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Posted: Mon Nov 06, 2006 2:50 am
by gtrmu
*Bump* Harpo Marx was in the movie A Night At The Opera.
Queen took the title of the movie and used it as an album title, and put the song Bohemian Rhapsody on it.
Al turned it into Bohemian Polka.

Syd Barrett

Posted: Mon Nov 06, 2006 8:25 pm
by Orthography Enthusiast
gtrmu @ Nov 6 2006, 12:50 AM wrote: Syd Barrett
Syd Barrett played with David Gilmour in Pink Floyd.
David Gilmour worked with Paul McCartney on the album Run Devil Run in 1999.
Paul McCartney met Weird Al at a party, and refused him permission to record "Chicken Pot Pie" (although not at the party).

Fyvush Finkel.

Posted: Mon Nov 06, 2006 10:01 pm
by TMBJon
Fyvush Finkel was on Boston Public with Michael Rapaport.
Rapaport played the voice of a raccoon in Dr Doolittle 2.
Dr. Doolittle 2 stars Eddie Murphy.
Eddie Murphy sang "My Girl Wants To Party All The Time".
That song was polka'd in "Polka Party".


Matthew Fox

Posted: Mon Nov 06, 2006 11:08 pm
by Orthography Enthusiast
Nice work, Jon! I had a link in mind that went through Toni Basil.

Posted: Tue Nov 07, 2006 12:07 am
by gtrmu
Matthew Fox guest starred in an episode of Mad TV which currently stars Keegan Michael Key.
Keegan is in the White and Nerdy video.

Moe from The Three Stooges.

Posted: Tue Nov 07, 2006 12:46 am
by Jigawatt
- Moe Howard was in "The Outlaws Is Coming" with Adam West.

- Adam West provides the voice of Mayor Adam West on Family Guy, the same show on which Seth Green provides the voice of Chris Griffin.

- Seth Green was in the White & Nerdy video and of course is affiliated with "Robot Chicken", which did the Weasel Stomping Day Video.


Next: Fred Gwynne, aka Herman Munster from "The Munsters".

Adrian

Posted: Tue Nov 07, 2006 12:54 am
by gtrmu
Fred Gwynne was in My Cousin Vinny with Joe Pesci.
Joe Pesci was in Home Alone with John Candy.
John Candy was in JFK with Wayne Knight.
Wanye Knight had a recurring role on Seinfeld as Newman, which starred Michael Richards.
Michael Richards was in UHF with Al.

Iggy Pop

Posted: Tue Nov 07, 2006 2:34 am
by twinkieweinersandwiches24_7
-Iggy Pop did a collaboration with Green Day on his latest album "Skull Ring" in 2003.
-Al has put Green Day's "Baskey Case" in the Alternative Polka and parodied "American Idiot".


Tori Amos

Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2006 2:52 am
by Big Spoon
- Tori Amos had her recording contract at Atlantic Records for part of her career
- Atlantic Reocords denied Al permission to put YP on SOL

Jeffrey Dahmer

Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2006 8:15 am
by gtrmu
The song "Dirty Frank" by Pearl Jam is a song about "Dirty Frank Dahmer" who keeps cupboards full of human corpses to use as ingredients.
Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam performed on the soundtrack to I Am Sam, which also features Ben Folds.
Al sings backup vocals on Ben's song Time.

New rule: You can only use parodies, polkas, or tv shows/movies as links. None of this "mentioning" stufs, or the poor link that Barney Slayer provided.

Bradley Nowell