Loose Bruce Kerr's Parody/Original Song Podcast

Silicon Valley was growing fast in the mid-1990's when I recorded this parody, 2 years or so before I found a long-term home at Sun Microsystems in the legal department.

It's to the tune of "Birdland" which had been a hit with Weather Report as well as Manhattan Transfer. It was the latter on which I based this parody, "NERDLAND."

In our garage in Mountain View (but of course) I laid down the vocals & instruments one at a time, including a digital drum machine thanks to integrated circuits developed nearby. And multi-tracked 1 part at a time onto my TEAC 4-track cassette deck thanks to my hometownie, Les Paul.

How many references in the lyrics to names of innovators, companies, etc. in early Silicon Valley days can you recall?

Loose Bruce inserted a 20-year performing and recording career into his 2 periods as an attorney. He's retired now from his latest 23-year term practicing law, most recently at Oracle. Before that, he was Assistant General Counsel at Sun Microsystems before Oracle acquired it. He continues to record his songs and videos in his garage studio. He sings and plays each part or instrument one at a time, then mixes it down to create the full recording.

Back in the day, he opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic. He's an irregular feature of the Dr. Demento Show on the internet (150 songplays since 1987).

His mp3 audio songs and mp4 videos can be streamed or downloaded for free at loosebrucekerr.com.

email Bruce at BKerrLaw@aol.com

"GO TAKE THE WATER" (audio with still shot of Hygeia Mineral Spring, late 1800's) is Loose Bruce Kerr's newest original recording, about his hometown, Waukesha, Wisconsin and its roots as being a world-renowned health resort town in the late 1800's-early 1900's. Its mineral-rich groundwater was held out to be a miracle and life-changing for "whatever ails ya." Hundreds of trains rolled in daily, huge grand hotels were erected for health-seeking guests. The town prospered on their thirst for the healing water. It was called "The Great Waukesha Springs Era."

Bruce's great-grandfather, James M. Kerr managed one of the town's springs, Hygeia Mineral Spring, starting in 1894.

Loose Bruce inserted a 20-year performing and recording career into his 2 periods as an attorney. He's retired now from his latest 23-year term practicing law, most recently at Oracle. Before that, he was Assistant General Counsel at Sun Microsystems before Oracle acquired it. He continues to record his songs and videos in his garage studio. He sings and plays each part or instrument one at a time, then mixes it down to create the full recording.

Back in the day, he opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic. He's an irregular feature of the Dr. Demento Show on the internet (150 songplays since 1987).

His mp3 audio songs and mp4 videos can be streamed or downloaded for free at loosebrucekerr.com.

email Bruce at BKerrLaw@aol.com

"GO TAKE THE WATER" (audio) is Loose Bruce Kerr's newest original recording, about his hometown, Waukesha, Wisconsin and its roots as being a world-renowned health resort town in the late 1800's-early 1900's. Its mineral-rich groundwater was held out to be a miracle and life-changing for "whatever ails ya." Hundreds of trains rolled in daily, huge grand hotels were erected for health-seeking guests. The town prospered on their thirst for the healing water. It was called "The Great Waukesha Springs Era."

Bruce's great-grandfather, James M. Kerr managed one of the town's springs, Hygeia Mineral Spring, starting in 1894.

Loose Bruce inserted a 20-year performing and recording career into his 2 periods as an attorney. He's retired now from his latest 23-year term practicing law, most recently at Oracle. Before that, he was Assistant General Counsel at Sun Microsystems before Oracle acquired it. He continues to record his songs and videos in his garage studio. He sings and plays each part or instrument one at a time, then mixes it down to create the full recording.

Back in the day, he opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic. He's an irregular feature of the Dr. Demento Show on the internet (150 songplays since 1987).

His mp3 audio songs and mp4 videos can be streamed or downloaded for free at loosebrucekerr.com.

email Bruce at BKerrLaw@aol.com

We all love Christmas but sometimes it can get to be too much!

So here’s the VIDEO version of a new holiday parody in 5-part harmony to the tune of Bing Crosby's "White Christmas": "SKIP CHRISTMAS.”The audio mp3 is also available for streaming or download on this podcast page.

Loose Bruce inserted a 20-year performing and recording career into his 2 periods as an attorney. He's retired now from his latest 23-year term practicing law, most recently at Oracle. Before that, he was Assistant General Counsel at Sun Microsystems before Oracle acquired it. He continues to record his songs and videos in his garage studio.

Back in the day, he opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic. He's an irregular feature of the Dr. Demento Show on the internet (150 songplays since 1987) and on the Jim Bohannon syndicated radio show where his songs have been played many times over the years.

His mp3 audio songs and mp4 videos can be streamed or downloaded for free at loosebrucekerr.com.

email Bruce at BKerrLaw@aol.com

Here's a new holiday parody to the tune of Bing Crosby's "White Christmas": "SKIP CHRISTMAS." 6-part harmony. This version is the straight parody w/o the Spike Jones bit in the middle (that other version also available on this podcast site).

Loose Bruce inserted a 20-year performing and recording career into his 2 periods as an attorney. He's retired now from his latest 23-year term practicing law, most recently at Oracle. Before that, he was Assistant General Counsel at Sun Microsystems before Oracle acquired it.

He continues to record his songs and videos in his garage studio. Back in the day, he opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic. He's an irregular feature of the Dr. Demento Show on the internet (140 songplays since 1987) and on the Jim Bohannon syndicated radio show where his songs have been played many times over the years.

His mp3 audio songs and mp4 videos can be streamed or downloaded for free at loosebrucekerr.com.

email Bruce at BKerrLaw@aol.com

Here's a new holiday parody to the tune of Bing Crosby's "White Christmas": "SKIP CHRISTMAS," a tribute to Spike Jones & His City Slickers. Enjoy!

On this podcast site, I'll also upload the audio of the version of Skip Christmas that's a straight parody, no Spike Jones bit.

Loose Bruce inserted a 20-year performing and recording career into his 2 periods as an attorney. He's retired now from his latest 23-year term practicing law, most recently at Oracle. Before that, he was Assistant General Counsel at Sun Microsystems before Oracle acquired it.

He continues to record his songs and videos in his garage studio. Back in the day, he opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic. He's an irregular feature of the Dr. Demento Show on the internet (140 songplays since 1987) and on the Jim Bohannon syndicated radio show where his songs have been played many times over the years.

His mp3 audio songs and mp4 videos can be streamed or downloaded for free at loosebrucekerr.com.

email Bruce at BKerrLaw@aol.com

"MY PHYSICAL THINGS" (VIDEO ) is Loose Bruce Kerr's latest song parody to the tune of "My Favorite Things" by Rodgers & Hammerstein from their 1960's musical, "The Sound of Music."

The parody's lyrics are about the health challenges of people over 60 (of which Bruce is one) and lists conditions many of us face. Not exactly our favorite things, but clearly, physical ones.

Loose Bruce inserted a 20-year performing and recording career into his 2 periods as an attorney. He's retired now from his latest 23-year term practicing law, most recently at Oracle. Before that, he was Assistant General Counsel at Sun Microsystems before Oracle acquired it.

He continues to record his songs and videos in his garage studio. Back in the day, he opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic. He's an irregular feature of the Dr. Demento Show on the internet (140 songplays since 1987) and on the Jim Bohannon syndicated radio show where his songs have been played many times over the years.

His mp3 audio songs and mp4 videos can be streamed or downloaded for free at loosebrucekerr.com.

email Bruce at BKerrLaw@aol.com

"MY PHYSICAL THINGS" (AUDIO) is Loose Bruce Kerr's latest song parody to the tune of "My Favorite Things" by Rodgers & Hammerstein from their 1960's musical, "The Sound of Music."

The parody's lyrics are about the health challenges of people over 60 (of which Bruce is one) and lists conditions many of us face. Not exactly our favorite things, but clearly, physical ones.

Loose Bruce inserted a 20-year performing and recording career into his 2 periods as an attorney. He's retired now from his latest 23-year term practicing law, most recently at Oracle. Before that, he was Assistant General Counsel at Sun Microsystems before Oracle acquired it.

He continues to record his songs and videos in his garage studio. Back in the day, he opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic. He's an irregular feature of the Dr. Demento Show on the internet (140 songplays since 1987) and on the Jim Bohannon syndicated radio show where his songs have been played many times over the years.

His mp3 audio songs and mp4 videos can be streamed or downloaded for free at loosebrucekerr.com.

email Bruce at BKerrLaw@aol.com

"ALL THE SINGLE MATEYS!" by "Kidd Beyonce" (a k a Loose Bruce Kerr) for International Talk Like a Pirate Day, Tuesday Sept 19, 2023

Tuesday, Sept 19, is International Talk Like a Pirate Day. Here’s “Kidd Beyonce” (a k a Loose Bruce Kerr) short bit parodying the Beyonce megahit, this time entitled, “ALL THE SINGLE MATEYS!”

Loose Bruce inserted a 20-year performing and recording career into his 2 periods as an attorney. He's retired now from his latest 23 year term practicing law, most recently at Oracle. Before that, he was Assistant General Counsel at Sun Microsystems before Oracle acquired it.

He continues to record his songs and videos in his garage studio. Back in the day, he opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic. He's an irregular feature of the Dr. Demento Show on the internet (140 songplays since 1987) and on the Jim Bohannon syndicated radio show where his songs have been played many times over the years.

His mp3 audio songs and mp4 videos can be streamed or downloaded for free at loosebrucekerr.com. email Bruce at BKerrLaw@aol.com

Loose Bruce Kerr's poem/lyric about his hometown of Waukesha, Wisconsin

“YOU CAME FROM WAUKESHA”
by Loose Bruce Kerr

1. If you wanted water pure
Or a grand resort to tour
YOU CAME TO WAUKESHA
For a motor running true
Or a generator new
YOU CAME TO WAUKESHA

Want a hazy, lazy river
Or somebody to deliver
all your dairy and a paper to your door?
You could do worse by far
Than turning ‘round your car
and instead, YOU CAME TO WAUKESHA

2. For the yellows, reds and greens
Of the Kettle Morraine scenes
YOU CAME TO WAUKESHA
Best in sports and all the schools
The best neighborhoods and pools
YOU CAME TO WAUKESHA

Ask any stranger on the street
‘twas the path to surely beat
If you just follow your feet
you end up there
For a job or Carroll College
If you had or needed knowledge
then at last, YOU CAME TO WAUKESHA

3. If you had your head on straight
Had the finest girls to date
YOU CAME FROM WAUKESHA
If your parents loved you so
And were sad to let you go
YOU LEFT FROM WAUKESHA

Need some help from helping hands
Or some kickass local bands
or some Jimmy’s, Scrima’s, Rode’s, Schley’s and more
Take a mudbath or decline
Know...the...name...of..."Rheiney Hein”*
Then it’s your hometown and mine
YOU CAME FROM WAUKESHA

(*R.G. Hein, Waukesha Superintendent of Schools, circa 1950’s-60’s, with apologies to our CMH compatriots)

"I AM BROKE AGAIN" (Willy Nelson parody by Loose Bruce Kerr) is AUDIO to: "On The Road Again" re Willy's 1990's tax problems.

