Jay Leno And Weird Al Take A Stroll Down Memory Lane | CNBC Prime

[Music] the car i'm driving this is a mid 60s plymouth belvedere station wagon 66 to be exact these cars were sort of the workhorse of the american middle class when i was a kid this was good solid transportation had a 361 v8 a lot of torque had the rear seats that face out the back it's loud it's not fuel efficient this one has must have about half a million miles out of it it's just beat to death this thing led a hard life but it gets you where you want to go get a heavy amount of smoke starting to come out of the back it this thing looks getting dicey do you have a fire extinguisher on board there yeah okay it's overheating i told you this thing was pretty much beat to death we just got more fluids in it so we should be good to go for at least another 20 minutes i have a certain affinity for these because they remind me of my youth and all the stupid things we used to do in them in fact the man we're gonna meet in just a few minutes also did a lot of stupid things in a car like this in fact we're gonna pick him up at the house that he grew up in [Music] this is amazing look at this it's your dream car it's a belvedere it is a belvedere have you been my friend good to see you man good to see you good to see you that's right it's weird al yankovic the man behind some of the greatest musical parodies of all time like edith which is a parody of the michael jackson song beat it other hits include amish paradise and al's biggest billboard success to date white and nerdy now this is your childhood home you grew up here this is where i grew up my folks lived here since 1959 wow yeah they lived here until 77 so i spent the first 16 years of my life in this house okay and then you went to school right there that was your high school right there this is now the middle school but it used to be linwood high school so i didn't have to drive very far to go to high schools you know i think they drove to school song that i ever wrote that got played on the radio was about my car the belvedere it was a love song basically right about the family car it's a car come on let's go for a ride okay awesome there are a few people can say the family car was the origin of their career but hey they don't call them weird alpha nothing oh wow oh yeah this is look the original am radio this should bring back all kinds of memories yeah well yeah the same red upholstery same red upholstery i remember up i remember the the little holes on the roof yeah i remember the crack in the windshield this is so authentic so let's do it okay here we go so this would be out of towing where i performed a rebel without a cause they're still talking about it i played the band the gang leader crunch oh really now was that a play or yeah it was a high school play i think i had two lines so that was my big untrained show business that was based on the movie rebel without a cause there was a movie yourself salminio and well james dean of course oh that one yes yes so you were always a performer even as a kid right i mean i played the accordion since i was you know seven eight years old now who gave you was that your parents idea to play the guardian was it you're right i can't imagine i was begging my parents for according to muslims because that was not to be fair the hippest instrument at the time you know when we were growing up but my grandmother loved lawrence welk show yeah my parents decided you know if you played the accordion you're never lonely you're always the life of any part yet you're a one-man band and one man they can do everything yeah yeah yeah it was fortuitous that they gave me according lessons because when i first started sending tapes of the dr demento show right it stood out from the pack this kid's got an accordion what's he thinking dr demento had kind of a hip radio show he was a big blues aficionado and he had like a quarter of a million records in his house he was a huge collector right uh but he found that when he played like the weird wacky stuff on the radio people responded to that the whole show became that kind of music so you were a fan and then just started calling in the show yeah i was like 12 13 years old and i was listening every sunday night i mean some of the suns were a little risque so i had to like like have the am fm clock radio next to my head under the sheets you know listening surreptitiously at night well that's very funny and yeah i would send him stuff in the mail and i was uh one of the first uh you know uh listeners whose music he played on the show keep in mind this is me recording in my bedroom in that house in linwood onto a 39 cassette right yeah you know so you were sort of on the radio before you even on stage oh definitely yeah i mean before you played in front of people you it didn't give me a lot of credit in high school i was like oh you're the guy on the dock to the meta show but how cool was it to be 12 or 13 and hear your stuff on the radio yeah for me it was amazing yeah like you see those scenes and those rock and roll movies where you hear your song on the radio for the first time you go crazy