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The morning-show DJ for Seattle’s KISW, Bob Streams began recording Strange Al-type song parodies in 1984 using the American Comedy Network’s “SPLITTING UP Is Hard you (Don’t Take Ma Bell From Me personally).” Sung towards the tune of Neil Sedaka’s “SPLITTING UP Is Difficult to do,” the monitor eased its …

Big Daddy, a Los Angeles-based comedic pop group that emerged in 1983 in the Rhino Information label, focuses on performing Contemporary strikes in the varieties of 1950s and early-’60s rock & move. For instance, they scored a high 40 hit within the U.K. in 1985 by documenting Bruce Springsteen’s “Dance …

The idea is bizarre — four a cappella vocalists who call themselves “Bob” and cover rock & roll numbers — yet it somehow works for folks, even people in high places; furthermore to creating a faithful pursuing, the Bobs received a Grammy nomination for his or her arrangement from the …