Loose Bruce Kerr's Parody/Original Song Podcast: Recent Episodes
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Bartenders often call out "Last Call" toward the end of a night so everyone can spend just a little more money and get just a little more toasted.
But it's also the final opportunity for closing on or finding a partner for the balance of the night, if you can still stand up (etc.). This song tells the story of a last call applying to both, even as the couple originally came in together. Things change. People meet other people. Decisions must be made.
This original song was composed, played (except pedal steel), and recorded by Loose Bruce Kerr. He had a 20 year career as a solo, duo, band from 1973 after he quit his job to go on the road till 1993.
But he continues to this day to write songs & parodies, with over 160 song plays on the famed Dr. Demento Show right up to its closing last year. He also opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic back in the day.
He's now retired and living in northern California.
email Bruce at: BKerrLaw@aol.com
website: loosebrucekerr.com
"Thanks to my cousin, Bridget, who, about a week ago, suggested I do something on Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, here's the resulting parody."
-Loose Bruce Kerr
Bruce records his originals & parodies one vocal & instrument at a time. He started doing this in 1980 to have background tracks on stage in his solo act, bass, drums (machine), keyboards, mandolin, leaving off the lead vocal and guitar to do live. His 1st multitrack was a 4-track TEAC deck. When he started doing videos, especially with YouTube's advent around 2006, he'd use his previous multitrack audio version that left off lead vocal & guitar and do the live part into the camera. Same for new songs.
He recorded "GEEZ, KAROLINE!" on his current deck, a digital 32-track TASCAM recorder along with a Yamaha midi rack tied to a Yamaha midi keyboard. This allows him to play the orchestration for the tune, one instrument at a time: trumpets, trombones, french horns, strings, drums, cymbals, in addition to playing bass guitar, guitar, and singing lead.
Since 1987, Bruce's originals and parodies have been played over 160 times on the Dr. Demento Show (which just closed shop after over 50 years on the air on nationwide radio, then the internet).
The live studio VIDEO version of this parody is available on this podcast webpage.
"Thanks to my cousin, Bridget, who, about a week ago, suggested I do something on Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, here's the resulting parody."
-Loose Bruce Kerr
Bruce records his originals & parodies one vocal & instrument at a time. He started doing this in 1980 to have background tracks on stage in his solo act, bass, drums (machine), keyboards, mandolin, leaving off the lead vocal and guitar to do live. His 1st multitrack was a 4-track TEAC deck. When he started doing videos, especially with YouTube's advent around 2006, he'd use his previous multitrack audio version that left off lead vocal & guitar and do the live part into the camera. Same for new songs.
He recorded "GEEZ, KAROLINE!" on his current deck, a digital 32-track TASCAM recorder along with a Yamaha midi rack tied to a Yamaha midi keyboard. This allows him to play the orchestration for the tune, one instrument at a time: trumpets, trombones, french horns, strings, drums, cymbals, in addition to playing bass guitar, guitar, and singing lead.
Since 1987, Bruce's originals and parodies have been played over 160 times on the Dr. Demento Show (which just closed shop after over 50 years on the air on nationwide radio, then the internet).
After Bruce's 20-year career solo/duo/band act, he went back to law (having given it up in 1973 to pursue music & comedy). Following that, he had a 13-year career at Sun Microsystems in Silicon Valley in their legal department, working up to Assistant General Counsel before Oracle acquired Sun in 2010. Having put in an additional 10 years there, he retired in 2021 and now enjoys writing and recording originals and parodies like this one in his home with his wife, Linda, in northern California amidst the redwoods. His songs and videos are available for download for free at: loosebrucekerr.com.
email: BKerrLaw@aol.com
"Choke Your Chicken, from 1979, my first contact with Dr. Demento, won an Honorary Mention in his song contest that fall. Elsewhere on this podcast is a live version from the early 1980's. But this was the Teac 4-track cassette overdubbed version I did on a friend's recorder. Couldn't afford my own till later. Cost $1K. My 32-track digital Teac cost only $450 5 years ago. 32 tracks. (thanks again, Les Paul).
with Bob Dylan’s current resurgence of popularity, and Trump’s NOT! ... this 2016 parody re today’s new continuing-slide poll numbers may be worth a spin (audio w/ today’s CNN poll still shot). Enjoy!
"THE BALD TRUTH" is an early Loose Bruce Kerr original from 1973, performed LIVE by his band with his hometown friend, Steve Hoeft, SPUD CITY - Music With a Peel." They worked New England bars & ski lodges in the late 1970's.
In 1978, Spud City was invited to open a U. of Lowell in Massachusetts concert featuring Jonathan Edwards of "Sunshine" (go away today) fame. Around 3000 college students. "The Bald Truth" was featured in the middle of that set.
It's about the 1973 (and successive, including RIGHT NOW) shortages of gasoline/food/everything...eggs...and having to just get by somehow. Also about Bruce's hair which was also starting to witness a shortage in his early 20's.
The band features Bruce & Steve plus drummer Tyke Ten Eyke whom they met playing on the island of St. Croix in the US Virgin Islands and Mickey Marien on bass guitar. All 4 members sang vocals. Bruce sings lead on this one.
Bruce went on to have a solo career as Loose Bruce Kerr, opening for "Weird Al" Yankovic and with over 160 song plays on the Dr. Demento Show. He is now retired and lives in northern California with his wife and expecting new cats. Steve is also retired and lives near Boise, Idaho.
This track is without Steve's intro, just the song itself, for audio listening only, like with records in the old days. Enjoy!
"THE BALD TRUTH" is an early Loose Bruce Kerr original from 1973, performed LIVE by his band with his hometown friend, Steve Hoeft, SPUD CITY - Music With a Peel." They worked New England bars & ski lodges in the late 1970's.
In 1978, Spud City was invited to open a U. of Lowell in Massachusetts concert featuring Jonathan Edwards of "Sunshine" (go away today) fame. Around 3000 college students. "The Bald Truth" was featured in the middle of that set.
It's about the 1973 (and successive, including RIGHT NOW) shortages of gasoline/food/everything...eggs...and having to just get by somehow. Also about Bruce's hair which was also starting to witness a shortage in his early 20's.
The band features Bruce & Steve plus drummer Tyke Ten Eyke whom they met playing on the island of St. Croix in the US Virgin Islands and Mickey Marien on bass guitar. All 4 members sang vocals. Bruce sings lead on this one.
Bruce went on to have a solo career as Loose Bruce Kerr, opening for "Weird Al" Yankovic and with over 160 song plays on the Dr. Demento Show. He is now retired and lives in northern California with his wife and expecting new cats. Steve is also retired and lives near Boise, Idaho.
This track has a band still shot from that concert to make this a video but it's really for audio listening only, just like with records in the old days. Enjoy!
This 11-minute LIVE 4-song performance at a Sun Microsystems Legal All-Hands conference in Silicon Valley in 1998 is by Sun contracts manager, Bruce Kerr, under the moniker he used in his preceding career as a songwriter-performer, Loose Bruce Kerr.
Bruce had interrupted his earlier legal career as a legal services lawyer in Milwaukee in 1973 to go on the road and write and perform as a solo, in a duo, or in a band from California to New England to the Caribbean for 20 years.
After he resumed his legal career, Sun's General Counsel, John Croll hired Bruce in 1997. After that, John tapped Bruce to perform a short segment of his songs and parodies as an entertainment break at the Sun legal All-Hands conferences in Silicon Valley and elsewhere around the country (including the Hard Rock Cafe in Las Vegas).
Bruce stayed with Sun Legal, becoming Assistant General Counsel in 2008 before Oracle acquired Sun in 2010 where Bruce remained until retiring in 2020.
These 4 songs consist of a barbershop song arrangement about nearby San Francisco, "Java," about Sun's trademark infringement case against Microsoft at the time, "That Lonesome Road" with Bruce digitally generating 3 harmony parts triggered by his lead vocal per pre-programmed chord changes. Closing the set is one of his parodies about office life, "Black Magic Marker."
Back in the day, Bruce opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic and had over 150 song plays on Dr. Demento. Though Bruce is retired, he continues to write, record, and upload his original songs, parodies and videos to his blog loosebrucekerr.com, YouTube, and other platforms.
He lives with his wife, Linda, in northern California where they are expecting 2 new kittens.
email: BKerrLaw@aol.com
"DO LET'S DO" (live in 1979) features the band, SPUD CITY led by Bruce Kerr (later: songwriter-parodist, Loose Bruce Kerr) and his boyhood friend from hometown, Waukesha, Wisconsin, Steve Hoeft. On drums: Tyke Ten Eyck from St. Croix, US Virgin Islands, bass: Mickey Marien from New York.
This rather rough, live, recording captured at the University of Lowell is a rare one from back in the day. Spud City played gigs in the late 1970's from the top of Vermont ski lodges down to Greenwich, Connecticut and east to Cape Cod. The main stage at the University of Lowell in Massachusetts had the band doing an all-original show except for their opening number, a barbershop arrangement of "The Oscar Meyer Wiener Song." "Do Let's Do" followed that opening in front of about 3,000 college students at their spring concert in 1979.
Steve & Bruce play electric guitars, Tyke on drums, Mickey on bass, and all 4 sing the vocals. Bruce sings lead and the last chorus features a combo of Steve on chorus against Bruce on verse simultaneously. It's swing time, baby! (l to r: Mickey Marien, Bruce Kerr, Steve Hoeft, Tyke Ten Eyck - turn your phone 90 degrees to see full photo)
https://youtu.be/xrdTWv-B6cs Congress is vetting Donald Trump's Cabinet appointees this week against a backdrop of Greenland, Canada, Panama and (pick your fear). I woke up with an earworm of a Rodgers & Hammerstein song and, well, this is what happens when things mix up. Enjoy this parody video. You may or may not agree, freedom!
https://youtu.be/xrdTWv-B6cs
cheers,
Bruce
Loose Bruce Kerr
Loose Bruce Kerr wrote, recorded & performed his original show (solo/duo/New England band in the 1970’s) for 20 years before returning to law and ending up Assistant General Counsel for Sun Microsystems in Silicon Valley and then as a Deal Manager at Oracle after it acquired Sun. He opened for “Weird Al” Yankovic back in the day and has over 150 song plays on the Doctor Demento Show.
In 2022, his romantic holiday original, “Christmas Is You” was published in 5-part jazz a cappella format by Fred Bock Music, distributed by Hal Leonard.
Today, Bruce is a retired lawyer in northern California with his Waukesha, Wisconsin hometown wife, Linda, and cats but continues to write and record his originals and song parodies. His videos and some audios are on youtube and all his audios & videos are available for streaming and/or downloading for free on his podcast loosebrucekerr.com.
Email Bruce at: BKerrLaw@aol.com
“IT'S BORING IN THE COUNTRY,” (AUDIO) Spud City LIVE at the University of Lowell auditorium main stage, 3000 packed seats.
Spud City played across New England in 1977-79, formed by hometown friends of Waukesha, Wisconsin, Steve Hoeft & Bruce Kerr. Other members were drummer, Tyke Ten Eyck, Dave Giordino (later replaced on bass by Mickey Marien, Mickey plays on this song).
This is one of Bruce’s songs performed by the band live here and influenced by the folk group, the Limeliters and their satirical, topical folk songs performed in the early 1960’s by Steve’s and Bruce’s old folk group, the Coachmen in Waukesha, Wisconsin.
Loose Bruce inserted a 20-year performing and recording career into his 2 periods as an attorney. He's retired now from his latest 23-year term practicing law, most recently at Oracle. Before that, he was Assistant General Counsel at Sun Microsystems before Oracle acquired it. He continues to record his songs and videos in his garage studio in northern California. He sings and plays each part or instrument one at a time, then mixes it down to create the full recording.
Back in the day, he opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic. He's an irregular feature of the Dr. Demento Show on the internet (150 songplays since 1987).
His mp3 audio songs and mp4 videos can be streamed or downloaded for free at loosebrucekerr.com. Also, his videos are available for streaming on youtube.
email Bruce at: BKerrLaw@aol.com
“TIME TO START NEXT CHRISTMAS” is a satirical song by songwriter-recordist, Loose Bruce Kerr. Tongue-firmly-in-cheek, Bruce suggests we all redecorate in January while all placements are still fresh in mind. The song’s style reflects the Christmas songs of Bruce’s youth in the 1950’s & 60’s in Waukesha, Wisconsin.
Loose Bruce Kerr wrote, recorded & performed his original show (solo/duo/New England band in the 1970’s) for 20 years before returning to law and ending up Assistant General Counsel for Sun Microsystems in Silicon Valley and then as a Deal Manager at Oracle after it acquired Sun. He opened for “Weird Al” Yankovic back in the day and has over 150 song plays on the Doctor Demento Show.
In 2022, his romantic holiday original, “Christmas Is You” was published in 5-part jazz a cappella format by Fred Bock Music, distributed by Hal Leonard.
Today, Bruce is a retired lawyer in northern California with his Waukesha, Wisconsin hometown wife, Linda, and cats but continues to write and record his originals and song parodies. His videos and some audios are on youtube and all his audios & videos are available for streaming and/or downloading for free on his podcast loosebrucekerr.com.
Email Bruce at: BKerrLaw@aol.com
3 versions of the Loose Bruce Kerr parody, "THE LEADER OF IRAQ" exist: 1) 1988 audio with 1989 video taped at Sparky's Waterfront Saloon on the Caribbean island of St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands; Sadaam v. Iran's Ayatolah; 2) 1990 audio version, lyrics document Sadaam's invasion of Kuwait & US response; and 3) 2003 audio, lyrics document the US invasion of Iraq & toppling of Sadaam.
The first 2 versions, '88 & '90 were played by Doctor Demento on his show a few times.
This is the 3rd version. The first in video is on youtube and downloadable here, as well. The 2nd version, audio, is also available here on this podcast by searching on the title.
Loose Bruce Kerr is a songwriter and parodist and is an irregular feature on the Dr. Demento Show. Bruce took 20 years off from his budding law career to write, record & perform his songs in a solo act, duo with Steve Hoeft, also of Waukesha, Wisconsin, as well as in a band, Spud City in New England in the late 1970's with Steve, Tyke Ten Eycke and Mickey Marien.
After resuming his law career after the 20 year stint, Bruce started over and worked his way up to Assistant General Counsel at Sun Microsystems, and finally Deal Manager at Oracle. He is now retired but continues to write, record, and post his new original and parody songs & videos to youtube, this podcast, and other social media platforms.
this podcast: loosebrucekerr.com
3 versions of the Loose Bruce Kerr parody, "THE LEADER OF IRAQ" exist: 1) 1988 audio with 1989 video taped at Sparky's Waterfront Saloon on the Caribbean island of St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands; Sadaam v. Iran's Ayatolah; 2) 1990 audio version, lyrics document Sadaam's invasion of Kuwait & US response; and 3) 2003 audio, lyrics document the US invasion of Iraq & toppling of Sadaam.
The first 2 versions, '88 & '90 were played by Doctor Demento on his show a few times.
This is the 2nd version. The first in video is on youtube and downloadable here, as well. The 3rd version, audio, is also available here on this podcast by searching on the title.
Loose Bruce Kerr is a songwriter and parodist and is an irregular feature on the Dr. Demento Show. Bruce took 20 years off from his budding law career to write, record & perform his songs in a solo act, duo with Steve Hoeft, also of Waukesha, Wisconsin, as well as in a band, Spud City in New England in the late 1970's with Steve, Tyke Ten Eycke and Mickey Marien.
After resuming his law career after the 20 year stint, Bruce started over and worked his way up to Assistant General Counsel at Sun Microsystems, and finally Deal Manager at Oracle. He is now retired but continues to write, record, and post his new original and parody songs & videos to youtube, this podcast, and other social media platforms.
this podcast: loosebrucekerr.com
email Bruce: BKerrLaw@aol.com
"SILVER WHERE?" (audio-slide) is a holiday parody by Loose Bruce Kerr of "Silver Bells" and speaks of the many forks, knives, and spoons often facing up at you at some dinner.
Which to use? When? WHY? Bruce plays guitar, mandolin, bass, & sings.
Loose Bruce inserted a 20-year performing and recording career into his 2 periods as an attorney. He's retired now from his latest 23-year term practicing law, most recently at Oracle. Before that, he was Assistant General Counsel at Sun Microsystems before Oracle acquired it. He continues to record his songs and videos in his garage studio. He sings and plays each part or instrument one at a time, then mixes it down to create the full recording.
Back in the day, he opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic. He's an irregular feature of the Dr. Demento Show on the internet (150 songplays since 1987).
His mp3 audio songs and mp4 videos can be streamed or downloaded for free at loosebrucekerr.com.
email Bruce at BKerrLaw@aol.com
"SILENCED NIGHT" is the audio-slide parody by Loose Bruce Kerr of the Christmas classic, "Silent Night." It bemoans our ever-present smart phones and their disrupting capability in our lives.
Loose Bruce inserted a 20-year performing and recording career into his 2 periods as an attorney. He's retired now from his latest 23-year term practicing law, most recently at Oracle. Before that, he was Assistant General Counsel at Sun Microsystems before Oracle acquired it. He continues to record his songs and videos in his garage studio. He sings and plays each part or instrument one at a time, then mixes it down to create the full recording.
Back in the day, he opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic. He's an irregular feature of the Dr. Demento Show on the internet (150 songplays since 1987).
His mp3 audio songs and mp4 videos can be streamed or downloaded for free at loosebrucekerr.com.
email Bruce at BKerrLaw@aol.com
"YOU GIVE GOLF A BAD NAME" is a VIDEO SLIDE SHOW & AUDIO by Loose Bruce Kerr, parody on Trump per the Bon Jovi hit, "You Give Love a Bad Name."
Whether you're a Republican, Democrat, Independent, or asleep, we're just having some fun.
Loose Bruce inserted a 20-year performing and recording career into his 2 periods as an attorney. He's retired now from his latest 23-year term practicing law, most recently at Oracle. Before that, he was Assistant General Counsel at Sun Microsystems before Oracle acquired it.
He continues to record his songs and videos in his garage studio in northern California. He sings and plays each part or instrument one at a time, then mixes it down to create the full recording. Back in the day, he opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic. He's an irregular feature of the Dr. Demento Show on the internet (150 song plays since 1987).
His mp3 audio songs and mp4 videos can be streamed or downloaded for free at loosebrucekerr.com.
email Bruce at BKerrLaw@aol.com
Oct. 3, 2024 is the 29th anniversary of the not guilty verdict for O.J. Simpson. During the trial that preceding summer of 1995, we released the only known 3.5” PC diskette “single” live multitrack recording of this parody song (“O.J.-0h” to tune: “Day-O”) with an accompanying computer-generated moving (barely) graphic. This was years before video became available on computers. YouTube started 10 years later, in 2005. The diskette sold on a display rack by the check-out at Tower Records stores in Silicon Valley (Palo Alto & Campbell) at $4.99 a copy wrapped in a see-through plastic…glove (of course). Here’s the RECENTLY CONVERTED video of that 1995 diskette PC audio-visual as reconstructed using various programs by my former Sun Microsystems engineer whiz-cat colleague, E. Michael Durbin. The original audio-visual diskette was a collaboration of another whiz-cat engineer Lee Baxter and myself. A copy is lodged in the Computer History Museum in Fremont, California. Enjoy this 45 rpm vinyl-era “single” release, but which came out on a red 3.5” computer diskette. With “moving pictures!” Or maybe, “quivering pictures.” Only one of its kind in captivity.
In the late 1970's in New England, from the north of Vermont down to Westport, Connecticut, throughout Maine, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts one found, if one was fortunate, the hardest working regional band in rock history, "SPUD CITY - Music with A Peel."
A creation of 2 guys from Waukesha, Wisconsin, Steve Hoeft ("Superstar Steve") and Loose Bruce Kerr, this band did Bruce's originals and just enough cover songs in wild ways to get booked into every bar, club, ski lodge and wherever anyone wanted a night of fun entertainment, flaming electric guitars, drums, bass, banjo & mandolin, comedy and satire.
"MY 1943 FORD-CHEVROLET," a car song Bruce had written back in the early 70's pointed out that, during WWII, Detroit switched from doing the latest cool cars to tanks, half-tracks, etc. The very latest models were tricked-out (cannons, machine guns), sold by the 100's of thousands (the Allies couldn't get enough) and actually conquered not just the military market, but the whole world. Certainly beat the Japanese and German models. (However, they did make a reputable comeback years later, what with their BMW's and Toyotas).
Steve on slide electric guitar and background vocals (& effects), Bruce on lead vocal and acoustic guitar, Tyke Ten Eyke on drums and background vocals, Mickey Marien on bass and background vocals.
"My 1943 Ford-Chevrolet," live, University of Lowell, 3500 college kids in a packed auditorium, 1978.
Bono of U2 sang Peggy Seeger (Pete Seeger's half-sister) & Ewan MacColl's "The Ballad of Springhill," here's... “SPRINGFIELD PET DISASTER” (to tune: “The Ballad of Springhill” by Peggy Seeger & Ewan MacColl, as performed by U2)
Here, to the tune of "Maria" (ma-rye-ah) as sung by the Kingston Trio, is "PARIAH" by songwriter & parodist Loose Bruce Kerr, a song about Donald Trump and the 2024 Presidential campaign.
Loose Bruce inserted a 20-year performing and recording career into his 2 periods as an attorney. He's retired now from his latest 23-year term practicing law, most recently at Oracle. Before that, he was Assistant General Counsel at Sun Microsystems before Oracle acquired it.
He continues to record his songs and videos in his garage studio. He sings and plays each part or instrument one at a time, then mixes it down to create the full recording. Back in the day, he opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic. He's an irregular feature of the Dr. Demento Show on the internet (150 song plays since 1987).
His mp3 audio songs and mp4 videos can be streamed or downloaded for free at loosebrucekerr.com.
email Bruce at BKerrLaw@aol.com
Here, to the tune of "Maria" (ma-rye-ah) as sung by the Kingston Trio, is "PARIAH" by songwriter & parodist Loose Bruce Kerr, a song about Donald Trump and the 2024 Presidential campaign.
Loose Bruce inserted a 20-year performing and recording career into his 2 periods as an attorney. He's retired now from his latest 23-year term practicing law, most recently at Oracle. Before that, he was Assistant General Counsel at Sun Microsystems before Oracle acquired it. He continues to record his songs and videos in his garage studio. He sings and plays each part or instrument one at a time, then mixes it down to create the full recording.
