Weird "tribute videos" of celebs singing = pure YouTube gold

Snip from the blog for Bush League, who are Boing Boing tv's (loopy, sometimes drunk, always hi-LAR-e-ous!) studiomates:

I desperately have to sign offline and move on with my life, but I just got hijacked by that guy who makes “tribute videos” of celebs singing. I found that he’s done them not just for Jer and Sinatra and Elvis and Marilyn and JFK, but for Diderot, Che, Voltaire, Blaze Starr, Brad Pitt, and King Frederick of Prussia. He just might be my brain-warping hero of YT this month.

The episode featured above is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. "singing" Stride Toward Freedom from "the new music theater show Crisis in Camelot by Ernest R. Tello."

WTF? Wednesday (Bush League, thanks John Walsh!)

Today happens to be the anniversary of Dr. King's "I Have a Dream" speech. The text-to-speech robots who secretly control Boing Boing consider this an appropriate homage; please forgive me if you do not. Here's video of Dr. King's historic speech, btw, all LOLs aside.

Boing Boing editor/partner and tech culture journalist Xeni Jardin hosts and produces Boing Boing's in-flight TV channel on Virgin America airlines (#10 on the dial), and writes about living with breast cancer. Diagnosed in 2011. @xeni on Twitter. email: xeni@boingboing.net.

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trr

No, LOL. “…where people are judged by the content of their character and not the color of their skin” is still a dream, albeit less so than 45 years ago.
Halloween Jack

I’ve got all of King Frederick of Prussia’s albums.
trr

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Ugly Canuck

Character? Skin color? These are both too deep.
Income. Clothing. Hair style. This is what people are and should be judged by. I too have a dream. Of better incomes, finer clothing, more beautiful hair styles…
MaximusNYC

Totally steampunk!
starcadia

I liked it. Mesmerizing. I’d love to hear the background music improved/updated, while keeping the lo-fi thing going. Because the vocal would be super-catchy to a strong backing. I volunteer. Send me the original music without voice and I’ll update it.