OLD FOLKSINGER - Covers, Parodies and Renditions
  by Marco Frucht
  
01-I Hate a Song Woody Guthrie 
02-Old Folksinger Written by Merle Kessler aka Ian Shoales for Duck's Breath Radio Theater
03-How Come (You Do Me Like You Do) written by vaudeville comedy duo Gene Austin and Roy Bergere in 1924
04-Roll in my sweet Baby's Arms Originally Written by Lester Flatt  (no date of authorship provided)
05-Completely Different Voiceover; Stacy Wilson 
06-Gotham City 501 Blues  (Many Influences: Blue Oyster Cult for starters
07-Mueslix - A JuicyFruit Commercial Parody 
08-Hey Mon Original Song. [One of my most Covered songs] 
09-Telephone Me Baby   -  Public Domain 
10-Is This Thing On   Voicover by Staci Wilson   Matt Moore sings Frybread's Chorus. 
11-1979 To the Tune of the Ancient Congregationalist Hymn "Were You There." 
12-Internet Killed the Video Star. Medley of Parodies
13-Burma Shave
14-I Saw Elvis to the tune of Groove is in the Heart by Deee Lite
15-Rumble Acoustic Cover - Link Wray 



Some Songs produced entirely by Marco Frucht. 
Others were Engineered by Carl Franklin and Produced by Neil Sheppard

OLD FOLKSINGER - Covers Parodies and Renditions by Marco

Composed by Bartolome Calatayud
Performed by Marco Capelli Frucht
Engineered by Carl Franklin

Boceto Andaluz

These poems are from a ChapBook I published
in the '90s called "I Slurp My Coffee."

The EP in its entirety was recorded live at Eastern Point Beach in Groton, Conn., the ambient noise you hear are birds, fish, waves and the rocks where recording was done.  

I hope you have as much fun reading them
as I did making them. 


Marco

Poems 4 Roberta Blackgoat

Journal Poem 21 - Frybread & Mutton

OLD FOLKSINGER - Covers, Parodies and Renditions
  by Marco Frucht
  
01-I Hate a Song Woody Guthrie 
02-Old Folksinger Written by Merle Kessler aka Ian Shoales for Duck's Breath Radio Theater
03-How Come (You Do Me Like You Do) written by vaudeville comedy duo Gene Austin and Roy Bergere in 1924
04-Roll in my sweet Baby's Arms Originally Written by Lester Flatt  (no date of authorship provided)
05-Completely Different Voiceover; Stacy Wilson 
06-Gotham City 501 Blues  (Many Influences: Blue Oyster Cult for starters
07-Mueslix - A JuicyFruit Commercial Parody 
08-Hey Mon Original Song. [One of my most Covered songs] 
09-Telephone Me Baby   -  Public Domain 
10-Is This Thing On   Voicover by Staci Wilson   Matt Moore sings Frybread's Chorus. 
11-1979 To the Tune of the Ancient Congregationalist Hymn "Were You There." 
12-Internet Killed the Video Star. Medley of Parodies
13-Burma Shave
14-I Saw Elvis to the tune of Groove is in the Heart by Deee Lite
15-Rumble Acoustic Cover - Link Wray 

Some Songs produced entirely by Marco Frucht. 
Others were Engineered by Carl Franklin and Produced by Neil Sheppard

Rumble (Instr.)

OLD FOLKSINGER - Covers, Parodies and Renditions
  by Marco Frucht
  
01-I Hate a Song Woody Guthrie 
02-Old Folksinger Written by Merle Kessler aka Ian Shoales for Duck's Breath Radio Theater
03-How Come (You Do Me Like You Do) written by vaudeville comedy duo Gene Austin and Roy Bergere in 1924
04-Roll in my sweet Baby's Arms Originally Written by Lester Flatt  (no date of authorship provided)
05-Completely Different Voiceover; Stacy Wilson 
06-Gotham City 501 Blues  (Many Influences: Blue Oyster Cult for starters
07-Mueslix - A JuicyFruit Commercial Parody 
08-Hey Mon Original Song. [One of my most Covered songs] 
09-Telephone Me Baby   -  Public Domain 
10-Is This Thing On   Voicover by Staci Wilson   Matt Moore sings Frybread's Chorus. 
11-1979 To the Tune of the Ancient Congregationalist Hymn "Were You There." 
12-Internet Killed the Video Star. Medley of Parodies
13-Burma Shave
14-I Saw Elvis to the tune of Groove is in the Heart by Deee Lite
15-Rumble Acoustic Cover - Link Wray 


Some Songs produced entirely by Marco Frucht. 
Others were Engineered by Carl Franklin and Produced by Neil Sheppard

Telephone Me Baby - Old Standard from the Stick On A Stick

1979 - Were You There

                              

Gotham City  501 Blues

no title

Marco Capelli / Mueslix Parody

I Saw Elvis

OLD FOLKSINGER - Covers, Parodies and Renditions
  by Marco Frucht
  

And now for something completely different...

