Posted on 08/05/2014 8:29:51 AM PDT by bigbob
A parody of The Kinks song "Lola".
Rush, this is your show prep ;-)
And if you like him, I found he's got a website: http://www.reverbnation.com/toddchappelle
I’ve just sent this to my peeps at WMAL....
Funny stuff!
When I hear the word Ebola I think of the old TV ads for a cough drop called Ricola, that had some guy in Switzerland shouting out “Ri-co-la!”
“E-bo-la...”
Parodies like this—not for sale—are OK under Fair Use. Weird Al Yankovic did a song called “Yoda”, based on the same song. Since his was a song that would be _sold_, he had to get the rights from both Ray Davies _and_ George Lucas (or so he said to Dr Demento years ago)
From what I understand, you do not need to get an artist’s permission to do a parody on their song, whether you sell it or not. I think “Weird Al” gets permission only because he wants to extend them the courtesy of saying yes or no - doesn’t want to create any hard feelings.
I’ve noticed some people are now calling “the one”, “Obola” now.
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