"Get Off My Spaghetti" - the Rolling Stones do "On Top of Spaghetti"
Well,
this "mush-up" came about in the wee hours Friday night over at
Theme Music, the other weekly theme challenge community that I dabble in occasionally. The current theme there is "ON and OFF" ... songs with "On" or "Off" in the title. Someone else there posted an idea to do a medley of on old trad song with "On" and a rock song with "Off".
In my mixed-up wacko-girl head that promptly got transmogrified to the
kid-song parody version of the trad song
mashed-up with the rock song ... and for a joke I proposed the title "Get Off My Spaghetti". Which of course they then wanted me to do.
And you know once a mashup idea is in my head, that head is going to go to work on it, no matter how ridiculously late it is or how silly the idea. I am powerless to stop it. And wouldn't you know it ... the kid song fits the rock song perfectly! Same exact meter and number of verse lines. The hardest part then was learning to play it. But once the idea took me over, it just got done ... and I posted
the video on Theme Music early yesterday morning.
I sort of hoped it might fit the next Seasons theme ... and by golly, except for the video having been made the day before ... wouldn't you know, there's a kid song in there, so it kinda does!
So how fortunate that I was making my debut at a new-to-me open mic on Saturday night, and could make a new video of the same song for Season 210!
It went over pretty well ... I even had them singing along with me on the final chorus.
Because my second song at the open mic is as adult-oriented as anything I've ever written (it's the one I wrote for Janet's recent Season!
) I asked my videographer to take two separate videos. Alas, she got both songs in one video ... and it will take a while to get
an edit of just the one song ... it's processing. I'll get you the separate one when it's done, in case you think the full vid is inappropriate for your playlist. (Although, like "Bullwinkle" and many other things, I kinda think the adult context would go over kids' heads, and they might actually find it a cute, fun song. Your call, Randy.
)
I'll most likely come back and also do something totally new conceived purely for this theme ... maybe with Neil - his 2-year-old is the only kid I see regularly ... but this
is a kid song and fits, so I'm happy I could make a new video of it for you.
