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Saturday, August 2, 2014

Spike Jones - Der Fuehrer's Face


This is a classic Spike Jones recording – “Spike Jones and His City Slickers, noted for their parodies of popular songs of the time, released a version of Oliver Wallace's theme song, "Der Fuehrer's Face" (also known informally as "The Nazi Song") in September of 1942 on Bluebird Records. The song parodied the Nazi anthem, the "Horst Wessel Song".”
            The song includes various forms of sound effects, character voices, and variations of an original tune to recreate it into a hilarious piece.  In a way Weird Al Yankovic could be considered the “Spike Jones” of this day an age.  Yankovic specializes in manipulating popular songs and reconstructing them into hilarious parodies.  His new album, “Mandatory Fun” was just release on July 15th, 2014 and is gaining great reviews.  The artist also released the enriterty of the album on youtube for the enjoyment of fans and so to be fans alike.  With parodies on “Fancy” by Iggy Azalea, "Royals" by Lorde, "Blurred Lines" by Robin Thicke featuring T.I. and Pharrell Williams, Radioactive" by Imagine Dragons, and many more.
            I hope the video is funny to watch and make sure to check out Weird Al’s new stuff.


"." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, n.d. Web. 2 Aug. 2014.    <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Der_Fuehrer's_Face#Song>. 



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