Thursday, September 10, 2009

Why Does This Exist?: "Theme from 'Step by Step'" by Kleenex Girl Wonder




Panel from the "Fun at the Zoo" feature in Sad Sack Comics, August 1954

The short answer to the question posed in the title is, "Because it's awesome!" But sometimes that's not a good enough answer. The terrible, tinny sound quality pegs this track as being from the Sexual Harrassment-era incarnation of Kleenex Girl Wonder, which makes it even stranger that this song was a "hidden track" at the end of a mix CD that KGW's Graham Smith sent my special lady friend for her birthday (the mix was titled Pizza Night at Husband and Wife Castle). Somewhere in the hissy, lo-fi mess of this recording, there's a plinking piano and some great shouty backing vocals, but I think that the story behind this recording is probably far more interesting than the result. However, some mysteries are best left ... unsolved.

"Theme from 'Step by Step'" by Kleenex Girl Wonder









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