"Thanks to my cousin, Bridget, who, about a week ago, suggested I do something on Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, here's the resulting parody."

-Loose Bruce Kerr

Bruce records his originals & parodies one vocal & instrument at a time. He started doing this in 1980 to have background tracks on stage in his solo act, bass, drums (machine), keyboards, mandolin, leaving off the lead vocal and guitar to do live. His 1st multitrack was a 4-track TEAC deck. When he started doing videos, especially with YouTube's advent around 2006, he'd use his previous multitrack audio version that left off lead vocal & guitar and do the live part into the camera. Same for new songs.

He recorded "GEEZ, KAROLINE!" on his current deck, a digital 32-track TASCAM recorder along with a Yamaha midi rack tied to a Yamaha midi keyboard. This allows him to play the orchestration for the tune, one instrument at a time: trumpets, trombones, french horns, strings, drums, cymbals, in addition to playing bass guitar, guitar, and singing lead.

Since 1987, Bruce's originals and parodies have been played over 160 times on the Dr. Demento Show (which just closed shop after over 50 years on the air on nationwide radio, then the internet).

The live studio VIDEO version of this parody is available on this podcast webpage.

"Thanks to my cousin, Bridget, who, about a week ago, suggested I do something on Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, here's the resulting parody."

-Loose Bruce Kerr

Bruce records his originals & parodies one vocal & instrument at a time. He started doing this in 1980 to have background tracks on stage in his solo act, bass, drums (machine), keyboards, mandolin, leaving off the lead vocal and guitar to do live. His 1st multitrack was a 4-track TEAC deck. When he started doing videos, especially with YouTube's advent around 2006, he'd use his previous multitrack audio version that left off lead vocal & guitar and do the live part into the camera. Same for new songs.

He recorded "GEEZ, KAROLINE!" on his current deck, a digital 32-track TASCAM recorder along with a Yamaha midi rack tied to a Yamaha midi keyboard. This allows him to play the orchestration for the tune, one instrument at a time: trumpets, trombones, french horns, strings, drums, cymbals, in addition to playing bass guitar, guitar, and singing lead.

Since 1987, Bruce's originals and parodies have been played over 160 times on the Dr. Demento Show (which just closed shop after over 50 years on the air on nationwide radio, then the internet).

After Bruce's 20-year career solo/duo/band act, he went back to law (having given it up in 1973 to pursue music & comedy). Following that, he had a 13-year career at Sun Microsystems in Silicon Valley in their legal department, working up to Assistant General Counsel before Oracle acquired Sun in 2010. Having put in an additional 10 years there, he retired in 2021 and now enjoys writing and recording originals and parodies like this one in his home with his wife, Linda, in northern California amidst the redwoods. His songs and videos are available for download for free at: loosebrucekerr.com.

email: BKerrLaw@aol.com

"Choke Your Chicken, from 1979, my first contact with Dr. Demento, won an Honorary Mention in his song contest that fall. Elsewhere on this podcast is a live version from the early 1980's. But this was the Teac 4-track cassette overdubbed version I did on a friend's recorder. Couldn't afford my own till later. Cost $1K. My 32-track digital Teac cost only $450 5 years ago. 32 tracks. (thanks again, Les Paul).

with Bob Dylan's current resurgence of popularity, and Trump's NOT! ... this 2016 parody re today's new continuing-slide poll numbers may be worth a spin (audio w/ today's CNN poll still shot). Enjoy!

"THE BALD TRUTH" is an early Loose Bruce Kerr original from 1973, performed LIVE by his band with his hometown friend, Steve Hoeft, SPUD CITY - Music With a Peel." They worked New England bars & ski lodges in the late 1970's.

In 1978, Spud City was invited to open a U. of Lowell in Massachusetts concert featuring Jonathan Edwards of "Sunshine" (go away today) fame. Around 3000 college students. "The Bald Truth" was featured in the middle of that set.

It's about the 1973 (and successive, including RIGHT NOW) shortages of gasoline/food/everything...eggs...and having to just get by somehow. Also about Bruce's hair which was also starting to witness a shortage in his early 20's.

The band features Bruce & Steve plus drummer Tyke Ten Eyke whom they met playing on the island of St. Croix in the US Virgin Islands and Mickey Marien on bass guitar. All 4 members sang vocals. Bruce sings lead on this one.