Loose Bruce Kerr released the parody in the 1991 where it was featured on the Dr. Demento Show on nationally syndicated radio (Bruce has had over 140 songplays on Dr. D) and the Jim Bohannon Show on Westwood One radio stations.

Back in the day, Bruce opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic. After 20 years of performing, writing & producing songs, Bruce returned to his original career as a lawyer, becoming Assistant General Counsel of Sun Microsystems in Silicon Valley, then finishing at Oracle and is now retired.

He lives with his wife & cat in northern California where he continues to write, record & video his parodies & originals.

all his songs & videos are available to stream and/or download for free at loosebrucekerr.com

email: BKerrLaw@aol.com

May 3, 2023 next week marks the 36th anniversary of the Miami Herald picture of Gary Hart, presidential candidate, seated on "Monkey Business," a sailboat with Donna Rice on his lap. By May 8th, he was out of the race.

Before he bailed, for a few nights, I was singing this parody to a Frank Sinatra song in my club act, here it is, late at night, live in the Bay Area. Pour yourself a drink and...

Loose Bruce inserted a 20-year performing and recording career into his 2 periods as an attorney. He's retired now from his latest 23 year term practicing law, most recently at Oracle. Before that, he was Assistant General Counsel at Sun Microsystems before Oracle acquired it.

He continues to record his songs and videos in his garage studio. Back in the day, he opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic. He's an irregular feature of the Dr. Demento Show on the internet (140 song plays since 1987) and on the Jim Bohannon syndicated radio show where his songs have been played many times over the years.

-His mp3 audio songs and mp4 videos can be streamed or downloaded for free at loosebrucekerr.com.

-email Bruce at BKerrLaw@aol.com

“CHRISTMAS IS YOU” is Loose Bruce Kerr’s 5-part a cappella harmony, romantic holiday song as arranged by Zach Yaholkovsky. It was recently contracted for release by world-wide music publisher Fred Bock Music through its BMI subsidiary, distributed by the Hal Leonard organization.

Bruce Kerr, a k a "Loose Bruce Kerr," is a songwiter, music & video producer, and retired attorney in northern California. He returned to law following an earlier 20-year career as a performer, solo, duo, band in the 1970's & '80's, becoming Assistant General Counsel for Sun Microsystems, acquired in 2010 by Oracle. His originals and parodies have been played over 140 times on the Dr. Demento Show from 1987-to-present.

He opened for “Weird Al” Yankovic back in the day. "CHRISTMAS IS YOU" is one of his more recent songs. This 5-part a capella recording was produced by the publisher to help promote the song & sheet music arrangement (SSATB) to high schools, colleges, and community vocal groups.

email Bruce at BKerrLaw@aol.com

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

"I AM HE/HIM" is Loose Bruce Kerr's newest live AUDIO song parody about pronouns. Do you want to be referred to as he/she, her/him, they/them/whoever? And if you're in a couple and people call you "them" is it just you or both of you? Here, Helen Reddy's hit song, "I Am Woman" takes a new, current turn for these times, just for fun.

Loose Bruce inserted a 20-year performing and recording career into his 2 periods as an attorney. He's retired now from his latest 23 year term practicing law, most recently at Oracle. Before that, he was Assistant General Counsel at Sun Microsystems before Oracle acquired it.

He continues to record his songs and videos in his garage studio. Back in the day, he opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic. He's an irregular feature of the Dr. Demento Show on the internet (140 song plays since 1987) and on the Jim Bohannon syndicated radio show where his songs have been played many times over the years.

His mp3 audio songs and mp4 videos can be streamed or downloaded for free at loosebrucekerr.com. Email Bruce at BKerrLaw@aol.com

"I AM HE/HIM" is Loose Bruce Kerr's newest live VIDEO song parody about pronouns. Do you want to be referred to as he/she, her/him, they/them/whoever? And if you're in a couple and people call you "them" is it just you or both of you? Here, Helen Reddy's hit song, "I Am Woman" takes a new, current turn for these times, just for fun.

Loose Bruce inserted a 20-year performing and recording career into his 2 periods as an attorney. He's retired now from his latest 23 year term practicing law, most recently at Oracle. Before that, he was Assistant General Counsel at Sun Microsystems before Oracle acquired it.

He continues to record his songs and videos in his garage studio. Back in the day, he opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic. He's an irregular feature of the Dr. Demento Show on the internet (140 song plays since 1987) and on the Jim Bohannon syndicated radio show where his songs have been played many times over the years.

His mp3 audio songs and mp4 videos can be streamed or downloaded for free at loosebrucekerr.com. Email Bruce at BKerrLaw@aol.com

After a lull of 7 years since meeting up last, the Coachmen, Waukesha, Wisconsin's folk song quartet from 1959 to 1965 (junior high through senior year of high school) all of 'em (Rich Reaves, Walt Galloway, Steve Hoeft, Bruce Kerr), flew back from Georgia, Rhode Island, Idaho, and California to their hometown of Waukesha, Wisconsin, to perform at their high school maestro's Memorial Service, for James Machan on a Saturday in June of 2022.

The day before the Memorial, the boys regrouped to perform as former jocks (Waukesha's legendary high school swim champions dynasty, 1958-75) and "Blackshirts" at their hometown's "Blackshirts Breakfast Group," hosted by backstroker & hometown legend, Bill Schley. Frivolity ensued as this videoclip evidences. Following breakfast, the quartet donned some of their remaining instruments to perform "M.T.A," originally by the Kingston Trio, one of their mentor groups as the learned to sing & play together as pre-Beatles young "lads." From Mrs. Kamradt's 7th grade music classroom to the present, the group has had a 63 year run.

After graduating high school in 1965, Steve went on to graphic arts, Walt as a scientist at the EPA, and Rich and Bruce became lawyers. In the late 70's, 2 Coachmen, Steve & Bruce quit their jobs and went on the road as a duo ("Winterwood"), adding bass & drums to become a rock band in their 30's, "Spud City," which played New England & Virgin Islands' resorts, bars, nightclubs and college pubs until 1980.

Following that, Steve went back to work and Bruce played clubs until 1992 after which he got a real job for 23 years. All the "lads" are now retired, but find ways to link up every once in a while. Were you there? ;)

"MICKEY MOUSE" (audio parody-mp3) is Loose Bruce Kerr's latest song about Florida's Gov. DeSantis and the state of Florida vs. the Disney Corporation pitting the governor against Mickey Mouse (and his millions of minions, lifetime members of the Mickey Mouse Club of the 1950's & 60's).

Loose Bruce Kerr is a song parodist and retired attorney in northern California who has had over 140 song plays on the Dr. Demento Show, and opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic back in the day.

loosebrucekerr.com

email: BKerrLaw@aol.com

"DOUBLE SHOT" is a Loose Bruce Kerr song from 1975, recorded with his duo (then band) partner, Waukesha, Wisconsin's Steve Hoeft, a long-time buddy of Bruce's who joined him on the road in 1976.

They traveled the country in a light blue 1951 Chevy Schoolbus conversion. Landing in Vermont for a period, they recorded "DOUBLE SHOT" with a band at the U of VT whose house they were parked next to in Burlington, at an amazing studio out in the sticks. The flip side was "FREEDOM CALL," also available for download from this podcast. Soon after, Steve and Bruce added drums & bass to the show for a couple years' run in New England.

Loose Bruce Kerr interrupted his legal career for 20 years to hit the road to write, perform and produce his songs and parodies (over 140 song plays on Dr. Demento since 1987). Resuming his legal career in 1993, Bruce became Assistant General Counsel at Sun Microsystems, then finished up at Oracle, retiring in 2021.

www.loosebrucekerr.com

email: BKerrLaw@aol.com

"FREEDOM CALL" is a Loose Bruce Kerr song from 1974 about the 2 young American women who were hitchhiking on a truck in Turkey which turned out to have hash hidden in it. Turkish authorities threw them in jail with no process for release, and the US government, then with Richard Nixon at the helm, could have cared less.

Bruce was living in L.A. at the time and read a People Magazine story on it and wrote the tune. About 4 years later Steve Hoeft, an old Waukesha, Wisconsin buddy of Bruce's had joined him on the road, traveling the country in a light blue 1951 Chevy Schoolbus conversion, adding his vocal, banjo, and guitars to the show. Landing in Vermont for a period, they recorded "Freedom Call" with a band at the U of VT whose house they were parked next to in Burlington, at an amazing studio out in the sticks. The flip side was "Double Shot," also available for download from this podcast. Soon after, Steve and Bruce added drums & bass to the band for a couple years' run in New England.

Loose Bruce Kerr interrupted his legal career for 20 years to hit the road to write, perform and produce his songs and parodies (over 140 song plays on Dr. Demento since 1987). Resuming his legal career in 1993, Bruce became Assistant General Counsel at Sun Microsystems, then finished up at Oracle, retiring in 2021.

www.loosebrucekerr.com

email: BKerrLaw@aol.com

"MAY I?" is a modern-traditional love song by songwriter-parodist Loose Bruce Kerr with the feel of a 1930's style. The song has both 4/4 time signature sections and a 3/4 (waltz) section.

Loose Bruce Kerr lives in northern California with his wife and 2 cats. He is from Waukesha, Wisconsin (home to Les Paul who invented the electric guitar and multi-track recording). Bruce uses multi-track (32 tracks, these days) to record his vocals and instruments (many synthesized, e.g., french horns, cellos) one at a time.

He interrupted his legal career in 1973 to take 20 years off to write, record, and perform his songs, including on the road as a solo, duo (with Waukesha's Steve Hoeft) and full rock band ("Spud City" with Steve, Tyke Van Eyke and Mickey Marien) in New England in the late 1970's. As a solo, Bruce opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic and his parodies have been heard on the Dr. Demento Show over 140 times.

In 1993, Bruce resumed his legal career, ending up Assistant General Counsel at Sun Microsystems and later working for Oracle. Retired, now, he continues to write & record his songs in his garage studio and uploads video performances to youtube and his podcast loosebrucekerr.com.

