A Day in the Life of Green Acres

[justpassnthru]

One of the most awesome things I've ever witnessed on YouTube in five years of 'tubin'... farout!

[somebodysvids]

This has inspired me to listen to the real Day in the Life.

[cindyshealed]

Hank Kimball was a great man.

[ridgerunner721601]

@cindyshealed Well, he wasn't really a great man. He was more of a confused man. No, he wasn't confused, more like he had a bad memory. Well, not a bad memory. Who are we talking about?

[BMcCue7]

I've heard a band singing these same lyrics to the song "Purple Haze."

Try it! It really works.

[cheeriosinabowl]

This show was funnier than a monkey with itchy armpits.

Eva and Eddie were tops in this great show.

[MrGeno502]

Love it!

[themissvicki]

I love this..So creative..It is just wonderful!

[Art7220]

So B&B didn't get in trouble for this? Or for Please Please Me? The Beatles lawyers used to be like pitbulls if you used their music wrongly.

[JerichoDitch2]

I always suspected that place was a pot farm .... Mr. Haney trucked the stuff back to Lisa's New York connections.

[MOPEDER01]

That was a totally amazing video... truly excellent.

[DocWyoming]

Please tell me that the entire Sargent Pepper's album can be done with 60s tv show theme song lyrics

[rockdontrun]

@DocWyoming I don't know, but I do know you can sing "The Beverly Hillbillies Theme" to the tune of "Paperback Writer." Try it sometime.

[KSCrosby]

@rockdontrun  om, you're right!

[doctorpsycho1960]

@DocWyoming Scary thought.

[KGProphet]

Great editing job! An inspired mash-up.

[ridgerunner721601]

That wasn't the Beatles singing. It was actually the Hooterville Band with Hank Kimball, Mr. Haney, Alf and Ralph Monroe. They were all on windowpane acid. That's why Hank never can remember anything. He's a jellyhead.

[WaterShowsProd]

The end is the best part. I liked the video tribute to Magical Mystery Tour. Nice montage.

[splambert]

Super-dee-dooper

[GrigoriZhukov]

7 morons didn't like this...heck john would have laughed his butt off and loved it!

[elc1960]

I always wondered if Camel cigarettes liked the free plug in the shot of Times Square. It's almost like sneaking in a cigarette commercial every time they air it today.

[seymourbbest]

Very well done! I loved it! Thanks!

[odiemean]

that was pretty cool...good job

[designermite]

Yes but is it a 40-piece orchestra playing an E-major chord for over forty seconds where I can hear rustling papers and a squeaking chair?

[designermite]

Can't forget the Beatle's fans now can we?

[MrJackjack53]

I haven't hear this song in AGES. I've thought about it many times over the years but could not remember who did it. I was looking at some Beatle songs today and found this by accident.

I CANNOT thank you enough for posting this. You've ABSOLUTELY made my day.

Many, MANY THANKS...

[dabble778]

Wow

[jsilence418]

Touche !

[rockdontrun]

;-)

[jsilence418]

A crashing bore, unless you are 10

[rockdontrun]

Arnold's really more of a pig, not a boar, but thank you for rating my video a 10.

[DocWyoming]

@rockdontrun lol

[Galantski]

@jsilence418 -- A crashing bore, unless you are a 10...like Lisa Douglas, dahling!

[MrSluggo666]

@Galantski 10 stupid not 'a' 10, and lisa is more of a 6 or 61/2 like your IQ ~

[Galantski]

@MrSluggo666 -- If you don't shut up I'll get Mr. Ziffel to turn Arnold loose and Hannibalize you like Mason Verger!

[MrSluggo666]

@Galantski Unfortuneately someone already turned Arnold loose, IN THE JIMMY DEAN SAUSAGE FACTORY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Galantski]

@MrSluggo666 -- LOL It was probably Haney who turned him loose, unless Hank Kimbell got mixed up again.

