With holiday travel coming up - reprising our 'Fly Me to the Moon" parody

 With travel for the holidays coming up - reprising our Sinatra parody song about the delays and intrusiveness of the Newark Airport security full-body scanners.

 

FLY ME IN THE NUDE - The parody is G-rated, though, despite the suggestive title.

 

https://youtu.be/gMJvlkzntBg

Parody of "They All Laughed (at Christopher Columbus)" - keeping the 3-day weekend despite Columbus controversy

From our YouTube parody timeline:

Finding a lighter musical side of the controversy over Columbus Day and Indigenous Peoples' Day.  This asks the parody question:  Even with the objections to  Columbus, can we all agree that we still want to keep the 3-day weekend?

"They're All Dissing Christopher Columbus" - to tune of the Gershwin song "They All Laughed (at Christopher Columbus)"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hQBFXK4vTw

Counting down to Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur - this blog's Jewish New Year tradition

 For Rosh Hashanah 

"Put Your Pain In the Hands of a Jew" - music by Skip Kennon, lyric by Fred Landau
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlzpDsd_q-k

Sung by Neal Mayer

We wrote that when asked to submit for a show whose script described the concept as "jokes used as Jewish novocaine" - 

Then the show dropped that concept,  but recording this was great fun! 

and Counting down to  Yom Kippur:

"I Will Survive" parody lyric by Fred Landau - "I'll be Inscribed":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxTuhLayowQ
sung by Jan Horvath

Celebrating the birthday of Whitney Houston the way our parody timeline usually celebrates

 Celebrating the birthday this weekend (Aug. 9) of Whitney Houston the way our parody timeline usually celebrates birthdays - 

Here's a parody of the Whitney Houston classic "I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)" -

Where's the musical theater connection? Well, the smash hit song became one of the goofiest, silliest jukebox-musical numbers ever, so we offered "The Hottie Guard," parody to the (maybe still Broadway-aimed?) stage version of "The Bodyguard" 

"I've Got a Chance for Some Hottie (Who's Studly)" - parody of I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)" -

https://youtu.be/Pqkd0k6quMU

My July 4th tradition - The John and Abigail Adams Family Theme Song

 My July 4th theater parody tradition - 

The John and Abigail Adams Family Theme Song, which assumes some knowledge of the cast album of “1776”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bUcJKIYFyw

Lookback to some good times for my parodies ten years ago this week - The Times reprinted Lin-Manuel Miranda's tweet "Freddie the NYTimes commenter is a local treasure."

 Looking back on some good times for my parodies ten years ago this week - New York Times editor Daniel McDermon asked me to write a parody lyric noting the last post of the Times' ArtsBeat column. And in a "meta" moment, on June 1, 2016, the New York Times reprinted Lin-Manuel Miranda's tweet "Freddie the NYTimes commenter is a local treasure."

The full parody lyric and the full New York Times article are at this link.

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/06/01/service-advisory-artsbeat-is-finished/

Our try at a MARY POPPINS/1776 mash-up, as we approach the U.S. 250th birthday

 Reprising our try at a  MARY POPPINS/1776 mash-up, as we approach the U.S. 250th birthday 

 The U.S. will celebrate our "Semiquincentennial" on July 4, 2026. There's still time to learn how to spell and pronounce it properly.

"SEMI-QUIN-CENTENNIAL"-  a YouTube parody for the whole family 

https://youtu.be/Co5e45C7atU