Loose Bruce Kerr's Parody/Original Song Podcast

"A TEXT" is the latest parody song VIDEO by Loose Bruce Kerr (Dr. Demento Show, over 100 plays). It updates the Box Tops' 1967 hit, "The Letter", to today's (and tomorrow's) technology of instant messaging and travel.

This new video, and the MP3 audio of it, are available for free on this site, loosebrucekerr.com (along with his other videos & mp3's).

After Bruce's 20-year music & comedy career, he resumed his law career and became Assistant General Counsel at Sun Microsystems and is currently an attorney working at Oracle, which acquired Sun in 2010.

(earbuds encouraged)

email him at: [email protected]

visit: loosebrucekerr.com

watch for mp3 of this song in the coming days (being mastered)

As the 20th Anniversary of “Y2K” (the “Millennium Bug”) approaches on December 31, here’s a short music parody VIDEO (set to the music of “YMCA” by the Village People, a hit song from 1978) produced in 1999 by a Silicon Valley tech giant at the time, Sun Microsystems. It was one way the company used to break the ice at Y2K planning meetings in the 6 months leading up to the event.

The tongue-in-cheek parody music video was recorded by song parodist, Loose Bruce Kerr, together with a production staff of his fellow employees at Sun

Two years prior, Sun Microsystems hired attorney Bruce Kerr. Most were not aware he was the same as “Loose Bruce Kerr,” a nationally-known song parodist who’d opened for “Weird Al” Yankovic back during Bruce’s previous twenty year performing career, before then returning to law. Early in 1999, Bruce performed for a Sun legal conference his latest parody at that time, “Y2K” (“The Western World collapsing/My car insurance lapsing”).

Over 6 months in early 1999, Bruce and a team of his fellow Sun employees were charged by their employer with producing a music video (MTV was popular at the time) to Bruce’s soundtrack and a script he quickly put together. Sun senior executives were used as extras, including cameos by Sun’s CEO, Scott McNealy and COO, Ed Zander.

Here, then, is the story of the Y2K threat as seen through the lens of a computer company dealing lightheartedly with that threat in the months leading up to 01/01/00, with the assistance of song parodist Loose Bruce Kerr.

As it turned out, only minor disruptions occurred after millions were spent by banks and other companies trying to avert disaster. With dates in many computer systems at the time represented by only two digits (e.g., 00) instead of four (e.g., 2000 or 1900), the worry was “00” would be seen by the systems as 1900, not the year 2000, and worldwide systems might shut down big time, disrupting everything from bank, commerce, and health systems to even including images of “airplanes falling from the sky.”

Later, Kerr became Assistant General Counsel at Sun and is currently an attorney working at Oracle, which acquired Sun in 2010.

CREDITS: Producer: Anna Weldon; Executive Producers: John Croll, Tony Hampell, & Jan Testarmata; Associate Producer: Jenny Quang; Director: Mark Weldon; the band consisted of Bruce’s fellow legal reps: Bass: Stephen Clayton; keyboard: Darryl Payton; percussion: Anne Tirsell; drums: Bill Lard.

(earbuds encouraged)

Also available on youtube.com

email: [email protected]

Enjoy!

NEW VIDEO, 30th Anniversary: when the Loma Prieta Earthquake hit northern California and San Francisco on October 17, 1989, song parodist and performer, Loose Bruce Kerr (an irregular feature on the Dr. Demento Show) produced and distributed an AUDIO cassette which inserted into a fake post-quake news interview popular song snippets to tell the story. The quake happened on Kerr’s birthday.

The musical bits were taken from songs about San Francisco and by Bay Area bands and singers like Jefferson Starship, Janis Joplin, Huey Lewis & the News, Marty Ballin, Journey, Pointer Sisters, Santana, Grateful Dead, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Dionne Warwick, Canned Heat, Otis Redding, Scott McKenzie, Tony Bennett, Judy Garland, and Jeanette McDonald.

This new video of the 1989 song can be streamed or downloaded here or found on youtube (search on Loose Bruce Kerr).

Kerr stopped performing in 1993 to resume his legal career he’d left 20 years before and became Assistant General Counsel at Sun Microsystems. He is currently an attorney working at Oracle who acquired Sun in 2010.

(earbuds encouraged)

email him at: [email protected]

"OLDSTOCK" is Loose Bruce Kerr's song parody, released upon the 20 anniversary of WOODSTOCK in 1989, now re-released upon the 50th. If we thought we were old with this parody 20 years after, well now in 2019 with the 50th, yeeesh!

Based on Joni Mitchell's "Woodstock," also as versioned by CSNY which is the arrangement Bruce used here, this is Bruce's take from his 4-track TEAC cassette recorder out of his garage in 1989, having overdubbed & mixed down to get all the parts. The song was heard nationally on AM and syndicated radio shows like Dr. Demento, Jim Bohannon Show, and several newcasts covering the anniversary.

Earbuds encouraged. Enjoy!

Loose Bruce Kerr is a nationally-known song parodist & songwriter (Dr. Demento Show; Jim Bohannon Show). Back in the day, Bruce opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic.

Bruce records his songs in his garage live, adding background vocals & instruments he plays. In 1989 when he did "OLDSTOCK" Bruce was recording on a TEAC 4 track cassette deck, overdubbing till he got all the instruments & vocals added to the mix.

He is currently an attorney working at Oracle in northern California.

email: [email protected] free mp3 and mp4 downloads of audio & video at loosebrucekerr.com

"Y2K" (AUDIO 1999), song parody to the tune of "YMCA" by the Village People. A song which Loose Bruce Kerr's employer, Sun Microsystems, turned into a parody music video (re-releasing in September, 2019!).

This tune made the Dr. Demento "Funny 5" in 1999.

Earbuds encouraged. Enjoy!

Loose Bruce Kerr is a nationally-known song parodist & songwriter (Dr. Demento Show; Jim Bohannon Show). Back in the day, Bruce opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic.

Bruce records his songs in his garage live, adding background vocals & instruments he plays. In 1999 when he did "Y2K," Bruce was recording on a TEAC 4 track cassette deck, overdubbing till he got all the instruments & vocals added to the mix.

He is currently an attorney working at Oracle in northern California.

email: [email protected] 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: [email protected] 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: [email protected] 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: [email protected]

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: [email protected]
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: [email protected]