WEIRD AL YANKOVIC

singer-accordionist

“I think that the first record that I owned was a Johnny Cash single called ‘Boa Constrictor,’ which was written by Shel Silverstein. He’s basically reciting a poem about being eaten by a large snake, and at the end, the snake swallows him, and you hear the snake burp. When I was five years old, I just thought that was the funniest thing ever.

“My parents used to buy records for me, and I remember that one of the first albums that I ever owned was by the Royal Guardsmen, ‘Snoopy Versus the Red Baron.’

“But probably the very first album that I ever spent my own money on was Elton John’s ‘Goodbye Yellow Brick Road.’”