Loose Bruce Kerr's Parody/Original Song Podcast

Oscar Meyer Weiner Song by Spud City, "Music With a Peel,"  -University of Lowell concert, 1978 (Steve Hoeft/guitar, Bruce Kerr/guitar, Mickey Marien,/bass, & Tyke Ten Eyck/drums.

This is how our rock road band in New England in 1978 opened our shows. For this concert, we played about 12 original songs after this opener. Big stage for us since most of our 4-5 gigs a week those years were clubs, college pubs, bars, ski lodges. But once in a while, a concert like this one came along where, instead of 4 x 45 min. sets including covers, we did an all-original show of songs written by "Loose Bruce" Kerr.

We had a band house in rural northern Massachusetts up on the New Hampshire border, about an hour out of Boston. In those days, around 3 to 5pm, 4-5 times a week, 3 cars loaded with gear would launch down that 1/4 mile driveway (if snow allowed) to drive an hour to 4 hours away in Vermont, New Hampshire, Connecticut or Mass.

In the big snowstorm of '78, we were snowed in at that house for a week, lost a lot of gigs & money, but we made up for it over the following months.

Alas, all bands dis-band (yes, I said it) and dis band did no differently. In 1979 we went back down to Steve & I as a duo, then we split in January, 1980, Steve moved to Boise, Idaho and started various bands. Bruce went to St. Thomas, in the US Virgin Islands to go solo for the next 12 years there and in California. Tyke ended up in Florida, Mickey in southern California, Bruce in northern California, and Steve in Idaho.

Spud City, "Music With a Peel"

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"THE GIRLYMAN," (AUDIO) by Loose Bruce Kerr (2004) is a parody of "The Candyman" as sung by Sammy Davis Jr. in 1972. The parody transforms the positive Candyman who made the world glow with candy into the negative budget opponents in the California State Legislature of new California Governor in 2004, Arnold Schwarzenegger.

The Governor dubbed them, "Girliemen" in reference to a famous bit at the time on Saturday Night Live where "Hans & Franz" (actors, Dana Carvey & Kevin Nealon, respectively) performed a send-up of former body builder Schwarzenegger, using Austrian accents to put down male weaklings who didn't train, as "girlymen." In the song, the singer Schwarzenegger puts down those legislators, including at the time, Darryl Steinberg, current Sacramento mayor, as such girlymen for opposing his budget plans.

Loose Bruce Kerr (nationally: Dr. Demento Show, Jim Bohannon Show, CNN & other network segments using his parodies related to current news stories) recorded each vocal and instrument one at a time on his 4-track cassette deck during the summer of 2004. Kerr had a 20 year career as a songwriter and performer before resuming his earlier career as an attorney. Currently, he works for Oracle in Rocklin, CA. Back in the day, Kerr opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic.

His audio mp3's and videos are free for streaming or download at his podcast website, loosebrucekerr.com and on youtube. His most recent original songs and parodies are available on cdbaby.com, jango.com, and on iTunes (search on "Loose Bruce Kerr").

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© 2004 Marjorie Music Co. (BMI)

"I MOVED MY HEART TO SACRAMENTO" (AUDIO) is Loose Bruce Kerr's latest parody, an answer song to "I Left My Heart In San Francisco" as performed by Tony Bennett.

Much has been made lately, in the press and in blogs, of the move by many people from the Bay Area to the Sacramento area, often times in order to afford less expensive housing.  

Song parodist “Loose Bruce” Kerr (nationally: Dr. Demento Show; Jim Bohannon Show), himself a Bay Area resident for 33 years who moved his family from Mountain View & Morgan Hill to Roseville, a suburb of Sacramento in 2017 has released this parody. Kerr sings and plays all the instruments one at a time in his multitrack studio in Roseville, CA. Kerr is from Waukesha, Wisconsin, the home of multitrack inventor, Les Paul, who inspired Bruce who saw him perform in their hometown in 1960.

According to recent newspaper articles, Sacramento has become a nationally-recognized “destination city” for people moving households nationally, oftentimes in order to be able to afford housing.

