He loved writing songs and making people laugh. In the early 1970s, country music star Jane Morgan recorded his song A Girl Named Johnny Cash, which was a parody of A Boy Named Sue.

It stayed on the Hot Country Songs chart on Billboard for five weeks.

Mull played the guitar in nightclubs and sang parody songs for a living. He even opened for Frank Zappa, Randy Newman, Bruce Springsteen, and Billy Joel.

A review on AllMusic.com said, “Mull’s strange sense of humor is clear on all of his albums, but he’s not a parody artist like Weird Al.”

His albums are skewed singer/songwriter, pop/rock with a strong jazz influence, which just happen to have funny lyrics.”

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