Re: Your Favorite Simpsons Episodes
Another sort of random top, I apologize, but i'm kinda blown away for such a major part of Simpsons lore that I somehow only just first heard now. The video I was watching earlier it itself even old, a little roundtable reunion that Conan was doing with a bunch of old Simpsons writers, done and uploaded in 2013 or so. But they got to talking about guest actors and Michael Jackson in particular. Now, I remember way back around after it first aired all these rumors that NONE of it was the real Michael Jackson, but somehow I knew to never really buy into that. But in this video they were talking about how all of the character dialog (of the 300lb white mental patient who's crazy enough to believe he's Michael) is genuinely Jackson, but the song, him doing "Happy Birthday Lisa" is NOT.
It was this, ironically enough, very young short white guy named Kip Lennon, he was a handpicked soundalike by Jackson, and he did all the singing. and apparently the excuse that Jackson gave to the producers in the moment is that he wanted to play a trick on some of the other Jackson brothers, cause it did sound exactly like him. But supposedly the real reason was related to his recording contract at the time, and they were afraid if he did the real singing the record label would've had him in trouble for it.
I was just kind of stunned that I never knew this (well and Jackson used a fake name for the end credits). He did however write all the music & lyrics for the "Do The Bartman" song, which absolutely became a genuine hit.
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