Back in the day, he opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic. He's an irregular feature of the Dr. Demento Show on the internet (150 song plays since 1987).
His mp3 audio songs and mp4 videos can be streamed or downloaded for free at loosebrucekerr.com.
email Bruce at BKerrLaw@aol.com
It's National Canada Day! And to celebrate our Canadian friends, here's a parody from 1996, multiple plays on the Dr. Demento Show, based on "Heads Carolina, Tails California" by Jo Dee Messina. Recently redone by Cole Swindell & Jo Dee (great version) here's the celebrate-Canada version: "HEADS NOVA SCOTIA, TAILS UP DA NORT POLE" by song parodist, Loose Bruce Kerr.
Loose Bruce inserted a 20-year performing and recording career into his 2 periods as an attorney. He's retired now from his latest 23-year term practicing law, most recently at Oracle. Before that, he was Assistant General Counsel at Sun Microsystems before Oracle acquired it. He continues to record his songs and videos in his garage studio. He sings and plays each part or instrument one at a time, then mixes it down to create the full recording.
Back in the day, he opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic. He's an irregular feature of the Dr. Demento Show on the internet (150 songplays since 1987).
His mp3 audio songs and mp4 videos can be streamed or downloaded for free at loosebrucekerr.com.
email Bruce at BKerrLaw@aol.com
THE CICADAS ARE COMING! THE CICADAS ARE COMING! (the Russians are otherwise "occupied")
Here's a Loose Bruce Kerr song parody to a Beatles song about the co-emergence of 2 types of cicadas this summer, maybe coming to your hometown. At 64 degrees, they crawl up through the ground and onto trees & bushes where the males sing their hearts out in hopes of getting lucky!
Here's "WHEN IT'S 64."
Bruce plays the instruments and background vocals one at a time using multitrack recording invented by his town-mate (from Waukesha, Wisconsin), Les Paul, then sings live along with it for the video. Loose Bruce inserted a 20-year performing and recording career into his 2 periods as an attorney. He's retired now from his latest 23-year term practicing law, most recently at Oracle. Before that, he was Assistant General Counsel at Sun Microsystems before Oracle acquired it.
He continues to record his songs and videos in his garage studio. Back in the day, he opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic. He's an irregular feature of the Dr. Demento Show on the internet (over 140 songplays since 1987) and on the Jim Bohannon nationally syndicated radio show where his songs have been played many times over the decades.
His mp3 audio songs and mp4 videos can be streamed or downloaded for free at loosebrucekerr.com.
email Bruce at BKerrLaw@aol.com
Silicon Valley was growing fast in the mid-1990's when I recorded this parody, 2 years or so before I found a long-term home at Sun Microsystems in the legal department.
It's to the tune of "Birdland" which had been a hit with Weather Report as well as Manhattan Transfer. It was the latter on which I based this parody, "NERDLAND."
In our garage in Mountain View (but of course) I laid down the vocals & instruments one at a time, including a digital drum machine thanks to integrated circuits developed nearby. And multi-tracked 1 part at a time onto my TEAC 4-track cassette deck thanks to my hometownie, Les Paul.
How many references in the lyrics to names of innovators, companies, etc. in early Silicon Valley days can you recall?
Loose Bruce inserted a 20-year performing and recording career into his 2 periods as an attorney. He's retired now from his latest 23-year term practicing law, most recently at Oracle. Before that, he was Assistant General Counsel at Sun Microsystems before Oracle acquired it. He continues to record his songs and videos in his garage studio. He sings and plays each part or instrument one at a time, then mixes it down to create the full recording.
Back in the day, he opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic. He's an irregular feature of the Dr. Demento Show on the internet (150 songplays since 1987).
His mp3 audio songs and mp4 videos can be streamed or downloaded for free at loosebrucekerr.com.
email Bruce at BKerrLaw@aol.com
"GO TAKE THE WATER" (audio with still shot of Hygeia Mineral Spring, late 1800's) is Loose Bruce Kerr's newest original recording, about his hometown, Waukesha, Wisconsin and its roots as being a world-renowned health resort town in the late 1800's-early 1900's. Its mineral-rich groundwater was held out to be a miracle and life-changing for "whatever ails ya." Hundreds of trains rolled in daily, huge grand hotels were erected for health-seeking guests. The town prospered on their thirst for the healing water. It was called "The Great Waukesha Springs Era."
Bruce's great-grandfather, James M. Kerr managed one of the town's springs, Hygeia Mineral Spring, starting in 1894.
Loose Bruce inserted a 20-year performing and recording career into his 2 periods as an attorney. He's retired now from his latest 23-year term practicing law, most recently at Oracle. Before that, he was Assistant General Counsel at Sun Microsystems before Oracle acquired it. He continues to record his songs and videos in his garage studio. He sings and plays each part or instrument one at a time, then mixes it down to create the full recording.
Back in the day, he opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic. He's an irregular feature of the Dr. Demento Show on the internet (150 songplays since 1987).
His mp3 audio songs and mp4 videos can be streamed or downloaded for free at loosebrucekerr.com.
email Bruce at BKerrLaw@aol.com
"GO TAKE THE WATER" (audio) is Loose Bruce Kerr's newest original recording, about his hometown, Waukesha, Wisconsin and its roots as being a world-renowned health resort town in the late 1800's-early 1900's. Its mineral-rich groundwater was held out to be a miracle and life-changing for "whatever ails ya." Hundreds of trains rolled in daily, huge grand hotels were erected for health-seeking guests. The town prospered on their thirst for the healing water. It was called "The Great Waukesha Springs Era."
Bruce's great-grandfather, James M. Kerr managed one of the town's springs, Hygeia Mineral Spring, starting in 1894.
Loose Bruce inserted a 20-year performing and recording career into his 2 periods as an attorney. He's retired now from his latest 23-year term practicing law, most recently at Oracle. Before that, he was Assistant General Counsel at Sun Microsystems before Oracle acquired it. He continues to record his songs and videos in his garage studio. He sings and plays each part or instrument one at a time, then mixes it down to create the full recording.
Back in the day, he opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic. He's an irregular feature of the Dr. Demento Show on the internet (150 songplays since 1987).
His mp3 audio songs and mp4 videos can be streamed or downloaded for free at loosebrucekerr.com.
email Bruce at BKerrLaw@aol.com
We all love Christmas but sometimes it can get to be too much!
So here’s the VIDEO version of a new holiday parody in 5-part harmony to the tune of Bing Crosby's "White Christmas": "SKIP CHRISTMAS.”The audio mp3 is also available for streaming or download on this podcast page.
Loose Bruce inserted a 20-year performing and recording career into his 2 periods as an attorney. He's retired now from his latest 23-year term practicing law, most recently at Oracle. Before that, he was Assistant General Counsel at Sun Microsystems before Oracle acquired it. He continues to record his songs and videos in his garage studio.
Back in the day, he opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic. He's an irregular feature of the Dr. Demento Show on the internet (150 songplays since 1987) and on the Jim Bohannon syndicated radio show where his songs have been played many times over the years.
His mp3 audio songs and mp4 videos can be streamed or downloaded for free at loosebrucekerr.com.
email Bruce at BKerrLaw@aol.com
Here's a new holiday parody to the tune of Bing Crosby's "White Christmas": "SKIP CHRISTMAS." 6-part harmony. This version is the straight parody w/o the Spike Jones bit in the middle (that other version also available on this podcast site).
Loose Bruce inserted a 20-year performing and recording career into his 2 periods as an attorney. He's retired now from his latest 23-year term practicing law, most recently at Oracle. Before that, he was Assistant General Counsel at Sun Microsystems before Oracle acquired it.
He continues to record his songs and videos in his garage studio. Back in the day, he opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic. He's an irregular feature of the Dr. Demento Show on the internet (140 songplays since 1987) and on the Jim Bohannon syndicated radio show where his songs have been played many times over the years.
His mp3 audio songs and mp4 videos can be streamed or downloaded for free at loosebrucekerr.com.
email Bruce at BKerrLaw@aol.com
Here's a new holiday parody to the tune of Bing Crosby's "White Christmas": "SKIP CHRISTMAS," a tribute to Spike Jones & His City Slickers. Enjoy!
On this podcast site, I'll also upload the audio of the version of Skip Christmas that's a straight parody, no Spike Jones bit.
Loose Bruce inserted a 20-year performing and recording career into his 2 periods as an attorney. He's retired now from his latest 23-year term practicing law, most recently at Oracle. Before that, he was Assistant General Counsel at Sun Microsystems before Oracle acquired it.
He continues to record his songs and videos in his garage studio. Back in the day, he opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic. He's an irregular feature of the Dr. Demento Show on the internet (140 songplays since 1987) and on the Jim Bohannon syndicated radio show where his songs have been played many times over the years.
His mp3 audio songs and mp4 videos can be streamed or downloaded for free at loosebrucekerr.com.
email Bruce at BKerrLaw@aol.com
"MY PHYSICAL THINGS" (VIDEO ) is Loose Bruce Kerr's latest song parody to the tune of "My Favorite Things" by Rodgers & Hammerstein from their 1960's musical, "The Sound of Music."
The parody's lyrics are about the health challenges of people over 60 (of which Bruce is one) and lists conditions many of us face. Not exactly our favorite things, but clearly, physical ones.
Loose Bruce inserted a 20-year performing and recording career into his 2 periods as an attorney. He's retired now from his latest 23-year term practicing law, most recently at Oracle. Before that, he was Assistant General Counsel at Sun Microsystems before Oracle acquired it.
He continues to record his songs and videos in his garage studio. Back in the day, he opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic. He's an irregular feature of the Dr. Demento Show on the internet (140 songplays since 1987) and on the Jim Bohannon syndicated radio show where his songs have been played many times over the years.
His mp3 audio songs and mp4 videos can be streamed or downloaded for free at loosebrucekerr.com.
email Bruce at BKerrLaw@aol.com
"MY PHYSICAL THINGS" (AUDIO) is Loose Bruce Kerr's latest song parody to the tune of "My Favorite Things" by Rodgers & Hammerstein from their 1960's musical, "The Sound of Music."
The parody's lyrics are about the health challenges of people over 60 (of which Bruce is one) and lists conditions many of us face. Not exactly our favorite things, but clearly, physical ones.
Loose Bruce inserted a 20-year performing and recording career into his 2 periods as an attorney. He's retired now from his latest 23-year term practicing law, most recently at Oracle. Before that, he was Assistant General Counsel at Sun Microsystems before Oracle acquired it.
He continues to record his songs and videos in his garage studio. Back in the day, he opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic. He's an irregular feature of the Dr. Demento Show on the internet (140 songplays since 1987) and on the Jim Bohannon syndicated radio show where his songs have been played many times over the years.
His mp3 audio songs and mp4 videos can be streamed or downloaded for free at loosebrucekerr.com.
email Bruce at BKerrLaw@aol.com
"ALL THE SINGLE MATEYS!" by "Kidd Beyonce" (a k a Loose Bruce Kerr) for International Talk Like a Pirate Day, Tuesday Sept 19, 2023
Tuesday, Sept 19, is International Talk Like a Pirate Day. Here’s “Kidd Beyonce” (a k a Loose Bruce Kerr) short bit parodying the Beyonce megahit, this time entitled, “ALL THE SINGLE MATEYS!”
Loose Bruce inserted a 20-year performing and recording career into his 2 periods as an attorney. He's retired now from his latest 23 year term practicing law, most recently at Oracle. Before that, he was Assistant General Counsel at Sun Microsystems before Oracle acquired it.
He continues to record his songs and videos in his garage studio. Back in the day, he opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic. He's an irregular feature of the Dr. Demento Show on the internet (140 songplays since 1987) and on the Jim Bohannon syndicated radio show where his songs have been played many times over the years.
His mp3 audio songs and mp4 videos can be streamed or downloaded for free at loosebrucekerr.com. email Bruce at BKerrLaw@aol.com
Loose Bruce Kerr's poem/lyric about his hometown of Waukesha, Wisconsin
“YOU CAME FROM WAUKESHA” by Loose Bruce Kerr
- If you wanted water pure Or a grand resort to tour YOU CAME TO WAUKESHA For a motor running true Or a generator new YOU CAME TO WAUKESHA
Want a hazy, lazy river Or somebody to deliver all your dairy and a paper to your door? You could do worse by far Than turning ‘round your car and instead, YOU CAME TO WAUKESHA
- For the yellows, reds and greens Of the Kettle Morraine scenes YOU CAME TO WAUKESHA Best in sports and all the schools The best neighborhoods and pools YOU CAME TO WAUKESHA
Ask any stranger on the street ‘twas the path to surely beat If you just follow your feet you end up there For a job or Carroll College If you had or needed knowledge then at last, YOU CAME TO WAUKESHA
- If you had your head on straight Had the finest girls to date YOU CAME FROM WAUKESHA If your parents loved you so And were sad to let you go YOU LEFT FROM WAUKESHA
Need some help from helping hands Or some kickass local bands or some Jimmy’s, Scrima’s, Rode’s, Schley’s and more Take a mudbath or decline Know...the...name...of..."Rheiney Hein”* Then it’s your hometown and mine YOU CAME FROM WAUKESHA
(*R.G. Hein, Waukesha Superintendent of Schools, circa 1950’s-60’s, with apologies to our CMH compatriots)
"I AM BROKE AGAIN" (Willy Nelson parody by Loose Bruce Kerr) is AUDIO to: "On The Road Again" re Willy's 1990's tax problems.
Loose Bruce Kerr released the parody in the 1991 where it was featured on the Dr. Demento Show on nationally syndicated radio (Bruce has had over 140 songplays on Dr. D) and the Jim Bohannon Show on Westwood One radio stations.
Back in the day, Bruce opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic. After 20 years of performing, writing & producing songs, Bruce returned to his original career as a lawyer, becoming Assistant General Counsel of Sun Microsystems in Silicon Valley, then finishing at Oracle and is now retired.
He lives with his wife & cat in northern California where he continues to write, record & video his parodies & originals.
all his songs & videos are available to stream and/or download for free at loosebrucekerr.com
email: BKerrLaw@aol.com
May 3, 2023 next week marks the 36th anniversary of the Miami Herald picture of Gary Hart, presidential candidate, seated on "Monkey Business," a sailboat with Donna Rice on his lap. By May 8th, he was out of the race. Before he bailed, for a few nights, I was singing this parody to a Frank Sinatra song in my club act, here it is, late at night, live in the Bay Area. Pour yourself a drink and...
Loose Bruce inserted a 20-year performing and recording career into his 2 periods as an attorney. He's retired now from his latest 23 year term practicing law, most recently at Oracle. Before that, he was Assistant General Counsel at Sun Microsystems before Oracle acquired it.
He continues to record his songs and videos in his garage studio. Back in the day, he opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic. He's an irregular feature of the Dr. Demento Show on the internet (140 song plays since 1987) and on the Jim Bohannon syndicated radio show where his songs have been played many times over the years.
-His mp3 audio songs and mp4 videos can be streamed or downloaded for free at loosebrucekerr.com.
-email Bruce at BKerrLaw@aol.com
“CHRISTMAS IS YOU” is Loose Bruce Kerr’s 5-part a capella harmony, romantic holiday song as arranged by Zach Yaholkovsky. It was recently contracted for release by world-wide music publisher Fred Bock Music through its BMI subsidiary, distributed by the Hal Leonard organization.
Bruce Kerr, a k a "Loose Bruce Kerr," is a songwiter, music & video producer, and retired attorney in northern California. He returned to law following an earlier 20-year career as a performer, solo, duo, band in the 1970's & '80's, becoming Assistant General Counsel for Sun Microsystems, acquired in 2010 by Oracle. His originals and parodies have been played over 140 times on the Dr. Demento Show from 1987-to-present.
He opened for “Weird Al” Yankovic back in the day. "CHRISTMAS IS YOU" is one of his more recent songs. This 5-part a capella recording was produced by the publisher to help promote the song & sheet music arrangement (SSATB) to high schools, colleges, and community vocal groups.
email Bruce at BKerrLaw@aol.com
podcast (free audios & videos): www.loosebrucekerr.com
“CHRISTMAS IS YOU” is Loose Bruce Kerr’s 5-part a capella harmony, romantic holiday song as arranged by Zach Yaholkovsky. It was recently contracted for release by world-wide music publisher Fred Bock Music through its BMI subsidiary, distributed by the Hal Leonard organization.
Bruce Kerr, a k a "Loose Bruce Kerr," is a songwiter, music & video producer, and retired attorney in northern California. He returned to law following an earlier 20-year career as a performer, solo, duo, band in the 1970's & '80's, becoming Assistant General Counsel for Sun Microsystems, acquired in 2010 by Oracle. His originals and parodies have been played over 140 times on the Dr. Demento Show from 1987-to-present.
He opened for “Weird Al” Yankovic back in the day. "CHRISTMAS IS YOU" is one of his more recent songs. This 5-part a capella recording was produced by the publisher to help promote the song & sheet music arrangement (SSATB) to high schools, colleges, and community vocal groups.
email Bruce at BKerrLaw@aol.com
podcast (free audios & videos): www.loosebrucekerr.com
"I AM HE/HIM" is Loose Bruce Kerr's newest live AUDIO song parody about pronouns. Do you want to be referred to as he/she, her/him, they/them/whoever? And if you're in a couple and people call you "them" is it just you or both of you? Here, Helen Reddy's hit song, "I Am Woman" takes a new, current turn for these times, just for fun.
Loose Bruce inserted a 20-year performing and recording career into his 2 periods as an attorney. He's retired now from his latest 23 year term practicing law, most recently at Oracle. Before that, he was Assistant General Counsel at Sun Microsystems before Oracle acquired it.
He continues to record his songs and videos in his garage studio. Back in the day, he opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic. He's an irregular feature of the Dr. Demento Show on the internet (140 song plays since 1987) and on the Jim Bohannon syndicated radio show where his songs have been played many times over the years.
His mp3 audio songs and mp4 videos can be streamed or downloaded for free at loosebrucekerr.com. Email Bruce at BKerrLaw@aol.com
"I AM HE/HIM" is Loose Bruce Kerr's newest live VIDEO song parody about pronouns. Do you want to be referred to as he/she, her/him, they/them/whoever? And if you're in a couple and people call you "them" is it just you or both of you? Here, Helen Reddy's hit song, "I Am Woman" takes a new, current turn for these times, just for fun.
Loose Bruce inserted a 20-year performing and recording career into his 2 periods as an attorney. He's retired now from his latest 23 year term practicing law, most recently at Oracle. Before that, he was Assistant General Counsel at Sun Microsystems before Oracle acquired it.
He continues to record his songs and videos in his garage studio. Back in the day, he opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic. He's an irregular feature of the Dr. Demento Show on the internet (140 song plays since 1987) and on the Jim Bohannon syndicated radio show where his songs have been played many times over the years.
His mp3 audio songs and mp4 videos can be streamed or downloaded for free at loosebrucekerr.com. Email Bruce at BKerrLaw@aol.com
After a lull of 7 years since meeting up last, the Coachmen, Waukesha, Wisconsin's folk song quartet from 1959 to 1965 (junior high through senior year of high school) all of 'em (Rich Reaves, Walt Galloway, Steve Hoeft, Bruce Kerr), flew back from Georgia, Rhode Island, Idaho, and California to their hometown of Waukesha, Wisconsin, to perform at their high school maestro's Memorial Service, for James Machan on a Saturday in June of 2022.
The day before the Memorial, the boys regrouped to perform as former jocks (Waukesha's legendary high school swim champions dynasty, 1958-75) and "Blackshirts" at their hometown's "Blackshirts Breakfast Group," hosted by backstroker & hometown legend, Bill Schley. Frivolity ensued as this videoclip evidences. Following breakfast, the quartet donned some of their remaining instruments to perform "M.T.A," originally by the Kingston Trio, one of their mentor groups as the learned to sing & play together as pre-Beatles young "lads." From Mrs. Kamradt's 7th grade music classroom to the present, the group has had a 63 year run.
After graduating high school in 1965, Steve went on to graphic arts, Walt as a scientist at the EPA, and Rich and Bruce became lawyers. In the late 70's, 2 Coachmen, Steve & Bruce quit their jobs and went on the road as a duo ("Winterwood"), adding bass & drums to become a rock band in their 30's, "Spud City," which played New England & Virgin Islands' resorts, bars, nightclubs and college pubs until 1980.
Following that, Steve went back to work and Bruce played clubs until 1992 after which he got a real job for 23 years. All the "lads" are now retired, but find ways to link up every once in a while. Were you there? ;)
"MICKEY MOUSE" (audio parody-mp3) is Loose Bruce Kerr's latest song about Florida's Gov. DeSantis and the state of Florida vs. the Disney Corporation pitting the governor against Mickey Mouse (and his millions of minions, lifetime members of the Mickey Mouse Club of the 1950's & 60's).
Loose Bruce Kerr is a song parodist and retired attorney in northern California who has had over 140 song plays on the Dr. Demento Show, and opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic back in the day.
loosebrucekerr.com
email: BKerrLaw@aol.com
"DOUBLE SHOT" is a Loose Bruce Kerr song from 1975, recorded with his duo (then band) partner, Waukesha, Wisconsin's Steve Hoeft, a long-time buddy of Bruce's who joined him on the road in 1976.
They traveled the country in a light blue 1951 Chevy Schoolbus conversion. Landing in Vermont for a period, they recorded "DOUBLE SHOT" with a band at the U of VT whose house they were parked next to in Burlington, at an amazing studio out in the sticks. The flip side was "FREEDOM CALL," also available for download from this podcast. Soon after, Steve and Bruce added drums & bass to the show for a couple years' run in New England.
Loose Bruce Kerr interrupted his legal career for 20 years to hit the road to write, perform and produce his songs and parodies (over 140 song plays on Dr. Demento since 1987). Resuming his legal career in 1993, Bruce became Assistant General Counsel at Sun Microsystems, then finished up at Oracle, retiring in 2021.
www.loosebrucekerr.com
email: BKerrLaw@aol.com
"FREEDOM CALL" is a Loose Bruce Kerr song from 1974 about the 2 young American women who were hitchhiking on a truck in Turkey which turned out to have hash hidden in it. Turkish authorities threw them in jail with no process for release, and the US government, then with Richard Nixon at the helm, could have cared less.
