just to Dance With You
Yesterday 
With a Little Help from My Friends 
It Don’t Come Easy (Ringo) 
You’re Sixteen (Ringo)
Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter (Paul)
‘Til There Was You                                                            
My Sweet Lord (George)  
Watching the Wheels (John)
Yesterday #2 

BETTE SECTION
Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy  --- 
The Rose  --- 
Wind Beneath My Wings  --- 
You Got to Have Friends

BROADWAY MEDLEY SECTION
I Will Survive (song in Priscilla, Queen of the Desert)
I Love the Nightlife (song in Priscilla, Queen of the Desert)
Just Leave Everything to Me (song from Hello Dolly film)
We Need a Little Christmas (song from Mame)
That’s How Young I Feel (song from Mame)
Elegance (song from Hello Dolly)
I Go To Rio (song in Boy from Oz)
Free to Be You and Me
Rainbow High (song from Evita)
I Say a Little Prayer (song in Promises Promises revival)
Edelweiss (song from Sound of Music)
Help Me Rhonda (song in Good Vibrations)
I Got Love (song from Purlie)

BOOKS SECTION
Brush Up Your Shakespeare (Bard & Star Wars mash-up)
Fly Me to the Moon #1  (astronauts’ wives book)
Where’s the Party?  (on studying online)
Partridge Family theme (Shirley Jones’ memoir)
Harper Valley PTA  (Barbara Eden’s memoir)
Fly Me to the Moon #2  (on airline security)
You’re So Vain  (Sarah Palin memoir)
Freedom  (Jonathan Franzen’s novel)

APPENDIX – BARCLAYS with the Rolling Stones: 
Satisfaction -- 
Start Me Up –
Sympathy for the Devil
Miss You



Notes about Fred Landau’s parodies:

Comedy great Mark Evanier called him “master parody writer Fred Landau” when writing about Fred’s Hugh Jackman parody.  And Financial Times critic Brendan Lemon covered Fred’s parody of A Little Night Music on his site and said “A Little Site Music: Brilliant.” Frank Rizzo (theater critic for Hartford Courant) wrote items about Fred’s Wicked, Bernie Madoff and Hair parodies and said:  “Now that Forbidden Broadway is no more, perhaps YouTube will fill in the satirical blanks.”  Fred’s Sondheim, Sesame Street and Katy Perry parodies have also been written about for The Village Voice  by Michael Musto, who called the I’m Still Here take-off “hilarious.”

Fred’s tribute to the new Sondheim Theatre (“Losing My Sign”) was included in the NYU Patell and Waterman History of New York course materials.  Economics Prof. David Albrecht, who reports on economics in pop culture,  named Fred’s AIG spoofs #2 and #9 in his Top Ten Bailout Parodies rundown.