True or False

[MarcB]

I was listening to The Jones Goodtimes Oldies Network the other day. They played the song "Judy in Disguise with Glasses" and after the song was done the DJ PJ Clark said the song was a parody of the song "Lucy in the Skies with Diamonds". Is this true or false?

 

[radiofriend1]

I was listening to The Jones Goodtimes Oldies Network the other day. They played the song "Judy in Disguise with Glasses" and after the song was done the DJ PJ Clark said the song was a parody of the song "Lucy in the Skies with Diamonds". Is this true or false?

100 percent true

 

[MikeD2]

false. it is not a parody of Lucy in the Sky.

Mike Dane
WSTB 88.9
SundayOldiesJukebox.com

 

[radiofriend1]

false. it is not a parody of Lucy in the Sky.

it absolutely is. http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=4658

Judy In Disguise (with Glasses) by John Fred And His Playboys

Album: Greatest Hits
Date: 1968
U.S. Chart: 1
U.K. Chart: 3
Lyrics: View Lyrics
John Fred And His Playboys
Ringtones Listen/Buy @ Amazon Sheet Music

View The Song Profile

Songfacts:
This was a parody of "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds," which The Beatles released a year earlier. Instead of the psychedelic sound of the Beatles song, this was Bubblegum Pop, but with similarly obtuse lyrics.

 

[MikeD2]

Sorry but no. The song does not fit the definition of a parody.
As for the songfacts info, well their facts are wrong. The song is
slightly based on Lucy in the Sky though.
According to The Billboard Book of One Hit Wonders by Wayne Jancik
page 229-230:
"We were playing in Florida, and all the girls at that time had these big
sunglasses. One of theguys was hustling this chick. She took off these
glasses, and she could stop a clock. I said, "That's it.' That's what gave
me the idea." That and the Beatles' "Lucy in The Sky With Diamonds." said
Fred.

Mike Dane
WSTB 88.9
SundayOldiesJukebox.com

 

[radiofriend1]

Sorry but no. The song does not fit the definition of a parody.

o for goodness sake u are going to nit pick on semantics??????????????

 

[RadioMan203]

Perhaps it would be better to say that "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" was the inspiration for the song Judy In Disguise more so than being a direct parody.

However, my computer's online dictionary provided the following definition for the word Parody:

an imitation of the style of a particular writer, artist, or genre with deliberate exaggeration for comic effect

Just a thought to banter about for whatever view you wish to take.

 

[radiofriend1]

Perhaps it would be better to say that "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" was the inspiration for the song Judy In Disguise more so than being a direct parody.

However, my computer's online dictionary provided the following definition for the word Parody:

an imitation of the style of a particular writer, artist, or genre with deliberate exaggeration for comic effect

Just a thought to banter about for whatever view you wish to take.

i'm pretty sure we all got the general idea. whether it met the standard the dictionary sent is a little over-thinkin'

 

[MikeD2]

I don't think it's over thinking or nit picking. I just want us to
be accurate if we can. There are probably millions of similar
stories that vary from just a little off to country miles. ;D
For years I believed "Judy In Disguise" came about because
John Fred had misheard the lyrics of "Lucy In The Sky"

Mike Dane
WSTB 88.9
SundayOldiesJukebox.com

 

[radiofriend1]

I don't think it's over thinking or nit picking. I just want us to
be accurate if we can. There are probably millions of similar
stories that vary from just a little off to country miles. ;D
For years I believed "Judy In Disguise" came about because
John Fred had misheard the lyrics of "Lucy In The Sky"

no. he PARODIED the song

 

[MikeD2]

Like the man said: If it doesn't fit, you must aquit.
You can call it a parody all you want to but it doesn't
make it so.

Mike Dane
WSTB 88.9
SundayOldiesJukebox.com

 

[radiofriend1]

Like the man said: If it doesn't fit, you must aquit.
You can call it a parody all you want to but it doesn't
make it so.

then...........what on earth IS it?

i think the original question deserved a general reference to being a parody..............maybe a "take-off" on the beatles version

gee. what IS wstb 88.9, btw?

 

[MikeD2]

Just a regular song with an inspiration/base from "Lucy In The Sky"

And WSTB 88.9 is a radio station in the Akron Ohio area. And we
play great oldies every sunday. You can listen online next week
and see what you think at WWW. SundayOldiesJukebox.com

Mike Dane
WSTB 88.9
SundayOldiesJukebox.com

 

[radiofriend1]

Just a regular song with an inspiration/base from "Lucy In The Sky"

And WSTB 88.9 is a radio station in the Akron Ohio area. And we
play great oldies every sunday. You can listen online next week
and see what you think at WWW. SundayOldiesJukebox.com

Mike Dane
WSTB 88.9
SundayOldiesJukebox.com

npr station? college?

 

[MikeD2]

My boss is gonna kill me, but actually a high school station. On Sunday us
older folk take over and play 50's, 60's and early 70's music. You know the
good music.

Mike Dane
WSTB 88.9
SundayOldiesJukebox.com

 

[RadioMan203]

My boss is gonna kill me, but actually a high school station. On Sunday us
older folk take over and play 50's, 60's and early 70's music. You know the
good music.

Mike Dane
WSTB 88.9
SundayOldiesJukebox.com

LOL Your boss is gonna kill you? I started at a high school station - a 330 watt FM back in the early 70's when today's oldies was yesterday's Top 40! We had a handful of adult volunteers (i.e., "older folk") who played everything from Big Band (which I really got interested in thanks to my dad) to Classical.

That humble little station is now a leading Fine Arts and Classical music outlet for Connecticut. I still help them out, some 30 years later! If it wasn't for the experience I got there I would have never went on to engineer everything from a two-tower directional AM to a 50kw FM.

 

[Newname]

Like the man said: If it doesn't fit, you must aquit.
You can call it a parody all you want to but it doesn't
make it so.

then...........what on earth IS it?

i think the original question deserved a general reference to being a parody..............maybe a "take-off" on the beatles version

A 'parody' would have had the same melody as 'Lucy in the Sky', but with different lyrics. Like those old song parodies that used to run in Mad Magazine. Apparently, you don't know the difference between 'parodying' and 'making fun of'. Oh, relax, I'm only parodying you.

 

[radiofriend1]

i have never seen so much territory-marking over simple semantics

good gracious.................IT WAS A PARODY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[OldiesCat]

True

i have never seen so much territory-marking over simple semantics

good gracious.................IT WAS A PARODY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A spoof, a parody. Who really cares? Why let a 50 year-old radio reject who's so desperate he'll do high school radio on the weekend get everybody so worked up about such a minor thing?

Most reasonable people get the idea. Spoof or parody, both/either work for me.

 

[MikeD2]

Well Cat, as usual you have it all wrong. I'm 46 not fifty. I've never been rejected because
I've never applied for a DJ job, I couldn't afford the pay cut. I'm not desperate because unlike
you I am on the air and having fun. And it might be high school but i'ts one of the best if not
the best oldies stations in the U.S today.
As far as I'm concerned, until you offer some proof you're still just another wannabe.

Mike Dane
WSTB-88.9
9PM-12Mid
SundayOldiesJukebox.com