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From the Mercury News, the article “Ben Folds One enters his latest phase” delves into Ben Folds’ latest album, Songs for Silverman:

In a collaboration reminiscent of Folds’ work as producer and co-writer for William Shatner’s disc “Has Been” (2004), “Weird” Al Yankovic sings background vocals on “Time.” Folds was going to take Yankovic to lunch, he says, but instead asked him to help on a song he was recording. And just as Shatner’s album wasn’t exactly the joke you might have expected, Yankovic’s voice — well, it just works.

“There’s a little bit of that ’80s period thing going on with the background vocals, and Al understands that real well,” says Folds, who insists he’s a huge fan of Yankovic, whom he considers a serious artist. “He sounds very sincere when he’s singing in that mode, because that was sort of his era.”

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