American Pie Lyrics Predictions

[FlameFlash]

I'd actually somehow managed to miss the Weird Al version.

It's pretty damn awesome.

Amen.

[Nikolai]

1) I look forward to hear the results. JR has a good point though.
2) I frikkin love Bob Dylan.
3) Also in the same vein, I frikkin love Randy Newman, he's underrated and should be better knownn

[Nikolai]

I'd actually somehow managed to miss the Weird Al version.

It's pretty damn awesome.

I remember this song even better than the original, I love SW and I think I might have heard this song first. Kinda like the song Stayin' Alive, which I first heard as a modified song in a commercial for Stena Line, a ferry company.

[Alexander's Horse]

1) I look forward to hear the results. JR has a good point though.
2) I frikkin love Bob Dylan.
3) Also in the same vein, I frikkin love Randy Newman, he's underrated and should be better knownn

I was with you Nikolai right up to point 3) Who TF is Randy Newman?

[-Jrabbit]

Randy Newman is a composer/pianist/songwriter. He penned a ton of movie soundtrack work, including a bunch for Disney/Pixar, and also wrote a lot of pop tunes, usually performed by others. I don't know that I'd call him underrated, just not as well known as you'd think (for a guy with 20 Oscar nominations).

His most famous self-performed pop song (by most measures) is "Short People" (1977). Or maybe "Sail Away"...

Also, if you saw the last show of The Colbert Report, Newman was the guy playing piano for the celebrity-fest rendition of "We'll Meet Again" that closed the show.

[Nikolai]

His LPs from the 70s are fantastic, and he's got loads of Oscar nominations. I think he's got one or two too? Short People and Sail Away are two of his big hits, but I'm also partial to less known pieces like In Germany Before the War:

[Nikolai]

Also, please enjoy Louisiana: