Fred Landau

21st Century Oldies, Volume 2 Fred Landau

Sure to make you laugh and lift you up, 21st Century Oldies is a collection of parody lyrics about current events set to the tunes of familiar favorites. The entries give playful new life to songs we all know while spinning the sometimes difficult current state of affairs into something more approachable and fun.

Dynamic, poignant, and often thought-provoking, the lyrics in this volume sing to the theme of climate and global warming. While there's a New York and Northeast U. S. locale in many of the musical tales, and while they mostly depict living and surviving through a specific high-impact period from Summer 2015 to Winter 2016, everyone reading and singing along should be able to identify with the universal, worldwide nature of the subject matter.

So pull out your iPhone or mp3 player, and get ready to sing along. Musical inspiration in this volume comes from popular songs by a wide range of artists, from the Beatles, Dolly Parton, Jose Feliciano, Gloria Estefan and Peter Paul & Mary, to stage and film greats like the Gershwins, Cole Porter, Stephen Schwartz and Jerry Herman.

Described by legendary comedy writer Mark Evanier as a "master parody writer," and called "lyrically gifted" by Noah Remnick in the New York Times "New York Today" column, author Fred Landau has written books for numerous successful theatrical productions and created parodies that have been excerpted on CNN's AC360 and Situation Room, quoted online in The New York Times, The Village Voice, and Deadline.com, included in college-level courses, and ranked among the top ten in industry rundowns.

Fred Landau is a graduate of Harvard Law School and has masters degrees from NYU Law School and Brooklyn College. Fred's parody writing on New York theater was called "a local treasure" by Broadway great Lin-Manuel Miranda.