Bruce was living in L.A. at the time and read a People Magazine story on it and wrote the tune. About 4 years later Steve Hoeft, an old Waukesha, Wisconsin buddy of Bruce's had joined him on the road, traveling the country in a light blue 1951 Chevy Schoolbus conversion, adding his vocal, banjo, and guitars to the show. Landing in Vermont for a period, they recorded "Freedom Call" with a band at the U of VT whose house they were parked next to in Burlington, at an amazing studio out in the sticks. The flip side was "Double Shot," also available for download from this podcast. Soon after, Steve and Bruce added drums & bass to the band for a couple years' run in New England.
Loose Bruce Kerr interrupted his legal career for 20 years to hit the road to write, perform and produce his songs and parodies (over 140 song plays on Dr. Demento since 1987). Resuming his legal career in 1993, Bruce became Assistant General Counsel at Sun Microsystems, then finished up at Oracle, retiring in 2021.
www.loosebrucekerr.com
email: BKerrLaw@aol.com
"FRIENDS WILL BE THERE FOR YOU" - Audio MP3 is Loose Bruce Kerr's latest original song, orchestrated and sung by Bruce, one track at a time (thank you, Les Paul, also of Waukesha, WI).
"MAY I?" is a modern-traditional love song by songwriter-parodist Loose Bruce Kerr with the feel of a 1930's style. The song has both 4/4 time signature sections and a 3/4 (waltz) section.
Loose Bruce Kerr lives in northern California with his wife and 2 cats. He is from Waukesha, Wisconsin (home to Les Paul who invented the electric guitar and multi-track recording). Bruce uses multi-track (32 tracks, these days) to record his vocals and instruments (many synthesized, e.g., french horns, cellos) one at a time.
He interrupted his legal career in 1973 to take 20 years off to write, record, and perform his songs, including on the road as a solo, duo (with Waukesha's Steve Hoeft) and full rock band ("Spud City" with Steve, Tyke Van Eyke and Mickey Marien) in New England in the late 1970's. As a solo, Bruce opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic and his parodies have been heard on the Dr. Demento Show over 140 times.
In 1993, Bruce resumed his legal career, ending up Assistant General Counsel at Sun Microsystems and later working for Oracle. Retired, now, he continues to write & record his songs in his garage studio and uploads video performances to youtube and his podcast loosebrucekerr.com.
His 5-part a cappella Christmas love song, "Christmas Is You" is being published, and distributed by Hal Leonard, starting holidays 2022 for college and high school choral groups.
email Bruce at: BKerrLaw@aol.com
This is Waukesha High School's "Loyalty Song" from at least the 1940's-on. Sung by thousands over the years before pep rallies and athletic events. Author unknown (in research presently).
Dedicated to the lost and injured in the Christmas Parade tragedy in Waukesha in November, 2021.
Oct 3rd is the 26th anniversary of O.J. Simpson’s acquittal of murdering his ex-wife, Nicole.
This song and photo of the 1995 PC diskette of “O.J.-oh!” (to the Harry Belafonte tune of “Day-O”) by song parodist, Loose Bruce Kerr, was the first & only song release of its kind on that medium, including stereo audio with dynamic graphics long before the popularity of the computer video revolution a decade later. It was a collaboration between engineer, Lee Baxter of Campbell, CA and Kerr of Mountain View, CA, both cities in Silicon Valley.
The song’s audio track is a live performance by Loose Bruce but includes his multitrack recorded background instruments and vocals, a feature of his live solo act in the 1980’s and ‘90’s. He opened for “Weird Al” Yankovic and his song parodies and originals have played on the Dr. Demento Show over 140 times over the decades. “O.J.-oh!” reached #1 on that program’s “Funny 5” in May & June of 1995 as the O.J. criminal trial progressed toward acquital in October.
The diskette for sale at Tower Records locations in Silicon Valley was packaged in a clear plastic glove evoking Simpson’s lawyer, Johnnie Cochran’s courtroom statement to the jury, “If it doesn’t fit (Simpson)/You must acquit!”
Kerr went on to become Assistant General Counsel of Sun Microsystems in Silicon Valley in the 2000’s after retiring from his 20 year performing career. After 11 years at Oracle, Kerr then became a contract attorney at Seattle law firm, Davis Wright Tremaine where he works today. He lives with his wife, Linda and their 2 cats in northern California and works remotely.
email: BKerrLaw@aol.com
Oct 3rd is the 26th anniversary of O.J. Simpson’s acquittal of murdering his ex-wife, Nicole.
This song and photo of the 1995 PC diskette of “O.J.-oh!” (to the Harry Belafonte tune of “Day-O”) by song parodist, Loose Bruce Kerr, was the first & only song release of its kind on that medium, including stereo audio with dynamic graphics long before the popularity of the computer video revolution a decade later. It was a collaboration between engineer, Lee Baxter of Campbell, CA and Kerr of Mountain View, CA, both cities in Silicon Valley.
The song’s audio track is a live performance by Loose Bruce but includes his multitrack recorded background instruments and vocals, a feature of his live solo act in the 1980’s and ‘90’s. He opened for “Weird Al” Yankovic and his song parodies and originals have played on the Dr. Demento Show over 140 times over the decades. “O.J.-oh!” reached #1 on that program’s “Funny 5” in May & June of 1995 as the O.J. criminal trial progressed toward acquital in October.
The diskette for sale at Tower Records locations in Silicon Valley was packaged in a clear plastic glove evoking Simpson’s lawyer, Johnnie Cochran’s courtroom statement to the jury, “If it doesn’t fit (Simpson)/You must acquit!”
Kerr went on to become Assistant General Counsel of Sun Microsystems in Silicon Valley in the 2000’s after retiring from his 20 year performing career. After 11 years at Oracle, Kerr then became a contract attorney at Seattle law firm, Davis Wright Tremaine where he works today. He lives with his wife, Linda and their 2 cats in northern California and works remotely.
P.S. the song's the same but the dynamic graphics on the PC Diskette are not visible here, I haven't found a way to convert the old, stale file format! This photo's just of the diskette and glove packaging.
email: BKerrLaw@aol.com
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"NO GOLD IN CALIFORNIA" is a Loose Bruce Kerr original from 1992 and a nod to Brian Wilson & the Beach Boys, a group Bruce grew up on and whose harmonies he learned on.
In 1992 the U.S. was mired in a recession in the economy and dealing with the disaster in Bosnia, ethnic cleansing, immigrants, homelessness, etc. The California of Bruce's youth and idylic songs of the 1960's seemed to be fading. With the fires raging across northern California today (Bruce lives there), the same might be said about now, nearly 30 years later.
Recording on a TEAC 4-track cassette deck, Bruce played the instruments and sang the vocal parts 1 at a time, mixing down as he went. Earbuds encouraged.
Loose Bruce Kerr is an irregular feature on the Dr. Demento Show and opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic back in the day.
email: BKerrLaw@aol.com
loosebrucekerr.com
Sounds dirty but isn't, it's an ode to the strongest muscle of the body, the sphincter, our most reliable friend. By nationally known song parodist, Loose Bruce Kerr. Bruce is regularly featured on the Dr. Demento and Jim Bohannon nationally syndicated radio shows. Visit: www.loosebrucekerr.com to hear other songs, parodies, and videos of "Loose Bruce" Kerr. email: BKerrLaw@aol.com
"HEAD FOR THE HILLS" (a post-pandemic song) VIDEO is now a full jazz band arrangement in April, 2021 of a song Loose Bruce Kerr composed in April, 2020. Who knew it would take a year before the vaccines started to help us toward an end to the pandemic?
To celebrate that, here's the full arrangement and performance video. The song gives a bow to the earlier pandemic in 1920-21 through its 1920's style song and arrangement. Bruce's parents grew up in the 1920's and his dad taught him songs from that era on ukelele while his mom sang the melodies.
In this video, Loose Bruce Kerr performs his song live on vocals, accompanied by his new jazz band background tracks just completed.
Bruce records his instruments one at a time, multi-tracking (invented by his hometown hero, Les Paul of Waukesha, Wisconsin). Some are real (ukes, etc.), some are synth'd (trombones, tubas, saxes, etc.).
Bruce inserted a 20-year performing and recording career into his day job as an attorney. He's been back practicing law for the last 20 years and continues to record his songs in his garage studio.
Back in the day, he opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic. He's an irregular feature of the Dr. Demento Show where his songs have been played over 100 times through the years.
His mp3 audio songs and videos can be streamed or downloaded at loosebrucekerr.com. Email Bruce at BKerrLaw@aol.com
"HEAD FOR THE HILLS" (a post-pandemic song) AUDIO is now a full jazz band arrangement in April, 2021 of a song Loose Bruce Kerr composed in April, 2020. Who knew it would take a year before the vaccines started to help us toward an end to the pandemic?
To celebrate that, here's the full arrangement. The song gives a bow to the earlier pandemic in 1920-21 through its 1920's style song and arrangement. Bruce's parents grew up in the 1920's and his dad taught him songs from that era on ukelele while his mom sang the melodies.
In this song, Loose Bruce Kerr performs his song live on vocals, accompanied by his new jazz band background tracks just completed.
Bruce records his instruments one at a time, multi-tracking (invented by his hometown hero, Les Paul of Waukesha, Wisconsin). Some are real (ukes, etc.), some are synth'd (trombones, tubas, saxes, etc.).
Bruce inserted a 20-year performing and recording career into his day job as an attorney. He's been back practicing law for the last 20 years and continues to record his songs in his garage studio.
Back in the day, he opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic. He's an irregular feature of the Dr. Demento Show where his songs have been played over 100 times through the years.
His mp3 audio songs and videos can be streamed or downloaded at loosebrucekerr.com. Email Bruce at BKerrLaw@aol.com
A get-well-soon card to us all, Loose Bruce Kerr's latest parody of the Beatles, "The Long and Winding Road." Bruce sings live over his recording of his orchestral tracks, put together in his studio, "The Garage" in northern California.
Bruce had a 20 year career in entertainment, performing and writing his songs and parodies (over 100 plays on the Doctor Demento Show) before resuming his law career. He is currently semi-retired after 23 years at both Sun Microsystems (Assistant General Counsel) and at Oracle (Deal Manager/negotiator).
Bruce records his vocals and instruments one at a time, using a TASCAM 32-track digital studio. He sings live over his background tracks for his videos. His hometown hero in Waukesha, Wisconsin growing up was Les Paul, the inventor of multitrack recording, as well as one of the inventors of the electric guitar.
Back in the day, Loose Bruce Kerr opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic.
visit loosebrucekerr.com
email: BKerrLaw@aol.com
...(stealing a bit here from Martin Luther in the 1500's):
The “7 Theses of Phone On-Hold”
(nailed to the virtual church door 2020)
by Loose Bruce Kerr
December 1, 2020
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No On-Hold music loop may be shorter than 5 minutes before loop repeats.
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The fidelity of On-Hold music must be high fidelity and at least equivalent to that experienced as long ago as 30 years on some On-Hold music systems (where did those go?).
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Callers On-Hold must be given the choice of styles of music (e.g., Rock, Hip-Hop, Classical, Global, Country, Heavy Metal, Folk, Latvian Whaling Tunes, etc., a minimum of 6 styles to choose from).
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No repeat word-announcements On-Hold over and over, limit: 2 at front end of On-Hold, then never again on that call. Covid-excuse announcement-repeats banished 3 months after vaccine made available.
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Never, never again must the public be subjected to 30-60 second On-Hold music loopsrepeating forever & ever. Violations punishable by flogging with a wet noodle. In the Public Square.
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Callers On-Hold to be updated on approximate time until their call is answered by a trained person per the number of callers in queue and historical time averages.
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By 2023, national unemployment numbers will be greatly improved by the hiring of sufficient, trained On-Hold eventual answerers to limit On-Hold times to no greater than 5 minutes. Ever.
"I AM THERE FOR YOU" is "Loose Bruce" Kerr's original song, a jazz-scat-big band sound.
Bruce records his songs one instrument & vocal at a time, layering to get the final song. In this one, he sings, plays bass & piano "for real," then uses his synthesizer to compose & play each trombone, trumpet, saxophone, & set of drums, one drum or cymbal per track, then mixes it all together.
"Loose Bruce" Kerr spent 20 years as a performer of music, comedy, and parodies. His parodies have been played on national TV (CNN News), radio (Dr. Demento, over 100 plays; Jim Bohannon Program, Larry King). He opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic. Eventually, Bruce resumed his earlier law practice which he had suspended and after a career at Oracle and formerly Assistant General Counsel of Sun Microsystems is semi-retired in northern California taking atty contract work from time to time.
In the mid-late 60's, Bruce was a vocalist & bass player in rock band "The 5 Bucks" which became the "Byzantine Empire" during college at the University of Michigan. Several 45's were released, the last several on Bell Records. Before that, in high school, Bruce was in a folk group in Waukesha, Wisconsin (home of Les Paul), "The Coachmen."
In the late 70's, Bruce was a guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter in the New England area rock band, "Spud City" (with Waukesha, WI's fellow townie, Steve Hoeft).
Many of Bruce's parody videos from 2006-on are viewable on youtube, as well as on this podcast site.
email Bruce at: BKerrLaw@aol.com
"HOLD ME NOW" is a new song by Loose Bruce Kerr. While Bruce often does parodies, he also writes originals in various styles.
This one's in the mold of old Sinatra or Andy Williams standards. Using multi-tracking (invented by his fellow townie of Waukesha, Wisconsin, Les Paul), Bruce adds horns, strings, drums, etc. by synth and plays the guitars, bass, and sings the vocals.
Bruce lives with his wife, Linda, in northern California heading up toward Lake Tahoe, oh, and 2 cats (not in the yard, mostly in the house...hot!) Back in the day, he opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic, and has been played over 100 times on the Dr. Demento Show. He's an attorney and works at Oracle. (well, now from his home).
Videos on youtube, search on Loose Bruce Kerr; videos and songs on loosebrucekerr.com (this site) and iTunes.
email: BKerrLaw@aol.com
"THE WRECK OF THE GOOD BOMBA CHARGER" (Live Video, 1981) by Loose Bruce Kerr.
In 1981 I was performing my regular seasonal gig on St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands at Sparky's Waterfront Saloon. A boat that moved passengers between the Caribbean islands down there was called the "Bomba Charger," held about 24 or so, pretty bare bones. But it got you there.
I thought I'd contrast the serious subject and tone of Lightfoot's original with a take which involved how boats sometimes had accidents down in the islands...due to insobriety re various substances. This was at a time when weed was rampant among locals, tourists, and saloon workers like me but was illegal and you actually could lose your boat, yacht, ship if contraband was found. Nonetheless, no harm in singing about it (right?)
Enjoy "THE WRECK OF THE GOOD BOMBA CHARGER."
videos also on youtube.com
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"HEAD FOR THE HILLS" is Loose Bruce Kerr's latest song, a post-pandemic one and an original that takes its flavor from the 1920's songs his parents taught him growing up in Wisconsin.
Bruce plays the uke he learned on and inherited from his father, Ken (a Martin uke). His mother sang 20's & 30's songs while cooking and his dad played uke and whistled (he wouldn't sing!).
Enjoy! We WILL get there...
email: BKerrLaw@aol.com
"HEAD FOR THE HILLS" is Loose Bruce Kerr's latest song, a post-pandemic one and an original that takes its flavor from the 1920's songs his parents taught him growing up in Wisconsin.
Bruce plays the uke he learned on and inherited from his father, Ken (a Martin uke). His mother sang 20's & 30's songs while cooking and his dad played uke and whistled (he wouldn't sing).
Enjoy! We WILL get there...
"GORBY" (audio mp3) is Loose Bruce Kerr's original satire/parody from 1990 on the occasion of the about-to-disintegrate Soviet Union's premier's visit to Stanford U in California's Bay Area.
Bruce lived 8 mins away so it was only logical he drove there with his guitar & tape deck around his neck playing his pre-recorded background tracks, mounted CNN's 2 story scaffold where they were beaming live to Atlanta, and sang this song about Gorby, which was then nationally broadcast at the end of the 8pm segment that evening.
On the 30th anniversary of the then-thawing relationship between the US the Soviet Union's Mikhail Gorbachev, Bruce wrote and recorded this song on his 4-track TEAC cassette deck, then sang and played it live at his gigs with the background tracks added behind him.
Loose Bruce Kerr is from Waukesha, Wisconsin, home to multitrack & guitar inventor, Les Paul, and now lives in northern California. After a 20 year music and performing career (he opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic), Bruce resumed his law career he had earlier dropped and eventually became Assistant General Counsel of Sun Microsystems. He now is a lawyer working at Oracle which acquired Sun in 2010.
email: BKerrLaw@aol.com
visit: loosebrucekerr.com (free download of videos & audio mp3's)
songs and videos also on youtube.com
(video of Gorby live at Stanford U that day is at: https://youtu.be/JBVjmoeSFKU low res live audio)
Hot off the presses, for all us stay-at-homies, here's "THE 12 DAYS OF LOCKDOWN" (Audio version) to the tune of "The 12 Days of Christmas." With thanks to good friend, Ward Wildanger for suggesting the title and I get off my butt while sequestered like the rest of us, and do something with it. Enjoy!
Loose Bruce Kerr is a songwriter (Dr. Demento Show, over 100 plays). Back in the day, Bruce opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic.
After a 20 year career performing and writing songs, Bruce returned to his day job, a lawyer, becoming Assistant General Counsel at Sun Microsystems. Bruce currently works at Oracle and records for fun in his garage studio in northern California.
loosebrucekerr.com
also available on youtube
email: BKerrLaw@aol.com
Hot off the presses, for all us stay-at-homies, here's "THE 12 DAYS OF LOCKDOWN" to the tune of "The 12 Days of Christmas."
With thanks to good friend, Ward Wildanger for suggesting the title and I get off my butt while sequestered like the rest of us, and do something with it. Enjoy!
Loose Bruce Kerr is a songwriter (Dr. Demento Show, over 100 plays). Back in the day, Bruce opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic. After a 20 year career performing and writing songs, Bruce returned to his day job, a lawyer, becoming Assistant General Counsel at Sun Microsystems. Bruce currently works at Oracle and records for fun in his garage studio in northern California.
loosebrucekerr.com
also on youtube
email: BKerrLaw@aol.com
"COME HOME AMERICA" (video/stillshot) is songwriter Loose Bruce Kerr's latest original song, recorded one vocal and instrument at a time by Bruce in his garage studio in northern California. It talks of the present state of the U.S. with its divisions, needing all of us to come together, Democrats, Republicans, independents, of any stripe, type, or individuality.
Bruce uses multitracking to provide all his desired instruments & vocals, a process invented by Bruce's hometown influence, Les Paul, Waukesha, Wisconsin.
In this recording, Bruce layered a 16 voice chorus plus lead vocal over orchestration of guitar, multiple bass viols, cellos, violins, french horns, flute, oboe, snare, timpani, & cymbals.
The orchestral instruments were done by Bruce on keyboard midi'd into a Yamaha rack synth. His main instrument is a decades-old Wechter (Made in USA...Michigan) acoustic guitar, double-cutaway.
Bruce interrupted his law career for a 20-year run as a songwriter, performer, and parodist mainly on the Dr. Demento Show (over 100 plays) and Jim Bohannon Show, plus tv and news programs use of his topical parodies (e.g., "O.J.-oh," "Gorby," "You Picked a Fine Time to Lead us, Dan Quayle," "The Leader of Iraq," "Scudbusters!"). Back in the day, Bruce opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic.
Bruce eventually became Assistant General Counsel of Sun Microsystems in northern California's Silicon Valley and today works for Oracle.
©2020 Marjorie Music Co. (BMI)
email: BKerrLaw@aol.com
web: loosebrucekerr.com
Album cover: Ben Graham
"COME HOME AMERICA" (Audio) is songwriter Loose Bruce Kerr's latest original song, recorded one vocal and instrument at a time by Bruce in his garage studio in northern California. It talks of the present state of the U.S. with its divisions, needing all of us to come together, Democrats, Republicans, independents, of any stripe, type, or individuality.
Bruce uses multitracking to provide all his desired instruments & vocals, a process invented by Bruce's hometown influence, Les Paul, Waukesha, Wisconsin.
In this recording, Bruce layered a 16 voice chorus plus lead vocal over orchestration of guitar, multiple bass viols, cellos, violins, french horns, flute, oboe, snare, timpani, & cymbals.
The orchestral instruments were done by Bruce on keyboard midi'd into a Yamaha rack synth. His main instrument is a decades-old Wechter (Made in USA...Michigan) acoustic guitar, double-cutaway.
Bruce interrupted his law career for a 20-year run as a songwriter, performer, and parodist mainly on the Dr. Demento Show (over 100 plays) and Jim Bohannon Show, plus tv and news programs use of his topical parodies (e.g., "O.J.-oh," "Gorby," "You Picked a Fine Time to Lead us, Dan Quayle," "The Leader of Iraq," "Scudbusters!"). Back in the day, Bruce opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic.
Bruce eventually became Assistant General Counsel of Sun Microsystems in northern California's Silicon Valley and today works for Oracle.
©2020 Marjorie Music Co. (BMI)
email: BKerrLaw@aol.com
web: loosebrucekerr.com
Album cover: Ben Graham
"A TEXT" is the latest parody song mp3 AUDIO by Loose Bruce Kerr (Dr. Demento Show, over 100 plays). It updates the Box Tops' 1967 hit, "The Letter", to today's (and tomorrow's) technology of instant messaging and travel.
This new parody song, and the VIDEO VERSION of it, are available for free on this site, loosebrucekerr.com (along with his other videos & mp3's).
After Bruce's 20-year music & comedy career, he resumed his law career and became Assistant General Counsel at Sun Microsystems and is currently an attorney working at Oracle, which acquired Sun in 2010.
(earbuds encouraged)
email him at: BKerrLaw@aol.com
visit: loosebrucekerr.com
"A TEXT" is the latest parody song VIDEO by Loose Bruce Kerr (Dr. Demento Show, over 100 plays). It updates the Box Tops' 1967 hit, "The Letter", to today's (and tomorrow's) technology of instant messaging and travel.
