April 10- Dance to the Music
Don’t forget to check out our “Prom Night” webisodes, in support of the scary soirée depicted in the new film “Prom Night” that will hit theaters tomorrow! There’s a lot of buzz about the film- people are wondering how it will compare with the old 1980 original with Jamie Lee Curtis. I know there are some definite storyline differences- so, go see it and let me know what you think.
Some of the folks who frequent the Yahoo Svengoolieweb group have been letting us know what they think, regarding the songs we do on the show. Almost everybody thinks the weekly song is the top highlight of the program, but the debate centers around what era we should do songs from. While many appreciated our parody of Smashmouth’s “Walking on the Sun” (our version was a quick history of the Sven character, winding up with me here at WCIU and now just “Svengoolie” instead of “Son of Svengoolie”-thusly the parody was named “Stop Calling Him the Son”) as a more current song that worked well, some feel that I should stick to older tunes that more people would recognize- that my doing songs by Pink, or Gwen Stefani or Kanye West throws them because, quite honestly, that’s not what they’re listening to, so they don’t know the songs, and ,therefore, don’t see the parallel wordplay as well. Others seem to like the mix of new and older stuff, which often encourages them to seek out the original versions of what we parody.
I have to say that, I think we’ve always veered back and forth from current, or more modern tunes, to oldies. Once, looking back at some of my old scripts from the “Son of” days, I noticed that we did a fair mix of old and new tunes- some of the new ones, actually, kind of threw me, since I couldn’t remember what the original was from my lyrics- and some of those then-current tunes didn’t exactly become standards that got played again on classic rock or oldies radio stations.
Our over-all musical coverage actually covers a lot of ground, in that we’ve done traditional folk songs (anybody know for sure how old the Italian “Tarantella” song we did in “Tarantula” is?), songs from the 20s and 30s,doo-wop tunes from the 50s, Beatles era and disco songs, right through the songbooks of the 80s, 90s, and today (sounds like the motto of some radio stations I’ve worked at!) I think it’s a pretty good representative sampling of popular music.
What’s your opinion on the Sven songs? Remember, now you can post them right here, using the “comments” link at the top of each blog!
Some of the folks who frequent the Yahoo Svengoolieweb group have been letting us know what they think, regarding the songs we do on the show. Almost everybody thinks the weekly song is the top highlight of the program, but the debate centers around what era we should do songs from. While many appreciated our parody of Smashmouth’s “Walking on the Sun” (our version was a quick history of the Sven character, winding up with me here at WCIU and now just “Svengoolie” instead of “Son of Svengoolie”-thusly the parody was named “Stop Calling Him the Son”) as a more current song that worked well, some feel that I should stick to older tunes that more people would recognize- that my doing songs by Pink, or Gwen Stefani or Kanye West throws them because, quite honestly, that’s not what they’re listening to, so they don’t know the songs, and ,therefore, don’t see the parallel wordplay as well. Others seem to like the mix of new and older stuff, which often encourages them to seek out the original versions of what we parody.
I have to say that, I think we’ve always veered back and forth from current, or more modern tunes, to oldies. Once, looking back at some of my old scripts from the “Son of” days, I noticed that we did a fair mix of old and new tunes- some of the new ones, actually, kind of threw me, since I couldn’t remember what the original was from my lyrics- and some of those then-current tunes didn’t exactly become standards that got played again on classic rock or oldies radio stations.
Our over-all musical coverage actually covers a lot of ground, in that we’ve done traditional folk songs (anybody know for sure how old the Italian “Tarantella” song we did in “Tarantula” is?), songs from the 20s and 30s,doo-wop tunes from the 50s, Beatles era and disco songs, right through the songbooks of the 80s, 90s, and today (sounds like the motto of some radio stations I’ve worked at!) I think it’s a pretty good representative sampling of popular music.
What’s your opinion on the Sven songs? Remember, now you can post them right here, using the “comments” link at the top of each blog!
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Sven - you know the songs are a favorite of mine, and I think you hit it here when you mentioned the parallel wordplay. I really don't want any more homework, so researching the lyrics to some song that I don't even know the name of is just too much for me. I always remember fondly your yearly St. Patrick's day offering when I hear Feniculi Fenicula on commercials for Italian restaurants. That was brilliant! And "Can't Find Your Man" and "Surfer Ghoul" were more recent strokes of Svengoolie genius. I believe any recognizable and catchy tune will always be a hit. Keep up the good work.
BC
PS - Someone spelled "boutonniere" incorrectly on your webisode. Don't tell me that was you! :)