January 23, 2001

3:03 PM

Ashcroft sings! Actually, seems like it was 4 or 5 years ago, but hey, it's still catchy. MP3 contained at link to TheSmokingGun.com
posted by daver (5 comments total)

Orrin Hatch is still the King of Music.
posted by rodii at 4:12 PM on January 23, 2001

Dude! Who knew? This ranks up there w/ the Startrek staff...
posted by daver at 4:36 PM on January 23, 2001

At first I thought you were referring to Richard Ashcroft, former lead singer of the [now defunct] Verve. Confusion ran rampant "of COURSE he sings". Call it the problem of being a Canadian music-snob with brit-pop not us-senatery on the mind
posted by Marquis at 7:57 PM on January 23, 2001

This is not a surprise. His bio clearly states that he was a member of the Congressional Gospel Quartet throughout his senatorial term.

I also have a tape of him singing lead on a swinging gospel ditty, backed by my sister's college concert choir. It's a wild little song, lemme tell ya.
posted by Dreama at 8:57 PM on January 23, 2001

Further review of the link (I was getting DNS failures last night when I posted) reveals that the MP3 is the self-same song that Ashcroft sang with my sister's choir. A real toe-tapper, but cheesy (even as far as southern gospel goes) lyrics bring the overall rating down a few points.
posted by Dreama at 7:24 AM on January 24, 2001