His 5-part a cappella Christmas love song, "Christmas Is You" is being published, and distributed by Hal Leonard, starting holidays 2022 for college and high school choral groups.

email Bruce at: BKerrLaw@aol.com

Oct 3rd is the 26th anniversary of O.J. Simpson’s acquittal of murdering his ex-wife, Nicole.

This song and photo of the 1995 PC diskette of “O.J.-oh!” (to the Harry Belafonte tune of “Day-O”) by song parodist, Loose Bruce Kerr, was the first & only song release of its kind on that medium, including stereo audio with dynamic graphics long before the popularity of the computer video revolution a decade later. It was a collaboration between engineer, Lee Baxter of Campbell, CA and Kerr of Mountain View, CA, both cities in Silicon Valley.

The song’s audio track is a live performance by Loose Bruce but includes his multitrack recorded background instruments and vocals, a feature of his live solo act in the 1980’s and ‘90’s. He opened for “Weird Al” Yankovic and his song parodies and originals have played on the Dr. Demento Show over 140 times over the decades. “O.J.-oh!” reached #1 on that program’s “Funny 5” in May & June of 1995 as the O.J. criminal trial progressed toward acquital in October.

The diskette for sale at Tower Records locations in Silicon Valley was packaged in a clear plastic glove evoking Simpson’s lawyer, Johnnie Cochran’s courtroom statement to the jury, “If it doesn’t fit (Simpson)/You must acquit!”

Kerr went on to become Assistant General Counsel of Sun Microsystems in Silicon Valley in the 2000’s after retiring from his 20 year performing career. After 11 years at Oracle, Kerr then became a contract attorney at Seattle law firm, Davis Wright Tremaine where he works today. He lives with his wife, Linda and their 2 cats in northern California and works remotely.

email: BKerrLaw@aol.com

Oct 3rd is the 26th anniversary of O.J. Simpson’s acquittal of murdering his ex-wife, Nicole.

This song and photo of the 1995 PC diskette of “O.J.-oh!” (to the Harry Belafonte tune of “Day-O”) by song parodist, Loose Bruce Kerr, was the first & only song release of its kind on that medium, including stereo audio with dynamic graphics long before the popularity of the computer video revolution a decade later. It was a collaboration between engineer, Lee Baxter of Campbell, CA and Kerr of Mountain View, CA, both cities in Silicon Valley.

The song’s audio track is a live performance by Loose Bruce but includes his multitrack recorded background instruments and vocals, a feature of his live solo act in the 1980’s and ‘90’s. He opened for “Weird Al” Yankovic and his song parodies and originals have played on the Dr. Demento Show over 140 times over the decades. “O.J.-oh!” reached #1 on that program’s “Funny 5” in May & June of 1995 as the O.J. criminal trial progressed toward acquital in October.

The diskette for sale at Tower Records locations in Silicon Valley was packaged in a clear plastic glove evoking Simpson’s lawyer, Johnnie Cochran’s courtroom statement to the jury, “If it doesn’t fit (Simpson)/You must acquit!”

Kerr went on to become Assistant General Counsel of Sun Microsystems in Silicon Valley in the 2000’s after retiring from his 20 year performing career. After 11 years at Oracle, Kerr then became a contract attorney at Seattle law firm, Davis Wright Tremaine where he works today. He lives with his wife, Linda and their 2 cats in northern California and works remotely.

P.S. the song's the same but the dynamic graphics on the PC Diskette are not visible here, I haven't found a way to convert the old, stale file format! This photo's just of the diskette and glove packaging.

email: BKerrLaw@aol.com

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"NO GOLD IN CALIFORNIA" is a Loose Bruce Kerr original from 1992 and a nod to Brian Wilson & the Beach Boys, a group Bruce grew up on and whose harmonies he learned on.

In 1992 the U.S. was mired in a recession in the economy and dealing with the disaster in Bosnia, ethnic cleansing, immigrants, homelessness, etc. The California of Bruce's youth and idylic songs of the 1960's seemed to be fading. With the fires raging across northern California today (Bruce lives there), the same might be said about now, nearly 30 years later.

Recording on a TEAC 4-track cassette deck, Bruce played the instruments and sang the vocal parts 1 at a time, mixing down as he went. Earbuds encouraged.

Loose Bruce Kerr is an irregular feature on the Dr. Demento Show and opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic back in the day.

email: BKerrLaw@aol.com

loosebrucekerr.com

"HEAD FOR THE HILLS" (a post-pandemic song) VIDEO is now a full jazz band arrangement in April, 2021 of a song Loose Bruce Kerr composed in April, 2020. Who knew it would take a year before the vaccines started to help us toward an end to the pandemic?

To celebrate that, here's the full arrangement and performance video. The song gives a bow to the earlier pandemic in 1920-21 through its 1920's style song and arrangement. Bruce's parents grew up in the 1920's and his dad taught him songs from that era on ukelele while his mom sang the melodies.

In this video, Loose Bruce Kerr performs his song live on vocals, accompanied by his new jazz band background tracks just completed.

Bruce records his instruments one at a time, multi-tracking (invented by his hometown hero, Les Paul of Waukesha, Wisconsin). Some are real (ukes, etc.), some are synth'd (trombones, tubas, saxes, etc.).

Bruce inserted a 20-year performing and recording career into his day job as an attorney. He's been back practicing law for the last 20 years and continues to record his songs in his garage studio.

Back in the day, he opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic. He's an irregular feature of the Dr. Demento Show where his songs have been played over 100 times through the years.

His mp3 audio songs and videos can be streamed or downloaded at loosebrucekerr.com. Email Bruce at BKerrLaw@aol.com

"HEAD FOR THE HILLS" (a post-pandemic song) AUDIO is now a full jazz band arrangement in April, 2021 of a song Loose Bruce Kerr composed in April, 2020. Who knew it would take a year before the vaccines started to help us toward an end to the pandemic?

To celebrate that, here's the full arrangement. The song gives a bow to the earlier pandemic in 1920-21 through its 1920's style song and arrangement. Bruce's parents grew up in the 1920's and his dad taught him songs from that era on ukelele while his mom sang the melodies.

In this song, Loose Bruce Kerr performs his song live on vocals, accompanied by his new jazz band background tracks just completed.

Bruce records his instruments one at a time, multi-tracking (invented by his hometown hero, Les Paul of Waukesha, Wisconsin). Some are real (ukes, etc.), some are synth'd (trombones, tubas, saxes, etc.).

Bruce inserted a 20-year performing and recording career into his day job as an attorney. He's been back practicing law for the last 20 years and continues to record his songs in his garage studio.

Back in the day, he opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic. He's an irregular feature of the Dr. Demento Show where his songs have been played over 100 times through the years.

His mp3 audio songs and videos can be streamed or downloaded at loosebrucekerr.com. Email Bruce at BKerrLaw@aol.com

A get-well-soon card to us all, Loose Bruce Kerr's latest parody of the Beatles, "The Long and Winding Road." Bruce sings live over his recording of his orchestral tracks, put together in his studio, "The Garage" in northern California.

Bruce had a 20 year career in entertainment, performing and writing his songs and parodies (over 100 plays on the Doctor Demento Show) before resuming his law career. He is currently semi-retired after 23 years at both Sun Microsystems (Assistant General Counsel) and at Oracle (Deal Manager/negotiator).

Bruce records his vocals and instruments one at a time, using a TASCAM 32-track digital studio. He sings live over his background tracks for his videos. His hometown hero in Waukesha, Wisconsin growing up was Les Paul, the inventor of multitrack recording, as well as one of the inventors of the electric guitar.

Back in the day, Loose Bruce Kerr opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic.

visit loosebrucekerr.com

email: BKerrLaw@aol.com

...(stealing a bit here from Martin Luther in the 1500's):

The “7 Theses of Phone On-Hold”

(nailed to the virtual church door 2020)

by Loose Bruce Kerr

December 1, 2020

No On-Hold music loop may be shorter than 5 minutes before loop repeats.

The fidelity of On-Hold music must be high fidelity and at least equivalent to that experienced as long ago as 30 years on some On-Hold music systems (where did those go?).

Callers On-Hold must be given the choice of styles of music (e.g., Rock, Hip-Hop, Classical, Global, Country, Heavy Metal, Folk, Latvian Whaling Tunes, etc., a minimum of 6 styles to choose from).

No repeat word -announcements On-Hold over and over, limit: 2 at front end of On-Hold, then never again on that call. Covid-excuse announcement-repeats banished 3 months after vaccine made available.

Never, never again must the public be subjected to 30-60 second On-Hold music loops repeating forever & ever. Violations punishable by flogging with a wet noodle. In the Public Square.

Callers On-Hold to be updated on approximate time until their call is answered by a trained person per the number of callers in queue and historical time averages.

By 2023, national unemployment numbers will be greatly improved by the hiring of sufficient, trained On-Hold eventual answerers to limit On-Hold times to no greater than 5 minutes. Ever.

"I AM THERE FOR YOU" is "Loose Bruce" Kerr's original song, a jazz-scat-big band sound.

Bruce records his songs one instrument & vocal at a time, layering to get the final song. In this one, he sings, plays bass & piano "for real," then uses his synthesizer to compose & play each trombone, trumpet, saxophone, & set of drums, one drum or cymbal per track, then mixes it all together.

"Loose Bruce" Kerr spent 20 years as a performer of music, comedy, and parodies. His parodies have been played on national TV (CNN News), radio (Dr. Demento, over 100 plays; Jim Bohannon Program, Larry King). He opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic. Eventually, Bruce resumed his earlier law practice which he had suspended and after a career at Oracle and formerly Assistant General Counsel of Sun Microsystems is semi-retired in northern California taking atty contract work from time to time.

In the mid-late 60's, Bruce was a vocalist & bass player in rock band "The 5 Bucks" which became the "Byzantine Empire" during college at the University of Michigan. Several 45's were released, the last several on Bell Records. Before that, in high school, Bruce was in a folk group in Waukesha, Wisconsin (home of Les Paul), "The Coachmen."

In the late 70's, Bruce was a guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter in the New England area rock band, "Spud City" (with Waukesha, WI's fellow townie, Steve Hoeft).

Many of Bruce's parody videos from 2006-on are viewable on youtube, as well as on this podcast site.

email Bruce at: BKerrLaw@aol.com

"HOLD ME NOW" is a new song by Loose Bruce Kerr. While Bruce often does parodies, he also writes originals in various styles.

This one's in the mold of old Sinatra or Andy Williams standards. Using multi-tracking (invented by his fellow townie of Waukesha, Wisconsin, Les Paul), Bruce adds horns, strings, drums, etc. by synth and plays the guitars, bass, and sings the vocals.

