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21^st CENTURY OLDIES

Volume 1:  Turn Defeat Around

PARODY LYRICS - CATEGORIES FROM A TO B (*)

Sing-along parody lyrics by Fred Landau

21^st 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.