Downtown

              “IDAHO ZONE”
jj dion
(Songs That Have Helped to Keep Me Obscure)

Contents:

Side 1
1) Mall Song..... 1:56
2) Cook My Goose ..... 1:35
3 ) Valentine Rap …..1:22
4) Seatbelt Song ..... 1:37
5 ) Nordstroms ........ 2:05
6) Downtown……..0:55
7 ) Yard Sale ....... 1:40
8) Western Id. Fair
Jingle-1987 ...... 0:30
9 ) Air Quality Songs…4: 00
10) S.I.S.Rap ........ 2:10

Side 2
1) Bronco Bluegrass .. 1:54
2 ) Radiation ......... 2:10
3) Wally's Silver Caravan .......... 2: 09
4 ) Pictures of Peace (Peace Quilt Song) 2 :38
5 ) We, the Living .... 3:48
6 ) My Idaho Spud ....•. : 45
7) The Idaho Song (We've Got it All Right Here in Idaho!) ..... 3:35
8 ) One Special Moment (Edited version) .. 2: 10

Dear Discriminating Music Consumer -
Congratulations on your purchase or Idaho
music by a native Idahoan. These songs were
Written between 198• and '89, mostly commissioned
For special occasions. Most are funny.
Here's 1 bit of' Information about the•:
C In order or appearance)
"MALL SONGS" -They called from KIYS-F"M one
Sunday asked if' I could sing "live• the
Next Morning in honor or the st1rt of construction
Of' the new mall. I spent the afternoon
scribbling these parodies.
"COOK MY GOOSE"-The theme song for a "Roman{
-tic cooking video that never got produced.
"VALENTINE RAP"-The Sacred Heart klcSs helped
"Gus, the Groundhog" record this one in the
Spring of '88. It got nice TV coverage .
" SEATBELT SONG"-The Idaho Dept. of' Transportation
asked 11111 for something for their Seatbelt
Safety Program . were they surprised!
"'WR8ST~O MS"-TI'1e Mayor 's wife recruited an
anthem to lure this fashionable shoppers•
mecca to Boise. (They didn't come. ) After
the new Mall opened, I re-wrote it.
"DOWNTOWN'"-When Kirsten said we needed a good
tull folks back into town after the
"~all hoopla and the recent construct ion, I
decided to redo this 60's hit.(Thanks to Larry
9abcock for Inspiration! )
'" YARD SALE"-Same day as "Mall Songs•.
"~O.F"AIR JINGLE , 1987"-Thanks to Roger
simmons. Arranged by Rich Lapp . 'locals-JJ.
"AIR QUALITY MEOI..EY"-I heard tl'1ere was going
to ~ e a dty- wide camoatgn to clean the air.
I was SURE they' a want to use one of these.
I should've been more assertive, I guess ....
"S. I .S. RAP"-The Special Isotope Separator
(makes plutonium for nuclear weapons ) hearl.
f"gs c ame through town, and I out my S.02
with t h is "Sound of 1'4usic" rip- off'. Idaho
should not be a boMb factory and the nation's
radioactive waste-basket .
••SiDE 2:
"BRONCO 8LUEGRASS"-8oise State U. out in
ortght blue astroturf in the stad itJII, so I
wrote the• a •Bluegrass" f1ght song . we even
shot a video •lth the tea• singing along.
"RAOI.I.TION"-1 r .. rlte of •y 198• parody ( of'
1~y Allen Sher•en) tor the Trltiu•
Reactor hearings or '88. Got "glo•ing•
revle•s .
"WALLY'S SILVER CARAVAN"-! pl ayed for the
wally 8ya11 Airstream Tuller Convention here
in 1986 . Mike lo4ayovsky recorded this and my
"Idaho Song• fo r a sampler or local 111uslc.
"P ICTURES OF PEACE"-Gwynne Jo4c£lh1nney called
one Sat. and uked nrte to play that night for
a Boise Peace Quilt Ice Cre111 Social/Documentary
Fllnrting Session. I•rote the song and
sang it thet night. It didn't end up in the
finished fUll ( "A Stitch for T111e"), but 11y
"Idaho Song• did. Bless the Quilters and
Peacemakers every•heref
"WE, THE liVING"-Thanks to Jo4arilyn Schuler
of the Idaho Huaan Rights Co••ission f'or reQuesting
thls song for t!"!e 1988 Holocaust
lo4emorill Cere11ony. Larry Jo4ulli ns then used
i t for h1s Nertin Luther King fil•-"Let
Freedo• Rlngl"
"MY !OAHO SPUO"-Also wr itten for the Airstream
f olks. J .R.Simplot llk ed i t, too.
"THE IDAHO SONG We' ve Got 1t All Ri ht Here
in daho •-an Idaho response o wash . tate's
"Loule,Louh !'or State Song• campaign of' •a~.
Jeff Beaman started the creative ball rolling
on this one-it took me to Nashville
as a wrangler Contest National F"lnaltst.
"ONE SPECIAL to401>fENT"-Theme s ong f'or the 50th
Miss Gem County Pageant,commi ssioned by my
mom, the Musical Director. Isn' t nepot is111
great so11et1111es? Thenks to Ge11 County for
asking me back to sing it again and aga in!
Songs were recorded :
Live at the "4ardi Gras, Boi se, Nov.'88,
Arts in the Park, Boise, Sept. ' 88,
MC Studio, Boise, by Mike Mayovsky,
Stolen Horses Studio by Rob Matson,
AND at an unsoeclfieo loca tion by
Don Cunntnghalll ,
Photo tly F"rt tz Bjornsen.
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