"Weird Al" Yankovic - I Lost on Jeopardy (2022 version) - excerpt

I re-recorded a bunch of my old songs for use in the Roku Channel biopic (WEIRD: The Al Yankovic Story), and this is the one that got left on the cutting room floor. I didn't record the whole song, just one chorus - the reason being that we only needed a couple seconds of it for the movie. It was originally going to be used in the drunk driving scene, where Weird Al (Daniel Radcliffe) is repeatedly changing the channels on his car radio (and all the songs are Weird Al songs). Eric Appel (the director) and I ultimately decided that we didn't need to include this song, because we hadn't introduced it previously in the movie, and also because it would have cost us several thousand dollars extra in licensing fees. But since my band and I went through all the trouble of recording this 22-second masterpiece, we figured SOMEBODY should hear it!

Oh, and BTW, if you want to hear all the stuff that actually DID make the movie, check out the soundtrack album: https://tinyurl.com/5errr2dr

UPDATE/CLARIFICATION: For the people confused about the “licensing fees” part - I don’t own the publishing on my parody songs, the songwriters of the originals do. And basically, they can charge whatever they want to charge when the song is used in TV shows and movies. Nirvana’s publisher quoted a 6-figure price for us to use “Smells Like Nirvana” in the movie - which is why it is not in the movie. Greg Kihn’s quote was actually quite reasonable - but we were a relatively low-budget production, and every penny counted! One of the reasons why we re-recorded my old tracks was so that I could own the master recordings (y'know, like Taylor!) So I saved some money by not having to pay my old record label for master usage, but I still have to pay the publishing fees for the actual songs, which are sometimes prohibitive. Make sense?

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