Reply To: Back to the Highline!! Apr 2nd AND 3rd, NYC!
Thanks slam! I’m looking forward to hearing whatever you can post from that CD. It’s almost as good as getting a new JoCo song, even if it is a 20-year-old cover of a 75-year-old song 🙂
Also – I thought I remembered JoCo talking about those Spizzwinks songs in an interview, so I looked and found this relevant passage on the wiki (it’s from Bry’s excellent “A Talk With JoCo” interview, check out the whole thing if you’re interested in gaining much more insight into Mr. Coulton):
Bry: Were you involved in any arranging at the time?
No, not really, I think I tried a couple of times. I had a song called “The Lunch Lady,” which was a funny song (air quotes on that) “funny” song about being in love with the cafeteria lady, that I wrote in high school, it seems very juvenile to me now, of course Adam Sandler did something like it several years later on Saturday Night Live, which just goes to show it is juvenile. [laughter] But anyway, that song was arranged for the Spizzwinks? on a bus, by a guy named Chris Beck, with me sitting over his shoulder telling him how the song went. And Chris Beck is now a film music composer living in Los Angeles who is now very successful. But he was the “pitch” — he was the musical director of the Spizzwinks(?) at the time. We were touring with the glee club, we were on a bus, and he and I arranged that song together, him doing the writing and me telling him what to write.
Bry: I think that’s the one song that Kerrin most wants to hear, I believe, right? Isn’t that what he’s been saying? For ages and ages.
It’s bound to be…I’m sure there is a Spizzwinks(?) version on mp3 of that song floating around somewhere on the p2p sites. I would not be surprised. Cause I mean, it was on an album so I’m sure it’ll turn up eventually.