“Loose Bruce” Kerr is currently an attorney working for Oracle in Rocklin, CA, following a 20 year career as a performer and song parodist in the ‘70’s into the 90’s. Bruce’s songs are an irregular feature of the Dr. Demento Show and Jim Bohannon show on syndicated radio & internet. Bruce opened for “Weird Al” Yankovic back in the day. His breakout song was in 1987: “Walk Like a Deukmejian,” about California’s then-governor and Supreme Court Chief Justice, Rose Bird.

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"CHRISTMAS IS YOU," a Loose Bruce Kerr a 5-part jazz cappella original, scored by Zach Yaholkovsky, as sung here by the Jazz Vocal Ensemble of San Ramon Valley High School (California) under the direction of Ken Abrams. Dec. 13, 2018. Credits roll at end.

Several college & high school a cappella groups have sung this romantic holiday song over the last 4 years (e.g., Cuesta College, San Jose State, Mt. Eden High School, Waukesha South High School in Wisconsin), and now this performance.

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My thanks to Ken Abrams & the kids at San Ramon Valley High School who sang it this past season. Great job!

Bruce Kerr is currently a lawyer at Oracle in Rocklin, CA, having resumed his day job after a 20 year career performing and writing music. Back in the day, he opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic.

More videos & mp3's at loosebrucekerr.com Newest originals available on iTunes and store.cdbaby.com.

Bruce is originally from Waukesha, Wisconsin, home to Les Paul.

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"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.

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“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 [email protected]

podcast (free audios & videos): www.loosebrucekerr.com

also on youtube, itunes & cdbaby.com

Here's Loose Bruce Kerr's latest song parody, to the tune of the 1909 Yale University song, "The Whiffenpoof Song."

It is, of course, about the current Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, and his recent U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee appearance wherein he nearly waxed poetic about his love of beer from his high school days on. Some of his Yale acquaintances are saying that love was over the top.

The Yale drinking song here becomes a vehicle for Kavanaugh and his buddies to fondly look back when that drinking included ralphing (you know) and boofing (you may not know: it's consumption of alcohol or whatever "on the back end").

Bruce Kerr is an attorney working at Oracle in Rocklin, California. He was Assistant General Counsel at Sun Microsystems and before that, had a 20 year career writing & performing music across the country and Caribbean.

His songs have been heard over 100 times on the Doctor Demento Show. He's also heard on the Jim Bohannon Show on radio and internet. He now lives in Roseville, California with his wife, Linda, who edits his song lyrics, including this one.

Here's Loose Bruce Kerr's latest song parody, to the tune of the 1909 Yale University song, "The Whiffenpoof Song."

It is, of course, about the current Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, and his recent U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee appearance wherein he nearly waxed poetic about his love of beer from his high school days on. Some of his Yale acquaintances are saying that love was over the top.

The Yale drinking song here becomes a vehicle for Kavanaugh and his buddies to fondly look back when that drinking included ralphing (you know) and boofing (you may not know: it's consumption of alcohol or whatever "on the back end").

Bruce Kerr is an attorney working at Oracle in Rocklin, California. He was Assistant General Counsel at Sun Microsystems and before that, had a 20 year career writing & performing music across the country and Caribbean. His songs have been heard over 100 times on the Doctor Demento Show. He's also heard on the Jim Bohannon Show on radio and internet. He now lives in Roseville, California with his wife, Linda, who edits his song lyrics, including this one.

email: [email protected]

URL: loosebrucekerr.com

"MY SAILOR" audio, a song of my mom & dad in the Virgin Islands in retirement, late 1970's, recorded live at "The Barn," Dec. 2014. Written when Steve Hoeft & I as a duo were penned up in an apt. above a bar in Old Orchard Beach, Maine, in 1979, and there was nothing else in the room but a suitcase, and a guitar.

"FUCKELOT" is a parody by Loose Bruce Kerr (Dr. Demento Show; opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic) to the tune of "Camelot" as sung by Richard Harris in the musical of the same name.

This is from a live performance in the late 1980's, probably at a club in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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