Raking Leaves N Breaking Up Song Parody 2025

My video evolved as a hybrid of "Raking Leaves Ain't Hard to Do (with scrolling lyrics)" and "DIY Plywood Presser Pusher For Leaves" video and article. Read the entire article and comment there, please.

Raking Leaves Ain't Hard to Do (widescreen)

My previous article about parodying "Neil Sedaka's "Breaking Up Is Hard to Do" included info about raking leaves chores and implements, and parts collection for the music videos. This article, besides pointing to the widescreen-version video, describes some of my processes and the lessons learned for picking, creating, and integrating items into both video versions. Read the entire article and comment there, please.

Raking Leaves Ain't Hard to Do (with scrolling lyrics)

Early December, raking chores inspired me to parody "Neil Sedaka's "Breaking Up Is Hard to Do". I wrote and sang (not greatly) words to go with "Breaking Up" instrumental music. Read the entire article and comment there, please.

YouTube Playlists of My Music-themed Articles

This article is a compilation of YouTube playlists for articles that I have written and cited music YouTube links. The entire article at http://whilldtkwriter.blogspot.com/2012/02/youtube-playlists-of-my-music-themed.html includes the link to my YouTube channel and also a table with links to my articles and their YouTube playlists.

Bad-Prose Rants from Lady Wawa

This is my technical communicator parody (abbreviated) of Lady Gaga’s monster hit “Bad Romance”. Her Youtube video is approaching 200,000,000 views. For related videos and lyrics, do Google searches. Note: Lyrics accuracy varies among sites. Lyricsmode.com, which I used for most of my research and initial lyrics, had the best accuracy contrasted with other lyrics sites.

Bad-Prose Rants from Lady Wawa

Uh oh uh oh oh oh no no no no no no,
Your doc seems pretty poor.
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[Read entire article at http://whilldtkwriter.blogspot.com/2010/04/bad-prose-rants-from-lady-wawa.html.]

Dual-theme "Weird Al" Yankovic Songs

YouTube playlist for this article,
playlist compilation article

Weird Al is probably currently the best-known parodist of long-time longevity. He made his mark in the early 80s and continues even now. This blog item is mostly about his parodies that capture music from one song and integrates lyrics and visuals of his vision from another song. Viewing and listening to such music videos can be somewhat discombobulating. You might be pulled in two directions of what to pay attention to, especially if you are familiar with both cultural aspects you see and hear. The following links …

[Read entire article at http://whilldtkwriter.blogspot.com/2009/10/dual-theme-weird-al-yankovic-songs.html.]