This new video, and the MP3 audio of it, are available for free on this site, loosebrucekerr.com (along with his other videos & mp3's).
After Bruce's 20-year music & comedy career, he resumed his law career and became Assistant General Counsel at Sun Microsystems and is currently an attorney working at Oracle, which acquired Sun in 2010.
(earbuds encouraged)
email him at: BKerrLaw@aol.com
visit: loosebrucekerr.com
watch for mp3 of this song in the coming days (being mastered)
As the 20th Anniversary of “Y2K” (the “Millennium Bug”) approaches on December 31, here’s a short music parody VIDEO (set to the music of “YMCA” by the Village People, a hit song from 1978) produced in 1999 by a Silicon Valley tech giant at the time, Sun Microsystems. It was one way the company used to break the ice at Y2K planning meetings in the 6 months leading up to the event.
The tongue-in-cheek parody music video was recorded by song parodist, Loose Bruce Kerr, together with a production staff of his fellow employees at Sun
Two years prior, Sun Microsystems hired attorney Bruce Kerr. Most were not aware he was the same as “Loose Bruce Kerr,” a nationally-known song parodist who’d opened for “Weird Al” Yankovic back during Bruce’s previous twenty year performing career, before then returning to law. Early in 1999, Bruce performed for a Sun legal conference his latest parody at that time, “Y2K” (“The Western World collapsing/My car insurance lapsing”).
Over 6 months in early 1999, Bruce and a team of his fellow Sun employees were charged by their employer with producing a music video (MTV was popular at the time) to Bruce’s soundtrack and a script he quickly put together. Sun senior executives were used as extras, including cameos by Sun’s CEO, Scott McNealy and COO, Ed Zander.
Here, then, is the story of the Y2K threat as seen through the lens of a computer company dealing lightheartedly with that threat in the months leading up to 01/01/00, with the assistance of song parodist Loose Bruce Kerr.
As it turned out, only minor disruptions occurred after millions were spent by banks and other companies trying to avert disaster. With dates in many computer systems at the time represented by only two digits (e.g., 00) instead of four (e.g., 2000 or 1900), the worry was “00” would be seen by the systems as 1900, not the year 2000, and worldwide systems might shut down big time, disrupting everything from bank, commerce, and health systems to even including images of “airplanes falling from the sky.”
Later, Kerr became Assistant General Counsel at Sun and is currently an attorney working at Oracle, which acquired Sun in 2010.
CREDITS: Producer: Anna Weldon; Executive Producers: John Croll, Tony Hampell, & Jan Testarmata; Associate Producer: Jenny Quang; Director: Mark Weldon; the band consisted of Bruce’s fellow legal reps: Bass: Stephen Clayton; keyboard: Darryl Payton; percussion: Anne Tirsell; drums: Bill Lard.
(earbuds encouraged)
Also available on youtube.com
email: BKerrLaw@aol.com
Enjoy!
NEW VIDEO, 30th Anniversary: when the Loma Prieta Earthquake hit northern California and San Francisco on October 17, 1989, song parodist and performer, Loose Bruce Kerr (an irregular feature on the Dr. Demento Show) produced and distributed an AUDIO cassette which inserted into a fake post-quake news interview popular song snippets to tell the story. The quake happened on Kerr’s birthday.
The musical bits were taken from songs about San Francisco and by Bay Area bands and singers like Jefferson Starship, Janis Joplin, Huey Lewis & the News, Marty Ballin, Journey, Pointer Sisters, Santana, Grateful Dead, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Dionne Warwick, Canned Heat, Otis Redding, Scott McKenzie, Tony Bennett, Judy Garland, and Jeanette McDonald.
This new video of the 1989 song can be streamed or downloaded here or found on youtube (search on Loose Bruce Kerr).
Kerr stopped performing in 1993 to resume his legal career he’d left 20 years before and became Assistant General Counsel at Sun Microsystems. He is currently an attorney working at Oracle who acquired Sun in 2010.
(earbuds encouraged)
email him at: BKerrLaw@aol.com
"OLDSTOCK" is Loose Bruce Kerr's song parody, released upon the 20 anniversary of WOODSTOCK in 1989, now re-released upon the 50th. If we thought we were old with this parody 20 years after, well now in 2019 with the 50th, yeeesh!
Based on Joni Mitchell's "Woodstock," also as versioned by CSNY which is the arrangement Bruce used here, this is Bruce's take from his 4-track TEAC cassette recorder out of his garage in 1989, having overdubbed & mixed down to get all the parts. The song was heard nationally on AM and syndicated radio shows like Dr. Demento, Jim Bohannon Show, and several newcasts covering the anniversary.
Earbuds encouraged. Enjoy!
Loose Bruce Kerr is a nationally-known song parodist & songwriter (Dr. Demento Show; Jim Bohannon Show). Back in the day, Bruce opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic.
Bruce records his songs in his garage live, adding background vocals & instruments he plays. In 1989 when he did "OLDSTOCK" Bruce was recording on a TEAC 4 track cassette deck, overdubbing till he got all the instruments & vocals added to the mix.
He is currently an attorney working at Oracle in northern California.
email: BKerrLaw@aol.com free mp3 and mp4 downloads of audio & video at loosebrucekerr.com
"Y2K" (AUDIO 1999), song parody to the tune of "YMCA" by the Village People. A song which Loose Bruce Kerr's employer, Sun Microsystems, turned into a parody music video (re-releasing in September, 2019!).
This tune made the Dr. Demento "Funny 5" in 1999.
Earbuds encouraged. Enjoy!
Loose Bruce Kerr is a nationally-known song parodist & songwriter (Dr. Demento Show; Jim Bohannon Show). Back in the day, Bruce opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic.
Bruce records his songs in his garage live, adding background vocals & instruments he plays. In 1999 when he did "Y2K," Bruce was recording on a TEAC 4 track cassette deck, overdubbing till he got all the instruments & vocals added to the mix.
He is currently an attorney working at Oracle in northern California.
email: BKerrLaw@aol.com free mp3 and mp4 downloads of audio & video at loosebrucekerr.com
Loose Bruce Kerr's latest parody mp3 AUDIO on Majority Senate Leader, Mitch McConnell who's been compared to a turtle or frog (see The Onion picture https://politics.theonion.com/mitch-mcconnell-inflates-throat-pouch-in-show-of-domina-1819591493), to the tune of the Beatles' "The Long & Winding Road," here's: "THE LONG-TONGUED TURTLE-FROG." Earbuds encouraged. Enjoy!
See also at loosebrucekerr.com (here) the VIDEO garage performance of this parody, including a graphic by Steve Hoeft.
Loose Bruce Kerr is a nationally-known song parodist & songwriter (Dr. Demento Show; Jim Bohannon Show). Back in the day, Bruce opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic.
Bruce records his songs in his garage live, adding background vocals & instruments he plays.
He is currently an attorney working at Oracle in northern California.
email: BKerrLaw@aol.com free mp3 and mp4 downloads of audio & video at loosebrucekerr.com
Loose Bruce Kerr's latest parody VIDEO on Majority Senate Leader, Mitch McConnell who's been compared to a turtle or frog (see The Onion picture https://politics.theonion.com/mitch-mcconnell-inflates-throat-pouch-in-show-of-domina-1819591493), to the tune of the Beatles' "The Long & Winding Road," here's: "THE LONG-TONGUED TURTLE-FROG." Earbuds encouraged. Enjoy!
Loose Bruce Kerr is a nationally-known song parodist & songwriter (Dr. Demento Show; Jim Bohannon Show). Back in the day, Bruce opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic.
Bruce records his songs in his garage live, adding background vocals & instruments he plays.
He is currently an attorney working at Oracle in northern California.
email: BKerrLaw@aol.com free mp3 and mp4 downloads of audio & video at loosebrucekerr.com
Linda and I have been friends with this couple since our first borns were together in preschool and grew up together. Now they have 10 grandchildren and I thought they deserved a parody for it, in a surprise video we shot at an Easter weekend they recently hosted. Watch proud Grandpa Ward show and proud Grandma Nancy react. You may recognize the Lionel Richie song underneath. Enjoy! (earbuds encouraged) - Loose Bruce Kerr
Song parodist “Loose Bruce” Kerr (nationally: Dr. Demento Show; Jim Bohannon Show) sings and plays all the instruments one at a time in his multitrack studio in Roseville, CA. Kerr is from Waukesha, Wisconsin, the home of multitrack inventor, Les Paul, who inspired Bruce who saw him perform in their hometown in 1960.
Bruce’s songs are an irregular feature of the Dr. Demento Show and Jim Bohannon show on syndicated radio & internet. Bruce opened for “Weird Al” Yankovic back in the day. His breakout song was in 1987: “Walk Like a Deukmejian,” about California’s then-governor and Supreme Court Chief Justice, Rose Bird.
Bruce's latest songs may be streamed or downloaded from iTunes and store.cdbaby.com, search on "Loose Bruce Kerr"
email Bruce at: BKerrLaw@aol.com
free videos & mp3's on youtube + loosebrucekerr.com
"THE BLACKSHIRTS WALTZ" (VIDEO/SLIDE SHOW w/ AUDIO) written & performed for Bruce's Waukesha, Wisconsin High School class reunion in July, 2015.
After the reunion, Bruce put his song to slides of his high school years & from the reunion. You can stream it to watch & listen from here, Bruce's podcast.
Many of his other videos and mp3's are downloadable or streamable here (click: "all episodes, above) or on youtube. For his very latest originals & a few select parodies, go to iTunes or store.cdbaby.com & search on "Loose Bruce Kerr"
Earbuds or headphones strongly encouraged for full effect.
Bruce records his audios & videos, singing & playing one instrument at a time in his garage in Roseville in northern California ("The Garage").
When not doing that, Bruce is a lawyer working at Oracle. Bruce took off 20 years from his law career to write, record, and perform his music and comedy. He opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic back in the day.
His songs are heard irregularly on the "Dr. Demento Show" on the net and on the "Jim Bohannon Show" on nationally syndicated AM radio.
email: BKerrLaw@aol.com
website: loosebrucekerr.com
Enjoy! (earbuds or headphones encouraged, it's in...STEREO!) ;)
"4+20" by Loose Bruce Kerr is an AUDIO MP3 parody of Stephen Stills' song, "4+20" from 1969. It's about April 20th each year at 4:20pm when pot lovers everywhere celebrate, well, pot! Together. Or alone. Whatever. Who's counting (...except on the calendar & clock).
Instead of Stills' dark picture of despair, the parody flips it to celebrating 4/20. At 4:20pm. You get the picture. Or had it decades ago.
Whether I still smoke pot or not is private, this song’s title begged for a parody of it. However, I will say I first tried pot the same year Bill Clinton did. But I definitely inhaled. Earbuds encouraged.
Song parodist “Loose Bruce” Kerr (nationally: Dr. Demento Show; Jim Bohannon Show) sings and plays all the instruments one at a time in his multitrack studio in Roseville, CA. Kerr is from Waukesha, Wisconsin, the home of multitrack inventor, Les Paul, who inspired Bruce who saw him perform in their hometown in 1960.
Bruce’s songs are an irregular feature of the Dr. Demento Show and Jim Bohannon show on syndicated radio & internet. Bruce opened for “Weird Al” Yankovic back in the day. His breakout song was in 1987: “Walk Like a Deukmejian,” about California’s then-governor and Supreme Court Chief Justice, Rose Bird.
email Bruce at: BKerrLaw@aol.com
Oscar Meyer Weiner Song by Spud City, "Music With a Peel," -University of Lowell concert, 1978 (Steve Hoeft/guitar, Bruce Kerr/guitar, Mickey Marien,/bass, & Tyke Ten Eyck/drums.
This is how our rock road band in New England in 1978 opened our shows. For this concert, we played about 12 original songs after this opener. Big stage for us since most of our 4-5 gigs a week those years were clubs, college pubs, bars, ski lodges. But once in a while, a concert like this one came along where, instead of 4 x 45 min. sets including covers, we did an all-original show of songs written by "Loose Bruce" Kerr.
We had a band house in rural northern Massachusetts up on the New Hampshire border, about an hour out of Boston. In those days, around 3 to 5pm, 4-5 times a week, 3 cars loaded with gear would launch down that 1/4 mile driveway (if snow allowed) to drive an hour to 4 hours away in Vermont, New Hampshire, Connecticut or Mass.
In the big snowstorm of '78, we were snowed in at that house for a week, lost a lot of gigs & money, but we made up for it over the following months.
Alas, all bands dis-band (yes, I said it) and dis band did no differently. In 1979 we went back down to Steve & I as a duo, then we split in January, 1980, Steve moved to Boise, Idaho and started various bands. Bruce went to St. Thomas, in the US Virgin Islands to go solo for the next 12 years there and in California. Tyke ended up in Florida, Mickey in southern California, Bruce in northern California, and Steve in Idaho.
Spud City, "Music With a Peel"
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"THE GIRLYMAN," (AUDIO) by Loose Bruce Kerr (2004) is a parody of "The Candyman" as sung by Sammy Davis Jr. in 1972. The parody transforms the positive Candyman who made the world glow with candy into the negative budget opponents in the California State Legislature of new California Governor in 2004, Arnold Schwarzenegger.
The Governor dubbed them, "Girliemen" in reference to a famous bit at the time on Saturday Night Live where "Hans & Franz" (actors, Dana Carvey & Kevin Nealon, respectively) performed a send-up of former body builder Schwarzenegger, using Austrian accents to put down male weaklings who didn't train, as "girlymen." In the song, the singer Schwarzenegger puts down those legislators, including at the time, Darryl Steinberg, current Sacramento mayor, as such girlymen for opposing his budget plans.
Loose Bruce Kerr (nationally: Dr. Demento Show, Jim Bohannon Show, CNN & other network segments using his parodies related to current news stories) recorded each vocal and instrument one at a time on his 4-track cassette deck during the summer of 2004. Kerr had a 20 year career as a songwriter and performer before resuming his earlier career as an attorney. Currently, he works for Oracle in Rocklin, CA. Back in the day, Kerr opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic.
His audio mp3's and videos are free for streaming or download at his podcast website, loosebrucekerr.com and on youtube. His most recent original songs and parodies are available on cdbaby.com, jango.com, and on iTunes (search on "Loose Bruce Kerr").
email: BKerrLaw@aol.com
© 2004 Marjorie Music Co. (BMI)
"I MOVED MY HEART TO SACRAMENTO" (AUDIO) is Loose Bruce Kerr's latest parody, an answer song to "I Left My Heart In San Francisco" as performed by Tony Bennett.
Much has been made lately, in the press and in blogs, of the move by many people from the Bay Area to the Sacramento area, often times in order to afford less expensive housing.
Song parodist “Loose Bruce” Kerr (nationally: Dr. Demento Show; Jim Bohannon Show), himself a Bay Area resident for 33 years who moved his family from Mountain View & Morgan Hill to Roseville, a suburb of Sacramento in 2017 has released this parody. Kerr sings and plays all the instruments one at a time in his multitrack studio in Roseville, CA. Kerr is from Waukesha, Wisconsin, the home of multitrack inventor, Les Paul, who inspired Bruce who saw him perform in their hometown in 1960.
According to recent newspaper articles, Sacramento has become a nationally-recognized “destination city” for people moving households nationally, oftentimes in order to be able to afford housing.
“Loose Bruce” Kerr is currently an attorney working for Oracle in Rocklin, CA, following a 20 year career as a performer and song parodist in the ‘70’s into the 90’s. Bruce’s songs are an irregular feature of the Dr. Demento Show and Jim Bohannon show on syndicated radio & internet. Bruce opened for “Weird Al” Yankovic back in the day. His breakout song was in 1987: “Walk Like a Deukmejian,” about California’s then-governor and Supreme Court Chief Justice, Rose Bird.
email Bruce at: BKerrLaw@aol.com
"CHRISTMAS IS YOU," a Loose Bruce Kerr a 5-part jazz cappella original, scored by Zach Yaholkovsky, as sung here by the Jazz Vocal Ensemble of San Ramon Valley High School (California) under the direction of Ken Abrams. Dec. 13, 2018. Credits roll at end.
Several college & high school a cappella groups have sung this romantic holiday song over the last 4 years (e.g., Cuesta College, San Jose State, Mt. Eden High School, Waukesha South High School in Wisconsin), and now this performance.
Direct inquiries to BKerrLaw@aol.com.
My thanks to Ken Abrams & the kids at San Ramon Valley High School who sang it this past season. Great job!
Bruce Kerr is currently a lawyer at Oracle in Rocklin, CA, having resumed his day job after a 20 year career performing and writing music. Back in the day, he opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic.
More videos & mp3's at loosebrucekerr.com Newest originals available on iTunes and store.cdbaby.com.
Bruce is originally from Waukesha, Wisconsin, home to Les Paul.
email: BKerrLaw@aol.com
"MY DOG IS LOOKIN' FOR LOVE (IN ALL THE WRONG PLACES)" is a 2002 Loose Bruce Kerr parody.
Loose Bruce Kerr is an irregular feature on the Dr. Demento Show and opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic" back in the day during a 20 year career of performing & writing music. Kerr is now an attorney working at Oracle after resuming his legal career he'd put on hold back then.
Many of his videos appear here on loosebrucekerr.com as well as on youtube.com. His latest audio tracks can be accessed on itunes.com and store.cdbaby.com.
Bruce records his vocals and instruments one at a time in his studio in Roseville, CA. His videos have him singing and playing live against his background tracks mixed in.
Bruce resides in Roseville, CA with his wife, Linda, both of them from Waukesha, Wisconsin, the home of Les Paul.
email Bruce at: BKerrLaw@aol.com
“Christmas Is You” is Loose Bruce Kerr’s 2009 romantic holiday song, here performed in 5-part jazz harmony scored by Zach Yaholkovsky, and as sung by the a cappella group at San Ramon Valley High School, (California), conducted by Ken Abrams, Dec. 12-13, 2018.
Bruce Kerr is a songwiter, and attorney working at Oracle in Rocklin, CA, following an earlier 20 year career as a performer. He opened for “Weird Al” Yankovic back in the day.
email Bruce at BKerrLaw@aol.com
podcast (free audios & videos): www.loosebrucekerr.com
also on youtube, itunes & cdbaby.com
Here's Loose Bruce Kerr's latest song parody, to the tune of the 1909 Yale University song, "The Whiffenpoof Song."
It is, of course, about the current Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, and his recent U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee appearance wherein he nearly waxed poetic about his love of beer from his high school days on. Some of his Yale acquaintances are saying that love was over the top.
The Yale drinking song here becomes a vehicle for Kavanaugh and his buddies to fondly look back when that drinking included ralphing (you know) and boofing (you may not know: it's consumption of alcohol or whatever "on the back end").
Bruce Kerr is an attorney working at Oracle in Rocklin, California. He was Assistant General Counsel at Sun Microsystems and before that, had a 20 year career writing & performing music across the country and Caribbean.
His songs have been heard over 100 times on the Doctor Demento Show. He's also heard on the Jim Bohannon Show on radio and internet. He now lives in Roseville, California with his wife, Linda, who edits his song lyrics, including this one.
Here's Loose Bruce Kerr's latest song parody, to the tune of the 1909 Yale University song, "The Whiffenpoof Song."
It is, of course, about the current Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, and his recent U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee appearance wherein he nearly waxed poetic about his love of beer from his high school days on. Some of his Yale acquaintances are saying that love was over the top.
The Yale drinking song here becomes a vehicle for Kavanaugh and his buddies to fondly look back when that drinking included ralphing (you know) and boofing (you may not know: it's consumption of alcohol or whatever "on the back end").
Bruce Kerr is an attorney working at Oracle in Rocklin, California. He was Assistant General Counsel at Sun Microsystems and before that, had a 20 year career writing & performing music across the country and Caribbean. His songs have been heard over 100 times on the Doctor Demento Show. He's also heard on the Jim Bohannon Show on radio and internet. He now lives in Roseville, California with his wife, Linda, who edits his song lyrics, including this one.
email: BKerrLaw@aol.com
URL: loosebrucekerr.com
"MY SAILOR" audio, a song of my mom & dad in the Virgin Islands in retirement, late 1970's, recorded live at "The Barn," Dec. 2014. Written when Steve Hoeft & I as a duo were penned up in an apt. above a bar in Old Orchard Beach, Maine, in 1979, and there was nothing else in the room but a suitcase, and a guitar.
"FUCKELOT" is a parody by Loose Bruce Kerr (Dr. Demento Show; opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic) to the tune of "Camelot" as sung by Richard Harris in the musical of the same name.
This is from a live performance in the late 1980's, probably at a club in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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...early to mid 1980's, live show, somewhere between California and the Caribbean (Sparky's on the Waterfront, St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands). -song by Loose Bruce Kerr
"WOULD IT BE SO NICE?" is a Beach Boys parody AUDIO by Loose Bruce Kerr with additional vocals by Megan Berru-Kerr, Bruce's loving daughter-in-law.
50 years ago, boomers spoke & sang of dreaming about being a bit older so we could "do more" (in every way possible). Now we've reached the other end of things so here's a revision of the song from this perspective.
This site has free Loose Bruce Kerr originals and parodies, videos & mp3 audios for download. YouTube.com also has many as well. His latest songs are available for 99 cents on iTunes and CDBaby.com.
Bruce's songs have played on over 100 Dr. Demento Shows from the 80's to the present. He's opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic. Bruce is in his second career as a lawyer working at Oracle after a 20 year stint performing.
URL: loosebrucekerr.com
email: BKerrLaw@aol.com
Here's another video parody from Loose Bruce Kerr (Dr. Demento, over 100 plays of Bruce's songs): THE GUY FROM AL-QAEDA IN IRAQ, to the tune of "The Girl from Ipanema" from the mid-60's.
Bruce pre-records his background instruments in his garage in northern California, one thing at a time, then sings and plays guitar live on top of a thumb drive.
This is from his 1-hour show recently shot in a Barn in the sticks, a secluded, private location where 75-100 techies, boomers, aging hippies, and folks who love folk, comedy, country, bluegrass, blues, and harmony gather from time to time to hear live performers and consume all manner of goodies, as many of us have done for decades, and have a good time.
Other of his originals and parody videos & mp3 audios are found here on loosebrucekerr.com as well as on youtube (for free).