Bruce lives with his wife, Linda, in northern California heading up toward Lake Tahoe, oh, and 2 cats (not in the yard, mostly in the house...hot!) Back in the day, he opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic, and has been played over 100 times on the Dr. Demento Show. He's an attorney and works at Oracle. (well, now from his home).

Videos on youtube, search on Loose Bruce Kerr; videos and songs on loosebrucekerr.com (this site) and iTunes.

email: BKerrLaw@aol.com

"THE WRECK OF THE GOOD BOMBA CHARGER" (Live Video, 1981) by Loose Bruce Kerr.

In 1981 I was performing my regular seasonal gig on St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands at Sparky's Waterfront Saloon. A boat that moved passengers between the Caribbean islands down there was called the "Bomba Charger," held about 24 or so, pretty bare bones. But it got you there.

I thought I'd contrast the serious subject and tone of Lightfoot's original with a take which involved how boats sometimes had accidents down in the islands...due to insobriety re various substances. This was at a time when weed was rampant among locals, tourists, and saloon workers like me but was illegal and you actually could lose your boat, yacht, ship if contraband was found. Nonetheless, no harm in singing about it (right?)

Enjoy "THE WRECK OF THE GOOD BOMBA CHARGER."

videos also on youtube.com

email: BKerrLaw@aol.com

visit: loosebrucekerr.com

"HEAD FOR THE HILLS" is Loose Bruce Kerr's latest song, a post-pandemic one and an original that takes its flavor from the 1920's songs his parents taught him growing up in Wisconsin.

Bruce plays the uke he learned on and inherited from his father, Ken (a Martin uke). His mother sang 20's & 30's songs while cooking and his dad played uke and whistled (he wouldn't sing!).

Enjoy! We WILL get there...

email: BKerrLaw@aol.com

"HEAD FOR THE HILLS" is Loose Bruce Kerr's latest song, a post-pandemic one and an original that takes its flavor from the 1920's songs his parents taught him growing up in Wisconsin.

Bruce plays the uke he learned on and inherited from his father, Ken (a Martin uke). His mother sang 20's & 30's songs while cooking and his dad played uke and whistled (he wouldn't sing).

Enjoy! We WILL get there...

"GORBY" (audio mp3) is Loose Bruce Kerr's original satire/parody from 1990 on the occasion of the about-to-disintegrate Soviet Union's premier's visit to Stanford U in California's Bay Area.

Bruce lived 8 mins away so it was only logical he drove there with his guitar & tape deck around his neck playing his pre-recorded background tracks, mounted CNN's 2 story scaffold where they were beaming live to Atlanta, and sang this song about Gorby, which was then nationally broadcast at the end of the 8pm segment that evening.

On the 30th anniversary of the then-thawing relationship between the US the Soviet Union's Mikhail Gorbachev, Bruce wrote and recorded this song on his 4-track TEAC cassette deck, then sang and played it live at his gigs with the background tracks added behind him.

Loose Bruce Kerr is from Waukesha, Wisconsin, home to multitrack & guitar inventor, Les Paul, and now lives in northern California. After a 20 year music and performing career (he opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic), Bruce resumed his law career he had earlier dropped and eventually became Assistant General Counsel of Sun Microsystems. He now is a lawyer working at Oracle which acquired Sun in 2010.

email: BKerrLaw@aol.com

visit: loosebrucekerr.com (free download of videos & audio mp3's)

songs and videos also on youtube.com

(video of Gorby live at Stanford U that day is at: https://youtu.be/JBVjmoeSFKU low res live audio)

Hot off the presses, for all us stay-at-homies, here's "THE 12 DAYS OF LOCKDOWN" (Audio version) to the tune of "The 12 Days of Christmas." With thanks to good friend, Ward Wildanger for suggesting the title and I get off my butt while sequestered like the rest of us, and do something with it. Enjoy!

Loose Bruce Kerr is a songwriter (Dr. Demento Show, over 100 plays). Back in the day, Bruce opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic.

After a 20 year career performing and writing songs, Bruce returned to his day job, a lawyer, becoming Assistant General Counsel at Sun Microsystems. Bruce currently works at Oracle and records for fun in his garage studio in northern California.

loosebrucekerr.com

also available on youtube

email: BKerrLaw@aol.com

Hot off the presses, for all us stay-at-homies, here's "THE 12 DAYS OF LOCKDOWN" to the tune of "The 12 Days of Christmas."

With thanks to good friend, Ward Wildanger for suggesting the title and I get off my butt while sequestered like the rest of us, and do something with it. Enjoy!

Loose Bruce Kerr is a songwriter (Dr. Demento Show, over 100 plays). Back in the day, Bruce opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic. After a 20 year career performing and writing songs, Bruce returned to his day job, a lawyer, becoming Assistant General Counsel at Sun Microsystems. Bruce currently works at Oracle and records for fun in his garage studio in northern California.

loosebrucekerr.com

also on youtube

email: BKerrLaw@aol.com

"COME HOME AMERICA" (video/stillshot) is songwriter Loose Bruce Kerr's latest original song, recorded one vocal and instrument at a time by Bruce in his garage studio in northern California. It talks of the present state of the U.S. with its divisions, needing all of us to come together, Democrats, Republicans, independents, of any stripe, type, or individuality.

Bruce uses multitracking to provide all his desired instruments & vocals, a process invented by Bruce's hometown influence, Les Paul, Waukesha, Wisconsin.

In this recording, Bruce layered a 16 voice chorus plus lead vocal over orchestration of guitar, multiple bass viols, cellos, violins, french horns, flute, oboe, snare, timpani, & cymbals.

The orchestral instruments were done by Bruce on keyboard midi'd into a Yamaha rack synth. His main instrument is a decades-old Wechter (Made in USA...Michigan) acoustic guitar, double-cutaway.

Bruce interrupted his law career for a 20-year run as a songwriter, performer, and parodist mainly on the Dr. Demento Show (over 100 plays) and Jim Bohannon Show, plus tv and news programs use of his topical parodies (e.g., "O.J.-oh," "Gorby," "You Picked a Fine Time to Lead us, Dan Quayle," "The Leader of Iraq," "Scudbusters!"). Back in the day, Bruce opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic.

Bruce eventually became Assistant General Counsel of Sun Microsystems in northern California's Silicon Valley and today works for Oracle.

©2020 Marjorie Music Co. (BMI)
email: BKerrLaw@aol.com
web: loosebrucekerr.com

Album cover: Ben Graham

"COME HOME AMERICA" (Audio) is songwriter Loose Bruce Kerr's latest original song, recorded one vocal and instrument at a time by Bruce in his garage studio in northern California. It talks of the present state of the U.S. with its divisions, needing all of us to come together, Democrats, Republicans, independents, of any stripe, type, or individuality.

Bruce uses multitracking to provide all his desired instruments & vocals, a process invented by Bruce's hometown influence, Les Paul, Waukesha, Wisconsin.

In this recording, Bruce layered a 16 voice chorus plus lead vocal over orchestration of guitar, multiple bass viols, cellos, violins, french horns, flute, oboe, snare, timpani, & cymbals.

The orchestral instruments were done by Bruce on keyboard midi'd into a Yamaha rack synth. His main instrument is a decades-old Wechter (Made in USA...Michigan) acoustic guitar, double-cutaway.

Bruce interrupted his law career for a 20-year run as a songwriter, performer, and parodist mainly on the Dr. Demento Show (over 100 plays) and Jim Bohannon Show, plus tv and news programs use of his topical parodies (e.g., "O.J.-oh," "Gorby," "You Picked a Fine Time to Lead us, Dan Quayle," "The Leader of Iraq," "Scudbusters!"). Back in the day, Bruce opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic.

Bruce eventually became Assistant General Counsel of Sun Microsystems in northern California's Silicon Valley and today works for Oracle.

©2020 Marjorie Music Co. (BMI)
email: BKerrLaw@aol.com
web: loosebrucekerr.com

Album cover: Ben Graham

"A TEXT" is the latest parody song mp3 AUDIO by Loose Bruce Kerr (Dr. Demento Show, over 100 plays). It updates the Box Tops' 1967 hit, "The Letter", to today's (and tomorrow's) technology of instant messaging and travel.

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

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

(earbuds encouraged)

email him at: BKerrLaw@aol.com

visit: loosebrucekerr.com

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

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

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

(earbuds encouraged)

email him at: BKerrLaw@aol.com

visit: loosebrucekerr.com

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(earbuds encouraged)

Also available on youtube.com

email: BKerrLaw@aol.com

Enjoy!

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

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

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

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

(earbuds encouraged)

email him at: BKerrLaw@aol.com

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

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

Earbuds encouraged. Enjoy!

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

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

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

email: BKerrLaw@aol.com free mp3 and mp4 downloads of audio & video at loosebrucekerr.com

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

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

Earbuds encouraged. Enjoy!

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

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

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

email: BKerrLaw@aol.com free mp3 and mp4 downloads of audio & video at loosebrucekerr.com

Loose Bruce Kerr's latest parody mp3 AUDIO on Majority Senate Leader, Mitch McConnell who's been compared to a turtle or frog (see The Onion picture https://politics.theonion.com/mitch-mcconnell-inflates-throat-pouch-in-show-of-domina-1819591493), to the tune of the Beatles' "The Long & Winding Road," here's: "THE LONG-TONGUED TURTLE-FROG." Earbuds encouraged. Enjoy!

See also at loosebrucekerr.com (here) the VIDEO garage performance of this parody, including a graphic by Steve Hoeft.

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

Bruce records his songs in his garage live, adding background vocals & instruments he plays.

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

email: BKerrLaw@aol.com free mp3 and mp4 downloads of audio & video at loosebrucekerr.com

Loose Bruce Kerr's latest parody VIDEO on Majority Senate Leader, Mitch McConnell who's been compared to a turtle or frog (see The Onion picture https://politics.theonion.com/mitch-mcconnell-inflates-throat-pouch-in-show-of-domina-1819591493), to the tune of the Beatles' "The Long & Winding Road," here's: "THE LONG-TONGUED TURTLE-FROG." Earbuds encouraged. Enjoy!

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

Bruce records his songs in his garage live, adding background vocals & instruments he plays.

