SUMMIT, NJ — Summit mom Melanie Wilson, who's lived at city because 26 years, joined troops with her son, a university junior, and another local university pupil recently to cinema a coronavirus tune parody. because they posted the video above YouTube three weeks ago, it's gotten above 30,000 views.
The song, to the melody of "American Pie," is called, "I lose American Life."
The scheme started when Wilson conception of some of the lyrics final month. She posted above Facebook that she was looking because throng to aid record the tune.
Fellow Summit mom Jamie Kessel suggested her son Zach, who could play piano and sing.
Zach, a freshman can Northwestern University, has been performing at professional and amateur productions because he was young. at 2019, he was nominated because the paper mill Playhouse Rising planet give because Best perform actor at a Musical.
Kessel also writes opinions columns because the daily Northwestern, and serves because principal of the Alexander Hamilton Society.
Wilson loved the singing and piano-playing at Kessel's version, when during conception the lyrics needed more highlighting. She enlisted the aid of her son Matthew, a junior can Boston university who writes and performs at a describe comedy group and is a DJ can the university radio station. He did some cinema editing.
The parody, accordingly far, has gotten above 30,000 views above YouTube, and was chosen by NewYorkTheater.me because one of the climax 10 corona parodies (yes, that's a thing).
Positive comments above YouTube include, "Lots of big Corona Parody songs out there....yours is the only one the wife and I sang over with. Thanks."
Melanie Wilson, a New York native, has been writing the occasional tune parody because she was at center school. She is the director of marketing because Dreamcatcher Theatre at Summit, and runs a chapter of Believe, Inspire, Grow, a group because women entrepreneurs.
Check out the video above.
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