Zero to 180, which began life on 12/12/12, turns ten today!
In recognition of the event’s magnitude, last year’s musical take on TV’s Shark Tank by Silver Spring duo Dubble Trubble — the world’s first singalong instrumental — has been musically reengineered for even broader worldwide appeal. The song title, you may recall, was inspired by a familiar catch phrase by Mark Cuban, who has announced his departure from the program.
“(For Those Reasons) I’m Out“
Soft Power ‘22 Mix
Musical Jedi Mind Trick
Dubble Trubble doffs its cap once again to Rick Mosher, for more masterful sound engineering, as well as Bob Mitchell for cooking up the cool percussive accents on this hand-crafted piece of dub-inspired pop fusion.
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Zero to 180 Milestones: Years 0-9
- Inaugural Zero to 180 post that established a bona fide cross-cultural link between Cincinnati (via James Brown’s music recorded and distributed by King Records) and Kingston, Jamaica (i.e., Prince Buster’s rocksteady salute to Soul Brother Number One).
- 1st anniversary piece that featured an exclusive “Howard Dean” remix of a delightful Sesame Street song about anger management (with a special rant about how WordPress’s peculiarities made me homicidal the moment I launched this blog).
- 2nd anniversary piece that refused to acknowledge the milestone but instead celebrated the under-sung legacy of songwriter/session musician, Joe South – with a link to South’s first 45, a novelty tune that playfully laments Texas’s change in status as the nation’s largest state upon Alaska’s entry into the Union.
- 3rd anniversary piece that revealed the depths to which Zero to 180 will sink in order to foist his own amateur recordings onto an unsuspecting and trusting populace.
- 4th anniversary piece that formalized – as a public service – musical chord changes for an old (and tuneless) “hot potato” playground game called The Wonderball.
- 5th anniversary piece that paid tribute to the Buchanan & Goodman “break-in” records that helped fuel (along with Mad Magazine) this young music fanatic’s appetite for humor +/- satire.
- 6th anniversary piece that dared to introduce contemporary music product — i.e., dub-inspired pop fusion — in direct violation of Zero to 180’s must-be-20-years-or-older policy.
- 7th anniversary piece that gave the previous year’s submission a good swift kick in the pants.
- 8th anniversary piece that celebrated the musical legacy of Washington’s one-time “favorite folk singer” and beloved drama chair at DC’s Duke Ellington School of the Arts, Donal Leace.
- 9th anniversary piece that invited the world to sing along — and say no to venture capitalism.
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Listen to Zero to 180 on the Radio!
LINK to Chris Richardson’s 90-minute interview + 21 songs
Courtesy of Robbie White‘s “Forbidden Alliance” program
WOWD FM — Takoma Park, MD