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

email: BKerrLaw@aol.com free mp3 and mp4 downloads of audio & video at loosebrucekerr.com

Linda and I have been friends with this couple since our first borns were together in preschool and grew up together. Now they have 10 grandchildren and I thought they deserved a parody for it, in a surprise video we shot at an Easter weekend they recently hosted. Watch proud Grandpa Ward show and proud Grandma Nancy react. You may recognize the Lionel Richie song underneath. Enjoy! (earbuds encouraged) - Loose Bruce Kerr

Song parodist “Loose Bruce” Kerr (nationally: Dr. Demento Show; Jim Bohannon Show) sings and plays all the instruments one at a time in his multitrack studio in Roseville, CA. Kerr is from Waukesha, Wisconsin, the home of multitrack inventor, Les Paul, who inspired Bruce who saw him perform in their hometown in 1960.

Bruce’s songs are an irregular feature of the Dr. Demento Show and Jim Bohannon show on syndicated radio & internet. Bruce opened for “Weird Al” Yankovic back in the day. His breakout song was in 1987: “Walk Like a Deukmejian,” about California’s then-governor and Supreme Court Chief Justice, Rose Bird.

Bruce's latest songs may be streamed or downloaded from iTunes and store.cdbaby.com, search on "Loose Bruce Kerr"

email Bruce at: BKerrLaw@aol.com

free videos & mp3's on youtube + loosebrucekerr.com

"THE BLACKSHIRTS WALTZ" (VIDEO/SLIDE SHOW w/ AUDIO) written & performed for Bruce's Waukesha, Wisconsin High School class reunion in July, 2015.

After the reunion, Bruce put his song to slides of his high school years & from the reunion. You can stream it to watch & listen from here, Bruce's podcast.

Many of his other videos and mp3's are downloadable or streamable here (click: "all episodes, above) or on youtube. For his very latest originals & a few select parodies, go to iTunes or store.cdbaby.com & search on "Loose Bruce Kerr"

Earbuds or headphones strongly encouraged for full effect.

Bruce records his audios & videos, singing & playing one instrument at a time in his garage in Roseville in northern California ("The Garage").

When not doing that, Bruce is a lawyer working at Oracle. Bruce took off 20 years from his law career to write, record, and perform his music and comedy. He opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic back in the day.

His songs are heard irregularly on the "Dr. Demento Show" on the net and on the "Jim Bohannon Show" on nationally syndicated AM radio.

email: BKerrLaw@aol.com
website: loosebrucekerr.com

Enjoy! (earbuds or headphones encouraged, it's in...STEREO!) ;)

"4+20" by Loose Bruce Kerr is an AUDIO MP3 parody of Stephen Stills' song, "4+20" from 1969. It's about April 20th each year at 4:20pm when pot lovers everywhere celebrate, well, pot! Together. Or alone. Whatever. Who's counting (...except on the calendar & clock).

Instead of Stills' dark picture of despair, the parody flips it to celebrating 4/20. At 4:20pm. You get the picture. Or had it decades ago.

Whether I still smoke pot or not is private, this song’s title begged for a parody of it. However, I will say I first tried pot the same year Bill Clinton did. But I definitely inhaled. Earbuds encouraged.

Song parodist “Loose Bruce” Kerr (nationally: Dr. Demento Show; Jim Bohannon Show) sings and plays all the instruments one at a time in his multitrack studio in Roseville, CA. Kerr is from Waukesha, Wisconsin, the home of multitrack inventor, Les Paul, who inspired Bruce who saw him perform in their hometown in 1960.

Bruce’s songs are an irregular feature of the Dr. Demento Show and Jim Bohannon show on syndicated radio & internet. Bruce opened for “Weird Al” Yankovic back in the day. His breakout song was in 1987: “Walk Like a Deukmejian,” about California’s then-governor and Supreme Court Chief Justice, Rose Bird.

email Bruce at: BKerrLaw@aol.com

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

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

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

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

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

Spud City, "Music With a Peel"

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

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

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

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

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

email Bruce at: BKerrLaw@aol.com

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

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

Direct inquiries to BKerrLaw@aol.com.

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

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

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

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

email: BKerrLaw@aol.com

"MY DOG IS LOOKIN' FOR LOVE (IN ALL THE WRONG PLACES)" is a 2002 Loose Bruce Kerr parody.

Loose Bruce Kerr is an irregular feature on the Dr. Demento Show and opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic" back in the day during a 20 year career of performing & writing music. Kerr is now an attorney working at Oracle after resuming his legal career he'd put on hold back then.

Many of his videos appear here on loosebrucekerr.com as well as on youtube.com. His latest audio tracks can be accessed on itunes.com and store.cdbaby.com.

Bruce records his vocals and instruments one at a time in his studio in Roseville, CA. His videos have him singing and playing live against his background tracks mixed in.

Bruce resides in Roseville, CA with his wife, Linda, both of them from Waukesha, Wisconsin, the home of Les Paul.

email Bruce at: BKerrLaw@aol.com

“Christmas Is You” is Loose Bruce Kerr’s 2009 romantic holiday song, here performed in 5-part jazz harmony scored by Zach Yaholkovsky, and as sung by the a cappella group at San Ramon Valley High School, (California), conducted by Ken Abrams, Dec. 12-13, 2018.

Bruce Kerr is a songwiter, and attorney working at Oracle in Rocklin, CA, following an earlier 20 year career as a performer. He opened for “Weird Al” Yankovic back in the day.

email Bruce at BKerrLaw@aol.com

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

also on youtube, itunes & cdbaby.com

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

email: BKerrLaw@aol.com

URL: loosebrucekerr.com

"WOULD IT BE SO NICE?" is a Beach Boys parody AUDIO by Loose Bruce Kerr with additional vocals by Megan Berru-Kerr, Bruce's loving daughter-in-law.

50 years ago, boomers spoke & sang of dreaming about being a bit older so we could "do more" (in every way possible). Now we've reached the other end of things so here's a revision of the song from this perspective.

This site has free Loose Bruce Kerr originals and parodies, videos & mp3 audios for download. YouTube.com also has many as well. His latest songs are available for 99 cents on iTunes and CDBaby.com.

Bruce's songs have played on over 100 Dr. Demento Shows from the 80's to the present. He's opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic. Bruce is in his second career as a lawyer working at Oracle after a 20 year stint performing.

URL: loosebrucekerr.com

email: BKerrLaw@aol.com

Here's another video parody from Loose Bruce Kerr (Dr. Demento, over 100 plays of Bruce's songs): THE GUY FROM AL-QAEDA IN IRAQ, to the tune of "The Girl from Ipanema" from the mid-60's.

Bruce pre-records his background instruments in his garage in northern California, one thing at a time, then sings and plays guitar live on top of a thumb drive.

This is from his 1-hour show recently shot in a Barn in the sticks, a secluded, private location where 75-100 techies, boomers, aging hippies, and folks who love folk, comedy, country, bluegrass, blues, and harmony gather from time to time to hear live performers and consume all manner of goodies, as many of us have done for decades, and have a good time.

Other of his originals and parody videos & mp3 audios are found here on loosebrucekerr.com as well as on youtube (for free).

Recent Bruce originals & parody mp3's are available on iTunes & CDBaby.com

Bruce grew up in Waukesha, Wisconsin, home to Les Paul, inventor of multi-track recording.

email: BKerrLaw@aol.com

STEREO AUDIO ORIGINAL mp3

"I MET MY SWEETIE ON TAHITI" is an original song & recording by "Loose Bruce" Kerr. It's an homage to his parents who taught him his first instrument (ukelele, by his Dad, Ken), songs from their youth in the 1920's (Ken & Opal, both), and, re his Dad's love for both dixieland jazz and barbershop quartet which he passed on to Bruce. This is Bruce playing out his Tin Pan Alley songwriter wish.

Bruce sings each harmony and plays each instrument one at a time (a digital unit allows him to affect horns & strings he can't play). It's a 1-man band (across time). ;)

Bruce took 20 years off from his legal career to write & perform music, sometimes solo, sometimes in a duo or the band, "Spud City-Music With a Peel" (Mass., VT) with his hometown buddy, Steve Hoeft. As a solo, he opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic. Then he resumed being an attorney, now working for Oracle in Northern California's Silicon Valley.

Bruce dedicates this song to his cousin, Jim Conway, who moved to the South Pacific island of Tuvalu and eventually met his sweetie, Nese Ituaso, and married her up real good.

email: BKerrLaw@aol.com

"THE BATTLE OF FLORIDA (2000)" (with the election 2022 fast approaching) was parodist Loose Bruce Kerr's real-time telling of Bush v Gore during that election year 2000, where it all came down to succesive ballot recounts in Florida, including "dimpled chads." It's 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 in December 2000, and the nationally syndicated Dr. Demento Show on radio.

Loose Bruce Kerr took 20 years off his legal career to write, record, and perform music across the country and the Caribbean. His songs have been played on Dr. Demento over 140 times, 1987-present.

Resuming his legal career in 1993, Bruce became Assistant General Counsel at Sun Microsystems, before his job at Oracle after it acquired Sun in 2010. As of 2022, Bruce is now retired and spending more time on songwriting & recording.

Bruce records his original songs and parodies, multi-tracking 1 vocal and 1 instrument at a time in his garage in northern California. He is originally from Waukesha, Wisconsin, home of Les Paul who invented multi-track recording (and the electric guitar).

Besides this podcast of Bruce's originals and parodies, both videos & audio mp3's (all for free), you can also search on youtube.com for many others, including 45rpm records he recorded with his college band in Ann Arbor, Michigan, the 5 Bucks (became the Byzantine Empire).

Email Bruce at: BKerrLaw@aol.com

“YOU CAME FROM WAUKESHA”
by Loose Bruce Kerr

1. If you wanted water pure
Or a grand resort to tour
YOU CAME TO WAUKESHA
For a motor running true
Or a generator new
YOU CAME TO WAUKESHA

Want a hazy, lazy river
Or somebody to deliver
all your dairy and a paper to your door?
You could do worse by far
Than turning ‘round your car
And instead YOU CAME TO WAUKESHA

2. For the yellows, reds and greens
Of the Kettle Morraine scenes
YOU CAME TO WAUKESHA
Best in sports and all the schools
The best neighborhoods and pools
YOU CAME TO WAUKESHA

Ask any stranger on the street
‘twas the path to really beat
If you just follow your feet
you end up there
For a job or Carroll College
If you had or needed knowledge
Then at last, YOU CAME TO WAUKESHA

3. If you had your head on straight
Had the finest girls to date
YOU CAME FROM WAUKESHA
If your parents loved you so
And were sad to let you go
YOU LEFT FROM WAUKESHA

Need some help from helping hands
Or some kickass local bands
or some Jimmy’s, Scrima’s, Rode’s, Schley’s and more
Take a mudbath or decline
Know...the...name...of..."Reiney Hein”*
Then it’s your hometown and mine
YOU CAME FROM WAUKESHA

(*R.G. Hein, Waukesha Superintendant of Schools, circa 1950’s-60’s, with apologies to our CMH compatriots)

email Bruce at BKerrLaw@aol.com

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"CHRISTMAS IS YOU" (AUDIO) is a Loose Bruce Kerr original song as arranged by college student (U. of North TX) Zach Yaholkovsky in 5-part jazz a cappella harmony.