Completely Different

Roll In My Sweet Baby's Arms

How Come (You Do Me Like You Do)

title

Old FolkSinger

Workshopping an upcoming album. There will be several test pressings, etc before this becomes the "real deal." 

Enjoy.

I Hate A Song - Woody Guthrie

Marco_Capelli_ / _Hey_Mon

Soffty Fasnfftof

Burma Shave

Track List: (Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukah and all that Jazz) 

01 - Intro - Eastern Point Beach 
02 - Anarcho Jazzm Arch (A March) 
03 - Old Folksinger
04 - Ziggys Little Drummer Boy
05 - Completely Different
06 - Manitou
07 - Roll In My Sweet Baby's Arms 
08 - Green Bunion Podiatry Center
09 - How Come (You Do Me Like You Do) 
10 - Xmas
11 - Field Recording - Van Halen Intro Played on a Door
12 - My Quahog
13 - Other Side
14 - Rumble

04 - Ziggyslittledrummerboyintro

Track List: (Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukah and all that Jazz) 

01 - Intro - Eastern Point Beach 
02 - Anarcho Jazzm Arch (A March) 
03 - Old Folksinger
04 - Ziggys Little Drummer Boy
05 - Completely Different
06 - Burma Shave 
07 - Roll In My Sweet Baby's Arms 
08 - Green Bunion Podiatry Center
09 - How Come (You Do Me Like You Do) 
10 - Xmas
11 - Is This Thing On
12 - Chiapaneca
13 - Frybread
14 - Little Things 
15 - Swedish Folk Song
16 - Manitou
17 - Love Me For My Heart 
18 - Verseless Song

02 - Anarcho - Jazzm - Arch(a March)

Take the Time.

That really IS the most important message.

SOFFTY FASNFFTOF

Labyrinth

Bury Me Not On The Lone Prairie.

Ancient cowboy song. 

Based in parody form on an even older Sea Shanty entitled "The Sailor's Grave." 

Hope you enjoy hearing this song as much as I did making it. 

:)

Bury Me Not (On The Lone Prairie) by Marco Frucht

Is this thing on...

Featuring Staci Wilson (Charles-Heath) and Matt Moore

Is This Thing On - C/W - Matt Moore's Frybread

Here go a gazillion covers and parodies tucked into one big medley. 
Includes:
Video Killed the Radio Star - Buggles
I got Something to Say - Tony Bellamy
Masters of War - Bob Dylan
Ripple - Grateful Dead
Milli Vanilla 
And so much more. 
Try to guess the inspirations. Gotta collect 'em all. :P

Internet Killed The Radio Star - To The Tune Of the Buggles Song

Stand in the place where you wrote the last one,
Maybe you can sound just like the ones on MTV

Lava Lamp of the 90s. :P

The Other Ones - Parody of some REM Tunes

Here's a 1700's Prelude to include with this year's iteration of the longrunning Christmas CD. 

Sincerely,
Marco Capelli Frucht

Prelude Dm Carulli ( as played by Marco Capelli )

A couple of irreverent jingles.

Enjoy...

Mcdonalds Tribute Song

Andrew Proctor Directing and Camera 2. Feature Film The King by James Stidfole
 Follow the Drinking Gourd Guitar, Marco Frucht 
 Always set your microphone to a good level
 Joe Washington You can have Frybread with Everything     Frybread Television  Produced by Travis Holt Hamilton.
 Chaconne, Partita No. 2 BWV 1004 Guitar, Marco Capelli Composer, Johann Sebastian Bach

Unreleased

Soundtrack Demo Reel Marc Frucht

Recovered from an old 4-track cassette recording entitled: 

"YA-MAHA-Marc Frucht And Blue Lou A" 

Enjoy!

80s Blues Guitar Featuring Luis Argarin And Marc Frucht

There's just one more thing that I wanna say:
Everyone has got their own special way
That keeps them from getting too close to the day,
Accept and be part of it all and all

Close To It All - Melanie Safka tribute ( 1947 - 2024 )

Poem "The Flow Of Life" set to a classical guitar background.

Jasmine Marie (Hendrix) The Flow Of Life - featuring Guitar from Marco Capelli Frucht

G_.mid and Reggae.mid were used in Duke Nukem and Sonic The Hedgehog. The song originated as "Hey Mon," written by Marc Frucht and digitized as reggae.mid by his engineer Carl Franklin and producer Neil Sheppard. It was forced into the public domain by events involving the following companies: Golden Midi, Voyetra and Sound Blaster. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tt_n4HFzYl4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x68SKWXrYXY 

https://www.reverbnation.com/marcofrucht/song/8751185-hey-mon-aka-reggaemid

Hey Mon (as heard in Sonic The Hedge Hog and Duke Nukem)

An artist speaks no matter how shaky his or her voice gets.

