I'm Rick Duncan, musician, songwriter, arranger and parody writer, probably in that order. I play guitar, piano, bass, banjo, mandolin and dulcimer, in any order. My wife Mari, also writes parodies and originals and plays flute and piano.

I started writing humorous songs when Dr. Demento was big in L.A. back in the late 70's. I made a couple records that got a little airplay on his show (The Voyeur, The Flasher) and even auditioned as a bass player for Weird Al when he was starting out.

I belonged to some strange bands, the most prominent being Pecurka, playing ethnic folk dance music, where I learned that not all music has to be in 4/4 or 3/4 . I produced their second album "Mushrooms".

I later produced and played on an album by Bill Bandon, an 82 year old banjoist that could play classical, country and dixieland jazz with equal ease. This taught me that you can play any kind of music on anything.

I went on to produce albums for other people, covering an array of styles such as Christian, children's music, pop, rock, country and folk. Through it all I found a sense of humor helped me deal with the often unreliable and frustrating ways of most creative people.

I have written over 300 original songs, mostly in a humorous or sarcastic vein, classical pieces, 200 or so poems, comedy bits and stories.

Writing parodies is a sideline. Starting as a kid with "There was a Beatle played the drums and Ringo was his name-o", I went on years later to parody all the beatles songs. I'm also a big fan of the Who, Yes, CSN, and Gentle Giant. And of course Yankovic, Lehrer, Sherman, MAD magazine, and P.D.Q Bach.

I wrote an entire parody of the movie, "The Wizard of Oz" where Snorothy goes on a quest with 3 idiots looking for "Sex, Drugs, and Rock and Roll". I also parodied the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, "The H.M.S. Pinafore", where I relocated the crew from a ship to a bar. (Find the pun?)

My wife Mari and I now live in San Jose, where we pursue various musical projects together and independently. We love to mock music as well as play it, and I was pickeled tink to find and become part of this website.

Song Parodies -> Lyrics

P stands for Pacing, F stands for How Funny, and O is for Overall Score.

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