The Now Sounds Of Today (Columbine)
Posted on March 9, 2006 by Ryan
The year and location of this record are ambiguous. However, apparently, this is apart of a series of recordings where a songwriter would submit their work through mail order to have their works performed by a professional singer. The singers on this compilation are ones named Marie Bain, Kay Weaver and Ralph Lowe. The women do country songs. The songs that stand out are done by Mr. Lowe, who has a couple of funky tunes accompanied by slide guitar, one about an alien that views Earth as a pretty "hip" place to live.
Filed under: DIY / Outsider, Incredibly Strange, Various Artists
9 Comments to “The Now Sounds Of Today (Columbine)”
yeah, I saw a doc. on Independant Lens about this. Some of the “songwriters” submiting work were truely twisted!!!! Some dudes would write a song a week for like 20 years.
Not a song a week but rather several songs per day…
Song poems got braekz, yo! 
shit, i think i saw this at goodwill a couple months ago.
My mother wrote the song titled “Free” on this album and was very serious about the lyrics to all the songs she wrote. She died of a brain tumor in 1982 and I still have the demo recordings of various artists from at that time K-City Sound Studios in Knoxville Tennesee.
douglas, could you say again what the link to the song poem archive is? i am extremely interested.
There was a PBS documentary called “Off the Charts: The Song-Poem Story”
I wrote a song on this album in high school…boy did they ever screw it up. I wroe it as a medium love ballad, they produced it as a country polka….fricken hilarious!!!
Big mail order scam…but kinda fun as a high school project.
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They’re called “song poems” and there’s a highly entertaining documentary about this f—ed up phenonmenom & a huge archive of this stuff on the http://www.