Silver admiring the Organic White Sweet Spunk.
It took Spunk only about *three days to return to his “catankerous” self and his normal routine of pacing around the house at all hours and killing his tails. Although, instead of placing his tails on the counter to protective all of us, he is taking them to the couch where he is sleeping to protect himself. After his three-week ordeal in a parallel cataverse, or kitty purgatory if you like, he feels like he needs to keep all the kitty tail protection for himself.
To celebrate Spunk’s Zero to Spunk in 3D*, I’m posting a parody of Candy by Iggy Pop with Kate Pierson called Kitty.
Kitty
by Teagan Riordain Geneviene and Timothy Price with Suzette Presti. Music by Iggy Pop.
Teagan Riordain Geneviene of Teagan’s Books came up with the idea of making the parody of Candy. She sent me the idea for the parody with the lyrics for Kitty’s part (Kate Pierson’s part) and the duet with Iggy and Kate at the end. Teagan asked me to write lyrics for Iggy’s part in the beginning of the song. I had not heard Candy before, so I looked it up, listened to it, and wrote the intro lyrics based on Teagan’s prompts. I processed the music and then learned Iggy’s parts the best I could. It turned out to be a difficult song, but I finally got it to work. I recorded my part of the parody and sent the music file to Teagan. Teagan has a beautiful voice, however, she discovered that Kate’s part was out of her range, and with all the other stuff she had on her plate, she could not work in the time to record Kitty’s part and get it to her liking.
I understood completely. However, Teagan’s idea for the parody was brilliant, our lyrics were excellent, and I didn’t want to let a really good parody go to waste. Suzette Presti, who is a professional singer, was gracious enough to take up the challenge of singing Kitty’s part. I sent her a recording with the music and my vocals, she recorded Kitty’s parts and sent me her recording. I mixed her vocals and my vocals with the music and voilà! Like a musical Frankenstein, Teagan’s wonderful idea for a parody came to life. Enjoy!
Off Center & Not Even 
And enjoy it, I did, Sir, thanks. Clever stuff!
Silver’s thoughts came over the ether when I first saw the photo.
“Did you have to come back, Spunk? I could have been enjoying that box, now! Humph!”
Hehehe!
Cheers.
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That maybe his thoughts. Thanks, Inchcock.
I love the tune, Tim! Well done. 😎👍🏻
Thanks, John.
You way too much fun!
Thanks, Dale.
It is so good to see Spunk’s little face in your posts! I am enjoying your audio clip.
Thanks, Lavinia. The blog isn’t right without Spunk’s presence. I’m happy you like the song.
I was relieved and happy to know that Spunk got safely home too, Lavinia. When I wrote “Kitty” I had no idea he would go missing. But it works for this tribute to his homecoming. Hugs on the wing.
Tim this is wonderful. You, Teagan and Suzette created something magical! Thank you!
You are welcome, Mia. I’m really happy you like it. And so is Spunk since he is part of the song.
Tim, Spunk looks right at home in his box. So glad he remains the Super-Star he his!
It didn’t take him long to get his spunk back.
Yay, I’m so happy!
Life is a drag without Spunk.
I bet is was. Likewise, I can’t help but think it was the same for him, I’m sure he missed you, Laurie and all his house mates horribly!
I don’t like to think about what poor Spunk might have gone through.
Thank you kindly, Mia. I’m happy we could make you smile. Hugs!
Teagan, thank you for your gracious reply. Indeed a much needed smile! 🙂
Che bello!
Grazie, Simona.
Great to know, Spunk is well – maybe with Teagan’s idea there will be some epic music work about Spunk’s adventures and return, one day?
Thanks, Puzzleblume.
That temptation might be hard to resist, Puzzleblume. Now the tunes from The Wizard of Oz are in my head. 😉 Hugs!
I feel them taking over here, now … 🙂
Tim as the Wizard and one of the kitties in each of the other parts? 🐱
Would love to see them riding brooms 🐱🏍
I think it’s more like the Wiz or maybe Wizzer.
“Hello Yellow Brick Rod” comes to mine.
I already know where you’re going with “yellow.”
Anytime cats are involved.
Okay then, Spunk as the “Whiz” Silver as the Tin Man, Gwendolyn & Glenda as Flying Monkeys (Glenda wouldn’t want to be type cast because of her name would she? Maybe she is the Good Witch…) Okay I’ll stop. LOL
G&G are flying monkeys. They climb straight up the walls and jump, more like fly, between all the high spots.
What a brilliant idea Teagan had (thank you!) and how beautifully performed by Suzette and you!!! Oh, Spunk, you are so lucky!!!!!
Thanks, Marina. Teagan’s idea was really brilliant. And the song came out really well.
Oh, yes it did!!!!!!! 👌👍
Thank you kindly, Marina. I’m happy we could make you smile. Hugs!
Oh, yes you did and I also enjoyed both very much!!! Hugs back!
….loved your voice!
a box and a special tribute song, what more could a cat want????
You know he’s a cat. He want’s everything. Thanks, Shey.
I see he gets it too.
