Parry Gripp

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Parry Gripp
File:ParryGrippinJapan.jpg
Parry Gripp Performing Live in Japan
Background information
Birth name Parry Gripp
Born (1967-09-22) September 22, 1967 (age 56)
Santa Barbara, California
Genres Rock
Occupation(s) Musician
Instruments Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards
Labels Oglio
Associated acts Nerf Herder
Website Official website

Parry Gripp (born September 22, 1967 in Santa Barbara, California)[1] is an Emmy nominated[2] singer-songwriter as well as lead vocalist and guitarist for the pop punk band Nerf Herder.

Style and works

False jingles and other novelty songs

As a songwriter, Gripp is best known for fake jingles, as in his 2005 solo album For Those About to Shop, We Salute You - a 51-track concept album mimicking various musical styles as product commercials. It does not have one single concept; it goes through many various concept suites, such as trucks, beer, and insomnia. He also maintains a song-of-the-week website and a YouTube channel on which he creates soundtracks to internet memes[3] as well as music videos for his own novelty songs, with titles including "Do You Like Waffles?", "Nom Nom Nom Nom Nom Nom Nom," "Last Train to Awesometown," "Spaghetti Cat (I Weep For You)," "Hamster on a Piano (Eating Popcorn)," "I Am A Banana," and "Baby Monkey (Going Backwards On A Pig)."

The Wawa and Hallmark connections

Along with his phony jingles, Gripp also has created some true advertising music, such as a series of Beatles-inspired tunes promoting the Wawa Food Markets' summertime Hoagiefests[4] and songs for the Hallmark Cards e-characters hoops&yoyo.

Television theme songs

Gripp also performs the Being Ian, The Super Hero Squad Show, Ben 10: Omniverse, and The 7D theme songs.

Gripp also joined forces with MC Lars to perform some of the vocals, including the chorus to "Guitar Hero Hero (Beating Guitar Hero Doesn't Make You Slash)," a song commenting on the notion that video games like Guitar Hero take kids away from playing in bands and actually learning their instruments.

On July 9, 2009, Parry Gripp debuted a new song called "The Girl at the Video Game Store" for the 1000th episode of the G4 TV program Attack of the Show! The video features the show's hosts Olivia Munn as the title character and Kevin Pereira on drums.[5]

In July of 2012, the National Geographic Kids website uploaded his video, "Spooky Spider."

Aside from his music, Gripp is the co-owner (with his sister) of the Santa Barbara Orchid Estate, which was founded by his father.[6][7]

In April of 2013, Parry Gripp recorded the song "Backyard Hodge Podge" for the episode of the same name for the children's TV show Phineas and Ferb, and he also appeared in the episode in animated form.

Discography

Albums

Artwork

Nathan Mazur, a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania based cartoonist, provided the animation for some of Gripp's music videos: "Do You Like Waffles?", "Up Butt Coconut," "I've Got No iPhone," "Justin Bieber and Spaghetti Cat," "Neon Pegasus," "You're Driving Me Crazy," and "Nom Nom Nom Nom Nom Nom Nom" and "This is Best Burrito I've Ever Eaten."

He also creates the "album art" that accompanies Gripp's song-of-the-week.

See also

References

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  3. ↑ Parry Gripp, the Weird Al Yankovic of YouTube
  4. ↑ Wawa Hoagiefest website
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  7. ↑ About SBOE, Santa Barbara Orchid Estate

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