MUSI-CAST: Recent Episodes
C. Jay Cox
Tune in for conversations with up-and-coming musical theater composers and people of note in the theater community.
We get together over zoom to discuss staying creative during the pandemic, overview their careers in theater and in particular talk about their experiences performing in The Lion King.
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
"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"
email: BKerrLaw@aol.com
"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 talk to musical theater star Valerie Perri about her background, her career and her family. I also speak to her sons, twin composers Jack and Benny Lipson, and we hear a selection from their song cycle "Brainstorm" performed at a recent Musi-Cal.
"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
In this episode I talk to Broadway Legend Kay Cole. We discuss her upbringing & training, her long and varied career, and her creative process. We also dig down into her participation in the creation of A CHORUS LINE. I also go upstairs prior to FNAM'S Musi-Cal where I talk to composing team Landon Ashworth and Jason Pelsey about astronaut training and how it influenced their musical "TO THE MOON."
“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.
email: BKerrLaw@aol.com
URL: loosebrucekerr.com
I talk to writing team Zach Marsh & Ari Wojiech about their 1 act musical "The Dinner Party." We also discuss Zach's work for The Miracle Project which creates theater for performers on the autism scale. Then I talk to former Disney Channel Star Ryan McCartan about learning the ropes of the business through the Disney process, what it was like to win The Jimmy Awards and how to survive a high profile Hollywood breakup.
In this episode, I interview students who have written ten minute musicals as part of FNAM's PATHWAY PROGRAM. I also talk to actor Eric B. Anthony about how growing up in community theater and the instructors who influenced him all contributed to him going from a rough neighborhood it Baltimore to Broadway. We also hear a song Eric performs at FNAM's 3rd Mondays.
"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 1977, 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.
www.loosebrucekerr.com
email: BKerrLaw@aol.com
...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
Laura Watkins & Nicholas David Brandt talk about how current events inspired their musical "Glass Ceilings." They also talk about their previous presentation at Musi-Cal, "Comi-Con: The Musical" and give us their "nerd credentials." Actor/Singer Eurimas Losada talks about coming of age doing theater in Miami and how his background as a Cuban-American immigrant informed his portrayal of one of the most iconic Cuban-Americans, Desi Arnaz.
Composer ZACH SPOUND talks about the Johnny Mercer Songwriter's workshop and his musical LEAP; SOMETHING ROTTEN star AUTUM HURLBERT discusses her role as Portia in the Tony nominated musical and going on tour with a toddler.
Dr. Ed Trimis and students talk about the Foundation's PATHWAY program. Composer Divya Maus presents a number and talks about her new musical The Mollyhouse created with writing partner Richard Hansen.
In the green room prior to our Musi-Cal showcase, I'll talk to Cole Porter award winning composer Brett Ryback. Then I talk to film/TV & stage actress, Jean Louisa Kelly about growing up in theater, appearing on Broadway in the Original Cast of Into The Woods, and about her approach to singing Sondheim music.
An interview with actor, singer and Tony-nominated director, MICHAEL ARDEN. We talk about his influences, and his career, especially his work with Deaf-West Theater, with shows such as BIG RIVER and SPRING AWAKENING. We also go into the green room before MUSI-CAL, and talk to screenwriter CINCO PAUL (DESPICABLE ME, THE SECRET LIFE OF PETS) about his musical, BUBBLE BOY, and the new show he's composing, A.D. 16.
Broadway Audition Coach and author of the book "Audition Freedom: The Irreverent Wellness Guide for Theatre People," VP BOYLE talks about his background, career and tips for up-and-coming and aspiring musical theater professionals. From the Musi-Cal green room, talk about their song cycle, based on Chekov, "We Three Sisters."
Backstage at FNAM's bi-monthly showcase, MUSI-CAL. Jeff L-E & Matt Savarese talk about meeting in college, writing and producing a webseries on a tight deadline, and their new musical, ACES. Jonah Platt talks about growing up doing musicals and the demands of doing 8 shows a week on Broadway.
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)
"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
"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
"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
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 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.
"I AM THERE FOR YOU" is "Loose Bruce" Kerr's latest original song, a jazz-scat-big band sound. A snippet can be heard here and an html link is being provided to take you to the site where you can download the entire song.
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 is now a lawyer working for Oracle in Northern California's Silicon Valley.
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."
Many of Bruce's parody videos from 2006-on are viewable on youtube at
email Bruce at: BKerrLaw@aol.com
"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 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
[SONGS NOW AVAILABLE ON CDBABY.COM
...OR SEARCH ON iTunes.com]
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.
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 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" (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
"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
"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 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
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.