Lives in the Balance (Literally) 

Please do not pay anyone besides Jackson Browne or Richie Havens for your ability to get this song. 

https://www.amazon.com/Lives-Balance-JACKSON-BROWNE/dp/B000002H3D

This is the only place left I've found that it's still free of charge from me. 

The internet is beginning to frustrate me. The only two songs I'm selling ANYWHERE currently are my "Chiapaneca" and my "Frybread" as a CD single for 5bucks or less. I've seen it for sale for 9 dollars, and I've stumbled upon the single downloads for as high as 2 dollars. 

I get 64 cents from iTunes and amazon, 70 from CDBaby, 99cents at Digstation.com, a whopping three cents from rhapsody and only a penny from napster. Spotify, who I had so many hopes and aspirations for gives me absolutely nothing two fiscal quarters in row which angers me greatly. 

Also something you should know. Apple WAS giving me 70cents per download until Amazon came in at 64 cents as a win-win for EVERYONE BUT the artist. Why? Because Apple responded by going from 70 down to 64. (I would love to start a class law suit for half the difference at 3 cents and nail the both of them some day, but that's for another discussion ok?) 

Listen, I'm not going to make any real money as an award winning independent songwriter and producer, but I'll be damned if I'm going to let someone else make real money off of your ability to get free music from me. 

Thank you, and have a nice day.

Marco Capelli Frucht

http://www.frucht.org 
http://www.marcosongs.com 
http://www.tinyurl.com/reverbmarco 

Lyrics: 

I've been waiting for something to happen
For a week or a month or a year
With the blood in the ink of the headlines
And the sound of the crowd in my ear

You might ask what it takes to remember
When you know that you've seen it before
Where a government lies to a people
And a country is drifting to war

And there's a shadow on the faces
Of the men who send the guns
To the wars that are fought in places
Where their business interest runs

On the radio talk shows and the T.V.
You hear one thing again and again
How the U.S.A. stands for freedom
And we come to the aid of a friend

But who are the ones that we call our friends--
These governments killing their own?
Or the people who finally can't take any more
And they pick up a gun or a brick or a stone

There are lives in the balance
There are people under fire
There are children at the cannons
And there is blood on the wire

There's a shadow on the faces
Of the men who fan the flames
Of the wars that are fought in places
Where we can't even say the names

They sell us the President the same way
They sell us our clothes and our cars
They sell us every thing from youth to religion
The same time they sell us our wars

I want to know who the men in the shadows are
I want to hear somebody asking them why
They can be counted on to tell us who our enemies are
But they're never the ones to fight or to die

And there are lives in the balance
There are people under fire
There are children at the cannons
And there is blood on the wire

https://www.amazon.com/Lives-Balance-JACKSON-BROWNE/dp/B000002H3D

Lives in the balance - Rendition of a great Jackson Browne folksong!

Known for soundtrack music in Duke Nukem 3D and Sonic the Hedgehog Sonic's Schoolhouse...

Psst: Henry CrowDog helped write This Land Is Your Land.

Marco has performed in Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Texas, Kansas, Wisconsin, Indiana, Iowa, Ohio, Illinois, Massachusetts, North and South Dakota, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Oregon, Tennessee, Wyoming, Washington, Washington, DC and of course NYC, Connecticut and Rhode Island closer to where he comes from.
Marco likes classical and folk mostly, but he also likes punk, pop and parody music. He used to play bass in a three-piece Christian Heavy Metal band called "POE," (Peace On Earth) so if you hear a weird influence now and then it's probably just loose eardrums.

"If you think the music you're hearing here is eclectic, you should hear what I do when I'm playing out in the streets!" he once told someone in the mezzanine to a theatre where he was playing classical guitar before nine showings of Phantom Of The Opera's bus- and-truck group. He didn't know it at the time but the woman he was telling this to was Sarah Brightman's Broadway understudy. She went on to lead both on Broadway and in the touring companies. Marco currently plays every day in the summer at an amusement park, and hibernates in the fall, winter and spring.

Playing guitar since age 14...
...writing songs even longer.
First album, unsigned, unpublished, and unpromoted was titled "Hootenany Green." Copyrighted 1989 as a demo on digital audio tape (DAT) and cassette only. Sold 50 copies on first printing and 150 on the second. Contains 8 songs and a commercial.
The demo also includes "Hey Mon," which was written in 1988. Carl Franklin digitized it as one of the first midis ever uploaded to the Internet. The music from it can be heard on any computer that has a sound-blaster built in. Or look for it in search engines as reggae.mid Marco has 900+ original songs, but he's only happy with 300 or so. 

Writes whenever he's awake and completes the math while he's asleep and dreaming.
Marco is a Pisces, loves long walks in the park, the color purple, poetry and everything besides Proctor&Gamble products - IE: Pringles, Puffs, Olean, Pantene, Prell and Pepto-Bismo.
"Oh wait, did I leave out Puritan Oil, Jif, Tide and Pert?

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