Loose Bruce Kerr's Parody/original Song Podcast

"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

"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

"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

"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

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

"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

"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 h

"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, C

"MY SAILOR" audio, a song of my mom & dad in the Virgin Islands in retirement, late 1970's, recorded live at "The Barn," Dec. 2014. Written when Steve Hoeft & I as a duo were penned up in an apt. above a bar in Old Orchard Beach, Maine, in 1977, and there was nothing else in the room but a suitcase, and a guitar.

"FUCKELOT" is a parody by Loose Bruce Kerr (Dr. Demento Show; opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic) to the tune of "Camelot" as sung by Richard Harris in the musical of the same name. This is from a live performance in the late 1980's, probably at a club in the San Francisco Bay Area. www.loosebrucekerr.com email: BKerrLaw@aol.com

...early to mid 1980's, live show, somewhere between California and the Caribbean (Sparky's on the Waterfront, St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands). -song by Loose Bruce Kerr

"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

"EVER YOU": for my family who recently lost my cousin, James Michael Conway at the early age of 58. And to all the families who recently lost loved ones in Las Vegas, and Hurricanes Irma & Maria. After months of work, I was finishing recording this new song as these events occurred. -Bruce Kerr  

  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

"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 gara

"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

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