Name: Silver Foxes
Duration: P00H05M10S
Description: As a professional pianist, Richard has played for Mel Torme, Martha Raye, Dihann Carroll, Joel Grey, the SF Symphony, Ballet and Opera, and the list goes on and on. But he did do time as a hotel pianist at the Stanford Court for more years than he'd like to admit. Here's part of his story.

Silver Foxes

from "UNPRESIDENTED" Parodies by Sandy and Richard Riccardi

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As a professional pianist, Richard has played for Mel Torme, Martha Raye, Dihann Carroll, Joel Grey, the SF Symphony, Ballet and Opera, and the list goes on and on. But he did do time as a hotel pianist at the Stanford Court for more years than he'd like to admit. Here's part of his story.

lyrics

A young pianist at a hotel bar
Performs for tips left in a crystal jar
His talent far exceeds this silly gig
But he must wait to make it big
And so he plays into the wealthy scene
He’s just beginning this bizarre beguine
He knows the ones who’ll leave him fully cashed
The older ladies getting trashed

He calls them
“Silver Foxes’ on the prowl
Dripping diamonds
Needing a pal
He must play their favorite tunes
He must light their cigarettes
He calls them Silver Foxes
Dressed in fur
Drinking gin by the case
And they sit down by him and they nestle right in
Blowing smoke in in his face

Our young pianist, feeling slightly used
Because he’s trapped and cannot be excused
His bench will slowly then his prison be
And he will yearn to be set free
But now he’s married and has mouths to feed (poor bastard)
He wonders what made him decide to breed (don’t we all?)
For now he’ll never get to leave this room
And every night he’ll meet his doom

(Dialogue)

His soul will die here if he doesn’t leave
But he has nothing better up his sleeve
He knows inside him there must be a way
But as for now he’ll sit and play
Play for us Silver Foxes on the prowl
Dripping diamonds needing a pal
He must play our favorite tunes, He must light our cigarettes,
because we Silver Foxes pay the bills and his money is tight
So go put on your tux and bring home the big bucks, flirt your ass off tonight! OLE!

credits

from "UNPRESIDENTED" Parodies, released June 8, 2017
Recorded by Nat Aslaksen at Cinnabar Theatre. Words and Music by Sandy and Richard Riccardi with a nod to Milton Schafer's "Wild and Reckless". Dialogue by Paul Gilger.

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Sandy and Richard Riccardi San Francisco, California

Rosie O'Donnell declared Sandy and Richard "MY FAVORITE NEW SINGING SONGWRITING TEAM" on Twitter this March. San Francisco- based Comedy Cabaret Couple, Sandy and Richard Riccardi are satirizing every thing within reach of a piano, specializing in progressive parody. Over 35 million views on social media. ... more