Favorite Composer of Music Parody
by dan_dassow | created - 26 Sep 2013 | updated - 26 Sep 2013 | PublicWho is your favorite composer of music parody?
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1. Spike Jones
Soundtrack | Mr. Nobody
Spike Jones was born on December 14, 1911 in Long Beach, California, USA. He was an actor and composer, known for Mr. Nobody (2009), I.Q. (1994) and Fireman Save My Child (1954). He was married to Helen Grayco and Patricia Middleton. He died on May 1, 1965 in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California,...
2. Allan Sherman
Soundtrack | Fired Up!
Allan Sherman was born on November 30, 1924 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was a producer and writer, known for Fired Up! (2009), The Cat in the Hat (1971) and Dr. Seuss on the Loose (1973). He was married to Dee Chackes. He died on November 20, 1973 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
3. Peter Schickele
Composer | Silent Running
Peter Schickele is a renowned American composer. Inspired by the music of Spike Jones, as a young teenager, he also studied composition and music history at Juilliard. After graduating from Juilliard he asked himself what in the world he was going to do with a PhD in music history, and proceeded to...
AKA P.D.Q Bach
4. 'Weird Al' Yankovic
Soundtrack | UHF
Few would have guessed that "Weird Al" Yankovic - who as a shy, accordion-playing teenager got his start sending in homemade tapes to the Dr. Demento Radio Show - would go on to become a pop culture icon and the biggest-selling comedy recording artist of all time, with classic song and music video ...
5. Dick Smothers
Actor | Casino
Dick Smothers was born on November 20, 1938 in New York City, New York, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for Casino (1995), The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour (1967) and The Informant! (2009). He was previously married to Denby Franklin, Lorraine Wallace and Linda Miller.
and Tom Smothers (The Smothers Brothers)
6. Tim Minchin
Actor | Upright
Tim Minchin was born on October, 1975, as Timothy David Minchin, and was brought up in Perth, Western Australia. He is an actor, comedian, musician, writer, and director known for Californication (2007), Larrikins (2018), and Tim Minchin and the Heritage Orchestra (2011). He is the composer ...
7. Ray Stevens
Soundtrack | The Cannonball Run
Ray Stevens was born on January 24, 1939 in Clarkdale, Georgia, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for The Cannonball Run (1981), 28 Days (2000) and Cannonball Run II (1984).
8. Mark Jonathan Davis
Soundtrack | Army of the Dead
Mark Jonathan Davis is an actor, comedian, writer, and director. He was born in New York, raised in Arizona, and has lived and worked in Southern California since 1990. He has over 35 years of experience working as an actor, standup comic, singer, writer, producer, and consultant in film, ...
AKA Richard Cheese
9. Stan Freberg
Actor | Lady and the Tramp
Stan Freberg grew up in Los Angeles, California. From an early age he was a big fan of radio and sound. He was blessed with the double abilities of being an amazing mimic and possessing a razor-sharp satirical mind. In the early 1940s he began to do voice work for both the Warner Brothers' cartoons...
10. Victor Borge
Actor | Higher and Higher
Pianist, composer, songwriter, entertainer and actor, educated at Borgerdydskolen and the Conservatory of Copenhagen. He studied with Egon Petri and Frederic Lammond. His concert career began in 1922, and he performed in a musical revue in 1934, and in films by 1937. Arriving in the US in 1940, he ...
11. Tom Lehrer
Soundtrack | A Gathering of Eagles
Tom Lehrer was born on April 9, 1928 in New York City, New York, USA. He is a composer and actor, known for A Gathering of Eagles (1963), Marty Back Together Again (1974) and Better Call Saul (2015).
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