I don’t know what to say, other than I’m jealous I didn’t think of it first:
Anyone know where I can get the sheet music for that? And the flame thrower-esque sousaphone attachment?
As a side note, the cover of Britney Spears’ “Ooops I Did It Again” playing in the background is by Max Raabe. He has his own orchestra (the Palast Orchester), and does lots of 1920’s German dance music style covers of pop songs (among his other work). Other favorites are his cover of Angel (by Shaggy), Super Trouper, Tainted Love, and We Will Rock You. I didn’t have much luck finding YouTube clips of these, but these two Amazon pages for the albums have little clips of them to at least give the flavor of it.
[...] a bonus update to this previous post, I found a version of Max Raabe’s cover of Shaggy’s Angel on some Japanese (??) site, [...]