The 365-Days Project is wicked fun. In it, a blogger is digitizing a track from a truly impressive collection of novelty records, encoding it as an MP3, and posting a new song every day. I just downloaded “Red Shadow (The Economics Rock & Roll Band) – Understanding Marx,” “Janeen Brady & The Brite Singers – I’m A Mormon,” and “The Dondero High School Symphony Band & A Capella Choir – Fox On The Run/Sunshine Of Your Love.” The commentary is fantastic, too:
Every Sunday I’ll be posting some good ol’ time religion! Here we have “I’m A Mormon.” I found this record while living in Reno, Nevada in 1993 and over the years from excessive play (mostly for alcohol-induced friends) my copy is worn out (literally), but thanks to Brother Russell (of Melbaworld) I have a nice clean copy for you to download. I have a couple of friends (of the Mormon faith) who had this record while growing up (they also had the “Bounce Back” cassette, but that’s for another Sunday!). The wacky thing about this song is not only the lyrics “I’m a Mormon, yes I am, so if you want to study a Mormon, I’m a living specimen” but it’s set to a rousing marching beat. Don’t be surprised if you end up walking down the street and slowly start to go insane humming it.
(via Dollarshort)