[digitaldavea]

I hear bacon frying at the end!

[rockdontrun]

LOL!

[1nceBitten2wiceShy]

Since I knew about the Stairway/Gilligan lawsuit, I was totally stunned years ago to find this actually was on a record when I found the 45 in a fifty cent bin.

Of course, I was even more pleased a year or so ago when I netted a couple hundred bucks selling the thing on Ebay! - 1b2s

[TheRealCritique]

The video juxtaposition with the song is amusing. I just liked Stairway to GIlligan's Island because it merged two totally unrelated songs. Peace. Visually, this is a trip.

[rockdontrun]

Thanks, man. And sorry for the misunderstanding.

[TheRealCritique]

I think you need to stay out of your own booze if you think this is an achievement of any kind. The other one is a masterpiece, but its still parody. You're taking this way too seriously. Bill Mumy? You mean Eddie in the Munsters? Sounds like he got to have some cool experiences, otherwise, so what. Apparently fame is REAL addicitve. People will chase it at any cost.

[rockdontrun]

That's good advice. Billy Mumy was that kid on The Twilight Zone with the magic powers and the kid from Lost in Space. He teamed up with two other guys in 1979 to make this parody. All I did was make this video for it thirty years later. I don't care if you don't like the video, I just think your explanation was... odd... so I posted a tongue-in-cheek reply. But whatever. Some people like Coke, some people like Pepsi. Some people like my videos, some people don't. No hard feelings. Take care.

[TheRealCritique]

This idea only works if you actually mix the songs, like in Stairway to GIlligan's Island. Those two songs matched close enough to work, but this is just changing the lyrics.

[rockdontrun]

I guess the fact that the lyrics of both songs have the same amount of syllables doesn't matter. The melodies should be mixed, too. This is a bad video and I am a bad person, as are the people that favorited it and rated it five stars. Billy Mumy is a bad person for being involved with this, not to mention for turning his father into a jack-in-the-box. But he was good in that show with the robot. "Danger! Danger, Will Robinson!" What was I talking about again? Oh, yeah. Stay outta my booze!

[MrJohnreilly]

BIll Mumy if you were behind this,you did one helluva job!!!!!!!!!........THIS IS THE SIXTIES RIGHT HERE and relived in the 21st Century........INCREDIBLE YOU TUBE VIDEO........BEST YET!!!!!!!!!!.........

[rockdontrun]

No, I'm not Bill Mumy. But apparently "Art Barnes" enjoyed this video, though.

[MrJohnreilly]

Well who ever did it,the video's great to watch,I was born in the same year Sgt Pepper was first released.1967 meant a year of change,a year that people were rebelling,a year that changed the world from music to tv to politics to space travel...The Sixties was a turbulent decade in the 20th Century,but I consider it as one of the best,I wish I would have grown up in that decade than the Seventies and Eighties,I would have loved the Sixties so much better.

[peacemanken]

LMAO!!! Thx

[TankBanana]

Surreal.

[Goldberg1337]

I love this!

[hdofu]

The walrus is Arnold

[Mellotronaic]

Sublime, I make videos like this as well.

[MrHanksWorld]

Fantastic... outstanding!

[midwifecat]

LMAO.How did I miss hearing this before?We only got Dr. D locally for a couple of yrs. Seriously, the kids and I gathered by the radio every Sat. eve to listen, like the Waltons only more raucously. B& B were always favorites, but we never heard this one.And I always thought that Green Acres was pretty gosh-derned funny for its time too, so this video is a delight. YouTube is a Godsend to those of us who live in the boonies. Thank you so much for posting. You've made my day!

[TheVeganHere]

Great song and you did a great job matching the video to this song. The ending was brilliant! Love the way you used "this is been a Filmways presentation, darling.". Just brilliant!

[MaxSplinters]

Bravissimo Maestro, encore !

Well done, thanks........

