Legendary folk singer Woody Guthrie was famously commissioned by the Bonneville Power Administration in the 1940s to write songs about Columbia River hydroelectric projects.
But Woody wasn’t the only one ever commissioned to write music about and for the Pacific Northwest. And so, with apologies to Mr. Guthrie , here’s a sampling of other public service music that was made for, and paid for, by the people.” program. The spot features an original song written and performed by kids in the Rain City Rock Camp. It’s a catchy number called, not surprisingly, “Free Youth Transit.
It’s not clear if any public dollars were spent writing and recording that song, but it was a good excuse to look and listen back to earlier moments in local history when specific initiatives by public entities resulted in the creation of memorable music that the public all got to enjoy and that we all helped pay for.First up, from late 1961, the “official song” of the Seattle World’s Fair, which serves as an enticement to “See You in Seattle.
This next one is from the 1980s , but it only came to light in 2013 when then-Interim Seattle Police Chief Jim Pugel apologized for his role in it., it’s “a parody of The Drifters’ 1964 hit ‘Under the Boardwalk’ and features Seattle police officers in the role of homeless inebriates. It was included in a training video that was briefly released, then retracted by the department in 1989.
Did we miss any? Please let me know , and maybe we’ll do a follow-up episode. In the meantime, please remember toYou can hear Feliks every Wednesday and Friday morning on Seattle’s Morning News with Dave Ross and Colleen O’Brien, read more from him
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