Recent Bruce originals & parody mp3's are available on iTunes & CDBaby.com
Bruce grew up in Waukesha, Wisconsin, home to Les Paul, inventor of multi-track recording.
email: BKerrLaw@aol.com
"EVER YOU": for my family who recently lost my cousin, James Michael Conway at the early age of 58.
And to all the families who recently lost loved ones in Las Vegas, and Hurricanes Irma & Maria.
After months of work, I was finishing recording this new song as these events occurred.
-Bruce Kerr
In Memoriam: James Michael Conway, Funeral Service
Auckland, New Zealand, Sept. 20, 2017
This video was posted by the family of Jim Conway, my dear cousin who died too early in life. An amazing man, husband, father, friend, cousin, we miss him dearly.
(some is in the local language of Jim's home, the island of Tuvalu in the South Pacific, most is in English)
STEREO AUDIO ORIGINAL mp3
"I MET MY SWEETIE ON TAHITI" is an original song & recording by "Loose Bruce" Kerr. It's an homage to his parents who taught him his first instrument (ukelele, by his Dad, Ken), songs from their youth in the 1920's (Ken & Opal, both), and, re his Dad's love for both dixieland jazz and barbershop quartet which he passed on to Bruce. This is Bruce playing out his Tin Pan Alley songwriter wish.
Bruce sings each harmony and plays each instrument one at a time (a digital unit allows him to affect horns & strings he can't play). It's a 1-man band (across time). ;)
Bruce took 20 years off from his legal career to write & perform music, sometimes solo, sometimes in a duo or the band, "Spud City-Music With a Peel" (Mass., VT) with his hometown buddy, Steve Hoeft. As a solo, he opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic. Then he resumed being an attorney, now working for Oracle in Northern California's Silicon Valley.
Bruce dedicates this song to his cousin, Jim Conway, who moved to the South Pacific island of Tuvalu and eventually met his sweetie, Nese Ituaso, and married her up real good.
email: BKerrLaw@aol.com
"THE BATTLE OF FLORIDA (2000)" was parodist Loose Bruce Kerr's real-time telling of Bush v Gore during that election year, where it all came down to recounts in Florida, including "chads." It is to the tune of "The Battle of New Orleans" by Johnny Horton.
The song was featured on NPR's "All Things Considered" on election coverage.
Loose Bruce Kerr took 20 years off his legal career to write, record, and perform music across the country and the Caribbean. He's resumed his day career and works at Oracle in Silicon Valley. Before Oracle, Bruce was Assistant General Counsel at Sun Microsystems.
Bruce records his original songs and parodies, multi-tracking 1 vocal and 1 instrument at a time in his garage in Morgan Hill, CA. He is originally from Waukesha, Wisconsin, home of Les Paul who invented multi-track recording.
Besides this podcast of Bruce's originals and parodies, both videos & audio mp3's (all for free), you can search on youtube.com for many others, including records he recorded with his college band in Ann Arbor, Michigan, the 5 Bucks (became the Byzantine Empire).
Email Bruce at: BKerrLaw@aol.com
“YOU CAME FROM WAUKESHA”
by Loose Bruce Kerr 1. If you wanted water pure
Or a grand resort to tour
YOU CAME TO WAUKESHA
For a motor running true
Or a generator new
YOU CAME TO WAUKESHA Want a hazy, lazy river
Or somebody to deliver
all your dairy and a paper to your door?
You could do worse by far
Than turning ‘round your car
And instead YOU CAME TO WAUKESHA 2. For the yellows, reds and greens
Of the Kettle Morraine scenes
YOU CAME TO WAUKESHA
Best in sports and all the schools
The best neighborhoods and pools
YOU CAME TO WAUKESHA Ask any stranger on the street
‘twas the path to really beat
If you just follow your feet
you end up there
For a job or Carroll College
If you had or needed knowledge
Then at last, YOU CAME TO WAUKESHA 3. If you had your head on straight
Had the finest girls to date
YOU CAME FROM WAUKESHA
If your parents loved you so
And were sad to let you go
YOU LEFT FROM WAUKESHA Need some help from helping hands
Or some kickass local bands
or some Jimmy’s, Scrima’s, Rode’s, Schley’s and more
Take a mudbath or decline
Know...the...name...of..."Reiney Hein”
Then it’s your hometown and mine
YOU CAME FROM WAUKESHA (R.G. Hein, Waukesha Superintendant of Schools, circa 1950’s-60’s, with apologies to our CMH compatriots) email Bruce at BKerrLaw@aol.com loosebrucekerr.com
"CHRISTMAS IS YOU" (AUDIO) is a Loose Bruce Kerr original song as arranged by college student (U. of North TX) Zach Yaholkovsky in 5-part jazz a cappella harmony.
[the video for this song also appears here on loosebrucekerr.com]
In this recent video performance from Dec. 3, 2016, a cappella group "VOCE" of Cuesta College in central California, under Director John Knutson, sings Bruce's song in their holiday season concert.
Earbuds or headphones encouraged for max. stereo effect.
Loose Bruce Kerr took 20 years off his legal career to write, record, and perform music across the country and the Caribbean. He's resumed his day career and works at Oracle in Silicon Valley. Before Oracle, Bruce was Assistant General Counsel at Sun Microsystems.
Bruce records his original songs and parodies, multi-tracking 1 vocal and 1 instrument at a time in his garage in Morgan Hill, CA. He is originally from Waukesha, Wisconsin, home of Les Paul who invented multi-track recording.
High res videos and audio mp3's of Bruce's are available to download for free from his podcast page: loosebrucekerr.com
Email Bruce at: BKerrLaw@aol.com
TRAIN KEEPS ROLLIN' (video & song) is Loose Bruce Kerr's latest original song & video, about homeless people living by railroad tracks across the country. His morning train commute north to Silicon Valley populates the video. The performance footage is from a recent show in rural northern California.
Loose Bruce Kerr took 20 years off his legal career to write, record, and perform music across the country and the Caribbean. He's resumed his day career and works at Oracle in Silicon Valley. Before Oracle, Bruce was Assistant General Counsel at Sun Microsystems.
Bruce records his original songs and parodies, multi-tracking 1 vocal and 1 instrument at a time in his garage in Morgan Hill, CA. He is originally from Waukesha, Wisconsin, home of Les Paul who invented multi-track recording.
Email Bruce at: BKerrLaw@aol.com
"CHRISTMAS IS YOU" (video + song) by Loose Bruce Kerr
5-part jazz a cappella arrangement: Zach Yaholkovsky
Sung by Cuesta College's "VOCE" 3Dec2016
"CHRISTMAS IS YOU" is a Loose Bruce Kerr original song as arranged by college student (U. of North TX) Zach Yaholkovsky in 5-part jazz a cappella harmony.
In this recent video performance from Dec. 3, 2016, a cappella group "VOCE" of Cuesta College in central California, under Director John Knutson, sings Bruce's song in their holiday season concert.
Earbuds or headphones encouraged for max. stereo effect.
Email Bruce at: BKerrLaw@aol.com
TRAIN KEEPS ROLLIN' (this is audio mp3 version, see video, above) is Loose Bruce Kerr's latest original song & video, about homeless people living by railroad tracks across the country. His morning train commute north to Silicon Valley populates the video. The performance footage is from a recent show in rural northern California.
Loose Bruce Kerr took 20 years off his legal career to write, record, and perform music across the country and the Caribbean. He's resumed his day career and works at Oracle in Silicon Valley. Before Oracle, Bruce was Assistant General Counsel at Sun Microsystems.
Bruce records his original songs and parodies, multi-tracking 1 vocal and 1 instrument at a time in his garage in Morgan Hill, CA. He is originally from Waukesha, Wisconsin, home of Les Paul who invented multi-track recording.
Email Bruce at: BKerrLaw@aol.com
"Like a Polling Stone" is parodist Loose Bruce Kerr's latest audio re Donald Trump's decline in the polls following release of the famous video weeks before the election. The original song was, of course, recent Nobel prize-winner, Bob Dylan's, "Like a Rolling Stone."
Loose Bruce Kerr took 20 years off his legal career to write, record, and perform music across the country and the Caribbean. He's resumed his day career and works at Oracle in Silicon Valley. Before Oracle, Bruce was Assistant General Counsel at Sun Microsystems.
Bruce records his original songs and parodies, multi-tracking 1 vocal and 1 instrument at a time in his garage in Morgan Hill, CA. He is originally from Waukesha, Wisconsin, home of Les Paul who invented multi-track recording.
High res videos and audio mp3's of Bruce's are available to download for free from his podcast page: loosebrucekerr.com
Email Bruce at: BKerrLaw@aol.com
"THE BLACKSHIRTS WALTZ" (AUDIO-MP3) written & performed for Bruce's Waukesha High School class reunion in July. Hot out of the garage, here is the mp3 audio track, to hear or to DOWNLOAD a copy for free for your phone, your iPod, or your 1970's Sony Walkman! Earbuds or headphones strongly encouraged for full effect.
And if you want to view the slide show version, it's at: http://youtu.be/wFWJ06cpF4I
Bruce records his audios & videos, singing & playing one instrument at a time in his garage in Northern California's Silicon Valley ("The Garage"). When not doing that, Bruce is a lawyer working at Oracle.
Bruce took off 20 years from his law career to write, record, and perform his music and comedy. He opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic back in the day. His songs are heard irregularly on the "Dr. Demento Show" on the net and on the "Jim Bohannon Show" on nationally syndicated AM radio.
email: BKerrLaw@aol.com
website: loosebrucekerr.com
Enjoy!
"HIP TO BE POOR" is about Donald Trump's 1990 financial woes, back when he split from Ivana and married Marla (both, now 2 of his 3 ex's) and lost many of his major properties, to the tune of Huey Lewis & The News' "Hip To Be Square."
What with Trump's current cancelation of his Macy's, NBC, & Univision contracts re Miss USA & Miss Universe, might we be entering into another phase of financial downfall for The Donald? We shall see, even as he seeks the Republican nomination for the Presidency of the United States.
Loose Bruce Kerr had a 20 year career "interruption" of his legal career as he performed his music & comedy coast-to-coast and in the Caribbean as a solo, duo with Steve Hoeft, or in his New England band in the late 70's, Spud City. He also opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic back in the day. He is currently a lawyer at Oracle in northern California's Silicon Valley and continues to record his videos and original & parody songs in his garage called, "The Garage," by recording his vocals and instruments one at a time.
Download more Loose Bruce Kerr songs & videos at http://www.loosebrucekerr.com email: BKerrLaw@aol.com
She de-topped it, poor John Bobbitt..."THE BIG BOBBITT" is Loose Bruce Kerr's 1993 parody of the Big Bopper's "Chantilly Lace," here it is for the first time on the Internet...for free!
Loose Bruce Kerr had a 20 year career "interruption" of his legal career as he performed his music & comedy coast-to-coast and in the Caribbean as a solo, duo with Steve Hoeft, or in his New England band in the late 70's, Spud City. He also opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic back in the day. He is currently a lawyer at Oracle in northern California's Silicon Valley and continues to record his videos and original & parody songs in his garage called, "The Garage."
www.loosebrucekerr.com
email: BKerrLaw@aol.com
Here is Loose Bruce Kerr's mp3 audio parody of Santana's "Black Magic Woman" titled "BLACK MAGIC MARKER" from many years ago.
Loose Bruce Kerr opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic back in the day and is heard today nationally as an irregular feature of the Doctor Demento Show and Jim Bohannon Show.
After Bruce interrupted his legal career in 1973 for 20 years of performing his songs & comedy, he resumed being a lawyer in 1993 and works for Oracle in northern California's Silicon Valley. He records his videos & songs 1 instrument at a time in his garage studio named, "THE GARAGE."
portfolio Copyright 1972-2015 Broken Records & Marjorie Music Publ (BMI)
www.loosebrucekerr.com
email: BKerrLaw@aol.com
a song parody video of the 1964 song,"Ringo" by Lorne Greene, this tells the tale of the downfall of televangelist Jimmy Swaggart, caught with a prostitute in a cheap motel in 1988.
Uploaded to youtube in 2007, Swaggart's law firm in 2009 issued a cease & desist letter to Bruce and his employer, Sun Microsystems (Bruce was Assistant General Counsel at the time), and ordered youtube.com to take down the video (which it did). The Electronic Frontier Foundation took the case for Bruce, Swaggart backed off and the video was restored on youtube. Here is that video from 1988, orginally produced and shown in affiliation with a San Francisco nationally affiliated tv station as the story broke.
Loose Bruce Kerr is an irregular feature on the Dr. Demento and Jim Bohannon nationally syndicated internet streams & radio shows. Having resumed his legal career after a 20 year span performing (opening for "Weird Al" Yankovic back in the day), Bruce is now an attorney working at Oracle in Silicon Valley, living in northern California, and contining to record his original and parody songs & videos in his garage studio, "THE GARAGE."
loosebrucekerr.com
email: BKerrLaw@aol.com
"FRANKENANCY," the comedy audio by Loose Bruce Kerr, about Frank Sinatra & Nancy Reagan, was inspired by Kitty Kelley's book about Nancy Reagan in 1991. It tells the story of the rumored romance between those 2, using snippets of Frank Sinatra recordings to tell the story via a mock interview format. At the time, the montage received airplay on several major networks and nationally affiliated radio programs like the Dr. Demento Show and Jim Bohannon Show. Bruce received a nice thank you card note from Kitty Kelley (see picture).
Loose Bruce Kerr is a songwriter, performer, and music producer living in Northern California. A native of Waukesha, Wisconsin, Bruce took 20 years off from his legal career to tour the country and the Caribbean, performing as a solo, in a duo with Steve Hoeft, or in his band in New England, "Spud City."
Following that 20 year span, Bruce resumed his legal career and now is a lawyer working for Oracle in Silicon Valley. His songs & videos can be heard & viewed on youtube and here on loosebrucekerr.com. His latest original audio recordings are available only on iTunes & cdbaby.com. Back in the day, Bruce opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic. He is an irregular performer on the Dr. Demento Show on the internet, and Jim Bohannon Show on nationally syndicated AM radio.
email: BKerrLaw@aol.com
"TIME TO START NEXT CHRISTMAS" is Loose Bruce Kerr's latest original, for right after Christmas.
Loose Bruce Kerr is a songwriter, performer, and music producer living in Northern California. A native of Waukesha, Wisconsin, Bruce took 20 years off from his legal career to tour the country and the Caribbean, performing as a solo, in a duo with Steve Hoeft, or in his band in New England, "Spud City."
Following that 20 year span, Bruce resumed his legal career and now is a lawyer working for Oracle in Silicon Valley. His songs & videos can be heard & viewed on youtube and here on loosebrucekerr.com. His latest original audio recordings are available on iTunes & cdbaby.com. Back in the day, Bruce opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic. He is an irregular performer on the Dr. Demento Show on the internet, and Jim Bohannon Show on nationally syndicated AM radio.
email: BKerrLaw@aol.com
"DEM PHONES" from 1991 is Loose Bruce Kerr's AUDIO parody of the old Negro Spiritual, "Dem Bones," little did he know at the time what was about to explode on the globe re iPhones, etc.
Loose Bruce Kerr is an irregular feature of the Dr. Demento & Jim Bohannon radio shows. He spent 20 years interrupting his legal career to write, perform & record his music while gigging from the U.S. to the Caribbean. He is currently a lawyer at Oracle. He opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic back in the day.
songs & videos at loosebrucekerr.com
email: BKerrLaw@aol.com
newest originals on cdbaby.com & iTunes (search on loose bruce kerr)
"CROQUET" is the AUDIO parody by Loose Bruce Kerr of Eric Clapton's version of "Cocaine" written by J.J. Cale. Croquet, cocaine, what's the diff?
Loose Bruce Kerr is an irregular feature of the Dr. Demento & Jim Bohannon Shows. Bruce took 20 years off from his legal career to travel the U.S. & Caribbean in a solo, duo, or band act performing his originals & parodies such as "O.J.-oh," (#1 on Dr. Demento "Funny Five") and "When I'm 94" to the Beatles tune. Bruce opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic back in the day. He resumed his legal career and currently is an attorney at Oracle in northern California's Silicon Valley. He lives in Morgan Hill, California where he continues to write, perform, and record his originals & parodies.
Find Bruce's songs & videos for free on youtube & loosebrucekerr.com. His latest originals are on iTunes & cdbaby.com for free sampling, & download for 99 cts. Search on "loose bruce kerr."
email: BKerrLaw@aol.com
[AUDIO version, see also here: VIDEO MP4 version]
On the 25th year anniversary, Loose Bruce Kerr's comedy audio montage of "The Quake of '89" tells the story of the northern California earthquake of that year on October 17th (Bruce's birthday) through rock bands and singers, all of whom are in some way connected to the San Francisco Bay area. The piece received radio airplay in the month following the earthquake and the audio cassette's sales helped raise money for earthquake relief.
Oakland, Marin, the outer East Bay, San Jose, and of course, San Francisco are all represented. Everyone from Tony Bennett to Huey Lewis to the Pointer Sisters to the Grateful Dead to Credence to Janis Joplin to Otis Redding...they're all here to tell the story using snippets of their songs.
Loose Bruce Kerr lived in Mountain View in Silicon Valley in those days. He now resides in northern California's Morgan Hill. After 20 years of performing and writing & recording such pieces, originals, & parodies, he is now back to his original profession and is a lawyer working at Oracle in Santa Clara, CA.
Back in the day, he opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic and his parodies have been played on over 100 of the Dr. Demento Shows.
Visit loosebrucekerr.com for free copies of Bruce's video mp4's and audio mp3's.
email: BKerrLaw@aol.com
On the 25th year anniversary, Loose Bruce Kerr's comedy audio montage of "The Quake of '89" tells the story of the northern California earthquake of that year on October 17th (Bruce's birthday) through rock bands and singers, all of whom are in some way connected to the San Francisco Bay area. The piece received radio airplay in the month following the earthquake and the audio cassette's sales helped raise money for earthquake relief.
Oakland, Marin, the outer East Bay, San Jose, and of course, San Francisco are all represented. Everyone from Tony Bennett to Huey Lewis to the Pointer Sisters to the Grateful Dead to Credence to Janis Joplin to Otis Redding...they're all here to tell the story using snippets of their songs.
Loose Bruce Kerr lived in Mountain View in Silicon Valley in those days. He now resides in northern California's Morgan Hill. After 20 years of performing and writing & recording such pieces, originals, & parodies, he is now back to his original profession and is a lawyer working at Oracle in Santa Clara, CA.
Back in the day, he opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic and his parodies have been played on over 100 of the Dr. Demento Shows.
email: BKerrLaw@aol.com
a few facebook pals requested (yes, I take requests!) I reach back into the video archives for this old song of mine from 1973, and a video we shot on St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands around Carnival time of 1981. It's "The Bald Truth," about losing anything yet still winning. Steve Hoeft & I also performed it in our band, Spud City, in the late 1970's but there's no video of that, unfortunately. Here it is, on a warm island night at Sparky's On the Waterfront in 1981.
Loose Bruce Kerr is a singer-songwriter & parodist who took 20 years off from his legal career to write & perform songs across the U.S. and Caribbean. He is still an irregular feature on The Doctor Demento Show & Jim Bohannon Show. He opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic back in the day. Many of his mp3 songs & mp4 videos are also available on loosebrucekerr.com. His most recent originals (last 2 years) are available to sample or download only on iTunes & cdbaby.com. Search on loose bruce kerr
"I FEEL CRAPPY" is Loose Bruce Kerr's parody of Pharrell Williams' recent big #1 hit & BET best video award song, "Happy."
Bruce is a nationally syndicated song parodist (Dr. Demento Show, Jim Bohannon Show) and original song writer living in Morgan Hill, California. Bruce is originally from Waukesha, Wisconsin, home of Les Paul who influenced Bruce's multitrack recording.
"I FEEL CRAPPY" is available as a high-fidelity mp3 for sampling or purchase (99 cents) at: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/loosebrucekerr7 ...or search for it on cdbaby.com, and is also available by search on iTunes.com.
email Bruce at: BKerrLaw@aol.com.
from 2002, Loose Bruce Kerr's original song & recording following a child abduction in the San Francisco Bay Area. Loose Bruce Kerr is a nationally syndicated parody songwriter & artist, this is one of his more serious tunes.
"PUTIN'S ON A BLITZ" - Audio w/ slides, is Loose Bruce Kerr's latest parody of Irving Berlin's "Puttin' On the Ritz." The tune is about Russian President Vladimir Putin's recent drives into the Crimea and threats in eastern Ukraine. Bruce sings the vocals & plays the instruments (some via synth) 1 at a time in his garage studio. Here, it's tuba, 2 ukeleles, drums, saxes, 4 part vocals, & effects.
Loose Bruce Kerr is an irregular feature on the Dr. Demento Show with over 100 plays in 27 years & Jim Bohannon radio show on Westwood One national syndication. After a 20 year career perfoming music & comedy, Bruce resumed his legal career and is a lawyer at Oracle in northern California's Silicon Valley.
Email Bruce at: BKerrLaw@aol.com
loosebrucekerr.com has many videos & mp3 audios for listening & download for free. 5 of Bruce's most recent originals are only on iTunes & CDBaby.com by searching "loose bruce kerr" ...Bruce's videos also appear on youtube.com but at reduced res vs. the versions available on loosebrucekerr.com
"PUTIN'S ON A BLITZ" - AUDIO ONLY .mp3 file is Loose Bruce Kerr's latest parody of Irving Berlin's "Puttin' On the Ritz." The tune is about Russian President Vladimir Putin's recent drives into the Crimea and threats in eastern Ukraine. Bruce sings the vocals & plays the instruments (some via synth) 1 at a time in his garage studio. Here, it's tuba, 2 ukeleles, drums, saxes, 4 part vocals, & effects.
Loose Bruce Kerr is an irregular feature on the Dr. Demento Show with over 100 plays in 27 years & Jim Bohannon radio show on Westwood One national syndication. After a 20 year career perfoming music & comedy, Bruce resumed his legal career and is a lawyer at Oracle in northern California's Silicon Valley.
Email Bruce at: BKerrLaw@aol.com
loosebrucekerr.com has many videos & mp3 audios for listening & download for free. 5 of Bruce's most recent originals are only on iTunes & CDBaby.com by searching "loose bruce kerr" ...all his videos are also on youtube.com, but at less res than loosebrucekerr.com versions.
