Another New Rainbow

​Actually, this is really another old Rainbow.  How it fell through the cracks, I don't know, but this is a Randy Rainbow song parody from three years ago, 2017.  And it's wonderful.

Slight digression and point of personal privilege.  Among the reasons I like Randy Rainbow are that his words are very funny and politically insightful and that he puts together wonderful productions, but also because he writes great song parodies.  And that's different from just being funny and where this digression comes in.  I love song parodies, and have been writing them since around the eighth grade.  I even wrote a book of song parodies.  I've had song parodies in shows.  But many things called "song parodies" aren't -- a song parody actually spoofs the existing lyrics, parodies them.  What passes for many "song parodies" too often are just funny words written to some already-existing music, having absolutely nothing to do with the original lyrics.  That's a comic song -- a perfectly valid form of material and often wonderfully funny.  Indeed, many are funnier at times, than a song parody.  But such a work is not a song parody.  It doesn't take a twist on the original words of the song whose music it's using.  Alan Sherman, for example, wrote song parodies.  His version of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" about a Jewish tailor who worked for Herman Roth was specifically such a gem because of parody lines like, "He was trampling through there warehouse where the Drapes of Roth are stored."  That's a song parody.  And that's what Randy Rainbow does.  He not only writes very funny songs...he writes great song parodies.  And this here is a terrific example.