Black Fridays: Colbert, Cease, Dylan, and Groundhog

In our March 23rd posting, "Who is this Girl?" we introduced Rebecca Black's YouTube video, "Friday".  At that time she'd gotten 34 million hits in the 6 weeks of the video's existence.  As of this morning that number has jumped to over 84 million hits.  


You want to know what's impressive?  That represents 609 years of listening to this horrific song!  Takes us back to the oldies of 1401, when Henry IV, aka, Bolingbroke, was King of England.  Not inappropriate are the words of Falstaff, the young prince's corpulent pal, memorialized by William Shakespeare, " Company, villainous company, hath been the spoil of me."

Also impressive are the number of  "covers" done by others.  The best, in this OD's opinion, is one by Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, The Roots, and Taylor Hicks on April Fool's Day.

BTW, sorry about the ads on Hulu.  Haven't figured out how to delete them.  


But there have been a host of other me-too's of "Friday". I particularly like these three.


Kyle Cease's version...

Another for all you Dylan fans...

And, finally, a Groundhog Day tribute... 

Just goes to show that success has many fathers, while failure is an orphan.