[the video for this song also appears here on loosebrucekerr.com]

In this recent video performance from Dec. 3, 2016, a cappella group "VOCE" of Cuesta College in central California, under Director John Knutson, sings Bruce's song in their holiday season concert.

Earbuds or headphones encouraged for max. stereo effect.

Loose Bruce Kerr took 20 years off his legal career to write, record, and perform music across the country and the Caribbean. He's resumed his day career and works at Oracle in Silicon Valley. Before Oracle, Bruce was Assistant General Counsel at Sun Microsystems.

Bruce records his original songs and parodies, multi-tracking 1 vocal and 1 instrument at a time in his garage in Morgan Hill, CA. He is originally from Waukesha, Wisconsin, home of Les Paul who invented multi-track recording.

High res videos and audio mp3's of Bruce's are available to download for free from his podcast page: loosebrucekerr.com

Email Bruce at: BKerrLaw@aol.com

TRAIN KEEPS ROLLIN' (video & song) is Loose Bruce Kerr's latest original song & video, about homeless people living by railroad tracks across the country. His morning train commute north to Silicon Valley populates the video. The performance footage is from a recent show in rural northern California.

Loose Bruce Kerr took 20 years off his legal career to write, record, and perform music across the country and the Caribbean. He's resumed his day career and works at Oracle in Silicon Valley. Before Oracle, Bruce was Assistant General Counsel at Sun Microsystems.

Bruce records his original songs and parodies, multi-tracking 1 vocal and 1 instrument at a time in his garage in Morgan Hill, CA. He is originally from Waukesha, Wisconsin, home of Les Paul who invented multi-track recording.

Email Bruce at: BKerrLaw@aol.com

"CHRISTMAS IS YOU" (video + song) by Loose Bruce Kerr

5-part jazz a cappella arrangement: Zach Yaholkovsky

Sung by Cuesta College's "VOCE" 3Dec2016

"CHRISTMAS IS YOU" is a Loose Bruce Kerr original song as arranged by college student (U. of North TX) Zach Yaholkovsky in 5-part jazz a cappella harmony.

In this recent video performance from Dec. 3, 2016, a cappella group "VOCE" of Cuesta College in central California, under Director John Knutson, sings Bruce's song in their holiday season concert.

Earbuds or headphones encouraged for max. stereo effect.

Email Bruce at: BKerrLaw@aol.com

TRAIN KEEPS ROLLIN' (this is audio mp3 version, see video, above) is Loose Bruce Kerr's latest original song & video, about homeless people living by railroad tracks across the country. His morning train commute north to Silicon Valley populates the video. The performance footage is from a recent show in rural northern California.

Loose Bruce Kerr took 20 years off his legal career to write, record, and perform music across the country and the Caribbean. He's resumed his day career and works at Oracle in Silicon Valley. Before Oracle, Bruce was Assistant General Counsel at Sun Microsystems.

Bruce records his original songs and parodies, multi-tracking 1 vocal and 1 instrument at a time in his garage in Morgan Hill, CA. He is originally from Waukesha, Wisconsin, home of Les Paul who invented multi-track recording.

Email Bruce at: BKerrLaw@aol.com

"Like a Polling Stone" is parodist Loose Bruce Kerr's latest audio re Donald Trump's decline in the polls following release of the famous video weeks before the election. The original song was, of course, recent Nobel prize-winner, Bob Dylan's, "Like a Rolling Stone."

Loose Bruce Kerr took 20 years off his legal career to write, record, and perform music across the country and the Caribbean. He's resumed his day career and works at Oracle in Silicon Valley. Before Oracle, Bruce was Assistant General Counsel at Sun Microsystems.

Bruce records his original songs and parodies, multi-tracking 1 vocal and 1 instrument at a time in his garage in Morgan Hill, CA. He is originally from Waukesha, Wisconsin, home of Les Paul who invented multi-track recording.

High res videos and audio mp3's of Bruce's are available to download for free from his podcast page: loosebrucekerr.com

Email Bruce at: BKerrLaw@aol.com

"THE BLACKSHIRTS WALTZ" (AUDIO-MP3) written & performed for Bruce's Waukesha High School class reunion in July. Hot out of the garage, here is the mp3 audio track, to hear or to DOWNLOAD a copy for free for your phone, your iPod, or your 1970's Sony Walkman!

Earbuds or headphones strongly encouraged for full effect.

And if you want to view the slide show version, it's at: http://youtu.be/wFWJ06cpF4I

Bruce records his audios & videos, singing & playing one instrument at a time in his garage in Northern California's Silicon Valley ("The Garage"). When not doing that, Bruce is a lawyer working at Oracle.

Bruce took off 20 years from his law career to write, record, and perform his music and comedy. He opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic back in the day. His songs are heard irregularly on the "Dr. Demento Show" on the net and on the "Jim Bohannon Show" on nationally syndicated AM radio.

email: BKerrLaw@aol.com

website: loosebrucekerr.com

Enjoy!

"HIP TO BE POOR" is about Donald Trump's 1990 financial woes, back when he split from Ivana and married Marla (both, now 2 of his 3 ex's) and lost many of his major properties, to the tune of Huey Lewis & The News' "Hip To Be Square."

What with Trump's current cancelation of his Macy's, NBC, & Univision contracts re Miss USA & Miss Universe, might we be entering into another phase of financial downfall for The Donald? We shall see, even as he seeks the Republican nomination for the Presidency of the United States.

Loose Bruce Kerr had a 20 year career "interruption" of his legal career as he performed his music & comedy coast-to-coast and in the Caribbean as a solo, duo with Steve Hoeft, or in his New England band in the late 70's, Spud City. He also opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic back in the day. He is currently a lawyer at Oracle in northern California's Silicon Valley and continues to record his videos and original & parody songs in his garage called, "The Garage," by recording his vocals and instruments one at a time.

Download more Loose Bruce Kerr songs & videos at http://www.loosebrucekerr.com

email: BKerrLaw@aol.com

She de-topped it, poor John Bobbitt..."THE BIG BOBBITT" is Loose Bruce Kerr's 1993 parody of the Big Bopper's "Chantilly Lace," here it is for the first time on the Internet...for free!

Loose Bruce Kerr had a 20 year career "interruption" of his legal career as he performed his music & comedy coast-to-coast and in the Caribbean as a solo, duo with Steve Hoeft, or in his New England band in the late 70's, Spud City. He also opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic back in the day. He is currently a lawyer at Oracle in northern California's Silicon Valley and continues to record his videos and original & parody songs in his garage called, "The Garage."

www.loosebrucekerr.com

email: BKerrLaw@aol.com

Here is Loose Bruce Kerr's mp3 audio parody of Santana's "Black Magic Woman" titled "BLACK MAGIC MARKER" from many years ago.

Loose Bruce Kerr opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic back in the day and is heard today nationally as an irregular feature of the Doctor Demento Show and Jim Bohannon Show.

After Bruce interrupted his legal career in 1973 for 20 years of performing his songs & comedy, he resumed being a lawyer in 1993 and works for Oracle in northern California's Silicon Valley. He records his videos & songs 1 instrument at a time in his garage studio named, "THE GARAGE."

portfolio Copyright 1972-2015 Broken Records & Marjorie Music Publ (BMI)

www.loosebrucekerr.com

email: BKerrLaw@aol.com

a song parody video of the 1964 song,"Ringo" by Lorne Greene, this tells the tale of the downfall of televangelist Jimmy Swaggart, caught with a prostitute in a cheap motel in 1988.

Uploaded to youtube in 2007, Swaggart's law firm in 2009 issued a cease & desist letter to Bruce and his employer, Sun Microsystems (Bruce was Assistant General Counsel at the time), and ordered youtube.com to take down the video (which it did). The Electronic Frontier Foundation took the case for Bruce, Swaggart backed off and the video was restored on youtube. Here is that video from 1988, orginally produced and shown in affiliation with a San Francisco nationally affiliated tv station as the story broke.

Loose Bruce Kerr is an irregular feature on the Dr. Demento and Jim Bohannon nationally syndicated internet streams & radio shows. Having resumed his legal career after a 20 year span performing (opening for "Weird Al" Yankovic back in the day), Bruce is now an attorney working at Oracle in Silicon Valley, living in northern California, and contining to record his original and parody songs & videos in his garage studio, "THE GARAGE."

loosebrucekerr.com

email: BKerrLaw@aol.com

"FRANKENANCY," the comedy audio by Loose Bruce Kerr, about Frank Sinatra & Nancy Reagan, was inspired by Kitty Kelley's book about Nancy Reagan in 1991. It tells the story of the rumored romance between those 2, using snippets of Frank Sinatra recordings to tell the story via a mock interview format. At the time, the montage received airplay on several major networks and nationally affiliated radio programs like the Dr. Demento Show and Jim Bohannon Show. Bruce received a nice thank you card note from Kitty Kelley (see picture).

Loose Bruce Kerr is a songwriter, performer, and music producer living in Northern California. A native of Waukesha, Wisconsin, Bruce took 20 years off from his legal career to tour the country and the Caribbean, performing as a solo, in a duo with Steve Hoeft, or in his band in New England, "Spud City."

Following that 20 year span, Bruce resumed his legal career and now is a lawyer working for Oracle in Silicon Valley. His songs & videos can be heard & viewed on youtube and here on loosebrucekerr.com. His latest original audio recordings are available only on iTunes & cdbaby.com. Back in the day, Bruce opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic. He is an irregular performer on the Dr. Demento Show on the internet, and Jim Bohannon Show on nationally syndicated AM radio.

email: BKerrLaw@aol.com

"TIME TO START NEXT CHRISTMAS" is Loose Bruce Kerr's latest original, for right after Christmas.

Loose Bruce Kerr is a songwriter, performer, and music producer living in Northern California. A native of Waukesha, Wisconsin, Bruce took 20 years off from his legal career to tour the country and the Caribbean, performing as a solo, in a duo with Steve Hoeft, or in his band in New England, "Spud City."

