"I Love Rocky Road" is a song by "Weird Al" Yankovic about a man's obsession with

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. It is a parody of the 1981

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' cover version of the British band Arrows' 1975 song, " I Love Rock 'n' Roll", originally sung and written by

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Track listing

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

Music video

The music video was the directorial debut of

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and parodies the "I Love Rock 'n Roll" music video, with these differences from the original: *It takes place in an

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, rather than a

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. *It was shot in color rather than black and white. *It was videotaped rather than filmed. *In "I Love Rock 'n Roll",

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says "Ow!" twice. In "I Love Rocky Road", Weird Al says "Ow!" in reaction to an ice cream-induced brain freeze; the second time, he says "Ow!" in reaction to a kid biting his leg. *

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makes a

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as a cashier. *While Al is playing his accordion, the cover photo for the single can be seen. *Yankovic wears a black leather jacket with the ''

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'' logo, referencing Yankovic's first music video, " Ricky". *The "

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" used in the video is actually mashed potatoes, since real ice cream would melt under stage lights.Weird Al Photo Gallery
Retrieved September 6, 2012. *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 appear to have either fallen out or are rotten.

Chart positions

Rerecording

In 2022, for the film '' WEIRD: The Al Yankovic Story'', Yankovic rerecorded the track as well as four others. In the film, Yankovic first plays the song in a bar. Different from the album version, it starts out with just Yankovic and the accordion, and near the end of the first verse Jim Kimo West, Steve Jay, and Jon Bermuda Schwartz spontaneously join in on guitar, bass, and drums. After the song is finished,

, who was in the audience, comes up to Yankovic and asks to be his agent, to which Yankovic says yes.

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