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"Yoda" is a song by "Weird Al" Yankovic from his third album, Dare to Be Stupid (1985). It is a parody of the song "Lola" by the Kinks.Inspired by the events of the movie The Empire Strikes Back, the song is told from the point of view of Jedi-in-training Luke Skywalker and concerns his dealings with Master Yoda on the planet Dagobah.
The first parody recorded for the album was "Yoda". "Yoda" was originally written by Yankovic during the initial run of the 1980 American film The Empire Strikes Back. [4] After the success of the movie, Yankovic toyed with the idea of writing a song based on the break-out character, but was unable to find a suitable song to use as the base. [8]
The music featured on the album spans a decade, with the earliest songs being recorded in 1985, and the most recent song being recorded in 1994. [1] Yankovic's third album, Dare to Be Stupid has two songs featured: "This is the Life" and "Yoda". [1] [2] Christmas at Ground Zero first appeared on the 1986 release Polka Party!.
"Quid Control" (featuring People Under The Stairs) - DJ Yoda "Mysterious Plot" (featuring Lee Dorsey) - DJ Yoda "Billie Holiday Turntablised" - DJ Yoda "We Got The Funk" - The Beatnuts "On the Reggae-lar Part 2" (featuring Honey Boy Martin, Don Drummond, Dandy Livingstone, The Cimmarons, Hopeton Lewis, Pat Kelly & The Uniques) - DJ Yoda
Fats Waller - "Reefer Song" Cab Calloway - "Reefer Man" Duke Ellington - "Don't Mean a Thing" Henry Thomas - "Red River Blues" Harry McClintock - "Big Rock Candy Mountain" Vera Ward Hall - "Trouble So Hard" Bessie Jones - "Sometimes" Robert Johnson - "Hellhound on my Trail" The Marx Brothers - "Hello I must be Going"
Yankovic was inspired to write the song after he heard The Kinks' song "Lola" while driving in his car one day, noting, "I was driving a rent-a-car through Florida when the song 'Lola' came on the radio, and it got me thinking about how much fun I had doing 'Yoda' [a song from 1985's Dare to Be Stupid] where I took a then-current topic and combined it with a classic rock tune."
The album had four alternate covers, each sold separately, that featured Anakin and Padme, Jango Fett, Yoda, and the theatrical poster art by Drew Struzan. For a limited time, a WAL-MART retail exclusive version of the CD had bonus enhanced multimedia CD-ROM content when inserted into a computer featuring a link to an exclusive PC screensaver.
Yoda (/ ˈ j oʊ d ə / ⓘ) is a fictional character in the Star Wars franchise. He is a small, green humanoid alien who is powerful with the Force.He first appeared in the 1980 film The Empire Strikes Back, in which he is voiced and puppeteered by Frank Oz, who reprised the role in Return of the Jedi (1983), the prequel trilogy, the sequel trilogy, and the animated series Star Wars Rebels.