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Josh Groban sings TV theme song medley at Emmy Awards
I never thought I’d be typing this, but Josh Groban gave a stellar performance at the 2008 Emmys / The Academy Awards, doing an amusing medley of television theme songs. There was quite a variety, and I think I was most impressed with seeing Groban do the South Park theme (1:45 in or so). Also notable is the theme song from Cops about 2:45 in.Here’s a list of all the TV theme songs Josh Groban sang or made reference to:
The Simpsons
Friends
Happy Days
Golden Girls
Mister Roger’s Neighborhood
The Andy Grifith Show
The Love Boat
Law & Order
The Addams Family
The Muppet Show
The X-Files
South Park
The Jeffersons
Baywatch
The Brady Bunch
COPS
Law & Order
The Fresh Prince of Bel Air
Saturday Night Live
The Late Show with David Letterman
Late Night with Conan O’Brien
The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson
Two and a Half Men
Rawhide
Gilligan’s Island
M*A*S*H
The Carol Burnett Show
Cheers
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Tags: 2008 academy awards, baywatch, cheers, cops, emmy, Friends, gilligan's island, golden girls, happy days, i dream of genie, josh groban, late night with conan o'brien, law & order, M*A*S*H*, medley, mister roger's neighborhood, montage, rawhide, salute, saturday night live, snl, south park, television, the addams family, the andy grifith show, the brady bunch, the carol burnett show, the fresh prince of bel air, the jeffersons, the late show with david letterman, the love boat, the muppet show, the muppets, the simpsons, the tonight show with johnny carson, the x-files, tv theme songs, two and a half men, x-files
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last exit
Shut yo mouth! I’m just talkin’ about Issac Hayes
The news hit Songspeak early today that Issac Hayes is dead at age 65. He was found collapsed near a treadmill in his Memphis, Tennessee home by his wife, young son, and cousin after they returned home from the grocery store.
Hayes was most famous for 1971’s “Theme From Shaft” for the movie, Shaft, but was also part of John Singleton’s 2000 version of Shaft, starring Samuel L. Jackson and also Bernie Mac, who also died suddenly recently.
Shaft was originally released in 1971. Here’s the 2000 version of Theme From Shaft, with clips of the movie:
We are saddened to learn of the passing of Issac Hayes, who also brilliantly provided the voice for Chef on South Park for many seasons. He provided much wisdom to the children of South Park before leaving the show after Matt Stone and Trey Parker’s episode poking fun at Scientology.One of our favorite Chef song is probably Chocolate Salty Balls. Classic.
Tags: 00s movies, 70s movies, age 65, bernie mac, chef, chocolate salty balls, dead, issac hayes, john singleton, samuel l. jackson, shaft, south park, sudden death, theme from shaft, treadmill
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songspeak
It’s gonna take a montage
In anything where you need to go from just a beginner to a pro, you need a montage. This tidbit of wisdom comes from possibly the greatest action / puppet flick I’ve seen, Team America: World Police.
The two dorks who created South Park, Matt Parker and Trey Stone, annoyed about what they considered to be the U.S. tendency to want to “police the world”, made this satirical move about a group of militants trying to destroy a plot by Kim Jong-il to deploy weapons of mass destruction (WMDs). Rather than make an animated feature, they somehow decided to make an action movie using a cast of marionettes.
The music is particularly awesome, featuring songs like America, Fuck Yeah, and Freedom Isn’t Free, but my favorite is probably the Rocky-inspired Montage. Here’s a clip of it (a treat especially for those who are trying to learn Spanish!).
Also, it’s pretty awesome that these hooligans are so talented as musicians. Their band, DVDA performs a lot of the music in their various productions.
Tags: 00s movies, matt parker, montage, south park, team america, trey stone
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songspeak
Trapped in the closet
Jamie and I have been making Songspeak Greatest Hits mixes for years now, and while we’ve tried to make them reasonably listenable, we can never deny a truly awful song’s inclusion if it falls under the category of (what we consider to be) songspeak.
That said, even some of these types of songs are just so damn long for a mix… A lot of Pink Floyd songs, Alice’s Restaurant by Arlo Guthrie, pretty much anything by Tool, and of course, Trapped In The Closet by R. Kelly.
Trapped In The Closet, R. Kelly’s ridiculous hip-hopera with all the soap opera elements (sex, betrayal, gunplay) was released in installments of one chapter at a time. Its first twelve chapters run over 30 minutes long. I know this because I own the dvd. When he wrote it, in 2005, he always left the storyline open ended. In 2007, he wrote another ten chapters, and apparently we can expect more chapters. By the way, the dvd is great because there’s commentary on it. First of all, the song itself is basically an R. Kelly singing narration of the storyline. The commentary, therefore, is R. Kelly commenting on the narration of the storyline… just in case the story wasn’t clear or whatever.It’s been parodied a bunch of times, but I think my favorite is South Park’s Trapped In The Closet, the infamous Scientology episode where Tom Cruise thinks Stan is L. Ron Hubbard and gets upset because he doesn’t like his acting. Eventually Tom Cruise and John Travolta are both stuck in the closet and R. Kelly tries to coax them out.
Tags: 00s music, 00s tv, best week ever, hip-hopera, r. kelly, south park, trapped in the closet
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songspeak
It was the heat of the moment
Among the many bands named after geographical locations (Kansas, Boston, Europe, Chicago), the band Asia scored big points with their catchy song, Heat Of The Moment. The creators of South Park noticed this, and paid tribute in their episode about Cartman attempting to get stem cell research legalized in order to save his friend Kenny.
You have to watch the tender sappy moments before the song begins:
Tags: 00s tv, 80s music, 90s tv, asia, cartman, kenny, south park
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