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Adagio - January 13, 2004 - Report this comment

DKTOS,but good read. Why no votes from others?

Johnny D - January 13, 2004 - Report this comment

Beats me, Adagio. I did some research in the Amiright archives for other parodies of The Beatles's song "Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite", and the number of votes per parody range from 6 to 52, so I can't explain why nobody has bothered to vote on mine ..... The original song is from the album "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band", so I would think somebody somewhere out there would have heard it .... or could pop in a tape or CD (or vinyl) and play it to remind themselves of it .... it's a mystery to me.

Paul Robinson - January 13, 2004 - Report this comment

Johnny D & CHUCKYG!!!! UMMM...This is really kind of weird. I just voted "5-5-5" on this and I hadn't looked to see what the prior vote total was but I'm reasonably certain it wasn't "0", because I sort of recall a computed average showing. The vote total I see now indicates "1" Total votes. It looks like Adagio had already voted on this from the above comments. Maybe something with the new programming is not quite as it should be?

Paul Robinson - January 13, 2004 - Report this comment

Adagio & Johnny D - Was I WRONG? Was the count at "0" prior to my vote? I don't think I've ever been on the site this late in the day when something Johnny posted didn't have at least SOME votes. I'd like to know before ChuckyG goes thru a lot of trouble looking into this. I was sure I saw SOME numbers, but maybe not?????????

Jack Wilson - January 13, 2004 - Report this comment

Great job, Johnny!!!!!!

Johnny D - January 13, 2004 - Report this comment

Thanks, Paul - hard to say about the voting software, that's a question for the Chuckman.

Thanks, Jack!

Adagio - January 13, 2004 - Report this comment

Paul...I didn't vote because I don't know the song, but as I said, it was a good read. Johnny, now I don't feel too bad about my Gemini Dream, although it should be better known. You always do good work anyway, Johnny.

Johnny D - January 13, 2004 - Report this comment

Thanks, Adagio - so do you.

2nz - January 13, 2004 - Report this comment

It's on the 'Sgt. Pepper' album? I'll try and find it on-line. I didn't vote either for the same reason, but I should have left a comment earlier. Pacing makes it or breaks it for me, and you usually do some really creative things with the existing lines. I got stiffed on a parody of Billy Joel's 'Ballad of Billy the Kid' over the weekend. I guess that's what I get for using video games as my focus. Oh well, I will be back in the near future after finding the song, and until then let me say again how good 'Choking the Sheriff' was.

Johnny D - January 13, 2004 - Report this comment

Thanks 2nz - I always appreciate your comments. Yes, "Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite" is indeed on Sgt. Pepper's. It has a kind of "Addams Family" theme-song-kind-of-melody.... a little creepy and weird-sounding.....sort of like a Bizarro-Circus !! The instrumentals within the song are spiralling psychedelic riffs on circus music .... it's a fun tune!

ChuckyG - January 13, 2004 - Report this comment

I just tried a vote, and it went through ok. Are people remembering to vote and press the vote button? The submit comments button won't count your vote. I did change the voting code today, but it didn't touch the part that records the actual votes, so I'm at a loss to explain why a vote may not have gotten counted.

Johnny D - January 13, 2004 - Report this comment

ChuckyG - thanks for looking into this - I'm so grateful for the simple fact that you keep Amiright going that I'm delighted with whatever you can manage to do - thanks again.

Johnny D - January 13, 2004 - Report this comment

*** BIG HUGE FREE AUDIO SAMPLE OF ORIGINAL SONG ***
*** BIG HUGE FREE AUDIO SAMPLE OF ORIGINAL SONG ***
*** BIG HUGE FREE AUDIO SAMPLE OF ORIGINAL SONG ***

Yes!!! The following website is an MP3 of the entire first-two-verses of "Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite" - free - that's 2/3 of the entire original song, free for your listening:

http://www1.mp3radio.rin.ru/cgi-bin/preview.pl?id=100728

Johnny D - January 13, 2004 - Report this comment

WOOOPS ---- sorry folks ---- the link you actually want to go to for that *** BIG HUGE FREE AUDIO SAMPLE OF ORIGINAL SONG *** is:

http://3mp3.ru/eng/song/100728/

.....and once you get to that page, click on the link for "preview sample (bitrate 8 kbps, mono, 77 sec, 77 KB)"

Again - that "preview" is an MP3 of the entire first-two-verses of "Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite" - free - that's 2/3 of the entire original song, free for your listening:

Paul Robinson - January 13, 2004 - Report this comment

Johnny D - OH...by the way., I told you the scores but I didn't get around to telling you how really well done this one reallly was. I had some particular things I liked but that was about 2 or 3 hours ago, who can remember (I got up 'cause dinner was ready here and didn't finish the note)? Seriously, I thought this was an absolutely Hilt-larious Parisody. Maybe by now more folks have voted on it. I'd have to leave the screen to find out so I'm going to finish this note instead.

Johnny D - January 13, 2004 - Report this comment

Thanks again, Paul, I appreciate your commentary.

2nz - January 14, 2004 - Report this comment

Well, I don't like the song, but listening to a bad quality audio track most of your lyrics sound correct, meaning they don't sound like what the Beatles are singing, they ARE what the Beatles are singing. That's especially true of 'Hilton The Whore's pants'll be off '. Also like the inclusion of Special-K whenever possible. Me mum's a dietitian. So...can't let one day go by where I get more votes than you, can ya Johnny? And speaking of which, I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm convinced that it is much, much harder to get votes now than it was two months or ten months ago. Or am I wrong in that conclusion?

Mari D - January 14, 2004 - Report this comment

Johnny -- I remember and like the original song, like your parody (especially the "ten hummersets" line), and like the fact that you're making fun of Ms. Hilton! And hey, my parodies of less popular songs get less attention, too.

Johnny D - January 14, 2004 - Report this comment

2nz: Thanks very much.... I have just come back from reading and triple-fiving your parody of Elvis's "Fools Rush In" - good work on that one! "Special-K" is ketamine, a dissociative anesthetic that is hallucinogenic and sometimes used as a rave drug. I think voting goes in cycles or phases ... periods of drought followed by periods of flood and everything in-between...what do you think?

Mari D: Thanks! I know, less popular songs tend to get less votes and comments, but sometimes a parody idea is too good to pass up, even if it means the resulting work is destined for relative obscurity.... a fair number of my personal favorites among my own parodies have not charted in the top ten....

2nz - January 14, 2004 - Report this comment

Thanks for the look'n'rate Johnny. Hmmm... then I probably haven't been here long enough to experience a full cycle. If that's true, then I think right now we're either in a waning or a waxing drought.

Phil Alexander - January 14, 2004 - Report this comment

Whoa... twice as many comments as votes? Too many good lines in this one (btw, I thought Paris Hilton was a hotel? So it's a video of a person rather than a location these spammers are trying to flog me?). Anyway, super use of the original song and very funny, JD.

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