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Biography
Cleanup|date=July 2008 Art Paul Schlosser is a street musician in Madison, Wisconsin , who plays humorous novelty songs.
Childhood
Art Paul Schlosser was born born in Chicago , January 4, 1960. He grew up listening to novelty song|novelty music like Allen Sherman and Tiny Tim (musician)|Tiny Tim as well as funny songs by The Beatles and The Monkees . When Art was 11, he, his mother, and his sisters moved to Madison, Wisconsin after his parents got a divorce. As a child in Madison, his mother continued to play weird and funny songs for him, sometimes playing strange sound effects on one recorded player to go with the songs. As a teenager, Art Paul joined a work experience play group that encouraged Art to be creative. In this group, there were a couple of fans of The Beatles , one of whom encouraged Art Paul to write lyrics. It was from that time on that Art started to write. Art would listen to the Dr Demento radio show as well as other strange records that he discovered at the local library , and then try to write some lyrics he was inspired to write after listening to the songs.
State Street
Upon discovering that it is legal to busking|busk on State Street, Art Paul tried it out on a warm day late in February 1986 and received a couple of dollars for his effort. Since then Art Paul has been a street musician and busking|busker as well as an outsider artist on State Street (Madison)|State Street in Madison, Wisconsin|Madison , Wisconsin .cite news |first=Charles |last=Hughes |title=Who is Art Paul Schlosser? |url= http://badgerherald.com/artsetc/2003/10/30/who_is_art_paul_schl.php |work=The Badger Herald: Student Newspaper of UW-Madison |publisher=Badger Herald, Inc. |date=2003-10-30 |accessdate=2007-03-13
He usually performs his original songs or parody s on an Steel-string guitar|acoustic guitar and kazoo . He also sometimes plays electronic keyboard or ukulele .cite web |url= http://www.isthmus.com/daily/article.php? article=5898 |title=Collecting MadVideos--Who is Art Paul? |accessdate=2007-03-13 |last=Knutsen |first=Kristian |date=2007-03-10 |work=Isthmus |publisher=Isthmus Publishing Company, Inc
He is best known for his funny music, especially "Have A Peanut Butter Sandwich", which made the Funny Five of the Dr Demento radio show four times in 2001cite web |url= http://dmdb.org/cgi-bin/plinfo.pl? drd01.0325.html |title=The Dr. Demento Show #01-12 - March 25, 2001 |accessdate=2007-03-13 |format=CGI |work=The Demented Music Database cite web |url= http://dmdb.org/cgi-bin/plinfo.pl? drd01.0610.html |title=The Dr. Demento Show #01-23 - June 10, 2001 |accessdate=2007-03-13 |format=CGI |work=The Demented Music Database cite web |url= http://dmdb.org/cgi-bin/plinfo.pl? drd01.0708.html |title=The Dr. Demento Show #01-27 - July 8, 2001 |accessdate=2007-03-13 |format=CGI |work=The Demented Music Database cite web |url= http://dmdb.org/cgi-bin/plinfo.pl? drd01.0819.html |title=The Dr. Demento Show #01-33 - August 19, 2001 |accessdate=2007-03-13 |format=CGI |work=The Demented Music Database and Vote for Me/It's a Joke which was on the Funny Five of the Dr Demento radio in 2003. While he sings mostly humor ous songs, Art Paul has also written on the topics of politics and religion .cite web |url= http://www.emmiemagazine.com/articles/105.html |title=Art Paul Schlosser for President in 2004& #33; (Interview) |accessdate=2007-03-13 |last=Pumroy |first=Sarah |date=2004-10-01 |work=Emmie Magazine |publisher=The University of Wisconsin - Madison |archiveurl = http://web.archive.org/web/20070929223933/ http://www.emmiemagazine.com/articles/105.html |archivedate = 2007-09-29
In 2007 Art Paul Schlosser received a Madison Area Music Award for best compilation for his CD Art Paul Schlosser . In 2009 he won two more Madison Area Music Awards for Unique Song ("Have A Peanut Butter Sandwich," the remix version, which was remixed by Animalien) and for Unique Album ( Leftovers ).cite web |url= http://themamas.org/about-the-madison-area-music-awards/past-mama-award-winners/ |title=Past MAMA Award Winners |accessdate=2011-05-18 |publisher=Madison Area Music Association
Appearances
Schlosser's music has been played on oddball radio programs, including Greasy Kid Stuff, The Mad Music Hour, Dave's Gone By and the Dr. Demento Show, and he has appeared on his own Public-access television|public-access television show as well as WGN-TV news .
On July 30, 2009, Stephen Colbert mentioned Schlosser on the Colbert Report in order to emphasize that any artist can get their songs on iTunes, no matter what the quality of their work may be.
On June 27, 2010, Schlosser appeared on the internet radio show The Bastard Den on http://www.infernalrockradio.com/ Infernal Rock Radio at www.infernalrockradio.com. Art Paul performed a few of his original songs and gave a 15 minute interview.
On June 29, 2010, Schlosser appeared on America's Got Talent appearing under the name Buddy Holly Cheesehead, singing "Eating Cheese." He was booed off stage almost immediately.
Discography
My Cat Was Taking A Bath & Dead Skunk Perfume plus 23 other songs (1992)
All the songs from Happy Birthday & Smile Be Happy (1993)
I Want To Be Madonna ? & Greene plus 41 other songs and jokes (1994)
I'm A Prince By The Artist Still Known as Art Paul Schlosser (1996)
Art Paul Schlosser {The Remix Project} by Various Artists (2008)
Leftovers (2008)
Art Paul Schlosser Live at MarsCon 2007 & 2008 (2009)
Let's Be Friends (2009)
U're The Best (2009)
Monster (2010)
If I Was Governor? (2011)
Live on the Snake (2011)
Show Me You're Crazy Legs Art Paul Schlosser with David Labedz(2012)
References
http://musicformaniacs.blogspot.com/2006/03/art-paul-schlosser-inside-outsider.html Art Paul Schlosser - Inside Outsider
External links
http://www.apple.com/search/ipoditunes/? q=Art+Paul+Schlosser Art Paul's artist page at Apple iTunes
http://www.rhapsody.com/artpaulschlosser Listen to Art Paul at rhapsody.com
http://www.youtube.com/artpaulschlosser Art Paul's videos
http://www.themadmusicarchive.com/artist_details.aspx? ArtistID=315 Art Paul's artist page at the Mad Music Archive
http://www.facebook.com/artpaul Art Paul's art at Facebook
http://www.romm.org/CD5.html#demented07_1 Shockwave Radio Theater review of Art Paul's live performance at Marscon 2007
Persondata|NAME=Schlosser, "Art Paul" |ALTERNATIVE NAMES=Arthur Paul Schlosser |SHORT DESCRIPTION=American musician , satire|satirist , parody|parodist , accordion ist, and television producer |DATE OF BIRTH=January 4, 1960 |PLACE OF BIRTH= Chicago,Illinois |DATE OF DEATH= |PLACE OF DEATH= DEFAULTSORT:Schlosser, Art Paul Category:American musicians Category:American buskers Category:American comedians Category:Living people Category:People from Madison, Wisconsin Category:Outsider music Category:1960 births