Capitol Steps

Biography

Capitol Steps began as a group of Senate staffers who set out to satirize the very people and places that employed them.

The group was born in December, 1981 when some staffers for Senator Charles Percy were planning entertainment for a Christmas party. Their first idea was to stage a nativity play, but in the whole Congress they couldn`t find three wise men or a virgin. So, they decided to dig into the headlines of the day, and they created song parodies & skits, which conveyed a special brand of satirical humor.

In the years that followed, many of the Steps ignored the conventional wisdom ("Don`t quit your day job!"), and although not all of the current members of the Steps are former Capitol Hill staffers, taken together the performers have worked in a total of eighteen Congressional offices and represent 62 years of collective House and Senate staff experience.

Since they began, the Capitol Steps have recorded over 30 albums, including their latest, Desperate Housemembers and Barackin` Around the Christmas Tree . They`ve been featured on NBC, CBS, ABC, and PBS, and can be heard 4 times a year on National Public Radio stations nationwide during their Politics Takes a Holiday radio specials.

Titles

Fools on the Hill

For He's a Jolly Good Felon

What's a New Democrat?

Can't Buy Me Lunch

Fifty Ways to Peeve Your Leader

I Feel Petty

The Wizard of Ozone

The Sony Side of the Street

Jones of Ark

PAC Man

Slipped Disco

Owl Shook Up

Federal Excess

U.S. Pistol Service

A Clone Again

Camel Lot

No Nudes Is Good Nudes

Raiders of the Lost Arkansas

All in the Family

Fatal Inaction

Yuppie Love

The Joy of Sax

Plain White Rappers

Rubik's Cuba

Lirty Dies

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