This is where it all began, with a parody of Suzanne Vega's "Luka" in 1987 about Arizona Governor Evan Mecham, a snarly, racist weasel. I on a local radio station contest (KZZP) and got played on the Dr. Demento show oooh lol anyway we impeached and removed that sumbitch.
Shoutout to some guy in Mesa, AZ who laid down all the tracks and recorded my vocals in his home studio for a small fee. You rock, dude!

My name is Mecham
I live in another world
I got this job from you
Guess that puts your head in a swirl
If I do something you don't like
Hit the road, Jack take a hike
Just don't ask me to give an inch
Just don't ask me to give an inch
Just don't ask me to give one inch

I think it's 'cause I'm righteous
I upset the leftist mob
Maybe it's because I'm perfect
No one else could do this job
The Press is out to get my hide
They'd like to see me crucified
They just won't publish anymore
They just won't publish anymore
They just won't publish anymore

Yeah, I'm running the state
I'm the one who cracks the whip
If you don't like it, go away
Just don't rain on my parade
I guess I'd like to run a state
Where everyone is white and straight
Just don't push me anymore
Just don't push me anymore
Just don't push me anymore

My name is Mecham
I live in another world
I got this job from you
Guess that puts your head in a swirl
If I do something you don't like, well
Hit the road, Jack take a hike
Just don't cross me anymore
Just don't cross me anymore
Just don't cross me anymore

I guess I'd like to run a state
Where everyone is white and straight
Just don't cross me anymore
Just don't cross me anymore
Just don't cross me anymore

--Stormin

My Name is Mecham (1987)

Squeeze Play '79 

Stormin— Lead vocals, rythym guitar
Paul M— Lead guitar, backing vocals
Tom FX C— Keyboards
Don M— Bass, backing vocals
The Shadow— Drums

SURRENDER (by Squeeze Play)

August 2022: I bailed on a paid Soundcloud account, so I lost ny spotlight songs and I don't seem to be able do anything about the order of things and such. Oh well. Dig deep for 'Lance.'
February 2021: Once upon a time I made some political parody song records. I called the pieces MOp-Eds...musical op-eds. I cranked out piles of parody lyrics in the post-9/11 "oughts". I turned a couple dozen or so into MOp-Eds in 2006-2008, and recorded a few original songs, including one about Pat Tillman that you'll find here.

I did the vocals, guitars, keyboards, keyboard bass, horns, and, mostly, drum tracks with percussion adds on my MOp-Eds. I sometimes played all the keyboard drums myself, when I could bash like Bonzo ("Lance Plays a Nasty Game"-- check it out). I played the mad amateur garage studio scientist/engineer/producer/arranger, occasionally to good effect. I got to re-create some of my favorite classic songs, and I had WAY too much fun in 2006-2008 doing it.

Here they mostly are, at long last, finally on the 'Cloud, for the record and for posterity. COVID-19...you never know, right? I hope you'll find one that makes you crack up, or cry, or rock out or dance or singalong. Ot maybe even become one of "your songs". That has actually happened a time or two. So I got that going for me.

Enjoy. Rock and Roll. Save some for Lance Armstrong.

--Norm

My Name is Mecham (1987)

Stormin Norman the nag

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