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One problem with just writing parodies of songs is that it's difficult to communicate exactly how the words are sung via text on some web page. Without an actual performance of the parody, the audience often misses the nuances present in the parody (if they follow the parody at all). I discovered early on that most people couldn't really appreciate a Parodeity without actually listening to the tune. Not being a musician or singer myself, I originally tried to find someone to perform these parodies so I could post recordings on Webster. However, recording this music is a lot of work and expecting someone else do that that work, gratis, was expecting a bit too much. So I broke down and recorded these tunes myself. Originally, without any form of formal vocal training the vocal performances were pretty rank. So I took some vocal classes at the local community college in order to improve things. Though the performances on Volume III might not be up to contemporary professional standards, they're a lot better than when I first started doing this! You'll enjoy these songs quite a bit more if you realize their purpose - to let you hear how the song should sound (rather than being a professional recording someone would pay for).

Check out the lyrics to these Parodeities here!

Check out some additional parodies and parody recording artists here

Parodeities Volume Three: "The Sad Juicies & the Fair Aussies"

I have received several complaints about the fidelity of these songs. My apologies: originally I'd encoded these songs in MP3 format at a 16Kbps rate (very low quality). After several complaints about the quality, I bumped the encoding up to 32 Kbps. As good or as bad as the original performance may be, these low data rate recordings are going to produce a very poor quality result. I use this low data rate for two reasons: space and speed. A typical CD-Quality recording requires about 25 megabytes for a single stereo song file. A decent MP3 encoding of one of these songs is going to take around 5 megabytes. At the compression levels I'm using, I've squeezed a typical song down to between 300Kbytes and one megabyte. This reduces the file storage requirements on Webster and it speeds up download times by an order of magnitude. Unfortunately, that encoding also destroys whatever quality was present in the original recording. Once again, I've put these recordings on Webster not as a vehicle to show off my vocal talents (or lack thereof), but to provide a guide for those who would like to use some of these Parodeities in a kids, youth, or other Church program/performance.

1. An Arisen Savior (Daydream Believer)
2. Born as a Child (Born to be Wild)
3. Crucify/The Sadducees & the Pharisees (Ballroom Blitz)
4. Free Will (Free Bird)
5. God Is Still Around (The Boys are Back in Town)
6. Godly Livin’ (Easy Livin’)
7. God Only Knows (God Only Knows)
8. Heaven (Heaven)
9. I Love God a Lot (Hot, Hot, Hot)
10. Philemon (Brown Sugar)
11. Preachers on TV (Money for Nothing)
12. Sinner Yield (Centerfield)
13. Take Him Into Your Heart (You’re The One That I Want)
14. The Lord’s Prayer (Pretty Woman)
15. The Rapture (The Rapper)
16. When I Gave My Heart to Jesus (When a Man Loves a Woman)
17. You Can Live Forever (Who Wants to Live Forever)

Volume III's re-recording was finished on 9/21/2003! "You've Got to Be Born Again" disappeared (because that song appears on Volume Five along with several other Rocky Horror Picture Show tunes). In its place, I put a new parody I wrote, "Sinner Yield".


If you're really dying to hear a high-quality recording of these Parodeities, I'd be more than happy to send you a CD if you'll provide a postage-paid mailer for the CD. Email me to get the mailing address information ( no, I'm not going to post my mailing address here...). As I'm writing this, I'm currently re-recording and re-mixing each of the Volumes in the Parodeities series to improve the quality; I still won't guarantee "record company" quality here, but the stuff has been steadily improving. Volumes I and II are currently done and I'm more than happy to share them with those who'd like a copy. As I redo other volumes, I'll add those to the list of CDs I'm willing to produce for people. As long as I don't get overwhelmed with requests (unlikely), I'm more than happy to do this for you if you'll cover the shipping costs (the CD, jewel box, label, and insert cost me about $0.30 when I take advantage of CD-R rebates at the local Office Depot; it's hardly worth trying to recover those costs; shipping is the real cost involved here).

If you are interested in obtaining the music for these parodies in CD form, email me and I'll work something out there (though, quite frankly, you can easily burn your own CD if you've got a CD-R drive; just locate the appropriate MIDI file on the internet).

Randy Hyde