I love Weird Al.

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Apparently, there’s a musician from New Zealand called Lorde. Her real name is Ella Marija Lani Yelich-O’Connor or something like that. You might want to check my spelling. Anyway, she’s apparently a thing. Or was. Or something.

The reason I know she was something will become apparent within the next 24 hours or so. But honestly, I don’t remember hearing any of her stuff on the radio. If I did, I wasn’t paying attention.

Now, that’s not to say she’s not talented. After all, her first record sold more copies than the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards recording of “Amazing Grace,” so that’s something.

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The second version of “To Each His Own” to hit the top of the charts in 1946 was the version by Freddie Martin. He topped the charts for two weeks in August and September of that year.

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Normally, Thursday and Friday nights are where we’ll offer Weird Al and related videos. But this video is kinda interesting.

It’s a mash-up of Weird Al’s Amish Paradise and Coolio’s Gangsta Paradise, alternating between the two every other beat.

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I love Weird Al.

I find that I often like the Weird Al versions of songs better than the original artist versions. And I’ve found some artists with whom I wasn’t previously familiar though listening to Weird Al songs.

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There’s a group that I’m not all that familiar with called Southern Culture On The Skids. I was surprised to learn that I was actually familiar with some of their stuff. They’ve had several different songs that appeared in several different movies in the last quarter century. While I am one that will often sit through the credits, I never really noticed they had so many songs used in films.

Recently, I ran across a writing online that mentioned that fact, so I did some digging. And, sure enough, they’ve been in movies I’ve seen. And some movies I haven’t seen. No Oscar winners in the bunch, but still films I’ve seen.

Their first national exposure came with their song “Camel Walk.”

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The song “To Each His Own” was a huge hit in 1946. The song was in the number one spot on the Billboard charts for a total of eight weeks. And here’s the really unusual thing: three different artists took the song to the top of the charts.

Eddy Howard had the most time at the top of the charts, spending five weeks there. He hit number one for three weeks beginning in August 1946, then his version of the song returned to the top of the charts in October for another two weeks.

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I love Weird Al.

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Never really got into Hanson. But, I do gotta say, they have a sense of humor. Even about themselves. And that’s a good thing.

Did you recognize the tambourine player?

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Perry Como had his second number one hit of 1946 in August of that year, with a song that spent a single week atop the chart.

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He’s not wrong, you know.

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I love Weird Al.

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I own exactly one Taylor Swift song. This isn’t it.

But let me tell you about the song I do own. I don’t even know the name of it without looking it up. You see, I didn’t buy it.

Okay, I paid for it and it was purchased with my iTunes account, but I didn’t buy it.

Okay, here’s what happened. I was at my mother’s house, and my daughter and her family were visiting. It was around Christmas one year.

Her oldest boy liked to play with the Apple TV device and play music videos. Being young (he was three or four at the time) his attention span was usually confined to watching the previews of songs and movies (and for movies, usually movie trailers).

Every so often, though, he’d like to watch an actual movie … or at least more than a minute or two of a movie. Since my movie library is a lot larger than my mother’s, I logged in to my iTunes account on her Apple TV so the grandson could watch Polar Express, How The Grinch Stole Christmas, Rudolph, or some other video.

Well, I didn’t bother to sign out when he was done watching. So, later when he started watching videos again, rather than playing the preview, he (unintentionally or otherwise) selected “Purchase” on the Apple TV for a Taylor Swift song he liked. I found out about this a day or two later when Apple sent me the receipt for the purchase.

Okay, $1.99 for a music video a grandson enjoyed is a small price. But, it did mean I owned a Taylor Swift video. I still one a Taylor Swift video. Just one. And, as I said earlier, this isn’t it.

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The Ink Spots, who I mentioned last week, followed up that song with one of their biggest hits every. The Gypsy hit number one in May 1946 and stayed there until August, a total of ten weeks.

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