| 词条 | Jeopardy (song) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| name = Jeopardy | cover = GregKihnBandJeopardy7InchSingleCover.jpg | alt = | caption = Artwork for French release | type = single | artist = The Greg Kihn Band | album = Kihnspiracy | B-side = Fascination | released = 1983 | format = | recorded = | studio = | venue = | genre = Power pop[1] | length = 3:47 | label = Beserkley Records | writer = Greg Kihn, Steve Wright | producer = Matthew King Kaufman | prev_title = Happy Man | prev_year = 1982 | next_title = Tear That City Down | next_year = 1983 }} "Jeopardy" is a hit song released in 1983 by The Greg Kihn Band on their album Kihnspiracy. It is the band's first and only Top 10 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, reaching number 2 in May 1983 (behind Michael Jackson's "Beat It") and also hitting number 1 on the dance charts for two weeks a month earlier. The song also reached number 63 on the UK Singles Chart, becoming the band's only charting song in the UK. The song is written in the key of D minor. Track listing7" single
12" single
Music videoThe song was featured in a surrealistic music video depicting a wedding disintegrating into a nightmare. Plot descriptionThe video opens with a bride-to-be getting out of her car screen right and enters a church. Soon afterwards a groom-to-be portrayed by Kihn himself gets out of another car screen left and enters an adjoining church. Entering in the groom's back entrance, he is readied for his impending marriage to another bride by his parents, who nudge him into the church's main hall. Inside the main hall, a children's choir is seen singing the song's first chorus, the minister, the rest of the groom's family, as well as the groom's ushers portrayed by Kihn's band. The (other) bride is led by her father, who rather forcefully gives her to Kihn. As the minister recites the vow questions, Kihn turns his head backwards multiple times, as he cannot help feeling that something is amiss at the ceremony. He looks at his parents and notices that they are handcuffed together. The minister asks Kihn for the ring. He looks at this bride's parents and sees that the hands that are being held together in a handshake of friendship merge and morph into a bone-destroying blob. The minister asks Kihn for the ring again. He looks at his aunt and uncle and notices that they are literally joined at the hip. The minister asks Kihn for the ring a third time, this time using sign language. He reaches into his coat pocket and finds the ring, puts it on the bride's hand and takes off the veil. The bride proves to be a zombie, who lets out an earth-shattering scream. This is a possible reference to Bride of the Monster. Kihn screams in horror at the sight. The entire congregation turns into zombies possibly referencing Night of the Living Dead except for Kihn, who makes his first attempt at escaping. Just as he is halfway down the aisle between the church's pews, a gigantic, tentacled monster emerges from the church's podium. The monster pulls him to the center of the church. Kihn, in retaliation, breaks off a piece of a pew and uses it as a spear. He pokes and cuts into the tentacle with the "pew spear," and the monster goes back down into the floorboards. Kihn then uses it like a guitar and sings a repeat of the second verse to the crowd. He then makes a second run for the door, the congregation coming after him, and this time he succeeds. Next is seen what looks like a successful end to the proceedings, but it is revealed to be a movie watched by burning skeletons of the bride and groom. The screen dissolves to reveal that this has all been a dream of Kihn's. Kihn then takes a bottle of champagne and sneaks out the back way of the church. He jumps into a convertible and glances over, just in time to see the bride-to-be from the video's beginning running away from her own wedding. He pulls in front of her, and she gets into his car. Its license plate reads "LIPS." They pop the cork of the champagne bottle and the video ends. Video productionExterior shots of the video were filmed in San Francisco's Mission District. Parody{{Main article|I Lost on Jeopardy}}A parody of the song, titled "I Lost on Jeopardy", was released by "Weird Al" Yankovic in 1984. Kihn appeared in a cameo in the music video for Yankovic's parody, driving the car into which Yankovic is thrown after being "ejected" from the Jeopardy! game show, parodying the end of the "Jeopardy" video. Its license plate reads "LOSER" instead of "LIPS". The bride still pops the cork of the champagne bottle and the video ends. Art Fleming and Don Pardo, host and announcer, respectively, of the original version of Jeopardy!, also make cameo appearances. Charts{{col-begin}}{{col-2}}Weekly charts
Year-end charts
See also
References1. ^{{cite book|first= Neal |last= Walters |first2= Brian |last2= Mansfield |authorlink2= Brian Mansfield |year= 1998 |publisher= Visible Ink Press |title= MusicHound Folk: The Essential Album Guide |isbn= 1-57859-037-X |url= https://books.google.com/?ei=1yoZU9TcMOnzygP804GQCQ&id=qznaAAAAMAAJ&dq=%22power+pop+hits%22}} 2. ^1 {{cite web|title= Forum – ARIA Charts: Special Occasion Charts – Top 100 End of Year AMR Charts – 1980s |publisher= Australian-charts.com. Hung Medien |url= http://australian-charts.com/forum.asp?todo=viewthread&id=40275 |accessdate= May 8, 2016}} 3. ^{{cite web|title= Le Détail par Artiste |publisher= InfoDisc |id= Select "Greg Kihn Band" from the artist drop-down menu |url= http://www.infodisc.fr/Tubes_Artistes_K.php |accessdate= May 8, 2016 |language= fr}} 4. ^1 {{cite web|title= I singoli più venduti del 1983 |publisher= Hit Parade Italia. Creative Commons |url= http://www.hitparadeitalia.it/hp_yends/hpe1983.htm |accessdate= May 8, 2016 |language= it}} 5. ^{{cite web|title= South African Rock Lists Website SA Charts 1969 – 1989 Acts (K) |publisher= Rock.co.za |url= http://www.rock.co.za/files/springbok_top_20_(K).html |accessdate= May 8, 2016}} 6. ^1 2 3 {{cite web|title= Greg Kihn – Kihnspiracy |website= AllMusic |url= http://www.allmusic.com/album/kihnspiracy-mw0000044568/awards |accessdate= May 8, 2016}} 7. ^{{cite magazine|url= http://cashboxmagazine.com/archives/80s_files/19830423.html |title= CASH BOX Top 100 Singles – Week ending APRIL 23, 1983 |magazine= Cash Box |archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20120913113046/http://cashboxmagazine.com/archives/80s_files/19830423.html |archivedate= September 13, 2012}} 8. ^{{cite magazine|title= The Top Singles of 1983 |magazine= RPM |volume= 39 |issue= 17 |date= 24 December 1983 |accessdate= May 8, 2016 |url= http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/rpm/Pages/image.aspx?Image=nlc008388.6699&URLjpg=http%3a%2f%2fwww.collectionscanada.gc.ca%2fobj%2f028020%2ff4%2fnlc008388.6699.gif&Ecopy=nlc008388.6699}} 9. ^{{cite web|title= TOP – 1983 |publisher= Top-france.fr |accessdate= May 8, 2016 |url= http://www.top-france.fr/html/annuel/1983.htm |language= fr}} 10. ^{{cite web|title= Top 100 Hits for 1983 |publisher= The Longbored Surfer |accessdate= May 8, 2016 |url= http://longboredsurfer.com/charts/1983}} 11. ^{{cite magazine|url= http://cashboxmagazine.com/archives/80s_files/1983YESP.html |title= The CASH BOX Year-End Charts: 1983 |magazine= Cash Box |archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20120911042042/http://cashboxmagazine.com/archives/80s_files/1983YESP.html |archivedate= September 11, 2012}} External links
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