[artiebarnes]

Hi- Artie here from Barnes and Barnes. (I co-produced the song and sing and play on it). You did a good job. Makes me wanna bust out the old tape and transfer it to cd and re-release it. It's still not available on cd yet-

[rockdontrun]

Wow! I'm flattered that you enjoyed it and I hope that you don't mind my "remix" of it! I actually sang this at a karaoke bar once and everyone thaought it was hilarious. And I would definitely welcome a CD reissue of this. Maybe Dr. Demento could help with that.

[BabaORiley1972]

I thought this was Oasis. Is this Oasis? Sounds like Oasis.

[rockdontrun]

Actually, it's Radiohead.

[nojsc]

That was ingenious! You guys are brilliant!!!!

[AloysiousL]

An absolute masterpiece! Bravo!

[poelover37]

Great job! Did you get Mr. Haney to edit this? Or was it Arnold the Pig's video masterpiece? It is too well done to have been edited by Eb!

[rockdontrun]

Actually, it was Mr. Drucker.

[Cleofizoid]

Loves me some Mr. Hanney

[Cleofizoid]

"I Love You Lullabelle?"

[sproutcentral]

Very clever...5*****

[jmad1952]

That was great,

[dictionar1]

they got some of 'eb's *secret stash* ic. LOL

[Sublette217]

Applause! Applause!! This is hilarious!!

[pleasecho2]

Outstanding

[Nikolaii257]

Well, I am happy to see that satire didn't die out with Frank Zappa!

[cossack207]

GREAT!!!!!!!!!!

[August8th1969]

This is great!

[amandalee7777]

Jeb was hot..Lol

[contessaoreilly]

I think I am on a really bad trip here, now, I am going to have nightmares now.... looks like someone was on a LSD trip. Now i know the connection between Hooterville and Petticoat Junction. You forgot the Beverly Hillbillies.

[rockdontrun]

Uh, no I didn't. Watch it again. I even referenced the old radio show from the fifties, "Granby's Green Acres."

[contessaoreilly]

ok, saw it, must have been a lot of inbreeding down at Hooterville.....

[amandalee7747]

what ever, i still think it's one of the best vids on YT! 5 *'s

[oranger2525]

well done.

[toobiedoobie]

Very creative. Enjoyed it. I think it would be a lot better if you remixed the audio. The "Lisa voice is almost inaudible in the second half of the piece.

[rockdontrun]

I know. I thought that was really annoying, too, but I didn't know how to fix it.

[Moo51]

Saw this again this morning. Funny and also scary and disorienting like waking up to a bad dream ;)!

[dannybex]

EMBARRASSING.

[blindavocado]

Are the lyrics really by Vic Mizzy of Addams Family theme fame? This is the first time I have seen or heard this. Thanks!

[amandalee7747]

I can't see it enough!!! Still waiting for Andy, Gomer, Barney, and Goober in 'Mayberry Gone Wild'. You can leave out Opie, he's famous enough now.

[jemmer100]

Wohhooooahhhaahaaaaaah!

[donnalethal]

Oh thank god!

[alanr4447a]

Odd...when I thought of posting "A Day in the Life of Green Acres" a couple months ago, I did a search which turned up nothing, so I figured no one else had done so...dunno why this didn't turn up. Oh, well, at least they're different. Great minds, and all that, eh?

[rockdontrun]

THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE!!!

Actually, they're different enough that I think they can peacefully co-exist. It's funny how we used some of the same footage for the same scenes, but there are differences that are pretty funny, too. I like how you found footage of everyone in Hooterville, including Arnold, all "jamming" together. Nice work.

[alanr4447a]

Thanks! I reaaly like yours, too! (And I swear that I chose the hue-shifting slo-mo opening footage for the "bridge" WITHOUT having seen yours!)

[rockdontrun]

Did you use Windows Movie Maker to make yours? Because if you did, it doesn't really guve you a lot of options. I can't really think of anything else in WMM to use other than slo-mo.

