Re: is there a word for this?

On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, Howard Lurie <lurie[_at_]law.villanova.edu> wrote:
>
> I am wondering if there is a word to describe the process or end result
> of writing words to be sung to the tune of another song. It isn't
> really a parody. I think Alan Sherman did some of this, although some
> of his stuff was probably true parody. Do we have a word for it in
> English?

I do not know, but we have an extremely funny radio show here which runs this as a game regularly.

I had a rather uncomfortably violent laugh when just before Christmas they had a 'letter' from their standard made up correspondent suggesting that they try singing the Lords Prayer to the tune of Auld Lang Syne. They quite properly rejected it as an impossibly stupid suggestion.

At the same time Cliff Richard's song doing exactly that was top of the pop charts.

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