Bail Me Out

Whittier, CA, October 31, 2008 --(PR.com)-- A new video of the song "Bail Me Out" by Jim Becker has just been released on Youtube here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdOVD_djaXY

Here's the body of an LA Times Blog that appeared recently about the tune... the full blog and comments can be read here: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/money_co/2008/10/hard-financial.html

A songwriter's ode to Congress: 'Bail Me Out'
7:19 PM, October 7, 2008

From Times staff writer William Heisel:

Hard financial times have always led to great music. Muddy Waters. Johnny Cash. James Brown. All of them sang about the struggle to put food on the table.

So it's no surprise that musicians today are responding to the credit crunch, and the federal government's attempt to solve it, in song.

Jim Becker, a 47-year-old Whittier songwriter who says he moved to Los Angeles in 1984 with $800 in his pocket hoping to make it big, echoes what a lot of Americans were saying as they watched Congress debate the $700-billion financial system rescue package.

Currently unemployed, with three daughters, Becker says he watched the debate and thought, "Why isn't there a bailout for guys like me?"

So he wrote "Bail Me Out" and posted it on his Myspace page last week.

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