Following that 20 year span, Bruce resumed his legal career and now is a lawyer working for Oracle in Silicon Valley. His songs & videos can be heard & viewed on youtube and here on loosebrucekerr.com. His latest original audio recordings are available on iTunes & cdbaby.com. Back in the day, Bruce opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic. He is an irregular performer on the Dr. Demento Show on the internet, and Jim Bohannon Show on nationally syndicated AM radio.

email: BKerrLaw@aol.com

"DEM PHONES" from 1991 is Loose Bruce Kerr's AUDIO parody of the old Negro Spiritual, "Dem Bones," little did he know at the time what was about to explode on the globe re iPhones, etc.

Loose Bruce Kerr is an irregular feature of the Dr. Demento & Jim Bohannon radio shows. He spent 20 years interrupting his legal career to write, perform & record his music while gigging from the U.S. to the Caribbean. He is currently a lawyer at Oracle. He opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic back in the day.

songs & videos at loosebrucekerr.com

email: BKerrLaw@aol.com

newest originals on cdbaby.com & iTunes (search on loose bruce kerr)

"CROQUET" is the AUDIO parody by Loose Bruce Kerr of Eric Clapton's version of "Cocaine" written by J.J. Cale. Croquet, cocaine, what's the diff?

Loose Bruce Kerr is an irregular feature of the Dr. Demento & Jim Bohannon Shows. Bruce took 20 years off from his legal career to travel the U.S. & Caribbean in a solo, duo, or band act performing his originals & parodies such as "O.J.-oh," (#1 on Dr. Demento "Funny Five") and "When I'm 94" to the Beatles tune. Bruce opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic back in the day. He resumed his legal career and currently is an attorney at Oracle in northern California's Silicon Valley. He lives in Morgan Hill, California where he continues to write, perform, and record his originals & parodies.

Find Bruce's songs & videos for free on youtube & loosebrucekerr.com. His latest originals are on iTunes & cdbaby.com for free sampling, & download for 99 cts. Search on "loose bruce kerr."

email: BKerrLaw@aol.com

[AUDIO version, see also here: VIDEO MP4 version]

On the 25th year anniversary, Loose Bruce Kerr's comedy audio montage of "The Quake of '89" tells the story of the northern California earthquake of that year on October 17th (Bruce's birthday) through rock bands and singers, all of whom are in some way connected to the San Francisco Bay area. The piece received radio airplay in the month following the earthquake and the audio cassette's sales helped raise money for earthquake relief.

Oakland, Marin, the outer East Bay, San Jose, and of course, San Francisco are all represented. Everyone from Tony Bennett to Huey Lewis to the Pointer Sisters to the Grateful Dead to Credence to Janis Joplin to Otis Redding...they're all here to tell the story using snippets of their songs.

Loose Bruce Kerr lived in Mountain View in Silicon Valley in those days. He now resides in northern California's Morgan Hill. After 20 years of performing and writing & recording such pieces, originals, & parodies, he is now back to his original profession and is a lawyer working at Oracle in Santa Clara, CA.

Back in the day, he opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic and his parodies have been played on over 100 of the Dr. Demento Shows.

Visit loosebrucekerr.com for free copies of Bruce's video mp4's and audio mp3's.

email: BKerrLaw@aol.com

On the 25th year anniversary, Loose Bruce Kerr's comedy audio montage of "The Quake of '89" tells the story of the northern California earthquake of that year on October 17th (Bruce's birthday) through rock bands and singers, all of whom are in some way connected to the San Francisco Bay area. The piece received radio airplay in the month following the earthquake and the audio cassette's sales helped raise money for earthquake relief.

Oakland, Marin, the outer East Bay, San Jose, and of course, San Francisco are all represented. Everyone from Tony Bennett to Huey Lewis to the Pointer Sisters to the Grateful Dead to Credence to Janis Joplin to Otis Redding...they're all here to tell the story using snippets of their songs.

Loose Bruce Kerr lived in Mountain View in Silicon Valley in those days. He now resides in northern California's Morgan Hill. After 20 years of performing and writing & recording such pieces, originals, & parodies, he is now back to his original profession and is a lawyer working at Oracle in Santa Clara, CA.

Back in the day, he opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic and his parodies have been played on over 100 of the Dr. Demento Shows.

email: BKerrLaw@aol.com

a few facebook pals requested (yes, I take requests!) I reach back into the video archives for this old song of mine from 1973, and a video we shot on St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands around Carnival time of 1981. It's "The Bald Truth," about losing anything yet still winning. Steve Hoeft & I also performed it in our band, Spud City, in the late 1970's but there's no video of that, unfortunately. Here it is, on a warm island night at Sparky's On the Waterfront in 1981.

Loose Bruce Kerr is a singer-songwriter & parodist who took 20 years off from his legal career to write & perform songs across the U.S. and Caribbean. He is still an irregular feature on The Doctor Demento Show & Jim Bohannon Show. He opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic back in the day. Many of his mp3 songs & mp4 videos are also available on loosebrucekerr.com. His most recent originals (last 2 years) are available to sample or download only on iTunes & cdbaby.com. Search on loose bruce kerr

"I FEEL CRAPPY" is Loose Bruce Kerr's parody of Pharrell Williams' recent big #1 hit & BET best video award song, "Happy."

Bruce is a nationally syndicated song parodist (Dr. Demento Show, Jim Bohannon Show) and original song writer living in Morgan Hill, California. Bruce is originally from Waukesha, Wisconsin, home of Les Paul who influenced Bruce's multitrack recording.

"I FEEL CRAPPY" is available as a high-fidelity mp3 for sampling or purchase (99 cents) at: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/loosebrucekerr7 ...or search for it on cdbaby.com, and is also available by search on iTunes.com.

email Bruce at: BKerrLaw@aol.com.

"PUTIN'S ON A BLITZ" - Audio w/ slides, is Loose Bruce Kerr's latest parody of Irving Berlin's "Puttin' On the Ritz." The tune is about Russian President Vladimir Putin's recent drives into the Crimea and threats in eastern Ukraine. Bruce sings the vocals & plays the instruments (some via synth) 1 at a time in his garage studio. Here, it's tuba, 2 ukeleles, drums, saxes, 4 part vocals, & effects.

Loose Bruce Kerr is an irregular feature on the Dr. Demento Show with over 100 plays in 27 years & Jim Bohannon radio show on Westwood One national syndication. After a 20 year career perfoming music & comedy, Bruce resumed his legal career and is a lawyer at Oracle in northern California's Silicon Valley.

Email Bruce at: BKerrLaw@aol.com

loosebrucekerr.com has many videos & mp3 audios for listening & download for free. 5 of Bruce's most recent originals are only on iTunes & CDBaby.com by searching "loose bruce kerr" ...Bruce's videos also appear on youtube.com but at reduced res vs. the versions available on loosebrucekerr.com

"PUTIN'S ON A BLITZ" - AUDIO ONLY .mp3 file is Loose Bruce Kerr's latest parody of Irving Berlin's "Puttin' On the Ritz." The tune is about Russian President Vladimir Putin's recent drives into the Crimea and threats in eastern Ukraine. Bruce sings the vocals & plays the instruments (some via synth) 1 at a time in his garage studio. Here, it's tuba, 2 ukeleles, drums, saxes, 4 part vocals, & effects.

Loose Bruce Kerr is an irregular feature on the Dr. Demento Show with over 100 plays in 27 years & Jim Bohannon radio show on Westwood One national syndication. After a 20 year career perfoming music & comedy, Bruce resumed his legal career and is a lawyer at Oracle in northern California's Silicon Valley.

Email Bruce at: BKerrLaw@aol.com

loosebrucekerr.com has many videos & mp3 audios for listening & download for free. 5 of Bruce's most recent originals are only on iTunes & CDBaby.com by searching "loose bruce kerr" ...all his videos are also on youtube.com, but at less res than loosebrucekerr.com versions.

"WHO'S IT ALL ABOUT, SELFIE?" is Loose Bruce Kerr's latest parody song video, about...oh the heck with it! To the tune of "What's If All About, Alfie" from the 1960's movie.

Loose Bruce Kerr's songs can be heard irregularly on the Dr. Demento Show, Jim Bohannon Show, and his videos are available on youtube.com. His mp3 audios & videos are also available for playing or download on loosebrucekerr.com.

His 4 most recent original songs are available on iTunes (search on "loose bruce kerr"). Or on cdbaby.com.

Bruce gave up his legal career to perform & write music for 20 years. Following that phase, he restarted his legal career to become Assistant General Counsel of Sun Microsystems. After Oracle bought Sun, Bruce now works for Oracle in northern California's Silicon Valley.

email: BKerrLaw@aol.com

"SEXUALLY ACTIVE MAN (S.A.M.)" [the AUDIO] is "Loose Bruce" Kerr performing his original tune, his answer to "I'm a Woman (W.O.M.A.N.)" by Leiber & Stoller and performed by countless female singers. The song was first performed by Bruce in the New England band "Spud City" with Steve Hoeft in 1977, this AUDIO of the video is from Bruce's solo act in St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, winter of 1981. (see, also, the VIDEO here on loosebrucekerr.com)

"THE HOUSEHUSBAND BLUES" is one of "Loose Bruce" Kerr's early solo compositions from 1972-74. In about the summer of either '74 or '75, while returning to his hometown of Waukesha, Wisconsin during his living on the road, he bumped into fellow Waukeshan, guitarist whiz, Bruce Riddeough. The result was both Bruces playing on this tune (Bruce R. on bottleneck guitar). Les Paul's multitrack recording invention had just, and finally, reached consumer level with the TEAC 4 track reel-to-reel recorder, allowing Bruce K. to harmonize with himself, and add drums & bass.

The song deals with the then-current loosening of parents playing traditional, defined roles...at a time when fathers were starting to take on some of the traditional wife's roles in raising kids, including inheriting some of the same downsides that can accompany those duties.

"EVANGELINE" is the true story of a brave 8 year old girl, Aurora Carter, dropped off at her grandparents due to her mother's heroin addiction & living on the streets. My good friends Penny & Brian Butler stepped up several months ago to take in Aurora into their home, and deeper in their hearts. It moved me to write & record "Evangeline." You can get to the song either by: 1) if you have iTunes, search on "Loose Bruce Kerr," it's in "Songs" at the bottom of the page, or 2) get it from the distributor's page (by choosing a user name & password) at: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/ loosebrucekerr5 Headphones & good volume encouraged...both allow sampling of the song and/or download of the mp3 for 99 cents. For brave Aurora Carter and her loving grandparents, Penny & Brian.

"Woke Up in Love" (AUDIO) is a Loose Bruce Kerr original about falling in love with a girl you grew up with as a friend. The lyrics appear below.

Bruce records his vocals and instruments one at a time, using a multitrack TEAC 32 track recorder, multitrack recording having been invented by his co-townie from Waukesha, Wisconsin, Les Paul.