"WHO'S IT ALL ABOUT, SELFIE?" is Loose Bruce Kerr's latest parody song video, about...oh the heck with it! To the tune of "What's If All About, Alfie" from the 1960's movie.
Loose Bruce Kerr's songs can be heard irregularly on the Dr. Demento Show, Jim Bohannon Show, and his videos are available on youtube.com. His mp3 audios & videos are also available for playing or download on loosebrucekerr.com.
His 4 most recent original songs are available on iTunes (search on "loose bruce kerr"). Or on cdbaby.com.
Bruce gave up his legal career to perform & write music for 20 years. Following that phase, he restarted his legal career to become Assistant General Counsel of Sun Microsystems. After Oracle bought Sun, Bruce now works for Oracle in northern California's Silicon Valley.
email: BKerrLaw@aol.com
"SEXUALLY ACTIVE MAN (S.A.M.)" is a video of "Loose Bruce" Kerr performing his original tune, his answer to "I'm a Woman (W.O.M.A.N.)" by Leiber & Stoller and performed by countless female singers. The song was first performed by Bruce in the New England band "Spud City" with Steve Hoeft in 1977, this video is from Bruce's solo act in St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, winter of 1981.
"SEXUALLY ACTIVE MAN (S.A.M.)" [the AUDIO] is "Loose Bruce" Kerr performing his original tune, his answer to "I'm a Woman (W.O.M.A.N.)" by Leiber & Stoller and performed by countless female singers. The song was first performed by Bruce in the New England band "Spud City" with Steve Hoeft in 1977, this AUDIO of the video is from Bruce's solo act in St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, winter of 1981. (see, also, the VIDEO here on loosebrucekerr.com)
"THE HOUSEHUSBAND BLUES" is one of "Loose Bruce" Kerr's early solo compositions from 1972-74. In about the summer of either '74 or '75, while returning to his hometown of Waukesha, Wisconsin during his living on the road, he bumped into fellow Waukeshan, guitarist whiz, Bruce Riddeough. The result was both Bruces playing on this tune (Bruce R. on bottleneck guitar). Les Paul's multitrack recording invention had just, and finally, reached consumer level with the TEAC 4 track reel-to-reel recorder, allowing Bruce K. to harmonize with himself, and add drums & bass.
The song deals with the then-current loosening of parents playing traditional, defined roles...at a time when fathers were starting to take on some of the traditional wife's roles in raising kids, including inheriting some of the same downsides that can accompany those duties.
"EVANGELINE" is the true story of a brave 8 year old girl, Aurora Carter, dropped off at her grandparents due to her mother's heroin addiction & living on the streets. My good friends Penny & Brian Butler stepped up several months ago to take in Aurora into their home, and deeper in their hearts. It moved me to write & record "Evangeline." You can get to the song either by: 1) if you have iTunes, search on "Loose Bruce Kerr," it's in "Songs" at the bottom of the page, or 2) get it from the distributor's page (by choosing a user name & password) at: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/loosebrucekerr5 Headphones & good volume encouraged...both allow sampling of the song and/or download of the mp3 for 99 cents. For brave Aurora Carter and her loving grandparents, Penny & Brian.
"Woke Up In Love"
by Waukesha's "Loose Bruce" Kerr
1
I used to chase her round the playground
Back when we were small
Later on in high school
I'd meet her in the hall
She used to tell me 'bout her boyfriends
I'd ask about girls
We grew up close together
In our small town world
CHORUS I
We were the best of friends
We knew each other from way back when
In all that time
We never crossed that line
But it changed all right
It happened overnight
We went to bed as friends and
Woke Up In Love
2
It started out so slowly
I wondered if she knew
But she came right up to me
And said, "Could this be true
I see a new look in your eyes
I hope you see in mine"
I said, "This sure is crazy
Love was just a matter of time"
CHORUS II
We were the best of friends
We knew each other from way back when
In all that time
We never crossed that line
But it changed all right
It happened just last night
We went to bed as friends and
Woke Up In Love
BRIDGE
I've waited for so long
For someone just beyond the rise
All that time the love of my life
Was right before my eyes
CHORUS III
We are the best of friends
We know each other from way back when
And all this time
We never crossed that line
But it changed all right
In the full moonlight
We went to bed as friends and
Woke Up In Love
I used to chase her round the playground...
"SHARIA MARIA" is "Loose Bruce" Kerr's latest AUDIO parody (video to come) of the West Side Story song of similar name. Just vocal & guitar this time, like Bruce started out doing at the start of his solo career in 1973.
Loose Bruce" Kerr is an abnormal feature on the Dr. Demento Show on the internet (over 100 plays) and Jim Bohannon nationally syndicated radio show. After a 20 year career in music & comedy performing & recording, Bruce resumed his law career and is now a lawyer working for Oracle in Northern California's Silicon Valley.
All of Bruce's videos and mp3 audios can be streamed and/or downloaded for free from his podcast at loosebrucekerr.com
email: BKerrLaw@aol.com
JUST THE SAME" is the latest original song by "Loose Bruce" Kerr. The video shows pictures of laying down the pedal steel track by Richard Swiger in March of 2013.
The song is about returning veterans from the Mideast Wars, attempting to adjust to being back to their normal lives. Bruce dedicates the song to his father-in-law, Gordon Tingle who fought as a Marine on Iwo Jima and returned to Waukesha, Wisconsin to raise a family and run his own business.
"Loose Bruce" Kerr is an abnormal feature on the Dr. Demento Show on the internet and Jim Bohannon nationally syndicated radio show. After a career in music & comedy, Bruce resumed his law career and is now a lawyer working for Oracle in Northern California's Silicon Valley.
Bruce's videos and mp3 audios can be listened to and/or downloaded for free from his podcast at loosebrucekerr.com
also on youtube, search on "loose bruce kerr"
email: BKerrLaw@aol.com
"JUST THE SAME" by "Loose Bruce" Kerr.
Bruce's latest original song about returning Mideast War Veterans. Richard Swiger on pedal steel, Bruce on the rest.
Bruce's day job these days, after a 20 year career of performing music & comedy, is as a lawyer in Oracle's contracts dept. in Silicon Valley in Northern California.
For his free songs & videos, visit loosebrucekerr.com (or search on "Loose Bruce Kerr" on youtube for over 50 of his parody/comedy videos).
He's an irregular feature on the Dr. Demento Show
email: BKerrLaw@aol.com
picture is from 1977, University of Lowell concert, Lowell, MA, Bruce in "Spud City" band in New England with Waukesha's Steve Hoeft & 2 others (Mickey on bass, Tyke on drums).
© 2013 Broken Records & Marjorie Music Co.
"ONE MORE WHOLE NIGHT" is "Loose Bruce" Kerr's latest AUDIO parody of a familiar Christmas song, "O Holy Night." But this time it's about the difficulty of finding a proper Christmas present for your significant other by the Christmas Eve deadline.
Bruce records his audios & videos, singing & playing one instrument at a time in his garage in Northern California's Silicon Valley ("The Garage"). When not doing that, Bruce is a lawyer working at Oracle.
Bruce took off 20 years from his law career to write, record, and perform his music and comedy. He opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic back in the day. His songs are heard irregularly on the "Dr. Demento Show" on the net and on the "Jim Bohannon Show" on nationally syndicated AM radio.
The stereo audio of this new parody, plus audio mp3's and videos of Bruce's parodies & originals are also on this podcast site for free: loosebrucekerr.com, youtube.com, funnyordie.com, and others.
email Bruce at: BKerrLaw@aol.com
"ONE MORE WHOLE NIGHT" is "Loose Bruce" Kerr's latest VIDEO parody of a familiar Christmas song, "O Holy Night." But this time it's about the difficulty of finding a proper Christmas present for your significant other by the Christmas Eve deadline.
Bruce records his audios & videos, singing & playing one instrument at a time in his garage in Northern California's Silicon Valley ("The Garage"). When not doing that, Bruce is a lawyer working at Oracle.
Bruce took off 20 years from his law career to write, record, and perform his music and comedy. He opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic back in the day. His songs are heard irregularly on the "Dr. Demento Show" on the net and on the "Jim Bohannon Show" on nationally syndicated AM radio.
The stereo audio of this new parody, plus audio mp3's and videos of Bruce's parodies & originals are also on this podcast site for free: loosebrucekerr.com as well as on youtube.com, funnyordie.com and others.
email Bruce at: BKerrLaw@aol.com
This is "Loose Bruce" Kerr's latest VIDEO parody (audio mp3 is available on this podcast, as well) of a Paul Simon song, this one's: "50 WAYS TO LOSE YOUR BLUBBER."
Bruce records his audios & videos in his garage in Northern California's Silicon Valley ("The Garage"). When not doing that, Bruce is a lawyer working at Oracle.
Bruce took off 20 years from his law career to write, record, and perform his music and comedy. He opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic back in the day.
His songs and videos are on this podcast site as well as and others.
email: BKerrLaw@aol.com
This is "Loose Bruce" Kerr's latest AUDIO parody (video coming soon) of a Paul Simon song, this one's: "50 WAYS TO LOSE YOUR BLUBBER."
Bruce records his audios & videos in his garage in Northern California's Silicon Valley ("The Garage"). When not doing that, Bruce is a lawyer working at Oracle.
Bruce took off 20 years from his law career to write, record, and perform his music and comedy. He opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic back in the day.
His songs and videos are on this podcast site as well as and others.
Watch for the video version soon!
email: BKerrLaw@aol.com
"REAM RAPER" is "Loose Bruce" Kerr's latest parody of Gary Wright's "Dream Weaver" and protests the Texas law forcing on a woman vaginal wand insertion for a sonogram before allowing an abortion. (True, it doesn't require wand insertion in all cases but in the first trimester, that's the only method). This issue is currently a subject of satire in Gary Trudeau's "Doonesbury" comic. Pennsylvania governor, Tom Corbett, famously uttered the parody's opening line as how a woman can choose to cope with forced viewing of the sonogram, "You can just close your eyes."
In Texas, it's the law. In PA, a bill is under consideration. Virginia also has a similar law. There's a trend here and it has to be stopped, and reversed, IMHO. There's a fight a-brewin'.
Bruce apologizes for being the ugliest woman imaginable in this video but, truthfully, a guy opining against vaginal insertion by the state, well, it raises questions (and no time for alternatives, these lyrics needed posting now).
Bruce (this is the "OTHER Bruce") took 20 years off to write & perform music, sometimes solo, sometimes in a duo or the band, "Spud City-Music With a Peel" (Mass., VT). He opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic. Then he resumed being an attorney, now working for Oracle in Northern California's Silicon Valley.
Copyright 2012 Broken Records & Marjorie Music Publ (BMI)
www.loosebrucekerr.com
email: BKerrLaw@aol.com
Herman Cain is STILL RUNNIN' (for now, anyway), and this parody by "Loose Bruce" Kerr talks of that candidate's challenges re women and stumbles he's made in the debates and in interviews. Watch for the performance video here soon.
"Loose Bruce" Kerr is an irregular feature of the Dr. Demento Show & Jim Bohannon Show on radio and the internet. He shoots his videos & records his audio tracks one instrument or vocal at a time by himself in his garage (all things in Silicon Valley must begin in a garage, by industry fiat).
Kerr is an attorney at Oracle but took 20 years off from his law career to write & perform music & comedy. He opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic back in the day.
email Bruce at: BKerrLaw@aol.com
(HEAR ALSO, the audio MP3 of this parody, on this podcast site; ALSO, the larger 200MB high res version)
"IT'S THE MOST MISERABLE TIME OF THE YEAR" MP3 AUDIO: "Loose Bruce" Kerr's latest parody/satire on the holidays. Fun? Yes. Stress? Definitely. Flu? Hopefully not but...
Loose Bruce Kerr is an irregular feature on the Dr. Demento and Jim Bohannon syndicated radio and internet shows.
Bruce opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic back in the day. He is now an attorney at Oracle. He took off 20 years to perform music & comedy, returning to law after he scratched that itch. Now he records his background tracks one vocal and instrument at a time, then videos it with live lead vocal in "The Garage" in Mountain View, CA in the heart of Silicon Valley (where all must start in the garage).
Bruce is now an attorney at Oracle.
email Bruce at: BKerrLaw@aol.com
(SEE ALSO, the VIDEO of this parody, on this podcast site)
"IT'S THE MOST MISERABLE TIME OF THE YEAR" MP3 AUDIO: "Loose Bruce" Kerr's latest parody/satire on the holidays. Fun? Yes. Stress? Definitely. Flu? Hopefully not but...
Loose Bruce Kerr is an irregular feature on the Dr. Demento and Jim Bohannon syndicated radio and internet shows.
Bruce opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic back in the day. He is now an attorney at Oracle. He took off 20 years to perform music & comedy, returning to law after he scratched that itch. Now he records his background tracks one vocal and instrument at a time, then videos it with live lead vocal in "The Garage" in Mountain View, CA in the heart of Silicon Valley (where all must start in the garage).
email Bruce at: BKerrLaw@aol.com
" GO GIANTS GO!" A new song and graphic dedicated to the Giants and Buster Posey's recovery. Singalong with the graphic. By Bay Area songwriter and parodist, "Loose Bruce" Kerr.
Bruce sings and plays the instruments one at a time in his garage studio in Mountain View, CA in Northern California's Silicon Valley...Giants Territory!
After a 20 year career writing and performing his comedy & music, "Loose Bruce" Kerr resumed his legal career and is currently an attorney working at Oracle. Bruce opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic back in the day.
www.loosebrucekerr.com
email: BKerrLaw@aol.com
Even after Obama posted his long-form birth certificate, over half of Republicans doubt the President's U.S. credentials. "Loose Bruce" Kerr cried, "Enough! Time for a ballad!!"
Here, to the tune of the West Side Story song is "I WASN'T BORN IN AMERICA."
Bruce records his videos in his garage in Northern California's Silicon Valley. When not doing that, Bruce is a lawyer and works at Oracle. Bruce took off 20 years from his law career to write, record, and perform his music and comedy. He opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic back in the day.
loosebrucekerr.com
email: BKerrLaw@aol.com
"PEED MY TROU" is parodist/song producer "Loose Bruce" Kerr's latest take on Grammy 2011 "Song of the Year," "Need You Now" by Lady Antebellum.
Bruce sings each vocal and plays each instrument one at a time in his garage studio and takes on the "I'm a little drunk" line from the orignal song and twists it into what really happens when you lose a lover and start drinking...little drunk?...s'cuse me, you talkin' to ME? And what can happen if you really pound 'em down and forget where that's ultimately supposed to take you?
Bruce is a lawyer working at Oracle in Northern California's Silicon Valley. He took 20 years out from his legal career to write and perform music and comedy and continues to appear irregularly on the Dr. Demento and Jim Bohannon syndicated radio and internet shows.
www.loosebrucekerr for free video & audio dowloads.
email: BKerrLaw@aol.com
"THE CHEESEHEAD SONG" is humorist Loose Bruce Kerr's original song about his home state, Wisconsin. Yes, by birth, Bruce is a Badger from Waukesha and a graduate of University of Wisconsin Law School at Madison. Bruce records his songs and videos in his garage in Silicon Valley in Northern California. He's heard on the Dr. Demento and Jim Bohannon radio shows, coast-to-coast. Bruce is also a high tech attorney for Sun Microsystems in Northern California's Silicon Valley. Many of his videos may be seen on youtube and myspace by searching on Loose Bruce Kerr. But this page contains the high quality video version of "THE CHEESEHEAD SONG"...don't forget to bookmark this URL or subscribe to this podcast to be notified when Bruce adds a new original or parody song or video song. email Bruce at BKerrLaw@aol.com
"IT'S UP ON WIKILEAKS" is "Loose Bruce" Kerr's latest parody, based on The Band's "Up On Cripple Creek." Bruce is an irregular feature on the Dr. Demento and Jim Bohannon nationally syndicated radio and internet shows. Most recently, Bruce's 2001 original song, "Naked Airlines" was featured on Dr. Demento. Bruce wishes to thank Jill Prescott for pushing Bruce to cover the WikiLeaks story a few days ago. Thanks, Jill!
After a 20 year stint to perform and write music, Bruce resumed his legal career and is now an attorney working at Oracle in Northern California's Silicon Valley.
Bruce's videos are on YouTube at:
email Bruce at: BKerrLaw@aol.com
"IT'S UP ON WIKILEAKS" is "Loose Bruce" Kerr's latest parody, based on The Band's "Up On Cripple Creek." Bruce is an irregular feature on the Dr. Demento and Jim Bohannon nationally syndicated radio and internet shows. Most recently, Bruce's 2001 original song, "Naked Airlines" was featured on Dr. Demento. Bruce wishes to thank Jill Prescott for pushing Bruce to cover the WikiLeaks story a few days ago. Thanks, Jill!
After a 20 year stint to perform and write music, Bruce resumed his legal career and is now an attorney working at Oracle in Northern California's Silicon Valley.
Bruce's videos are on YouTube at:
email Bruce at: BKerrLaw@aol.com
Kicking off the World Series 2010, "Loose Bruce" Kerr has written and recorded "GO GIANTS" in his garage in Northern California's Silicon Valley. In Bruce's performing days, he opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic. He continues to be featured on the Dr. Demento Show and Jim Bohannon Show, 2 nationally syndicated programs. Bruce is an attorney and works at Oracle email: BKerrLaw@aol.com
"SERVER GIRL" is "Loose Bruce" Kerr's latest parody, to the tune of the Beach Boys' "Surfer Girl." Bruce digitally produces extra harmonies real time, triggered by his lead vocal, to produce 4-part harmony. Loose Bruce Kerr is an irregular feature of the Dr. Demento Show and the Jim Bohannon Show on nationally syndicated radio. Bruce opened for Weird Al Yankovic. Bruce records his audio tracks and videos in his garage in Mountain View, California. Bruce resumed his legal career after 20 years off to pursue music. He is an attorney and works at Oracle in Northern California's Silicon Valley. email Bruce at: BKerrLaw@aol.com
"SUN MICRO" mp3 parody of "Kokomo" by the Beach Boys. A tribute song by Sun's Assistant General Counsel, "Loose Bruce" Kerr. Recorded in 2003 as Sun refocused to get back on top. Never fully recovered from the dotcom days of my first employment there. Loved every minute. Best IT industry professionals in the world. Like the "Tucker" auto & Jeff Bridges movie, best product, ahead of its time, not quite a market match, unfortunately. But we kicked butt & had fun.
"THE TWELVE BUGS OF CHRISTMAS," sung by The Sun Carolers, Sun Microsystems employees in Menlo Park, California under the direction of James Langdell who, each Christmas, "take their show on the hall" to sing and entertain their fellow workers with holiday favorites.
This one is, obviously, a parody of "The Twelve Days of Christmas," and its origin is uncertain. Suffice to say, it is a perennial favorite, particularly of software engineers, and has already endured for many years.
In the true spirit of Christmas, Sun would like now to invite Microsoft, Intel, Hewlett-Packard, IBM and others to, similarly, create a YouTube video related to our industry (now that Sun has typically broken through with the innovation...kidding!). But do go ahead, we'd love to see what others at our companies might come up with...who's next?
-The Sun Carolers (contact bruce.kerr@sun.com)
"TALIBAN TALIBAN" -VIDEO: is "Loose Bruce" Kerr's latest parody, to the tune of "The Ballad of Paladin" by Faron Young from the hit TV show of the 1950's (Bruce's favorite, by the way). Sparked by the recent news of the 30K soldiers who'll be embarking for Afghansistan.
Loose Bruce Kerr is an irregular feature of the Dr. Demento Show and the Jim Bohannon Show on nationally syndicated radio.
Bruce opened for Weird Al Yankovic. Bruce records his audio tracks and videos in his garage in Mountain View, California, recording each instrument and vocal one at a time. Bruce resumed his legal career after 20 years off to pursue music. He is now Assistant General Counsel for Sun Microsystems in Northern California's Silicon Valley.
email Bruce at: BKerrLaw@aol.com
"TALIBAN TALIBAN" -AUDIO: is "Loose Bruce" Kerr's latest parody, to the tune of "The Ballad of Paladin" by Faron Young from the hit tv show of the 1950's (Bruce's favorite, by the way). Sparked by the recent news of the 30K soldiers who'll be embarking for Afghansistan.
Watch for the VIDEO here in a few weeks.
Loose Bruce Kerr is an irregular feature of the Dr. Demento Show and the Jim Bohannon Show on nationally syndicated radio.
Bruce opened for Weird Al Yankovic. Bruce records his audio tracks and videos in his garage in Mountain View, California, recording each instrument and vocal one at a time. Bruce resumed his legal career after 20 years off to pursue music. He is now Assistant General Counsel for Sun Microsystems in Northern California's Silicon Valley.
email Bruce at: BKerrLaw@aol.com
"CHRISTMAS IS YOU"-VIDEO - is "Loose Bruce" Kerr's latest song, a romantic love song for Christmas. (See, also, the mp3 stereo song file, below.)
Loose Bruce Kerr is an irregular feature of the Dr. Demento Show and the Jim Bohannon Show on nationally syndicated radio.
Bruce opened for Weird Al Yankovic. Bruce records his audio tracks and videos in his garage in Mountain View, California, recording each instrument and vocal one at a time. Bruce resumed his legal career after 20 years off to pursue music. He is now Assistant General Counsel for Sun Microsystems in Northern California's Silicon Valley.
email Bruce at: BKerrLaw@aol.com
"JOE-DAVE-MI" is my latest VIDEO parody, this one about Obama's inner circle. See below for MONO & STEREO AUDIO versions (mono primarily for AM radio). Loose Bruce Kerr is an irregular feature of the Dr. Demento Show and the Jim Bohannon Show on nationally syndicated radio. Bruce opened for Weird Al Yankovic. Bruce records his audio tracks and videos in his garage in Mountain View, California, recording each instrument and vocal one at a time. Bruce resumed his legal career after 20 years off to pursue music. He is now Assistant General Counsel for Sun Microsystems in Northern California's Silicon Valley. email Bruce at: BKerrLaw@aol.com
"JOE-DAVE-MI" is my AUDIO latest parody, this one about Obama's inner circle.
