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Subject: Someone asked me about the now missing author here
a couple of people have asked me about the parody author whose work I've had to remove (he had sold a couple of his parodies to someone famous, and the people who had bought them felt it would be better if he didn't list them here).
I found an old archive of the website, and figured out who it was.. he was only here during the first 8 or 9 months tops, so only longtime visitors will recognize the name..
it was Terry Parish. He didn't want me to make a big fuss about it at the time, but I figure it was long enough ago, that he doesn't mind now. Most of his parodies scored rather poorly, and were based on songs from the 60s, but I always thought they were well written.. (Phil Alexander seems to suffer a similar fate here)
Subject: Re: Someone asked me about the now missing author
I remember him, I thought he had some good stuff...
Subject: Re: Someone asked me about the now missing author
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it was Terry Parish. He didn't want me to make a big fuss about it at the time, but I figure it was long enough ago, that he doesn't mind now.
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Thanks, Chucky - and good luck to him :-)
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Most of his parodies scored rather poorly, and were based on songs from the 60s, but I always thought they were well written.. (Phil Alexander seems to suffer a similar fate here)
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Kind of you to say so, and though I do add the occasional more up-to-date song (I've just submitted a Britney parody FFS, though it's one you might feel a certain resonance with: "Test my program one more time"), I try and keep as broad a cross-section of music as possible. Something for everyone, but that will often mean that the majority won't know the original song. It does also imply that the votes my songs get reflect more on the choice of source material than the quality of the parody itself... OTOH, if trying to get max votes out of each parody were my primary concern, I'd be writing different sorts of parodies.
Phil