"I Love Rocky Road" is a song by "Weird Al" Yankovic

"Weird Al" Yankovic

Alfred Matthew "Weird Al" Yankovic is an American singer-songwriter, music producer, accordionist, actor, comedian, writer, satirist, and parodist. Yankovic is known for his humorous songs that make light of popular culture and that often parody specific songs by contemporary musical acts...

 about a man's obsession with rocky road ice cream

Rocky road ice cream

Rocky road ice cream is a chocolate flavor. Though there are variations on the flavor, it is traditionally composed of chocolate ice cream, nuts, and marshmallows...

. It is a parody of "I Love Rock 'n' Roll

I Love Rock 'n' Roll

"I Love Rock 'n Roll" is a rock song written in 1975 by Alan Merrill and Jake Hooker of Arrows, who recorded the first released version. The song was later made famous by the hit version recorded by Joan Jett & the Blackhearts in 1981....

" by the band Arrows, which had recently been covered by Joan Jett

Joan Jett

Joan Jett is an American rock guitarist, singer, songwriter, producer and actress.She is best known for her work with Joan Jett & the Blackhearts including their hit cover "I Love Rock 'n' Roll", which was #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 from March 20 to May 1, 1982, as well as for their other popular...

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Track listing

The following tracks are on the single:

1. "I Love Rocky Road" – 2:35
2. "Happy Birthday" – 2:26

The promo single only contains "I Love Rocky Road".

Music video

The music video was the directorial debut of Dror Soref

Dror Soref

Dror Soref is a filmmaker who started his career directing music videos for a young "Weird Al" Yankovic in 1983, shortly after attending USC Film School. Soref later directed Platinum Blonde, an inspirational short film that landed him a Housekeeping Deal at Paramount Studios...

 and parodies the "I Love Rock 'n Roll" music video, with these differences from the original:

• It takes place in an ice cream parlor
  Ice cream parlor
  Ice cream parlors are places that sell ice cream and frozen yogurt to consumers. Ice cream is normally sold in two varieties in these stores: soft-serve ice cream , and hard-packed, which has an assortment of flavors, as well as frozen yogurt, which is a low-fat alternative and tastes slightly...
  
  , rather than in a bar
  Bar (establishment)
  A bar is a business establishment that serves alcoholic drinks — beer, wine, liquor, and cocktails — for consumption on the premises.Bars provide stools or chairs that are placed at tables or counters for their patrons. Some bars have entertainment on a stage, such as a live band, comedians, go-go...
  
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• It was shot in color rather than in black and white (although the Joan Jett original was shot in color initially).
• It was videotaped rather than filmed.
• In "I Love Rock 'n Roll", Joan Jett
  Joan Jett
  Joan Jett is an American rock guitarist, singer, songwriter, producer and actress.She is best known for her work with Joan Jett & the Blackhearts including their hit cover "I Love Rock 'n' Roll", which was #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 from March 20 to May 1, 1982, as well as for their other popular...
  
   says "Ow!" twice for her enthusiasm. In "I Love Rocky Road", Weird Al says "Ow!" because he eats ice cream so fast that he gets a brain freeze
  Brain freeze
  An ice-cream headache, also known as brain freeze, cold-stimulus headache, or its given scientific name sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia , is a form of brief cranial pain or headache commonly associated with consumption of cold beverages or foods such as ice cream and popsicles...
  
  . The second time he says "Ow!" because a kid comes up to him and bites his leg.
• Dr. Demento
  Dr. Demento
  Barret Eugene Hansen , better known as Dr. Demento, is a radio broadcaster and record collector specializing in novelty songs, comedy, and strange or unusual recordings dating from the early days of phonograph records to the present....
  
   makes a cameo appearance
  Cameo appearance
  A cameo role or cameo appearance is a brief appearance of a known person in a work of the performing arts, such as plays, films, video games and television...
  
   as a cashier.
• While Al is playing his accordion
  Accordion
  The accordion is a box-shaped musical instrument of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone family, sometimes referred to as a squeezebox. A person who plays the accordion is called an accordionist....
  
  , the cover photo for the single can be seen.
• Yankovic wears a black leather jacket with the I Love Lucy
  I Love Lucy
  I Love Lucy is an American television sitcom starring Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Vivian Vance, and William Frawley. The black-and-white series originally ran from October 15, 1951, to May 6, 1957, on the Columbia Broadcasting System...
  
  logo on it, as a reference to Yankovic's first music video, "Ricky
  Ricky (song)
  "Ricky" is a song by "Weird Al" Yankovic. It is a parody of "Mickey" by Toni Basil. The song focuses on the show I Love Lucy, and ends with a segment of the theme from the show...
  
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• The ice cream
  Ice cream
  Ice cream is a frozen dessert usually made from dairy products, such as milk and cream, and often combined with fruits or other ingredients and flavours. Most varieties contain sugar, although some are made with other sweeteners...
  
   in the video was actually mashed potatoes because real ice cream would melt under the stage lights.http://www.weirdal.com/rockvid1.htm
• When Yankovic sings the line ``If I get fat and lose my teeth, that's fine with me``, he smiles to reveal all his teeth have either fallen out, or are rotten.

Chart positions

Chart (1983)	Peak Position
U.S. Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles The Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles is a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States. It lists the top 25 singles below number 100 that have not yet charted on the Billboard Hot 100. Sometimes, however, singles halt their progress on this chart, and never appear on the Hot 100...	6

See also

• List of singles by "Weird Al" Yankovic
• List of songs by "Weird Al" Yankovic