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| For anyone who has known or followed my career over the years, songs like "Mall Cop" should really come as no surprise. Starting back in the early 80's with American Comedy Network, and later with ABC, I was working alongside groundbreaking broadcast people, opening up the radio market to zany morning commuter comedy bits and
song parodies. People like innovative dee-jay Bob Rivers, and gifted writer/musician Brian Silva (who happened to have co-written "Mall Cop" with me, by the way) were showing me the ropes, as it were. It all really was quite unprecedented at the time, and pretty much blazed a path for the "Weird Al's" who came along later. Among many other things, it ultimately led to a very successful series of holiday novelty recordings, starting with Atlantic Records gold album, "Twisted Christmas", featuring the classic, "12 Pains of Christmas" - heard each year in shopping malls and on radio airwaves throughout the English-speaking world. Prior to this hilarious 1987 release, holiday radio programming everywhere consisted almost exclusively of traditional music, with a sprinkling of Perry Como-like Christmas song cover albums. The novel "anti-Christmas" aspect of "Twisted Christmas" seemed to rush in and fill a deep void in what had become a rather stagnant market. Sequels "I Am Santa Claus" (featuring "Teddy the Red-Nosed Senator") and "More Twisted Christmas" (The Buttcracker Suite) have also been very popular through the years. Funny thing about holiday music... it never dies, it just waits 'til next year, kinda like a Red Sox fan. Anyway, watch for "Mall Cop" on You Tube this fall. |
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