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Podcast: North Star with Ellin Bessner
Episode: Sing along to these COVID-themed parody songs
Description: Gary Kapelus is not a trained lyricist, but rather a retired speech-language pathologist and hospital administrator. But that hasn't stopped him from indulging in a pandemic passion project: writing COVID-themed parody songs since spring 2020.
He isn't a singer, so his music videos are simply popular musical tracks, often karaoke-style, with lyrics written atop a slideshow-style video. Sometimes he finds singers to record, like for "Mask Maker, Mask Maker" or "Breathing on a Jet Plane". But his most popular tracks are often politically barbed, even without vocals: "This Plan's Unsound," riffing on "Alberta Bound", digs into Premier Jason...