Weird "tribute videos" of celebs singing = pure YouTube gold

Posted by Xeni Jardin, August 28, 2008 9:55 AM | permalink

Snip from the blog for Bush League, who are Boing Boing tv's (loopy, sometimes drunk, always hi-LAR-e-ous!) studiomates:

I desperately have to sign offline and move on with my life, but I just got hijacked by that guy who makes “tribute videos” of celebs singing. I found that he’s done them not just for Jer and Sinatra and Elvis and Marilyn and JFK, but for Diderot, Che, Voltaire, Blaze Starr, Brad Pitt, and King Frederick of Prussia. He just might be my brain-warping hero of YT this month.

The episode featured above is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. "singing" Stride Toward Freedom from "the new music theater show Crisis in Camelot by Ernest R. Tello."

WTF? Wednesday (Bush League, thanks John Walsh!)

Today happens to be the anniversary of Dr. King's "I Have a Dream" speech. The text-to-speech robots who secretly control Boing Boing consider this an appropriate homage; please forgive me if you do not. Here's video of Dr. King's historic speech, btw, all LOLs aside.

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#1 posted by MaximusNYC , August 28, 2008 10:15 AM

Totally steampunk!

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#2 posted by trr , August 28, 2008 10:48 AM

No, LOL. "...where people are judged by the content of their character and not the color of their skin" is still a dream, albeit less so than 45 years ago.

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#3 posted by trr , August 28, 2008 12:39 PM

We're sorry, this video is no longer availbale.

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#4 posted by Ugly Canuck , August 28, 2008 9:26 PM

Character? Skin color? These are both too deep.
Income. Clothing. Hair style. This is what people are and should be judged by. I too have a dream. Of better incomes, finer clothing, more beautiful hair styles...

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#5 posted by starcadia , August 28, 2008 10:02 PM

I liked it. Mesmerizing. I'd love to hear the background music improved/updated, while keeping the lo-fi thing going. Because the vocal would be super-catchy to a strong backing. I volunteer. Send me the original music without voice and I'll update it.

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#6 posted by Halloween Jack , August 29, 2008 8:24 AM

I've got all of King Frederick of Prussia's albums.