![]() He provided the voice of the Squid Hat on The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy. In 1989, Weird Al starred in the film UHF, and he had a short-lived CBS "kids' show" in the 1990s, The Weird Al Show. Despite a slow start, including a disastrous opening for Missing Persons, Weird Al released his first album on Scotti Bros. The Knack's lead singer heard "My Bologna", contacted Al, and got "My Bologna" released as a single. D Superstar" (never aired), and "My Bologna", a parody of "My Sharona" by The Knack. When he went to Cal Poly San Luis Obispo for an architecture degree, he worked for the school's radio station as a disc jockey, where he got the nickname "Weird Al". Raised in Lynwood, Al got an accordion and lessons for his seventh birthday according to him, his parents made the decision because "The world needed one more accordion-playing Yankovic" (the first being Frankie, who isn't related). © We've Got It All On UHF - All rights reserved.Alfred Matthew Yankovic (born October 23, 1959, in Downey, California), is a musical humorist with a career spanning thirty years. ![]() N Do you have any advice for the kids out there searching for direction? WA: Personally I subscribe more to the philosophy of Harpo Marx who said, "Honk."īR: Well, of course, the dictatorship of the proletariat has never been far from my mind when we've been putting together our videos, but so far we've avoided any overt or heavy-handed Marxist references. He thought the working class would eventually seize the state and establish a dictatorship of proletariat so class differences would disappear. N Karl Marx was concerned with the economic dynamics of capitalist societies. N Brad, what about the rumors that you're about to change your image and start dressing heavy metal, in leather and chains?īR: Well you know, I've got an allergy to leather, so it's always been a problem for me to go in that direction, but I have yearned for that for some time. WA: I always try to make my socks match my underwear. N Do you have any tips on dressing for success? But actually, the most successful re-workings of lyrics I find are the ones that preserve the original rhyme scheme, because it's a more immediate play, and I think that's why Al's videos are so funny - I probably sound like I'm kissing your butt or something - because he does every video to a T, every fucking detail is taken care of. WA: (laughing) With the same words and everything?īR: Oh yeah. In Europe there are all kinds of hilariously cheesy disco versions of "Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm," and they don't really need permission to put these things together, as long as we get the royalties. A lot of people don't realize that Al, for example, does not have to ask us if he wants to cover our song - there are no laws saying that someone can't cover you, the laws simply are that the artist be involved in the payment of royalties - so Al is taking a tack which I think, to his credit, which is to actually work with the artists and talk to them about what he is doing. N Brad, what was your reaction when you heard about it?īR: It's definitely a kind of milestone. My record company was pressuring me for a boxed set and they wanted a new single, so I came up with the idea of using the big news stories of the year as the vignettes in the song, and had my manager approach their manager. WA: "Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm" stands out as probably the most unique song that became a hit in 1994. N Why did you decide to cover "Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm?" We've Got It All On UHF Weird Al & Brad Roberts: The Untold Storyĭuring a break in the chaotic action at MuchMusic's Canadian Music Awards in October, Network caught up with Brad Roberts, of the Crash Test Dummies and Weird Al Yankovic, who were performing Yankovic's new single, "Headline News," a parody of the Dummies' hit "Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm."
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