Bruce went on to have a solo career as Loose Bruce Kerr, opening for "Weird Al" Yankovic and with over 160 song plays on the Dr. Demento Show. He is now retired and lives in northern California with his wife and expecting new cats. Steve is also retired and lives near Boise, Idaho.

This track is without Steve's intro, just the song itself, for audio listening only, like with records in the old days. Enjoy!

"THE BALD TRUTH" is an early Loose Bruce Kerr original from 1973, performed LIVE by his band with his hometown friend, Steve Hoeft, SPUD CITY - Music With a Peel." They worked New England bars & ski lodges in the late 1970's.

In 1978, Spud City was invited to open a U. of Lowell in Massachusetts concert featuring Jonathan Edwards of "Sunshine" (go away today) fame. Around 3000 college students. "The Bald Truth" was featured in the middle of that set.

It's about the 1973 (and successive, including RIGHT NOW) shortages of gasoline/food/everything...eggs...and having to just get by somehow. Also about Bruce's hair which was also starting to witness a shortage in his early 20's.

The band features Bruce & Steve plus drummer Tyke Ten Eyke whom they met playing on the island of St. Croix in the US Virgin Islands and Mickey Marien on bass guitar. All 4 members sang vocals. Bruce sings lead on this one.

Bruce went on to have a solo career as Loose Bruce Kerr, opening for "Weird Al" Yankovic and with over 160 song plays on the Dr. Demento Show. He is now retired and lives in northern California with his wife and expecting new cats. Steve is also retired and lives near Boise, Idaho.

This track has a band still shot from that concert to make this a video but it's really for audio listening only, just like with records in the old days. Enjoy!

This 11-minute LIVE 4-song performance at a Sun Microsystems Legal All-Hands conference in Silicon Valley in 1998 is by Sun contracts manager, Bruce Kerr, under the moniker he used in his preceding career as a songwriter-performer, Loose Bruce Kerr.

Bruce had interrupted his earlier legal career as a legal services lawyer in Milwaukee in 1973 to go on the road and write and perform as a solo, in a duo, or in a band from California to New England to the Caribbean for 20 years.

After he resumed his legal career, Sun's General Counsel, John Croll hired Bruce in 1997. After that, John tapped Bruce to perform a short segment of his songs and parodies as an entertainment break at the Sun legal All-Hands conferences in Silicon Valley and elsewhere around the country (including the Hard Rock Cafe in Las Vegas).

Bruce stayed with Sun Legal, becoming Assistant General Counsel in 2008 before Oracle acquired Sun in 2010 where Bruce remained until retiring in 2020.

These 4 songs consist of a barbershop song arrangement about nearby San Francisco, "Java," about Sun's trademark infringement case against Microsoft at the time, "That Lonesome Road" with Bruce digitally generating 3 harmony parts triggered by his lead vocal per pre-programmed chord changes. Closing the set is one of his parodies about office life, "Black Magic Marker."

Back in the day, Bruce opened for "Weird Al" Yankovic and had over 150 song plays on Dr. Demento. Though Bruce is retired, he continues to write, record, and upload his original songs, parodies and videos to his blog loosebrucekerr.com, YouTube, and other platforms.

He lives with his wife, Linda, in northern California where they are expecting 2 new kittens.

email: BKerrLaw@aol.com

"DO LET'S DO" (live in 1978) features the band, SPUD CITY led by Bruce Kerr (later: songwriter-parodist, Loose Bruce Kerr) and his boyhood friend from hometown, Waukesha, Wisconsin, Steve Hoeft. On drums: Tyke Ten Eyck from St. Croix, US Virgin Islands, bass: Mickey Marien from New York.

This rather rough, live, recording captured at the University of Lowell is a rare one from back in the day. Spud City played gigs in the late 1970's from the top of Vermont ski lodges down to Greenwich, Connecticut and east to Cape Cod. The main stage at the University of Lowell in Massachusetts had the band doing an all-original show except for their opening number, a barbershop arrangement of "The Oscar Meyer Wiener Song." "Do Let's Do" followed that opening in front of about 3,000 college students in 1978.

Steve & Bruce play electric guitars, Tyke on drums, Mickey on bass, and all 4 sing the vocals. Bruce sings lead and the last chorus features a combo of Steve on chorus against Bruce on verse simultaneously. It's swing time, baby! (l to r: Mickey Marien, Bruce Kerr, Steve Hoeft, Tyke Ten Eyck - turn your phone 90 degrees to see full photo)