Tuesday, December 25, 2007

Happy Christmas Birthday


Merry Christmas everyone! It's also one of my best friend's birthday today (and I don't mean Jesus). A few years ago, I made this track for him. I guess you could call it a mash-up, though I've never really had the technical know-how to do complicated stuff like matching beats and stripping vocals. However, this one was pretty simple. I had the not particularly clever idea of mixing The Beatles' Birthday and the Bob Rivers parody of it, Jesus' Birthday. Bob Rivers is like a more topical, cruder Weird Al and many mislabeled parodies are often one of Bob Rivers Twisted Tunes. Generally, his parodies are spot on imitations of the originals so slapping them together sounds remarkably seamless for the most part. So now you have a theme song for all your Christmas Birthday friends!

Fongo Bongo Productions - Happy Christmas Birthday [originally by The Beatles; Bob Rivers]

Lyrics:
John: "So this is Christmas..."
Jimi: "Happy Birthday!"
John: "...Christmas."
Jimi: "...Birthday!"
John: "...Christmas."
[Crazy Milhouse laughter]

They say it's your birthday
Well it's my birthday too--yeah
They say it's your birthday
So have a happy Yuletide
I'm glad it's your birthday
Happy birthday to you.

Yes, we're going to a Christmas party
Yes, we're going to a Christmas party
Yes, we're going to a Christmas party

I would like some presents (Holiday...)
See my uncles and aunts (Birthday...)
I would like you to dance (Birthday...)
DAAAAAAANNCCCE!

[Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer instrumental]

I would like some presents (Holiday...)
See my uncles and aunts (Holiday...)
Get some socks and some pants (Holiday...)
PAAAANNNTTTSSS!

They say it's your birthday
It's Hanukkah too, yeah
You say it's your birthday
We're gonna have a good time
I'm glad it's your birthday
Happy Christmas to you.


Happy X-Mas B-Day, dude!

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