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Song Parodies -> "NPR"
Original Song Title:
"Rhythm Steps"
Original Performer:
Herbie Kay & His Orchestra
Parody Song Title:
"NPR"
Parody Written by:
National Public Radio
The Lyrics
Sing, (Start in to sing, you’ll have to swing,)
Then, you’ll swing, (Start in to sing, you’ll have to swing,)
That station is bound to get you,
Oh, (Turn on the heat, then beat your feet,)
Don’t go slow, (Turn on the heat, then beat your feet,)
That station is bound to get you,
Station, station, station, station, station...mmm...
(female vocal)
NPR,
Start in to hear, then soon, you’ll be hearing,
NPR,
Turn on the heat, your feet will keep beating,
One, two, three,
It’s a talk sensation, (dee-de-oh!)
You’ll agree,
It’s the news that’s putting the world on its feet,
NPR,
Once you tune in, you have to give in to
NPR,
Pledge drives for shows, ‘cause everyone knows that
If you’re not a dunce,
Oh, you’ll catch on at once,
Well, give the station money,
Let’s hear NPR!
(vocal trio)
NPR,
Start in to hear, then soon, you’ll be hearing,
NPR,
Turn on the heat, your feet will keep beating,
One, two, three,
It’s a talk sensation, (doo-doo-do-doo!)
You’ll agree,
It’s the news that’s putting the world on its feet,
NPR,
Once you tune in, you have to give in to
NPR,
Pledge drives for shows, ‘cause everyone knows that
If you’re not a dunce,
You’ll catch on at once,
Give the station money,
Let’s hear NPR, whoa!
NPR,
(instrumental call-back)
NPR,
(instrumental call-back)
One, two, three,
It’s a talk sensation, (doo-doo-do-doo!)
You’ll agree,
It’s the news that’s putting the world on its feet,
NPR,
(instrumental call-back)
NPR,
(instrumental call-back)
If you’re not a dunce,
You’ll catch on at once,
Give the station money,
Let’s hear NPR, whoa!
Simple as the day is long!
Then, you’ll swing, (Start in to sing, you’ll have to swing,)
That station is bound to get you,
Oh, (Turn on the heat, then beat your feet,)
Don’t go slow, (Turn on the heat, then beat your feet,)
That station is bound to get you,
Station, station, station, station, station...mmm...
(female vocal)
NPR,
Start in to hear, then soon, you’ll be hearing,
NPR,
Turn on the heat, your feet will keep beating,
One, two, three,
It’s a talk sensation, (dee-de-oh!)
You’ll agree,
It’s the news that’s putting the world on its feet,
NPR,
Once you tune in, you have to give in to
NPR,
Pledge drives for shows, ‘cause everyone knows that
If you’re not a dunce,
Oh, you’ll catch on at once,
Well, give the station money,
Let’s hear NPR!
(vocal trio)
NPR,
Start in to hear, then soon, you’ll be hearing,
NPR,
Turn on the heat, your feet will keep beating,
One, two, three,
It’s a talk sensation, (doo-doo-do-doo!)
You’ll agree,
It’s the news that’s putting the world on its feet,
NPR,
Once you tune in, you have to give in to
NPR,
Pledge drives for shows, ‘cause everyone knows that
If you’re not a dunce,
You’ll catch on at once,
Give the station money,
Let’s hear NPR, whoa!
NPR,
(instrumental call-back)
NPR,
(instrumental call-back)
One, two, three,
It’s a talk sensation, (doo-doo-do-doo!)
You’ll agree,
It’s the news that’s putting the world on its feet,
NPR,
(instrumental call-back)
NPR,
(instrumental call-back)
If you’re not a dunce,
You’ll catch on at once,
Give the station money,
Let’s hear NPR, whoa!
Simple as the day is long!
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If you’re going to pound this hot garbage out for NPR, ya gotta give us some interesting info about the station that infantilizes its listeners. Tell us about how they stopped airing the reading of the US Constitution, or how Peter Segal used to buckle his pants up around his waist and talk through his fly. Not to mention the repeated use of the same song from your Arby’s rants. I will say your line “Simple as the day is long!” is comedy gold, but only because it makes as little sense as this obsession.
I see you're continuing the trend of providing "comments" for your perpetual fecalfest. Ever consider a career in ventriloquism? Oh wait, you'd still have to have someone provide funny lines, and I can't always be on here. Never mind. If you're going to recycle my old lines, start with a funnier name than Peter Segal. I used the made-up character of Slappy Abramowicz as the person who buckled his pants up high and proceeded to sing through the fly. As regards, "Simple as the day is long", most would assume you're talking about yourself, but rest assured, you're every bit as witty as a month-long pledge drive.