[alanr4447a]

I did use that, but I didn't know about its slo-mo (I did that another way). I used its hue-shift feature, though, as you would know!

[FlamingoKicker]

Why is Gale Gordon in Mr. Douglas's "trip"? Didn't know he ever was on any of the shows (Beverly Hillbillies, Green Acres or Petticoat Junction). Looks more like a shot of him from "The Lucy Show".

[rockdontrun]

It's been so long, I don't remember exactly why I stuck him in there. I think he was on the original "Granby's Green Acres" radio show back in the early 50s. Hence the picture of him as Mr. Mooney, since there wouldn't have been any movie stills from a radio show. I found some publicity stills, but they were too small to use.

[FlamingoKicker]

This combination isn't as "far out there" as you might think. "Good Morning, Good Morning", the song that precedes "A Day in the Life" on Pepper was inspired by a Kellogg's Corn Flakes commercial John heard on the TV in the background and the Beverly Hillbillies were sponsored by Corn Flakes and often did on air commercials featuring the cast. Welll doggie!

[KaptSonic22]

Ranks up there with "Stairway To Gilligan's Island."

[wilmaorbetty]

brilliant work. i've heard the beatles' music get dissected and interpreted many times but i never knew that song was inspired by that show. learn something new every day. tanks for posting, rock don

[rockdontrun]

This theme song has had a profound influence on the development of rock and roll, particularly on The Beatles and even Jimi Hendrix. One need only listen to "Purple Haze" to clearly hear the influence. Bob Dylan's album Highway 61 Revisited was named that because it runs right though Hooterville. The Rolling Stones' "Paint It Black" was originally titled "Paint It Green" in honor of Green Acres. The list goes on and on. Actually, I can't back any of this up. Glad you liked it, though.

[redwebble]

Bravo. Bravo. A masterpeice indeed.

[thecrump]

wonderful !!

[FreddyA64]

Hey dude, great job! That's my favorite show, and I've never heard that song. I loved the montage shots!

[KLAMATH60]

Whoa...that is cool!!

[amandalee7747]

I never put it all together 'till just now.... wow. thanks for claring it all up, lol!!

[kayakron]

It's so wonderful darling. Thanks for sharing. It's just so... so.... so....grand.

[rockdontrun]

This one would seem to be everybody's favorite of the one's I've done so far.

[erniebaud]

Well done!

[NJtoTX]

It's missing the ending. "We'd like to take this opportunity to apologize to John Lennon and Paul McCartney. We're sorrrry." "Yeah!" "What?"

[rockdontrun]

Yeah, I didn't think that the original was that funny. So I changed it and put in "This has been a Filmways presentation, dahling" because I thought it was funnier. I also took out the sound effects and substituted them with with the "Orchestral Orgasm" from the Beatles' version. The downside is that it's missing the sound effect of the cow mooing. So I guess my "remix" isn't any more or less funny, just different. I'm sorry. Yeah. What?

[chapaev36]

I haven't heard the original, but this is quite grand.  I go back to it every now and then.

[rockdontrun]

Me too. Thanks!

[deism666]

Brilliant!! I especially love the "...Filmways Presentation, Darling". I submitted this to BoingBoing & reddit.

[chapaev36]

I love stuff like this .. every now and then I stumble on a little channel that has a number of brilliant, highly genre-specific things .. very good.

[nanlisa]

This is amazing! How did you do this? Mixing the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper album with my all-time favorite show. Wow! Amazing!

[rockdontrun]

Damascas & Barnes & Barnes did the original parody backin the Seventies, I think. However, their version had cheesy sound effects in place of the "orchestral orgasm" (The Beatles' terminology, not mine). I simply took the D&B&B song and spliced in portions of the original with Windows Movie Maker (which is not as bad a program as everyone thinks). If you listen carefully, though, the two songs are not in the same pitch. But I'm glad you liked it!

[sunsprite]

This is so funny! You did a really good job on this one.