Off the Charts: The Song-Poem Story (2003)
Like a warped fun-house mirror, the song-poem industry has run parallel to the mainstream music business for close to a century; it's estimated that over 200,000 song-poems have been recorded since 1900. The genre's durability can be traced to three of our deepest American desires - to be in show business, to get rich quick, and to share and express our deepest feelings. We meet several of the "songwriters" - from an elderly woman to a young African-American man to a small-town Iowan with big-time dreams - each of whom has been in the "business" for awhile, churning out odd compositions that cover the waterfront of American obsessions, from Jesus to genitalia, from politics to Elvis. We also meet the producers (often known as song-sharks) who hold out the tantalizing promise of fame to their eager customers, and the has-been musicians who sit in studios, day after day and year after year...
The movie Off the Charts: The Song-Poem Story, released in 2003, features 33 songs from artists like Rod Rogers and the Swinging Strings, Norm Burns and Singers, David Fox and Ramsey Kearney. What is your favorite song from Off the Charts: The Song-Poem Story?
Songs from Off the Charts: The Song-Poem Story
- Elmer 21st Century Hop
- Rod Rogers and the Swinging Strings
- Human Breakdown of Absurdity
- Norm Burns and Singers
- Non-Violent Tae Kwon Do Troopers
- David Fox
- Loving Annie Oakley
- David Fox
- Caravan
- David Fox
- Blind Man's Penis
- Ramsey Kearney
- I Am a Ginseng Digger
- Sunburst Recording Studio Musicians
- Space
- Rod Rogers
- Richard Nixon
- Rod, Teri, and the MSR Singers
- Santa Claus Goes Modern
- Rod Rogers
- The Day Snowflakes Were Born
- Rodd and the MSR Singers
- I'm Just the Other Woman
- Rodd and the MSR Singers
- Betsy and her Goat
- Bobbi Blake
- The Resurrection
- The Will of God
- Keith Bradford
- No More Liberty
- Buddy Raye
- The King Lives On
- Ralph Lowe
- Jimmy Carter Says Yes!
- Gene Marshall
- Beyond the Sunset
- Jo Comberiate
- A Baby
- Dick Kent
- The Safety Song
- Dick Kent
- The Thing
- David Fox
- The 23rd Channel
- Sunburst Recording Studio Musicians
- Little Rug Bug
- Tahiti
- Ecstasy to Frenzy
- Flitting Firefly
- Out in the Woods
- Sunburst Recording Studio Musicians
- Chicken Insurrection
- Gary Forney and Joshua Forney
- Three-Eyed Boy
- Gary Forney and Joshua Forney
- Nighttime Whispers
- Ramsey Kearney
- My Lonely Town
- Randy Archer
- Cloud Nine
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