Four Star-Wars-related songs:
125. Bill Murray, “The Star Wars Theme,” “Also Sprach Zarathustra,” and other classic tunes (1978):
126. Weird Al Yankovic, “Yoda” (1985):
The original song (“Lola” by the Kinks, 1970):
Weird Al’s Star-Wars-ified version:
127. Weird Al Yankovic, “The Saga Begins” (1999):
The original song (“American Pie” by Don McLean, 1971):
Weird Al’s Star-Wars-ified version:
128. Oscar Isaac, Justin Timberlake, and Adam Driver, “Please Mr. Kennedy,” from Inside Llewyn Davis (2013):
The original songs – a bunch of ’em:
And their culmination is an inadvertently, retroactively Star-Wars-ified song, as Poe Dameron and Kylo Ren sing about space travel – two years before The Force Awakens:
I love “The Saga Begins” and just regaled someone with it yesterday. Thanks for calling attention to it.