Woonsocket - The Musical

The original soundtrack is a montage of music gems augmented by the vocal renditions of Marcel French featuring slightly altered lyrics to some of the most popular music of the era including:

The movie began first as a soundtrack for a high school music project proposed in Nectar Lenox's class in 1972 (who said it couldn't be done). When multi track recording became affordable in the late 70's the original story board concept was recorded on my new 4 track Tascam deck. Each song segment was first recorded individually then premixed running into each other similar to the old Moody Blues albums. The lyrics and sound effects were later added after a few beers and dubbed on the remaining 2 tracks. The 4 track tape was then remixed and released in cassette format to be played at parties for laughs. At one party Jerry Morrelle proposed shooting the accompaning visuals to match each songs lyrics. Each Song became a skit of a scence described in Marcel French's lyric with vintage Woonsocket landscapes serving as a backdrop to the action

Filming took place during the early 80's just before the advent of VHS camcorders. The filming was done completed quickly on 3 or 4 weekends regardless of the weather. The actors were chosen radomly based on availability. All movie scenes were completed in one take using a stop watch to syncronize the camera action to music.

Later the skits were spliced together on a ping pong table using a razor blade calculator and stop watch. Finally the music was dubbed back on the the Super 8 film and played at a party. When VHS became popular 2 years later the film was converted to that format and several copies were distributed for home viewing to all the actors.