See below for MONO VERSION/AUDIO, and above for the VIDEO.
Loose Bruce Kerr is an irregular feature of the Dr. Demento Show and the Jim Bohannon Show on nationally syndicated radio. Bruce opened for Weird Al Yankovic. Bruce records his audio tracks and videos in his garage in Mountain View, California, recording each instrument and vocal one at a time.
Bruce resumed his legal career after 20 years off to pursue music. He is now Assistant General Counsel for Sun Microsystems in Northern California's Silicon Valley.
email Bruce at: BKerrLaw@aol.com
"WHEN I'M 94"" is "Loose Bruce" Kerr's new VIDEO parody.
The Beatles' "When I'm 64" is updated to be the concern of Baby Boomers...who will take care of us after we are no longer able to care for ourselves? Can we expect that our kids will take care of us? Should we? Did our parents have to impose on us?
The generation that worshiped youth, that worried that biological clocks might run out before starting a family, now has to face the possibility of that biological clock slowly running down with our not having saved enough from a liftetime of work to be able to support the autumn of our years. College funds for our children were the challenge, forget about putting that into the retirement fund. Does that mean we get to rely on our kids if we get stuck in our final years? What're the rules? Hasn't this always been the unwritten burden of the children of the aged? But living to 94 or a hundred is quite different than living to 55 or 60, as in the old days...hence, "When I'm 94." Enjoy!
Loose Bruce Kerr is an irregular feature of the Dr. Demento Show and the Jim Bohannon Show on nationally syndicated radio. Bruce opened for Weird Al Yankovic. Bruce records his audio tracks and videos in his garage in Mountain View, California, recording each instrument and vocal one at a time.
Bruce resumed his legal career after 20 years off to pursue music. He is now Assistant General Counsel for Sun Microsystems in Northern California's Silicon Valley.
email Bruce at: BKerrLaw@aol.com
visit loosebrucekerr.com
"WHEN I'M 94"" is "Loose Bruce" Kerr's new AUDIO parody (watch for VIDEO within 2 weeks). The Beatles' "When I'm 64" is updated to be the concern of Baby Boomers...who will take care of us after we are no longer able to care for ourselves? Can we expect that our kids will take care of us? Should we? Did our parents have to impose on us?
The generation that worshiped youth, that worried that biological clocks might run out before starting a family, now has to face the possibility of that biological clock slowly running down with our not having saved enough from a liftetime of work to be able to support the autumn of our years. College funds for our children were the challenge, forget about putting that into the retirement fund. Does that mean we get to rely on our kids if we get stuck in our final years? What're the rules? Hasn't this always been the unwritten burden of the children of the aged? But living to 94 or a hundred is quite different than living to 55 or 60, as in the old days...hence, "When I'm 94." Enjoy!
Loose Bruce Kerr is an irregular feature of the Dr. Demento Show and the Jim Bohannon Show on nationally syndicated radio. Bruce opened for Weird Al Yankovic. Bruce records his audio tracks and videos in his garage in Mountain View, California, recording each instrument and vocal one at a time.
Bruce resumed his legal career after 20 years off to pursue music. He is now Assistant General Counsel for Sun Microsystems in Northern California's Silicon Valley.
email Bruce at: BKerrLaw@aol.com
visit loosebrucekerr.com
watch for the video...coming soon!
"THE PLAIN WHITE RAPPER" is "Loose Bruce" Kerr's new performance video directed by Terry McGovern. No, Bruce is not aging backward like Benjamin Button, you're looking at footage from a while back which sat on the shelf until now. FOOTAGE NEVER BEFORE SEEN, out of the vault!
Loose Bruce Kerr is an irregular feature of the Dr. Demento Show and the Jim Bohannon Show on nationally syndicated radio. Bruce opened for Weird Al Yankovic.
Bruce resumed his legal career after 20 years off to pursue music. He is now Assistant General Counsel for Sun Microsystems in Silicon Valley.
email Bruce at: BKerrLaw@aol.com
"IT'S CLOUD COMPUTING" is the latest parody by "Loose Bruce" Kerr re Joni Mitchell's "Both Sides Now" and speaks of the next wave of computing: remotely accessing resources, applications, and your data storage via the intertubes, I mean, Internet (the "cloud")...instead of owning and using everything locally.
Loose Bruce Kerr performs irregularly on the Dr. Demento & Jim Bohannon nationally syndicated radio shows. During Kerr's earlier career as a musical performer and comedian, he opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic.
He is now Assistant General Counsel for Sun Microsystems in Northern California's Silicon Valley, after a 20 year career break to write and perform music and comedy.
email Bruce at: BKerrLaw@aol.com
"I KISSED A DUDE (I Didn't Like It!)" is Loose Bruce" Kerr's new parody of Katy Perry's "I Kissed a Girl." Now, 2 women can kiss and there's not much upheaval except for some excitable guys. But 2 guys kissing, and unless you're gay, gross me out!
Loose Bruce Kerr is an irregular feature of the Dr. Demento Show and the Jim Bohannon Show on nationally syndicated radio. Bruce opened for Weird Al Yankovic.
Bruce resumed his legal career after 20 years off to pursue music. He is now Assistant General Counsel for Sun Microsystems in Silicon Valley.
email Bruce at: BKerrLaw@aol.com
(watch for the VIDEO here next week or 2)
"I KISSED A DUDE (I Didn't Like It!)" -parody of Kate Perry's "I Kissed a Girl" -by Loose Bruce Kerr
This AUDIO parody of Kate Perry's recent hit, "I Kissed a Girl" flips the action with a different outcome. Even to straight people, 2 women together seems to not bother anyone, even turns many hetero men and women on. However, in our culture, 2 men together (while wildly acceptable in the gay community, of course), even mere touching is still bothersome to many, if not most, American straight men. It's just a fact. Hence, this parody.
Bruce recorded all of the tracks one at a time, bass, guitar, and all the rest of the instruments (horns, etc.) on his studio equipment in his garage.
Loose Bruce Kerr performs irregularly on the Dr. Demento & Jim Bohannon nationally syndicated radio shows. During Kerr's earlier career as a musical performer and comedian, he opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic.
He is now Assistant General Counsel for Sun Microsystems in Northern California's Silicon Valley, after a 20 year career break to write and perform music and comedy.
email Bruce at: BKerrLaw@aol.com
"SHIT, BLAGO!" the VIDEO by "Loose Bruce" Kerr
This VIDEO parody of Frank Sinatra's classic, "Chicago" is, of course, about the scandal surrounding Illinois Governor Rod Blogojevich and his alleged attempt to sell Barack Obama's vacant Senate Seat.
The Illinois State Senate is set to begin the impeachment trial tomorrow, January 26th.
Bruce recorded all of the tracks one at a time, bass, guitar, and all the rest of the instruments (horns, etc.) on his studio equipment in his garage.
Loose Bruce Kerr performs irregularly on the Dr. Demento & Jim Bohannon nationally syndicated radio shows. During Kerr's earlier career as a musical performer and comedian, he opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic.
He is now Assistant General Counsel for Sun Microsystems in Northern California's Silicon Valley, after a 20 year career break to write and perform music and comedy.
email Bruce at: BKerrLaw@aol.com
"SHIT, BLAGO!" the Stereo AUDIO by "Loose Bruce" Kerr (corrected pitch & speed from earlier version yesterday)
This parody of Frank Sinatra's classic, "Chicago" is, of course, about the scandal surrounding Illinois Governor Rod Blogojevich and his alleged attempt to sell Barack Obama's vacant Senate Seat.
Watch for the video next week!
Bruce recorded all of the tracks one at a time, bass, guitar, and all the rest of the instruments (horns, etc.) on his studio equipment in his garage.
Loose Bruce Kerr performs irregularly on the Dr. Demento & Jim Bohannon nationally syndicated radio shows. During Kerr's earlier career as a musical performer and comedian, he opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic.
He is now Assistant General Counsel for Sun Microsystems in Northern California's Silicon Valley, after a 20 year career break to write and perform music and comedy.
email Bruce at: BKerrLaw@aol.com
"JAVA" the VIDEO by "Loose Bruce" Kerr.
This parody of "Ja-Da," a World War I era song Bruce sang at summer camp growing up in Wisconsin regards the Sun Microsystems v. Microsoft lawsuit on Java technology from 1997, as told by Sun's own Assistant General Counsel, "Loose Bruce" Kerr.
Kerr had just joined Sun's legal department when the lawsuit was filed. Kerr recorded this in his Silicon Valley garage 6 months into his new job, one vocal and instrument at a time on a 4 track cassette deck. Yes, those are non-heavy metal ukeleles on this recording.
Now with background tracks digitally remastered and stereo-ized, here is the video Bruce has been putting off making since 1997. Bruce performs live over his old background tracks in this video.
Loose Bruce Kerr performs irregularly on the Dr. Demento & Jim Bohannon nationally syndicated radio shows. During Kerr's earlier career as a musical performer and comedian, he opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic.
The stereo mp3 file is also available for free download on this same site Also, the mono (down the list a ways...)
email Bruce at: BKerrLaw@aol.com
"JAVA" the STEREO AUDIO by "Loose Bruce" Kerr as featured on the Dr. Demento & Jim Bohannon syndicated radio shows.
This parody of "Ja-Da," a World War I era song Bruce sang at summer camp growing up in Wisconsin regards the Sun Microsystems v. Microsoft lawsuit on Java technology from 1997, as told by Sun's own Assistant General Counsel, "Loose Bruce" Kerr.
Kerr had just joined Sun's legal department when the lawsuit was filed. Kerr recorded this in his Silicon Valley garage 6 months into his new job, one vocal and instrument at a time on a 4 track cassette deck. Yes, those are non-heavy metal ukeleles on this recording.
Now digitally remastered and stereo-ized here. And watch for the upcoming video here also during December 2008.
email Bruce at: BKerrLaw@aol.com
"MOMENTS TO REMEMBER" -THE VIDEO -parody by "Loose Bruce" Kerr is based on a song of the same name from the 1950's by the Four Lads, turning an innocent look at old college days into a version for the Baby Boomers looking back on days of protesting from the 1960's & 70's.
"Loose Bruce" Kerr is an irregular feature on the Dr. Demento and Jim Bohannon syndicated national radio shows. Bruce has opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic.
Kerr records and performs his videos and audio tracks in his garage, singing and playing the instruments one at a time. Bruce took 20 years off from his legal career to write and perform music as "Loose Bruce" Kerr. After resuming his career in law, Kerr has become Assistant General Counsel of Sun Microsystems in Northern California's Silicon Valley.
Most of Bruce's audios and videos can be heard and seen on this podcast site as well as on YouTube, funnyordie.com, metacafe.com, revver.com and many other video sites.
email Bruce at
"ONE OF US IS A JEW" (The VIDEO) by "Loose Bruce" Kerr is based on an original song Bruce wrote back in 1973. At the urging of his lifelong friend, Chris Rose of Chicago, Illinois, who is mentioned in the song and for whom Bruce wrote this as a tribute to their friendship from college onward, Bruce recently recorded the audio, and now a few weeks later, the video.
"Loose Bruce" Kerr is an irregular feature on the Dr. Demento and Jim Bohannon syndicated national radio shows. Bruce has opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic.
Kerr records and performs his videos and audio tracks in his garage, singing and playing the instruments one at a time. Bruce took 20 years off from his legal career to write and perform music as "Loose Bruce" Kerr. After resuming his career in law, Kerr is currently Assistant General Counsel of Sun Microsystems in Northern California's Silicon Valley.
Most of Bruce's audios and videos can be heard and seen on this podcast site as well as on YouTube, funnyordie.com, metacafe.com, revver.com, myspace, yahoo, and many other video sites.
email Bruce at
"ONE OF US IS A JEW (AUDIO) by "Loose Bruce" Kerr is an original song Bruce wrote back in 1973. At the urging of his lifelong friend, Chris Rose of Chicago, Illinois, who is mentioned in the song and for whom Bruce wrote this as a tribute to their friendship from college onward, Bruce recently recorded this audio verison and now the video version is up as well.
"Loose Bruce" Kerr is an irregular feature on the Dr. Demento and Jim Bohannon syndicated national radio shows. Bruce has opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic.
Kerr records and performs his videos and audio tracks in his garage, singing and playing the instruments one at a time. Bruce took 20 years off from his legal career to write and perform music as "Loose Bruce" Kerr. After resuming his career in law, Kerr is currently Assistant General Counsel of Sun Microsystems in Northern California's Silicon Valley.
Most of Bruce's audios and videos can be heard and seen on this podcast site as well as on YouTube, funnyordie.com, metacafe.com, revver.com, myspace, yahoo, and many other video sites.
email Bruce at
"PARTY LIKE IT'S 1929" (VIDEO) by "Loose Bruce" Kerr is a parody of Prince's "1999," about the country's current fiscal crisis. While Prince's 1982 original spoke of the end of days way off in the future (way off in 1999), Bruce's parody speaks of the end of days happening...RIGHT NOW! At least it seems like it, with Republicans calling for government takeovers of private banks. Who'd have predicted that would ever happen. Lenin, anyone? Feels like...like...1929.
Hear/download the AUDIO on this podcast site in mp3, either STEREO or MONO (particularly for AM radio).
"Loose Bruce" Kerr is an irregular feature on the Dr. Demento and Jim Bohannon syndicated national radio shows. Bruce has opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic.
Kerr records and performs his videos and audio tracks in his garage, singing and playing the instruments one at a time. Bruce took 20 years off from his legal career to write and perform music as "Loose Bruce" Kerr. After resuming his career in law, Kerr is currently Assistant General Counsel of Sun Microsystems in Northern California's Silicon Valley.
Most of Bruce's audios and videos can be heard and seen on this podcast site as well as on YouTube, funnyordie.com, metacafe.com, revver.com, myspace, yahoo, and many other video sites.
email Bruce at
"PARTY LIKE IT'S 1929" (STEREO AUDIO mp3) by "Loose Bruce" Kerr is a parody of Prince's "1999," about the country's current fiscal crisis. While Prince's 1982 original spoke of the end of days way off in the future (way off in 1999), Bruce's parody speaks of the end of days happening...RIGHT NOW! At least it seems like it, with Republicans calling for government takeovers of private banks. Who'd have predicted that would ever happen. Lenin, anyone? Feels like...like...1929.
See/download the VIDEO on this podcast site as well as get the MONO version of the mp3 (for AM radio in particular).
"Loose Bruce" Kerr is an irregular feature on the Dr. Demento and Jim Bohannon syndicated national radio shows. Bruce has opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic.
Kerr records and performs his videos and audio tracks in his garage, singing and playing the instruments one at a time. Bruce took 20 years off from his legal career to write and perform music as "Loose Bruce" Kerr. After resuming his career in law, Kerr is currently Assistant General Counsel of Sun Microsystems in Northern California's Silicon Valley.
Most of Bruce's audios and videos can be heard and seen on this podcast site as well as on YouTube, funnyordie.com, metacafe.com, revver.com, myspace, yahoo, and many other video sites.
email Bruce at
"MOMENTS TO REMEMBER" AUDIO parody by "Loose Bruce" Kerr is based on a song of the same name from the 1950's by the Four Lads, turning an innocent look at old college days into a version for the Baby Boomers looking back on days of protests from the 60's & 70's.
"Loose Bruce" Kerr is an irregular feature on the Dr. Demento and Jim Bohannon syndicated national radio shows. Bruce has opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic.
Kerr records and performs his videos and audio tracks in his garage, singing and playing the instruments one at a time. Bruce took 20 years off from his legal career to write and perform music as "Loose Bruce" Kerr. After resuming his career in law, Kerr has become Assistant General Counsel of Sun Microsystems in Northern California's Silicon Valley.
Most of Bruce's audios and videos can be heard and seen on this podcast site as well as on YouTube, funnyordie.com, metacafe.com, revver.com and many other video sites.
email Bruce at
"RIITI'S DANCE" by Riiti Conway. Tuvaluan dance by Riiti Conway to honor the wedding day of her cousin and his sweetheart.
"YOU'RE JUST TOO GOOD NOT TO STALK" -VIDEO parody of Frankie Valli's (of the Four Seasons) "Can't Take My Eyes Off You" -by Loose Bruce Kerr, an irregular feature on the Dr. Demento and Jim Bohannon syndicated national radio shows. This one's the flip side of mutual falling in love, a single-minded obsession such as we see take place with Hollywood stars, both female and male.
Kerr records and performs his videos and audio tracks in his garage, singing and playing the instruments one at a time. Bruce took 20 years off from his legal career to write and perform music as Loose Bruce Kerr. After resuming his career in law, Bruce has become Assistant General Counsel of Sun Microsystems in Northern California's Silicon Valley.
email Bruce at
"THE GUY FROM AL-QAEDA IN IRAQ" -VIDEO parody of "The Girl From Ipanema" -by Loose Bruce Kerr, an irregular feature on the Dr. Demento and Jim Bohannon syndicated national radio shows.
Take the "Girl," make it the "Guy," change the setting from Rio to Baghdad, mix with the bossa nova a little night caravan traveling music and there you have it...whatever this is. Dedicated to our U.S. troops who served or are currently serving over there, this one's for you guys, men and women.
Loose Bruce Kerr records and performs his videos and audio tracks in his garage, singing and playing the instruments one at a time. Bruce took 20 years off from his legal career to write and perform music as Loose Bruce Kerr. After resuming his career in law, Bruce has become Assistant General Counsel of high tech company, Sun Microsystems in Northern California's Silicon Valley.
email Bruce at: BKerrLaw@aol.com
"THE GUY FROM AL-QAEDA IN IRAQ" -AUDIO parody of "The Girl From Ipanema" -by Loose Bruce Kerr, an irregular feature on the Dr. Demento and Jim Bohannon syndicated national radio shows.
Take the "Girl," make it the "Guy," change the setting from Rio to Baghdad, mix with the bossa nova a little night caravan traveling music and there you have it...whatever this is. Dedicated to our U.S. troops who served or are currently serving over there, this one's for you guys, men and women.
Loose Bruce Kerr records and performs his videos and audio tracks in his garage, singing and playing the instruments one at a time. Bruce took 20 years off from his legal career to write and perform music as Loose Bruce Kerr. After resuming his career in law, Bruce has become Assistant General Counsel of high tech company, Sun Microsystems in Northern California's Silicon Valley.
email Bruce at: BKerrLaw@aol.com
"LIFE ON THE FAULTLINE" -AUDIO parody of the Eagles' "Life In the Fast Lane" -by Loose Bruce Kerr, an irregular feature on the Dr. Demento and Jim Bohannon syndicated national radio shows. This one's about California and the ever-looming possibility of an earthquake, The Big One. Loose Bruce Kerr records and performs his videos and audio tracks in his garage, singing and playing the instruments one at a time. Bruce took 20 years off from his legal career to write and perform music as Loose Bruce Kerr. After resuming his career in law, Bruce has become Assistant General Counsel of high tech company, Sun Microsystems in Northern California's Silicon Valley. email Bruce at: BKerrLaw@aol.com
"YOU'RE JUST TOO GOOD NOT TO STALK" -AUDIO parody of the Four Seasons' "Can't Take My Eyes Off You" -by Loose Bruce Kerr, an irregular feature on the Dr. Demento and Jim Bohannon syndicated national radio shows. This one's the flip side of mutual falling in love, a single-minded obsession such as we see take place with Hollywood stars, both female and male. Kerr records and performs his videos and audio tracks in his garage, singing and playing the instruments one at a time. Bruce took 20 years off from his legal career to write and perform music as Loose Bruce Kerr. After resuming his career in law, Bruce has become Assistant General Counsel of Sun Microsystems in Northern California's Silicon Valley.
email Bruce at
LIFE ON THE FAULTLINE -VIDEO parody of the Eagles' Life In the Fast Lane -by Loose Bruce Kerr, an irregular feature on the Dr. Demento and Jim Bohannon syndicated national radio shows. This one's about California and the ever-looming possibility of an earthquake, The Big One. Loose Bruce Kerr records and performs his videos and audio tracks in his garage, singing and playing the instruments one at a time. Bruce took 20 years off from his legal career to write and perform music as Loose Bruce Kerr. After resuming his career in law, Bruce has become Assistant General Counsel of high tech company, Sun Microsystems in Northern California's Silicon Valley.
email Bruce at: BKerrLaw@aol.com
"ANY LANE" -VIDEO parody of the Beatles' "Penny Lane" - by Loose Bruce Kerr, an irregular feature on the Dr. Demento & Jim Bohannon syndicated national radio shows. This one's about the frustrations of dealing with incessant lane-changers on the highway. Sing it next time you have one of these in front of you. Bruce offers in the spirit of full disclosure: at times, it could be him.
Bruce records and performs his videos and audio tracks in his garage, singing and playing the instruments one at a time. Bruce took 20 years off from his legal career to write and perform music as "Loose Bruce" Kerr. After resuming his career in law, Bruce has become Assistant General Counsel of Sun Microsystems in Northern California's Silicon Valley.
email: BKerrLaw@aol.com
"ADDICTED TO OIL" -VIDEO -parody of Robert Palmer's "Addicted to Love" - By Loose Bruce Kerr as featured on the Dr. Demento & Jim Bohannon syndicated national radio shows. Bruce records and performs his videos and audio tracks in his garage, singing and playing the instruments one at a time. Bruce is also Assistant General Counsel of Sun Microsystems in Northern California's Silicon Valley. email: BKerrLaw@aol.com
"SAFE FROM YOU" the VIDEO," by Loose Bruce Kerr about the Girlfriend From Hell (or boyfriend, also husband, wife, current albatross...) is Loose Bruce Kerr's latest VIDEO parody, to the tune of the Carpenters' song, "Close To You."
The stereo audio is also available on this site, below.
See, also, Bruce's videos here on this podcast site as well as by searching on on YouTube.
