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* The Residents parodied the song on their Third Reich & Roll album.
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Rick Dees, at the time a radio DJ in Memphis, Tennessee, recorded " Disco Duck " ( 1976 ) and " Dis-Gorilla " ( 1977 ); Frank Zappa parodied the lifestyles of disco dancers in " Dancin ' Fool " on his 1979 Sheik Yerbouti album, and " Disco Boy " on his 1976 Zoot Allures album ; and " Weird Al " Yankovic's 1981 eponymous debut album includes a disco song called " Gotta Boogie ", an extended pun on the similarity of the disco subgenre name " boogie " to the American slang word " booger " and its British counterpart " bogey ".
A parody of a popular song, movie, etc., may be given a title that hints at the title of the work being parodied, substituting some of the words with ones that sound or look similar.
Initially created for Sierra On-Line by Mark Crowe and Scott Murphy ( who called themselves the " Two Guys from Andromeda "), the games parodied both science fiction properties such as Star Wars and Star Trek ( the theme song itself is a parody of the Star Wars theme ), as well as pop-culture phenomena from McDonald's to Microsoft.
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Thereafter, Astaire nicknamed Rogers " Feathers " — also a title of one of the chapters in his autobiography — and parodied his experience in a song and dance routine with Judy Garland in Easter Parade ( 1948 ).
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The genre was also parodied by Frank Zappa in his satirical 1984 song " Be In My Video ".
She sang and appeared in the music video ( as Lucille Ball ) for " Weird Al " Yankovic's song " Ricky " ( 1983 ), which was based on the I Love Lucy television show and parodied the song " Mickey " by Toni Basil.
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Hotel " is a cover of the Elvis Presley song " Heartbreak Hotel " with parodied lyrics.
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The song was parodied by The Flight of the Conchords as " Albi the Racist Dragon ".
The song was also subsequently parodied in the South Park episode " A Ladder To Heaven ".
His men parodied Hooker in the popular war song Marching Along.
The opening sequence has been parodied in many pop culture outlets, including the movie Wayne's World, where Garth and Wayne perform the theme song while visiting Milwaukee.
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In 2002, Spanish group Las Ketchup parodied this song in the chorus of their hit " The Ketchup Song ( Asereje )", which reached number one in the UK chart.
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It also forms an important plot element when patrons of Rick's Café Américain, spontaneously led by Czech underground leader Victor Laszlo, sing the actual song to drown out Nazi officers who had started singing " Die Wacht am Rhein ", thus causing Rick's to be shut down.
He said that their theme song: " À partir d ' aujourd ' hui, demain nous appartient ," was a Nazi song, " Tomorrow belongs to me ...," the Hitler Youth song featured in the American musical Cabaret.
Neither the remainder of the text, nor the music, are related to any Nazi song.
It opens with a lavish production of the title song, " Springtime For Hitler ", which celebrates Nazi Germany crushing Europe (" Springtime for Hitler and Germany / Winter for Poland and France ").
Writer-director Mel Brooks is heard briefly in the film, his voice dubbed over a dancer singing, " Don't be stupid, be a smarty / Come and join the Nazi Party ", in the song Springtime For Hitler.
In June 2005, Primal Scream played a controversial set at the Glastonbury Festival, throughout which Gillespie was playfully abusive to the crowd and was alleged to have made Nazi salutes during the song " Swastika Eyes ".
In the days following the state coup of August 23, 1944, when Romania turned against Nazi Germany and participated in the war along with the Allies, the song received heavy radio broadcast.
" Hitler Has Only Got One Ball " is a song that mocks Nazi leaders using blue comedy in reference to their testicles.
Aspidistra was the codename ( inspired by the above song ) of a very powerful British radio transmitter used for propaganda and deception purposes against Nazi Germany during World War II.
This would include learning the Horst Wessel song, the Nazi holidays, about Hitler Youth martyrs, and facts about their locality and Germans throughout the world.
While in the beginning of the film National Socialist members are sometimes harassed and even kicked out of the Kit Kat Klub, a scene midway through the film shows everyday Germans rising in song to rally around National Socialism, and the final shot of the film shows the cabaret's audience is dominated by Nazi party members.
Following the Nazi invasion of Yugoslavia, from 1941 Radio Belgrade became Soldatensender Belgrad to entertain German armed forces ; the song was played frequently and became popular throughout Europe and the Mediterranean among both Axis and Allied troops.
At one point the Nazi government's propaganda minister, Joseph Goebbels, ordered broadcasting of the song to stop.
A song ' Oberammergau ' by UK musician Christopher Rye ( featuring Chinese rock band Taikonauts ) is based on a reference in the book Dark Side of the Moon by Gerard de Groot, to Oberammergau being the destination for the rocket scientists fleeing Nazi Germany at the end of the Second World War, who then helped build the US space programme.
Paxton was cast in a music video for the 1982 Pat Benatar song " Shadows of the Night ," in which he appeared as a Nazi radio officer.
Nevertheless, Nazi officials did not like the sad song about parted lovers, and Joseph Goebbels prohibited its being played on the radio.
A melody from Joseph is very similar to a popular folk melody widely known in Germany which was used as a song in the Imperial German Navy, and adapted, notoriously, as the tune for the co-national anthem of Nazi Germany, the Horst-Wessel-Lied.
" In addition, controversial lyrics taken from American Nazi Party racist literature were used in the song ' Spinach Blasters ' ( AKA ' Spin Age Blasters ').
Before the film's release, the popular band 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 ").
Kent also had bad relations with the early punk incarnation of Adam & the Ants, starting with his NME review of the soundtrack album to Derek Jarman's film Jubilee in which Kent labelled Adam Ant a Nazi sympathiser on account of the featured song " Deutscher Girls ".
The teenage-wasteland theme of the song has nothing to do with the Nazi use of " final solution ": Indeed, Pere Ubu has consistently denounced Nazism and neo-Nazi movements, and praised resistance to Nazism and rescues of Jews in WWII.
The song was first sung by female students from a Russian industrial school in Moscow to bid farewell to Russian soldiers going on the battle front against Nazi Germany in July 1941, who were deeply touched by the song.

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