How on earth did I miss this back in 1986?

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Easy to miss. Mick's single stiffed on the charts and it became Weird Al's only parody of a flop. Weird Al's version wasn't a music video or played live. It just came and went. The irony is the majority of the royalties for the song over the years were generated by the parody which remained available while the original faded after initial sales of the soundtrack, 45, and 12" maxi-single.

Parodying a song that's bad to begin with seems a bit redundant. Take the song Lets Work for example - why bother doing a parody of it when it's already a joke?
Weird Al had hits with other parodies, but most all of them were of songs that were well known - not some oddball soundtrack tune ala Ruthless People.

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good one, thanks for posting pf.

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Parodying a song that's bad to begin with seems a bit redundant. Take the song Lets Work for example - why bother doing a parody of it when it's already a joke?
Weird Al had hits with other parodies, but most all of them were of songs that were well known - not some oddball soundtrack tune ala Ruthless People.

Walter Yetnikoff was a producer on the film and oversaw the soundtrack for Epic Records. Mick told Rolling Stone he was pushed into doing the song during a 1989 interview. It's also the only time Weird Al cut a parody before the original was commercially released. His label, Scotti Bros. was distributed by CBS at the time and the forthcoming Jagger single was offered to him as a last minute addition to his latest comedy album. Yankovic has said the experience taught him a lesson. It did, however, mark the beginning of Jagger's collaboration with Dave Stewart.