HYSTERICAL!!! OMG! I can relate! People who do not have a lot of cats do NOT understand what they can do. I am laughing SO hard! Brilliant song, Tim! One time hubby put on a sweater and later that day his brother said, Hey, you smell like pee. OMG! Teehee ………
Spunk was wanting attention one time, and I wasn’t giving him the attention the way he wanted or something, so he turned around and sprayed me. We were both pissed after that. Thanks, Amy Rose. Happy to have given you a good laugh.
HaHA! We’ve learned not to leave articles of clothing around. Cats are something else!! LOL
LOL. You’re so right Amy Rose. Part of “Kitty” was inspired by a guy who wrote a story from his cat’s point of view — and the cat got jealous and peed on his shirt. Yes, only cat people know! Hugs on the wing!
OMG!!! That was fantastic!!!! I love the original song, I can imagine trying to hit those notes would be difficult! You actually have the right tone to match Iggy, so fantastic, I’m glad you made it happen, Tim, great job! 👍😂😊
Thanks, Tiffany. Iggy has a lot of subtly in his vocals, which took a lot of careful listening and many retakes to get any moderately close on the recording.
Great idea! The Iggy tune 🙂
Thanks, Jane. Teagan cam up with a good one for ourcollaboration.
Well that has made me smile 😊 I loved it, fabulous. I don’t know the original, you did it really well with the voice and music matching that’s not easy to do apart.
Thanks, Charlotte. I didn’t know the song either. But once I started putting it all together, I could see it was going to be really good parody. Did you have cats growing up?
I posted another parody. Two versions one with Teagan singing. I think you will really enjoy wer voice.
Fair to say all is back to normal with Spunk home. I guess he’s adjusted to the deck changes.
🙂
Yes he has. Thanks, David.
I’m glad that your cat has came back I put pictures of my cat Snowball
Thanks, Nicole.
Tim, thanks for going forward with the idea after I dropped out. Yes, I really had too much going on emotionally to finish. I’m horribly sorry that Spunk went missing, but you made this into a purr-fect way to commemorate his homecoming. Hugs on the wing!
Thanks, Teagan. We couldn’t let a brilliant parody go to waste. I was thinking about a video, but video is so time consuming and Spunk’s home coming was a good use of the song.
You have more than enough on your plate without adding videos to it. It sounds like a busy time ahead for you. I hope Laurie and the kitties make you go at a reasonable pace. 😀
[…] The parody-craziness infected me, and later I sent part of the lyrics for another song, to the tune of Iggy Pop’s “Candy.” I was in a particularly difficult PTSD rough patch when we started trying to finish the recording — and I bailed. Tim liked it enough that he got a real singer to finish my part. She did much better than I ever could. Anyhow, “Kitty” fit purr-fectly as part of Spunk’s homecoming. Click this second link and you’ll find it at Tim’s previous post. […]
I follow Teagan’s blog and I know how fond she’s of music, but I didn’t know about her talent for lyrics. This is wonderful! Congratulations to both of you and to Suzette. Not an easy challenge to rise up to! Great fun!
Ha! I don’t have any talent for real lyrics. I think this was a fluke, Olga. 😀 I’m so glad we could make you smile. Hugs on the wing!
Thanks, Olga. When I heard a snippet Teagan sang on one her her posts, I said to myself that voice needs to be heard. I’m hoping we can get some other songs worked out.
After reading Teagan’s post, I was almost afraid to listen, but she did great!! Way to go you two.
LOL, Thank you kindly, GP. Sometimes you just have to put on that parachute and jump. Geronimo! Thanks for visiting Tim’s posts. Hugs on the wing.
Eeee – haa!
You speak Nuevo Mexico.
haha, sometimes a little Spanglish too! 🥴
Thanks, GP. When it’s just me, you have a right to be fearful, but when Teagan and Suzette are involved the results will allways be wonderful.
Good to know!
What a fun parody!!!
You both sound fab. So much fun here.
So, Spunkie – Poo 💋 peed on your shirt.
He’s a bad boy, but boy oh boy he’s soooo cute!
He peed on on my shirt while I was wearing it. Rotten cat. Thanks, Resa.
Sorry, I laughed out loud! Well, still, he’s cute, and he’s back home!
It’s funny in retrospect. But not in the moment. We were both pissed.
Well, what did you do to make him mad?
I think I was ignoring him wanting to be blessed or something like that. Spunk makes us bless him. He is truly a weird cat.
Dominus Vospunkum!
You got it.
😀
Oh wow! That is sooo good!! What a beautiful voice Teagan has! You two must team up again 👏👏
Thanks, Julie.
Tim, everything about this post is brilliant. That recording is magical! 🤣 It’s amazing what our cats get up to and the unbelievable ways they challenge our sanity from day to day. So thankful Spunk is home safely and recovering well. That was a long time away!
Thanks, Holly. Spunk is back 100% to is ornery destructive ways. He’s still not talking about is three weeks in the wilderness.
Maybe later 😉
Bad Kitty! Hilarious!
Thanks, Holly.
Thank YOU!