Who else could stuff three acts into 5 minutes and 29 seconds? Yankovic weaves lines like “My, my, this here Anakin guy. “Weird Al” deftly pulls off the challenging task of replacing McClean’s long-winded lyrics with the film’s entire plot. To coincide with the release of Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, the king of pop parody gave Don McClean’s “American Pie” a Star Wars overhaul. Yet in the early 1990s, Davis produced several parody songs under his own name, including “The Star Wars Cantina.” This satire of Barry Manilow’s 1978 disco anthem “Copacabana” finds Davis doing a spot-on Manilow impression, crooning about the “music and blasters and old Jedi masters” found in that wretched hive of scum and villainy.ģ. A pair of Cheese cuts - traditional readings of Cole Porter classics - can be heard in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. As Cheese, Davis puts a Sinatra-style twist on rock and rap songs. “ Star Wars Cantina” by Mark Jonathan Davisīeginning in 2000, Davis, an ace voice actor and musician, began snagging notoriety with his alter-ego, Richard Cheese. In 1983, Goodman revisited Star Wars territory with “Return of the Jedi Returns. Goodman also borrows blips from tunes by Peter Frampton, The Emotions, and James Taylor. During “Star Warz,” when Goodman asks C-3PO how he wound up on Tatooine, the droid replies with a line from Jimmy Buffett’s “Margaritaville” (“I blew out my flip-flop”). “Star Warz” and “Star Warts” have some similarities, but the former rises to the top. After skewering Batman, President Nixon, Jaws, King Kong, and a laundry list of others, Goodman released a pair of Star Wars parodies, one in 1977 and another in 1980. For the answers, Goodman would use snippets from the hit singles of the day. These parodies featured Goodman doing faux interviews with characters and figures from popular culture. Long before sampling became a buzz word, Goodman worked audio patchwork magic by popularizing the break-in record.
While creating the ultimate playlist, we found the Force proved remarkably strong with the following five. And nowhere can you hear it more melodically than with Star Wars-inspired novelty tunes. The influence of the Star Wars universe covers our cultural landscape like sand on Tatooine.
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