Was Mad based on a song?

[minor muppetz]

I heard the song Mad recently, and I was wondering if that song is based on a particular song? The music style sounds familiar, though I don't know the name of the song that it sounds like. I just recall a similar song with some "Da da da, da da, da da" verses that this song seems to replace with "Very angry, very very angry, real mad...".

 

[cartman]

i belive it was "get a job"

hi

my name is cartman

i belive it is was bassed on get a job by sharalette

a old 50's song"

 

[Soul H]

Are you sure it wasn't by The Sillouhettes?

hi

my name is cartman

i belive it is was bassed on get a job by sharalette

a old 50's song"

 

[muppet maniac]

I thought MAD was a song based on the magazine of the same name...?

That was a joke there. Tehee.

 

[mikebennidict]

Sometimes these things are hard to tell though some maybe more obvious.

If you remember a number 5 skit where Luis, Bob, David and Gordon where a group known as the Lover of 5. Each of them would say why they love 5 and sing this song. '' Give 5 Give 5 Give me 1234 Give me 5. etc.

There was a song by some R&B group which from the 70s with a song called Float On which also had the same song format where each of the members introduce themselves and tell a little bit about themselves and it makes me think that the Give me 5 song was a priority of this other song I mention.

There was a song recorded in 1958 called The 10 Commanments of Love and this was definitly where SS got the idea of the 10 Commandments of Heath.

 

[minor muppetz]

That's interesting. I read at Muppet Wiki that Get Along was inspired by Get a Job. Both songs sound different. Then again, quite a few parody songs on Sesame Street sound different from the original songs (for example, while the title Honk Around the Clock sounds like a parody of Rock Around the Clock, the music and tune doens't sound much like the song).