Do you keep a Notepad document featuring all your comments on this site? Because there’s no way you’d be able to remember comments made from yesterday, let alone last year without a text file to remind you. But once again, the only amusing thing in your entire post is that I couldn’t find a funnier name than Peter Segal. There are many swing vocalists that have stranger names; Nappy Lamare, Dick Dickson and Fuzzy Combs come to mind. Still, since you’re obviously conservative, did you check out my “Red Eye Radio” parodies back from May of this year? You would be hollering if you took the time to learn about Gary McNamara’s last day of high school, but you’re too busy reading about Jim Jordan and your past AmIRight comments to care about that. As you refuse to understand, this was a parody that was logical and humorous, and once again you turned it into another opportunity to bash my supposed “liberal viewpoints”. Oh, and don’t expect me to post another Arby’s parody again, because they finally stopped airing their visual poopfests a few weeks back. But what I expect you to do is to be familiar with all my interests and traits. I am just as conservative as you are, so put your differences aside for a second and look up “Red Eye Radio” and Gary McNamara’s last day of high school. Then you’ll see that I can connect with you as well, but don’t use my intellectual abilities against me to rush to judgement.
Admittedly I’ve called you a variety of things but liberal was never one of them. That said, the diatribe you wrote on 8/29 has more red flags than almost any political profile out there. As for your radio hero, I lived in Dallas for 25 years. Gary Quacknamara was the worst hire WBAP ever had, hence the boot to the night shift. Lastly, I think you meant to say “don’t use my lack of intellectual abilities against me to rush to judgement. Anybody with your lack of creativity should be tested.
Ah, a “Phil Ossifet” of taste; listening to WBAP. I didn’t think you had the brain capacity to even know who Gary McNamara is, let alone listen to him for twenty-five years. Despite his “graveyard time slot”, he proved to us all on 12/21/22 that he sure can tell a high school story. So what if he was the worst hire the station ever had; his telling of his last day of high school was the greatest moment in radio history. Peter Segal has nothing on my “radio hero”. Want to discuss my obsessions even more? We can discuss Carole Lombard’s sultry pictures taken for Mack Sennett in 1927-29, or we can go your direction and decide how many votes it will take for Jim Jordan to become House Speaker. But in the end, everything always comes back to George & Germaine Briant.
Blah, blah, blah, nobody cares which obsession you have today. Gary Hacknamara is the worst radio broadcaster WBAP ever had, end of story. As for your reference to Carole Lombard’s seductiveness pictures, I have to know; are you still able to be aroused by them, or has your thing wrinkled up inside your hundred-year-old seminal vesicles? That being said, your Arby’s parody texts indicate your obsession with ejaculation. In the end, you’re just going to be listening to the same old song on repeat in your lonely rest home room. I hope the rest home doctors there pull the plug on you ASAP. And I totally didn’t misspell my name in my previous comment.
Allow me to disabuse you of a few false notions. I did listen to WBAP, but mostly for Mark Davis. The first time I heard Gary was likely the last. Horrible radio voice. As regards brain capacity, which of us copies the other’s name and steals snippets to use in a false commentary? That’d be the brainless bit*h who can’t come up with original material on his own.
So, everything comes back to George&Germaine Bryant, is that it? And the vehicle for this "everything" are endless #'s of Herbie Kay song parodies. So, how's about taking a meeting with an agent and tell him how youre going to tribute these two total strangers with 50 or so "parodies" of a song nobody outside of this website has ever heard of? How long would your pitch last before you were laughed out of his office? A minute, perhaps? ... Or perhaps you could commandeer the stage at a comedy club, and tell them youre going to spend 5 hours paying homage to a single Arby's commercial, using parodies of songs that nobody's ever heard of. How long would you last before the bouncers removed you from the stage ... for your own safety. Thirty seconds? A minute?
There are other topics to parody than NPR, Arby’s and the Briants. And for the record, “Rhythm Steps” has been parodied at least eight-five times on this site, including Duc4AmIRight’s “entry” on Tuesday. I think you are just looking for an excuse to dismiss these parodies. They are supposed to be entries that we can learn from, not bash them like teenagers at a Taylor Swift movie concert. The entire point of these parodies are to address pop cultural and political issues of the day in a refined comical manner. And how can the source material be unknown, when you have clearly memorized it for the past year? You will stop at nothing to find an excuse to call bluff on my entries, has masturbation become too much of an effort for you that this is how you spend your spare time? Answer that question. I’ll be waiting…
Wow. You’re disgusting. I can’t believe anyone would ever want to read another one of your “submissions” if this is how you’re going to act. But hey, no one will stop you if you want to use the same song 6,000 more times.
Once again folks---you all devote more time, energy and pixels complaining about the existence of these entries than G&GBF ever does writing this stuff. :D :D :D
Perhaps its because this idiotic crap is making Amiright look ridiculous and is destroying the readership. I have about 180 entries from the last decade with 1000 views. Past 2 years, Im lucky to get 150 views. And since you dont post, Lib, you might not notice that there are now times when we cant access our own links. That never happened prior to the past 2 years. So thats why I'm concerned
Y’know, when I first read this “Jism Strokes” parody five minutes ago, my first thought was NOT “How does the liberal mind-controlling bias of NPR affect me and my way of living?” No, it was, ironically enough, “How can we gain new perspectives on the Best-News-Station-EVARRR franchise via the instrumentality of the 200th parody of a song no one else has ever heard of?” Easier than trying to comprehend what “NPR” stands for, anyway. I get stuck after, “N…”
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