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Richard Cheese & Lounge Against The Machine (or simply Richard Cheese) is a cover band and comedy act, performing popular songs in a lounge/swing style. Lounge singer Richard Cheese is a character created and portrayed by Los Angeles–based actor/comedian/singer Mark Jonathan Davis.

HistoryEdit

Davis developed the Richard Cheese lounge singer idea in the mid-1990s.Template:Citation needed The band's work was first broadcast in 2000 by KROQ-FM and the Dr. Demento show.<ref name=":0" />

ReleasesEdit

The band's debut album Lounge Against the Machine was released in 2000 by Oglio Records.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> Cheese's second and third albums, Tuxicity and I'd Like a Virgin were independently released in 2002 and 2004 by Cheese's own label, Ideatown Entertainment (later renamed to Coverage Records).Template:Citation needed From 2004 to 2006, Surfdog Records released three Richard Cheese CDs: Aperitif for Destruction, a studio album, Silent Nightclub, a collection of songs tangentially related to the holiday season, and The Sunny Side of the Moon: The Best of Richard Cheese, which included newly re-recorded versions of six covers plus three new covers. Surfdog also re-released the Richard Cheese albums Tuxicity and I'd Like a Virgin on their label.Template:Citation needed

Beginning in 2007, the band returned to releasing its own albums through its independent Coverage Records label: Dick at Nite, Viva La Vodka: Richard Cheese Live, OK Bartender, A Lounge Supreme, Live at the Royal Wedding and its companion behind-the-scenes album The Royal Baby Album, Back in Black Tie, and a Christmas album, Cocktails with Santa.Template:Citation needed Cheese released a studio album on CD titled Licensed to Spill in 2017, and a greatest hits digital compilation titled Lord of the Swings: The Best of Richard Cheese, Volume 2 in 2018. In 2019, the band released Richard Cheese's Big Swingin' Organ, an album of instrumental organ versions of nine of their songs. Also, in 2019 it released a one-track parody album titled Richard Cheese: Live on Titan which satirized the ending of the motion picture Avengers: Infinity War.Template:Citation needed A studio album titled Numbers Of The Beast was released digitally on July 31, 2020, and another studio album titled Big Cheese Energy was released digitally on February 26, 2021.Template:Citation needed

Since 2000, Richard Cheese & Lounge Against The Machine band has released 28 albums.Template:Citation needed

Film workEdit

Richard Cheese's cover of Disturbed's "Down with the Sickness" was featured in the 2004 Zack Snyder-directed remake of Dawn of the Dead.<ref name="cheese-appearances">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In 2016, the band had two songs in the motion picture Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, and released a one-track parody album called Live at Wayne Financial Tower in which the band's performance is cut short by Superman's heat vision.<ref name="cheese-appearances" /> Warner Bros. hired the band to perform and appear as animated LEGO mini-figs in the 2017 film The Lego Batman Movie.<ref name="cheese-appearances" /> In May 2021, Snyder's Army of the Dead movie featured Richard Cheese singing the opening song "Viva Las Vegas" in a duet with Allison Crowe.<ref name="cheese-appearances" />

The character of Richard Cheese appeared in the Kristen Wiig comedy Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar, released in February 2021.<ref name="cheese-appearances" />

Band membersEdit

As of 2015 the lineup of the Lounge Against The Machine band was:

  • Richard Cheese – vocals
  • Bobby Ricotta – piano, keyboards
  • Frank Feta – drums, percussion
  • Billy Bleu – upright bass, bass

The names are all pseudonyms that refer to types of cheese (ricotta, feta, bleu).<ref name=":0">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

The role of pianist and musical director Bobby Ricotta is currentlyTemplate:When played by Noel Melanio. The band's first drummer Buddy Gouda was played by Todd LaValley, and then by Charles Byler. Byler left the band in 2004; he was replaced by Brian Fishler and the drummer's stage name was changed to Frank Feta. The current bass player, Billy Bleu, is portrayed by Ron Belcher.Template:Citation needed

DiscographyEdit

All self-released as Coverage Records except where noted.

Studio albums and singlesEdit

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Compilation albumsEdit

  • The Sunny Side of the Moon: The Best of Richard Cheese (2006) (Surfdog Records)<ref name="allmusic"/>
  • Hail to the Cheese: Richard Cheese's All-American Greatest Hits (digital only) (2012)Template:Citation needed
  • Down With the Dickness: Richard Cheese's Dirtiest Greatest Hits (digital only) (2012)Template:Citation needed
  • Lord of the Swings: The Best of Richard Cheese, Vol. 2 (digital only)<ref name="allmusic"/> (2018)Template:Citation needed
  • Microphone Colossus: The Best of Richard Cheese, Vol. 3 (digital only)<ref name="allmusic"/> (2025)

Film soundtracksEdit

ChartsEdit

  • The Sunny Side of the Moon – No. 9 on Billboard Comedy Album Chart, March 17, 2006<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>
  • OK Bartender – No. 15 on Billboard Comedy Album Chart, April 9, 2010<ref name="chart-okb">Template:Cite magazine</ref>
  • Numbers of the Beast – No. 6 on Billboard Comedy Album Chart, August 15, 2020<ref name="chart-notb">Template:Cite magazine</ref>
  • Big Cheese Energy – No. 10 on Billboard Comedy Album Chart, March 13, 2021<ref name="chart-bce">Template:Cite magazine</ref>

See alsoEdit

  • The Lounge Kittens, an English comedy band who performed rock and heavy metal songs in a lounge music style.
  • Black Velvet Flag, an American trio who performed punk rock songs in a lounge music style.
  • Frank Bennett, an Australian jazz singer who recorded several big band arrangements of popular songs.

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