After retiring from over 2 decades of performing and writing full-time, Bruce continues to record audios and videos of his parodies and originals in his garage while holding down his day job as a high-tech lawyer for Sun Microsystems in Northern California's Silicon Valley. Bruce is often heard on the Dr. Demento nationally syndicated radio show.
email Bruce at
"OY, THE WORDS HE HURLED," by Loose Bruce Kerr about Rev. Jeremiah Wright & Barak Obama, to the tune of 3 Dog Night's "Joy To the World" is Loose Bruce Kerr's latest VIDEO parody about the vitriolic statements of the presidential hopeful's personal choice of preacher for 2 decades. See, also, Bruce's videos here on this podcast site as well as by searching on on YouTube. After retiring from over 2 decades of performing and writing full-time, Bruce continues to record audios and videos of his parodies and originals in his garage while holding down his day job as a high-tech lawyer for Sun Microsystems in Northern California's Silicon Valley. Bruce is often heard on the Dr. Demento nationally syndicated radio show. email Bruce at
(Bleeped Ver.) "OY, THE WORDS HE HURLED!" -("Joy To the World") AUDIO parody re Rev. Jeremiah Wright Obama-Loose Bruce Kerr(Bleeped Ver.) [BLEEPED VER.:] "OY, THE WORDS HE HURLED," by Loose Bruce Kerr about Rev. Jeremiah Wright & Barak Obama, to the tune of 3 Dog Night's "Joy To the World" is Loose Bruce Kerr's latest AUDIO parody (video coming soon), about the vitriolic statements of the presidential hopeful's personal choice of preacher for 2 decades.
See, also, Bruce's videos here on this podcast site as well as by searching on on YouTube.
After retiring from over 2 decades of performing and writing full-time, Bruce continues to record audios and videos of his parodies and originals in his garage while holding down his day job as a high-tech lawyer for Sun Microsystems in Northern California's Silicon Valley. Bruce is often heard on the Dr. Demento nationally syndicated radio show.
email Bruce at
"OY, THE WORDS HE HURLED," (UNCENSORED VERSION) by Loose Bruce Kerr about Rev. Jeremiah Wright & Barak Obama, to the tune of 3 Dog Night's "Joy To the World" is Loose Bruce Kerr's latest AUDIO parody (video coming soon), about the vitriolic statements of the presidential hopeful's personal choice of preacher for 2 decades.
See, also, Bruce's videos here on this podcast site as well as by searching on on YouTube.
After retiring from over 2 decades of performing and writing full-time, Bruce continues to record audios and videos of his parodies and originals in his garage while holding down his day job as a high-tech lawyer for Sun Microsystems in Northern California's Silicon Valley. Bruce is often heard on the Dr. Demento nationally syndicated radio show.
email Bruce at
"SAFE FROM YOU," to the tune of Carpenters' "Close To You," is Loose Bruce Kerr's latest AUDIO parody (video coming soon), about the girlfriend or wife from hell. Guys, don't we all have someone in our life we really now realize it's good we got away? For that matter, don't you women have the same? See, also, Bruce's videos here on this podcast site as well as by searching on on YouTube.
After retiring from over 2 decades of performing and writing full-time, Bruce continues to record audios and videos of his parodies and originals in his garage while holding down his day job as a high-tech lawyer for Sun Microsystems in Northern California's Silicon Valley. Bruce is often heard on the Dr. Demento nationally syndicated radio show.
email Bruce at
"THE CHEESEHEAD SONG" is humorist Loose Bruce Kerr's original song about his home state, Wisconsin. Yes, by birth, Bruce is a Badger from Waukesha and a graduate of University of Wisconsin Law School at Madison. Bruce records his songs and videos in his garage in Silicon Valley in Northern California. He's heard on the Dr. Demento and Jim Bohannon radio shows, coast-to-coast. Bruce is also a high tech attorney for Sun Microsystems in Northern California's Silicon Valley. Many of his videos may be seen on youtube and myspace by searching on Loose Bruce Kerr. But this page contains the high quality video version of "THE CHEESEHEAD SONG"...don't forget to bookmark this URL or subscribe to this podcast to be notified when Bruce adds a new original or parody song or video song. email Bruce at BKerrLaw@aol.com
"ANY LANE," to the tune of the Beatles' "Penny Lane," is Loose Bruce Kerr's latest AUDIO parody (video coming soon), about drivers who weave, change lanes without signaling, and drive us all nuts. A friend of Bruce's once remarked, "I don't signal, that gives the enemy too much information." See, also, Bruce's ROAD RAGE parody, "Ghostdrivers In Disguise" on this subject. After retiring from over 2 decades of performing and writing full-time, Bruce continues to record audios and videos of his parodies and originals in his garage while holding down his day job as a high-tech lawyer for Sun Microsystems in Northern California's Silicon Valley. email Bruce at
l"THE BALLAD OF WOODY & MIA" -VIDEO parody by Loose Bruce Kerr re Woody Allen & Mia Farrow.
This is a new video of Bruce's 1992 parody song which parallels the media saturation regarding Woody Allen's breakup with Mia Farrow and his affair with her adopted daughter, Soon-Yi Previn.
Woody & Soon-Yi are still together but at the time the story broke, the nation was divided between those who saw the relationship of 60 year old Allen and 25 year old Previn as true love conquering all and those who saw it as improper, even immoral.
The parody song was played many times in '92 & '93 on the Dr. Demento and Jim Bohannon radio shows, and was featured on a "basement tapes" edition of Dr. Demento's.
The background parts were recorded by Bruce one-at-a-time and mixed down from his 4-track cassette deck, including multiple overdubs of Bruce playing "vocal trumpets." This video has Bruce singing live and playing his Les Paul electric guitar over his old background tracks.
A year after first recording this parody song, Bruce resumed his career as a lawyer which he had put on hold for 20 years to record and perform music. He continues to record audios and videos of his parodies and originals while holding down his day job as a lawyer for Sun Microsystems in Northern California's Silicon Valley.
email Bruce at
"GHOSTDRIVERS IN DISGUISE" The LIVE MP3 AUDIO by song parodist Loose Bruce Kerr parodies the Vaughn Monroe hit, "Ghostriders In the Sky." It tells the tale of a modern day road rage incident in which both participants come face to face in a standoff reminiscent of the Wild West.
Bruce lives, works, records, and performs in Silicon Valley in Northern California. Bruce is also an attorney with Sun Microsystems. His parodies are regularly featured on the Dr. Demento and Jim Bohannon Shows. In the 90's, Bruce opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic.
email Bruce at: BKerrLaw@aol.com
"GHOSTDRIVERS IN DISGUISE" The STEREO VIDEO by song parodist Loose Bruce Kerr parodies the Vaughn Monroe hit, "Ghostriders In the Sky." It tells the tale of a modern day road rage incident in which both participants come face to face in a standoff reminiscent of the Wild West. Bruce lives, works, records, and performs in Silicon Valley in Northern California. Bruce is also an attorney with Sun Microsystems. His parodies are regularly featured on the Dr. Demento and Jim Bohannon Shows. In the 90's, Bruce opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic. email Bruce at: BKerrLaw@aol.com
"I RIGHT THE WRONGS" MP3 AUDIO parody by Loose Bruce Kerr, based on Barry Manilow's "I Write the Songs" tells of the ultimate sex-based affirmative action by an individual: a man who does ALL the household cleaning, reversing a pattern that's lasted since the beginning of time. Bruce sings and plays the instruments one at a time in his garage studio in Silicon Valley in Northern California, then videos them while singing and playing live over the arrangements. Bruce is also an attorney with Sun Microsystems. His parodies are regularly featured on the Dr. Demento and Jim Bohannon Shows. email Bruce at: BKerrLaw@aol.com
"I RIGHT THE WRONGS" VIDEO parody by Loose Bruce Kerr, based on Barry Manilow's "I Write the Songs" tells of the ultimate sex-based affirmative action by an individual: a man who does ALL the household cleaning, reversing a pattern that's lasted since the beginning of time. Bruce sings and plays the instruments one at a time in his garage studio in Silicon Valley in Northern California, then videos them while singing and playing live over the arrangements. Bruce is also an attorney with Sun Microsystems. His parodies are regularly featured on the Dr. Demento and Jim Bohannon Shows. email Bruce at: BKerrLaw@aol.com
"THE DAY THE DATA DIED" is Loose Bruce Kerr's parody song based on Don McLean's "American Pie," about a worldwide computer system failure. Bruce records his songs and videos in his garage in Silicon Valley in Northern California. He's heard on the Dr. Demento and Jim Bohannon radio shows, coast-to-coast. Bruce is also a high tech attorney with Sun Microsystems. email Bruce at BKerrLaw@aol.com
"THE DAY THE DATA DIED" is Loose Bruce Kerr's parody song based on Don MacLean's "American Pie," about a worldwide computer system failure. Bruce records his songs and videos in his garage in Silicon Valley in Northern California. He's heard on the Dr. Demento and Jim Bohannon radio shows, coast-to-coast. Bruce is also a high tech attorney with Sun Microsystems.
email Bruce at BKerrLaw@aol.com
"THE CHEESEHEAD SONG" is humorist Loose Bruce Kerr's original song about his home state, Wisconsin. Yes, by birth, Bruce is a Badger from Waukesha and a graduate of University of Wisconsin Law School at Madison. Bruce records his songs and videos in his garage in Silicon Valley in Northern California. He's heard on the Dr. Demento and Jim Bohannon radio shows, coast-to-coast. Bruce is also a high tech attorney for Sun Microsystems in Northern California's Silicon Valley. Many of his videos may be seen on youtube and myspace by searching on Loose Bruce Kerr. But this page contains the high quality video version of "THE CHEESEHEAD SONG"...don't forget to bookmark this URL or subscribe to this podcast to be notified when Bruce adds a new original or parody song or video song.
email Bruce at BKerrLaw@aol.com
-a compound parody of Ricky Martin's "Livin' La Vida Loca" and Iron Butterfly's 1968 hit, "In-A-Ga-Da-Da-Vi-Da," plus accordian ma -a compound parody of Ricky Martin's "Livin' La Vida Loca" and Iron Butterfly's 1968 hit, "In-A-Ga-Da-Da-Vi-Da," plus accordian makes a confluence that brings back the 1960's, hence all the flared jeans, black lights, Doors posters, etc. that you see in the culture today. It had to happen. Nothing major has occured since the 1960's so we're recycling them, hoping to get something more going...by Loose Bruce Kerr, as featured on the Dr. Demento Show and Jim Bohannon Show on Mutual. Loose Bruce Kerr is also a high tech attorney for Sun Microsystems in Northern California's Silicon Valley where he produces and plays each instrument, sings each vocal one at a time in his garage studio. You can also get the high quality video w/ stereo sound and the mp3 stereo at his podcast site for free at: http://loosebrucekerr.libsysn.com. youtube also has his other latest videos like "Hotel Minnesota" re Senator Larry Craig, and "Leave Town," a parody of Petula Clark's "Downtown. Email Bruce at: BKerrLaw@aol.com
"LEAVE TOWN" is parodist Loose Bruce Kerr's answer to Petula Clark's hit, "Downtown." City life is compared to the dangers when you "Leave Town," whether from wild animals or a "Deliverance" type scenario. Bruce records his songs and videos in his garage in Silicon Valley in Northern California. He's heard on the Dr. Demento and Jim Bohannon radio shows, coast-to-coast. Bruce is also a high tech attorney for Sun Microsystems in Northern California's Silicon Valley. Many of his videos may be seen on youtube and myspace by searching on Loose Bruce Kerr. The stereo mp3 files for "Leave Town" is available at htt://loosebrucekerr.libsyn.com
"HOTEL MINNESOTA" is parodist Loose Bruce Kerr's latest video (& mp3 audio, below) about the scandal surrounding Idaho Senator Larry Craig and his guilty plea stemming from his having solicited sex (Larry, not Bruce) in the Minneapolis airport men's room. The parody is based on the Eagles iconic recording of "Hotel California." Bruce records his songs and videos in his garage in Silicon Valley in Northern California by playing each instrument and singing each vocal part one at a time. He's heard on the Dr. Demento and Jim Bohannon radio shows, coast-to-coast. Bruce is also a high tech attorney for Sun Microsystems. Many of his videos may be seen on youtube, including "HOTEL MINNESOTA" and myspace by searching on
"HOTEL MINNESOTA" is parodist Loose Bruce Kerr's latest audio & video about the scandal surrounding Idaho Senator Larry Craig and his guilty plea stemming from his having solicited sex (Larry, not Bruce) in the Minneapolis airport men's room. The parody is based on the Eagles iconic recording of "Hotel California." Bruce records his songs and videos in his garage in Silicon Valley in Northern California by playing each instrument and singing each vocal part one at a time. He's heard on the Dr. Demento and Jim Bohannon radio shows, coast-to-coast. Bruce is also a high tech attorney for Sun Microsystems. Many of his videos may be seen on youtube and myspace by searching on
"Leave Town" is parodist Loose Bruce Kerr's answer to Petula Clark's hit, "Downtown." City life is compared to the dangers when you "Leave Town," whether from wild animals or a "Deliverance" type scenario. Bruce records his songs and videos in his garage in Silicon Valley in Northern California. He's heard on the Dr. Demento and Jim Bohannon radio shows, coast-to-coast. Bruce is also a high tech attorney for Sun Microsystems. Many of his videos may be seen on youtube and myspace by searching on
"THE NOSE" is a new parody by Loose Bruce Kerr of Bette Midler's "The Rose." Loose Bruce Kerr is a parodist featured on the Dr. Demento Show over 75 times, as well as on NPR's "All Things Considered," ABC TV Network News, CNN News, and the Jim Bohannon syndicated radio show. Bruce is also an attorney for Sun Microsystems in California's Silicon Valley. High res videos and stereo mp3's at www.loosebrucekerr email: BKerrLaw@aol.com
"THE TIMES THEY HAVEN'T CHANGED MUCH" - Loose Bruce Kerr's live garage music video performance of the song featured on the Dr. Demento and Jim Bohannon shows on nationally syndicated radio. An update/parody of the 1960's Bob Dylan song of somewhat similar title. Bruce is also an attorney for Sun Microsystems in California's Silicon Valley. See also Bruce's podcast: www.loosebrucekerr.com for high res. versions of these videos, also stereo mp3 files for free download & podcast subscribing. email Bruce at BKerrLaw@aol.com
"IN-A-GA-DA-DA-VIDA POLKA," a combination parody by "Loose Bruce" Kerr, as featured on the Dr. Demento and Jim Bohannon syndicated radio shows, combines Ricky Martin's "Livin' La Vida Loca" with the 1968 drum solo hit song by Iron Butterfly, "IN-A-GA-DA-DA-VI-DA" and an added accordian unfortunately turns it into a nightmarish polka. In this fantasy parody, as the 60's start to come back in the form of flared jeans, black lights, lava lamps, etc., the added accordian somehow kidnaps the 60's rock sound and morphs it into a polka. Oh, the humanity. Ah, you can never go home again. Bruce laid down the instruments and vocals, one at a time, then brought in a female accordian player who was the local accordian society's president who'd not only never heard "IN-A-GA-DA-DA-VI-DA," she had somehow evaded hearing Ricky Martin's constant anthem, the beach song of a recent summer. Lawrence Welk may have been her last influence. This picture is Bruce in 1968 when he was in a rock band at the U. of Michigan-Ann Arbor, the Byzantine Empire, who opened for the Iron Butterfly in Chicago in 1968 as their psychedelic era hit was hitting the top of the charts. Sit back, crank up this double-parody, and take comfort that the story of this song will never truly exist to hurt us. Trust me. Rock does not have a polka phase ahead. If it were to, all boomers would pick a night to commit mass mutual suicide together. Holding hands and swaying while Judy Collins sings Joni Mitchell's, "Both Sides Now." Bruce is an attorney with Sun Microsystems in California's Silicon Valley. email: BKerrLaw@aol.com
"ADDICTED TO OIL" -AUDIO MP3 -parody of Robert Palmer's "Addicted to Love" - By Loose Bruce Kerr as featured on the Dr. Demento & Jim Bohannon syndicated national radio shows. Watch for the upcoming video of "Addicted to Oil" - Bruce is also an attorney at Sun Microsytems in California's Silicon Valley - other videos & stereo mp3's of Bruce's songs & parodies at www.loosebrucekerr.com, youtube, buzznet, myspace, yahoovideos, googlevideos, grouper & others -email: BKerrLaw@aol.com
"Mr. Joe Bangles," parody/video of Jerry Jeff Walker's, "Mr. Bo Jangles... by "Loose Bruce" Kerr, nationally known song parodist featured on the Dr. Demento & Jim Bohannon shows on AM radio...Joe Bangles a modern day-suburban house-to-house male stripper/fashion model for women and men, alike. The women watch Joe Bangles, the men watch the women watch Joe Bangles...Republicans Welcome! Bruce is also an attorney at Sun Microsystems in California's Silicon Valley. email: BKerrLaw@aol.com
Sounds dirty but isn't, it's an ode to the strongest muscle of the body, the sphincter, our most reliable friend. By nationally known song parodist, Loose Bruce Kerr. Bruce is regularly featured on the Dr. Demento and Jim Bohannon nationally syndicated radio shows. Bruce is also an attorney at Sun Microsytems in California's Silicon Valley. Visit: www.loosebrucekerr.com to hear other songs, parodies, and vidoes of "Loose Bruce" Kerr. email: BKerrLaw@aol.com
"Mr. Joe Bangles," parody/video of Jerry Jeff Walker's, "Mr. Bo Jangles... by "Loose Bruce" Kerr, nationally known song parodist featured on the Dr. Demento & Jim Bohannon shows on AM radio...Joe Bangles a modern day-suburban house-to-house male stripper/fashion model for women and men, alike! Republicans Welcome! Bruce is also an attorney at Sun Microsystems in California's Silicon Valley. BKerrLaw@aol.com Copyright 2006 Broken Records & Marjorie Music Publ (BMI) - All Rights Reserved
parody of "Time In a Bottle" by Jim Croce, this one's about driving while needing to pee. By nationally known song parodist, "Loose Bruce" Kerr as heard on the Dr. Demento and Jim Bohannon radio shows. Bruce is also an attorney at Sun Microsystems. This is a "broadband-high" video. If it doesn't stream well on your system, please contact Bruce at: BKerrLaw@aol.com
VIDEO version of Loose Bruce Kerr's latest original song about the immigration protests and use of the Mexican flag in U.S. streets. Hear also the stereo mp3 or mono mp3 version of the song on this podcast site. Other videos of Bruce's are at www.youtube.com (type in search field. Bruce can be heard regularly on the Dr. Demento & Jim Bohannon nationally syndicated radio shows. Bruce is also an attorney with Sun Microsystems.
STEREO VER: Bruce says: "I wanted, for the illegal immigration issue, an original song to represent the center. I thought the recent demonstators' use of the flag of Mexico was plain stupid and counterproductive. If it's the Mexican flag that's the symbol, what's with the excape at risk of death scenario and coming here? If, on the other hand, you've escaped and now want the rights and privileges of citizenship, why are you not including yourself in the American landscape and waving the flag? That would engender more support from the current citizenship of the U.S. I realize the Mexican flag is a symbol of solidarity-for citizens. If you really deserve citizenship here, and you came here like earlier immigrants to fold into the American dream and culture, embracing the American flag would do more to convince the current citizens of your true intent to become an American. The prevalence of a foreign flag in our streets, and that of a country who many feel is conducting a de facto "invasion" in numbers of immigrants coming here illegally, turned many off in the political center and even the left who might otherwise have been supporters (and eventual voters) on this issue. Beyond that, I wanted to capture some American folk styles and idioms to give it some Americana, hence the banjo, folk guitars, and mandolin. The harmonies, that's just where I live." Video coming...
Loose Bruce Kerr's live garage music VIDEO performance of the song featured on the Dr. Demento and Jim Bohannon shows on nationally syndicated radio. Bruce's parody of the Shania Twain country hit song pokes fun as Islamist extremists and the recent Danish cartoon controversy. Bruce uses his stereo background parts he records one instrument/vocal at a time to back up his live lead vocal and guitar performance on the video. Bruce is also an attorney for Sun Microsystems in California's Silicon Valley. You can also listen/download the full stereo mp3 in higher fidelity in another entry down below this one on this podcast page. Copyright 2006 Broken Records & Marjorie Music Publ. (BMI)
Loose Bruce Kerr's live garage music VIDEO performance of the song featured on the Jim Bohannon show on nationally syndicated radio. Bruce's parody of the 1960's Otis Redding classic of somewhat similar title addresses the controversy surrounding the proposed management of U.S. ports by Dubai Ports World of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. Bruce uses his stereo background parts he records one instrument/vocal at a time to back up his live lead vocal and guitar performance on the video. Bruce is also an attorney for Sun Microsystems in California's Silicon Valley. Listen/download the full stereo mp3 in high fidelity in another entry down below this one. Copyright 2006 Broken Records & Marjorie Music Publ. (BMI)
Loose Bruce Kerr sings in this video from his gargage his "Naked Airlines" original satire on how one fictional airline chose to meet the security threat in the air and found a marketing angle as well. This song was featured on the Dr. Demento and Jim Bohannon shows on nationally syndicated radio. The stereo audio of this video is also available on this podcast. Bruce is also an attorney with Sun Microsystems in California's Silicon Valley. Hear the high fidelity stereo mp3 of the audio track of this video in another entry down below. Copyright 2006 Broken Records & Marjorie Music Publ. (BMI)
STEREO (best): To the tune of Otis Redding's "Dock of the Bay," here is song parodist, Loose Bruce Kerr's newest spoof on the controversy surrounding the Dubai company taking over administration of 6 U.S. ports, and the danger many Americans feel that could represent. Here is, "Sittin' On the Dock of Dubai." Bruce plays the instruments and sings the vocal. He is also an attorney at Sun Microsystems in California. Copyright 2006 Broken Records & Marjorie Music Publ. (BMI)
LOOSE BRUCE KERR's Podcast & latest song parody on the worldwide rioting by Muslims over the Danish-published cartoons. To the tune of Shania Twain's, "Any Man of Mine," recorded in Bruce's garage in mid-February, 2006. Bruce plays all the instruments and sings the vocals 1 track at a time. Loose Bruce Kerr is featured on the Dr. Demento and Jim Bohannon shows (Westwood One). Bruce is also an attorney at Sun Microsystems. Copyright 2006 Broken Records & Marjorie Music Co. (BMI)
"Loose Bruce" Kerr, song parodist featured on the Dr. Demento syndicated show, performing his original song about how to ensure flight safety from terrorists: "Naked Airlines." Played on the Jim Bohannon and Dr. Demento shows coast-to-coast. Bruce sings & plays all the instruments, recorded in his garage studio in the Silicon Valley area of northern California.