and it was exactly that now were girls impressed by no even when i was even when i was a top 40 artists girls when impressed wow but now something people might not know you also the valedictorian of your class that's true yeah so you were a smart kid you know when i when i write a song like white and nerdy that comes from a lot of personal experiences right right yeah yeah i graduate i actually skipped a grade i started kindergarten early so i started high school when i was 12. wow i graduated when i was 16 and somehow still wanted the valedictorian wow okay and then you went to college for what it was for architecture oh well that really paid off yes yes you know i you know i think a a a degree in architecture is the best training for a career in music now let me ask you now when you wanted when you wanted to go into music were your parents did i get it not so much i mean you know my parents knew that i was always pretty grounded and i wasn't like you know i'm going to go out to l.a and be rich and famous i never was that guy to me it was like just finish college so you have something to fall back that was my parents thing if you want to do the comedy video because you know people would say old kathy's boy wants to be a comedian oh i'm so sorry he's so very sorry you know it's such a stupid pipe dream yeah but if you have a degree you can always fall back and i still have to fall back on if this music thing doesn't pan out for me right i can design houses you could build a weird house that's right [Music] chico's pizza that's still there wow [Music] now where did the name weird al come from did you give it to yourself did someone go hey that guy's weird hey that's a good i mean where did it it was kind of like that i mean i decided to take it unprofessionally but i i was given that nickname i think my freshman year in college on the dorms uh i i don't think it was an affectionate nickname people you know people would see me in the halls and go oh yeah there goes weird al oh yeah yeah okay well i'm going to use that as an empowered name i'm going to take it on and i'm going to be a weird al and i'm and and i've heard from people over the years that actually uh it's meant a lot to them because when people would make fun of them for being like weird or unusual or freakish they go oh well here's a guy that like is owning that name was there a car that you bought when you first got that first breath for success once the 64 bell veneer had sort of run its course did you get something fancy or just get a regular well you know i i drove the parents my parents elevated him to the ground or took it to college with me right uh and then you know that the engine block froze up i was like what you have to put oil in this thing i had no idea how to take care of it okay yes i just really killed it we we literally sold it for uh for scrap metal i think i got 200 bucks for it all i saved was this oh the belt oh look at that this is from the original car i i sold it i but i ripped this off this is all that's left of my plymouth belvedere so you are not a mechanical not so much not so not so much cece now i've got a tesla so i don't need to put oil in oh that's right yeah that's where that works that's very good but you have to plug it in so yeah yeah i know how to do that though okay now obviously the reason i brought this car is your first song was written about development so tell me how that came about why what was the thinking i probably just got my driver's permit i don't know but it was always like you know the family car and i thought you know not many people write love songs about their car right so i thought it would be cool to just write a song about the belvedere so um i just whipped out the accordion and then i did a jaunty little diddy oh you only play it for you i can play it for you i'd be nice to hear it maybe at another time it'd be like carpool polka you don't have anything to play it on i've got my accordion right in the back no that's okay what jay it's right in the back it's so convenient look here wait look who put the accordion in the backseat oh my goodness i gotta tune this thing up i'm a little rusty i haven't done this like yeah yeah four decades now you won't find me bragging about my big green station wagon we're talking about the traffic laws i'm breaking and everybody knows that i wouldn't dare to match my wins for the red court bear and just the thought of a pinto leaves me shaking now i don't think that i could hack driving a big white cadillac with ripped up upholstery and unnecessary frills beautiful so i don't think that i could bear friends on another velvet air in the belvedere i could really get my thrills [Music] thank you so much i want to thank the crew for sticking the accordion back there without telling me we're going velvet air cruising tonight [Music] hey cnbc 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Length: 11min 8sec (668 seconds)

Published: Thu Apr 01 2021

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[u/dysequilibrium]

GREAT FIND!! I never thought I’d see Al performing Beldevere Cruisin’ again, let alone in an actual Beldevere