Dare to Be Weird

Weird Al is 48 today. No it isn't my birthday. It is Weird Al Yankovic's natal day.

For those of you who aren't familiar with Weird Al, he is a song parodist in the footsteps of such greats as Spike Jones, Tom Lehrer and Allan Sherman . He got his big break when a tape he sent to Dr. Demento's radio show got played. Since then he has done take offs on everyone from Michael Jackson to Red Hot Chile Peppers. He has probably recorded the only polka version of Queen's Bohemian Rapsody that is out there. (His albums often contain polka medleys of rock songs)

Even though he has joked about it himself, he is NOT related to Polka great Frankie Yankovic. Some years ago Musicland did put out a promo CD with music by both of them on it. He also made 1 movie, the cult classic U.H.F. & in the 90s had a short lived Saturday AM show called (naturally) The Weird Al Show.

There are way to many great videos to post them all. But here are a couple of his classics:

Like A Surgeon

Like a Virgin

I Lost On Jeopardy

(Our Love's In) Jeopardy

Happy Birthday Weird Al. May you blessed with many more great songs to parody & years in which to do so.