For several years I have prepared humorous original law-related
holiday music CDs, cassettes, and records which I distributed to hundreds of
family members, friends, co-workers, and people I meet on airplanes. My songs poke good-natured fun at
lawyers and the legal profession. Here is my holiday
"discography":
1988 |
Vinyl record (looked like a '45) containing original song
"I Dreamed I Saw Santa Workin' In The Library." I put this
together during brief trips home while working on a major products
liability case in Seattle. I played electric and acoustic guitar and
keyboard synthesizer and sang (all quite badly).
Note that this song was included in the 1998 commercial release, "The
Lawyer's Holiday Humor Album"; that CD and its 2004 follow-up, "Legal
Holidaze," are available for purchase at
www.LawTunes.com. |
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1989 |
Cassette tape, professionally printed and packaged, with
cover from Springsteen's "Born to Run" album (changed to
"Born to Pun" and with my face superimposed over his and
Santa's over Clarence Clemmons') containing original songs "Ridin'
On A Red-Eye With Santa On Christmas Eve" and "It's Gonna Be A
Billable Christmas." I used my professional quality four-track
cassette home recorder and rented time at a professional recording
studio to make the master tape.
Note that these songs were included in the 1998 commercial release, "The
Lawyer's Holiday Humor Album"; that CD and its 2004 follow-up, "Legal
Holidaze," are available for purchase at
www.LawTunes.com. |
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1990 |
Music video containing original (but not law-related)
holiday song accompanying computer animation I created on my PC. Click
here to view slideshow of excerpts (3 MB). |
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1991 |
Music video containing original (but not law-related)
holiday song accompanying computer animation I created on my PC. Click
here to view slideshow of excerpts (3 MB). |
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1992 |
Music video containing original (but not law-related)
holiday song accompanying computer animation I created on my PC. Click
here to view slideshow of excerpts (3 MB). |
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1993 |
Computer diskette containing a multimedia holiday
presentation I created.
Unfortunately, several recipients either owned no computer or (worse) a
Macintosh, so many copies ended up being used by them as coasters.
You can download the disk in .ZIP format
(900K) or view the included morphs of me as a
small child into me as an adult in a sports car on the cover of Car
Collector magazine, or me into Bill
Clinton |
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1994 |
Recognizing such technological limitations, and reflecting
my desire to return to a somewhat more traditional greeting, I obtained
cards with blank interiors that could be run through a laser printer. I
was thus able to customize the interior of each card with not only my
name, but also a particular and relevant greeting and also the name of
each recipient. |
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1995 |
Continuing my focus on paper-based greetings, I created a
autobiographical crossword puzzle, which I laser printed into greeting
cards along with another personalized message.
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1996 |
My "Heaven's Gate," "Waterworld,"
"Ishtar," or whatever you want to call it -- an original comic
book about life as a lawyer, "The Adventures of Typo-Man" --
which I ultimately (after spending a ton of time designing and $1,500 to
have 500 professional color laser copies made) decided was just a little
too far out to send out to the majority of my mailing list. I created
the doomed project on my computer using an innovative $35 program called
"Comic Creator," along with other graphics programs and clip
art. All but a select few on my list received bland store-bought cards
in substitution. I was crushed. |
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1997 |
My first music CD, recorded digitally in its entirety on
my new Pentium II 266 MHz computer, using Cakewalk Pro Audio Deluxe
music sequencer software. As always, I played all the instruments,
including a keyboard synthesizer, acoustic guitar, guitar synthesizer,
and sleigh bells (I bought a set for an earlier effort), and perform all
the multi-tracked vocals. The CD contained two new songs, "All I
Want For Christmas Is A Stomach Lining" and "It's Still A
Billable Christmas," two updated versions of prior songs, "Ridin'
On A Red-Eye With Santa On Christmas Eve" (from my 1989 cassette)
and "I Dreamed I Saw Santa Workin' In The Library" (from my
1988 vinyl record), and a short personal message. I burned the master on
a CD-recordable drive I bought and installed in my PC for this project,
and had Disc Makers (a leading music industry CD and cassette
manufacturer) manufacture the copies and jacket based on the text and
design concept I provided (and photographs of me taken by my secretary).
Note that these songs were included in the 1998 commercial release, "The
Lawyer's Holiday Humor Album"; that CD and its 2004 follow-up, "Legal
Holidaze," are available for purchase at
www.LawTunes.com. |
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1998 |
"The Lawyer's Holiday Humor Album" -- my first
commercial release. It includes all my favorite original law-related
humorous holiday songs, including four new ones. The CD and its 2004
follow-up, "Legal Holidaze," are available for purchase at
www.LawTunes.com. |
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1999 |
Traditional greeting card containing for
certain recipients business-card sized color insert, directing them to
icon on my home page, which in turn linked to a special holiday message
page, which included a new original holiday song, "Billin' On
Christmas Eve." |
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2000 |
Handmade holiday card, with our little Santa
on the cover |
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