Loose Bruce Kerr is a songwriter, parodist who interrupted his early law career out of law school to perform, write & travel his solo music & comedy show (also, duo, band) for 20 years, then back to law. He became Assistant General Counsel at Sun Microsystems.

He's been played on the Dr. Demento Show over 140 times since 1987, most recently in 2022. Back in the day, Bruce opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic.

Bruce retired from his law career but continues to write, record, and upload his video and audio tracks to youtube and his podcast: loosebrucekerr.com. He lives in northern California with his wife and their cat.

email: BKerrLaw@aol.com

URL: loosebrucekerr.com

LYRICS:

"Woke Up In Love"
by Waukesha's "Loose Bruce" Kerr

1
I used to chase her round the playground
Back when we were small
Later on in high school
I'd meet her in the hall

She used to tell me 'bout her boyfriends
I'd ask about girls
We grew up close together
In our small town world

CHORUS I
We were the best of friends
We knew each other from way back when
In all that time
We never crossed that line

But it changed all right
It happened overnight
We went to bed as friends and
Woke Up In Love

2
It started out so slowly
I wondered if she knew
But she came right up to me
And said, "Could this be true

I see a new look in your eyes
I hope you see in mine"
I said, "This sure is crazy
Love was just a matter of time"

CHORUS II
We were the best of friends
We knew each other from way back when
In all that time
We never crossed that line

But it changed all right
It happened just last night
We went to bed as friends and
Woke Up In Love

BRIDGE
I've waited for so long
For someone just beyond the rise
All that time the love of my life
Was right before my eyes

CHORUS III
We are the best of friends
We know each other from way back when
And all this time
We never crossed that line

But it changed all right
In the full moonlight
We went to bed as friends and
Woke Up In Love

I used to chase her round the playground...

Copyright 2002 Marjorie Music Co (BMI)

"SHARIA MARIA" is "Loose Bruce" Kerr's latest AUDIO parody (video to come) of the West Side Story song of similar name. Just vocal & guitar this time, like Bruce started out doing at the start of his solo career in 1973.

Loose Bruce" Kerr is an abnormal feature on the Dr. Demento Show on the internet (over 100 plays) and Jim Bohannon nationally syndicated radio show. After a 20 year career in music & comedy performing & recording, Bruce resumed his law career and is now a lawyer working for Oracle in Northern California's Silicon Valley.

All of Bruce's videos and mp3 audios can be streamed and/or downloaded for free from his podcast at loosebrucekerr.com

email: BKerrLaw@aol.com

JUST THE SAME" is the latest original song by "Loose Bruce" Kerr. The video shows pictures of laying down the pedal steel track by Richard Swiger in March of 2013.

The song is about returning veterans from the Mideast Wars, attempting to adjust to being back to their normal lives. Bruce dedicates the song to his father-in-law, Gordon Tingle who fought as a Marine on Iwo Jima and returned to Waukesha, Wisconsin to raise a family and run his own business.

"Loose Bruce" Kerr is an abnormal feature on the Dr. Demento Show on the internet and Jim Bohannon nationally syndicated radio show. After a career in music & comedy, Bruce resumed his law career and is now a lawyer working for Oracle in Northern California's Silicon Valley.

Bruce's videos and mp3 audios can be listened to and/or downloaded for free from his podcast at loosebrucekerr.com

also on youtube, search on "loose bruce kerr"

email: BKerrLaw@aol.com

"JUST THE SAME" by "Loose Bruce" Kerr.

Bruce's latest original song about returning Mideast War Veterans. Richard Swiger on pedal steel, Bruce on the rest.

Bruce's day job these days, after a 20 year career of performing music & comedy, is as a lawyer in Oracle's contracts dept. in Silicon Valley in Northern California.

For his free songs & videos, visit loosebrucekerr.com (or search on "Loose Bruce Kerr" on youtube for over 50 of his parody/comedy videos).

He's an irregular feature on the Dr. Demento Show

email: BKerrLaw@aol.com

picture is from 1977, University of Lowell concert, Lowell, MA, Bruce in "Spud City" band in New England with Waukesha's Steve Hoeft & 2 others (Mickey on bass, Tyke on drums).

© 2013 Broken Records & Marjorie Music Co.

"ONE MORE WHOLE NIGHT" is "Loose Bruce" Kerr's latest AUDIO parody of a familiar Christmas song, "O Holy Night." But this time it's about the difficulty of finding a proper Christmas present for your significant other by the Christmas Eve deadline.

Bruce records his audios & videos, singing & playing one instrument at a time in his garage in Northern California's Silicon Valley ("The Garage"). When not doing that, Bruce is a lawyer working at Oracle.

Bruce took off 20 years from his law career to write, record, and perform his music and comedy. He opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic back in the day. His songs are heard irregularly on the "Dr. Demento Show" on the net and on the "Jim Bohannon Show" on nationally syndicated AM radio.

The stereo audio of this new parody, plus audio mp3's and videos of Bruce's parodies & originals are also on this podcast site for free: loosebrucekerr.com, youtube.com, funnyordie.com, and others.

email Bruce at: BKerrLaw@aol.com

"ONE MORE WHOLE NIGHT" is "Loose Bruce" Kerr's latest VIDEO parody of a familiar Christmas song, "O Holy Night." But this time it's about the difficulty of finding a proper Christmas present for your significant other by the Christmas Eve deadline.

Bruce records his audios & videos, singing & playing one instrument at a time in his garage in Northern California's Silicon Valley ("The Garage"). When not doing that, Bruce is a lawyer working at Oracle.

Bruce took off 20 years from his law career to write, record, and perform his music and comedy. He opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic back in the day. His songs are heard irregularly on the "Dr. Demento Show" on the net and on the "Jim Bohannon Show" on nationally syndicated AM radio.

The stereo audio of this new parody, plus audio mp3's and videos of Bruce's parodies & originals are also on this podcast site for free: loosebrucekerr.com as well as on youtube.com, funnyordie.com and others.

email Bruce at: BKerrLaw@aol.com

This is "Loose Bruce" Kerr's latest VIDEO parody (audio mp3 is available on this podcast, as well) of a Paul Simon song, this one's: "50 WAYS TO LOSE YOUR BLUBBER."

Bruce records his audios & videos in his garage in Northern California's Silicon Valley ("The Garage"). When not doing that, Bruce is a lawyer working at Oracle.

Bruce took off 20 years from his law career to write, record, and perform his music and comedy. He opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic back in the day.

His songs and videos are on this podcast site as well as and others.

email: BKerrLaw@aol.com

This is "Loose Bruce" Kerr's latest AUDIO parody (video coming soon) of a Paul Simon song, this one's: "50 WAYS TO LOSE YOUR BLUBBER."

Bruce records his audios & videos in his garage in Northern California's Silicon Valley ("The Garage"). When not doing that, Bruce is a lawyer working at Oracle.

Bruce took off 20 years from his law career to write, record, and perform his music and comedy. He opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic back in the day.

His songs and videos are on this podcast site as well as and others.

Watch for the video version soon!

email: BKerrLaw@aol.com

"REAM RAPER" is "Loose Bruce" Kerr's latest parody of Gary Wright's "Dream Weaver" and protests the Texas law forcing on a woman vaginal wand insertion for a sonogram before allowing an abortion. (True, it doesn't require wand insertion in all cases but in the first trimester, that's the only method). This issue is currently a subject of satire in Gary Trudeau's "Doonesbury" comic. Pennsylvania governor, Tom Corbett, famously uttered the parody's opening line as how a woman can choose to cope with forced viewing of the sonogram, "You can just close your eyes."

In Texas, it's the law. In PA, a bill is under consideration. Virginia also has a similar law. There's a trend here and it has to be stopped, and reversed, IMHO. There's a fight a-brewin'.

Bruce apologizes for being the ugliest woman imaginable in this video but, truthfully, a guy opining against vaginal insertion by the state, well, it raises questions (and no time for alternatives, these lyrics needed posting now).

Bruce (this is the "OTHER Bruce") took 20 years off to write & perform music, sometimes solo, sometimes in a duo or the band, "Spud City-Music With a Peel" (Mass., VT). He opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic. Then he resumed being an attorney, now working for Oracle in Northern California's Silicon Valley.

Copyright 2012 Broken Records & Marjorie Music Publ (BMI)
www.loosebrucekerr.com
email: BKerrLaw@aol.com

Herman Cain is STILL RUNNIN' (for now, anyway), and this parody by "Loose Bruce" Kerr talks of that candidate's challenges re women and stumbles he's made in the debates and in interviews. Watch for the performance video here soon.

"Loose Bruce" Kerr is an irregular feature of the Dr. Demento Show & Jim Bohannon Show on radio and the internet. He shoots his videos & records his audio tracks one instrument or vocal at a time by himself in his garage (all things in Silicon Valley must begin in a garage, by industry fiat).

Kerr is an attorney at Oracle but took 20 years off from his law career to write & perform music & comedy. He opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic back in the day.

email Bruce at: BKerrLaw@aol.com

(HEAR ALSO, the audio MP3 of this parody, on this podcast site; ALSO, the larger 200MB high res version)

"IT'S THE MOST MISERABLE TIME OF THE YEAR" MP3 AUDIO: "Loose Bruce" Kerr's latest parody/satire on the holidays. Fun? Yes. Stress? Definitely. Flu? Hopefully not but...

Loose Bruce Kerr is an irregular feature on the Dr. Demento and Jim Bohannon syndicated radio and internet shows.

Bruce opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic back in the day. He is now an attorney at Oracle. He took off 20 years to perform music & comedy, returning to law after he scratched that itch. Now he records his background tracks one vocal and instrument at a time, then videos it with live lead vocal in "The Garage" in Mountain View, CA in the heart of Silicon Valley (where all must start in the garage).

Bruce is now an attorney at Oracle.

email Bruce at: BKerrLaw@aol.com

(SEE ALSO, the VIDEO of this parody, on this podcast site)

"IT'S THE MOST MISERABLE TIME OF THE YEAR" MP3 AUDIO: "Loose Bruce" Kerr's latest parody/satire on the holidays. Fun? Yes. Stress? Definitely. Flu? Hopefully not but...

Loose Bruce Kerr is an irregular feature on the Dr. Demento and Jim Bohannon syndicated radio and internet shows.

Bruce opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic back in the day. He is now an attorney at Oracle. He took off 20 years to perform music & comedy, returning to law after he scratched that itch. Now he records his background tracks one vocal and instrument at a time, then videos it with live lead vocal in "The Garage" in Mountain View, CA in the heart of Silicon Valley (where all must start in the garage).

email Bruce at: BKerrLaw@aol.com