Tracking down the song’s composer, Sha Na Na’s managing partner, was relatively simple and he was delighted to get on board.  “We have always combined good music with good humor and I thought this was a great use of our song,” said Screamin’ Scott Simon.
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Tracking down the song’s composer, Sha Na Na’s managing partner, was relatively simple and he was delighted to get on board.  “We have always combined good music with good humor and I thought this was a great use of our song,” said Screamin’ Scott Simon. “The irony that something we recorded in response to the political malaise of the seventies is equally relevant today, is both funny and somewhat unsettling.  We love the animation and couldn’t stop laughing when we saw the final cut!”

The animation can be seen on You Tube as well as on whitehousecountdown.com. Produced by a team of three animators, the segment features all the major presidential candidates and their loyal coaches, the elephant and the donkey.  “Vote For Me has lots of comedic elements and is politically neutral when it comes to predicting the future or advocating a particular candidate.  We can’t tell you more,” said Velez, “because we don’t want to ruin the joke.  The segment relies on an interesting musical twist to create an unexpected and highly amusing punch line.” 

Whitehouse Countdown.com is produced by North South Studios and is its first foray into independent publishing “Normally we make products for other publishers but this time we had a strong motive to publish something of our own. We wanted to encourage people, especially young people, to get involved in the upcoming presidential elections,” says company President, Bill Newell.   “We felt that an irreverent, though factually accurate, website would be the best way to pique their interest. And now, with the launch of Vote For Me, we think we have really boosted the fun factor.”

North South Studios is a full-service media company that provides creative, engineering, design and business services to companies in the toy, education, technology, entertainment and finance industries.  North South Studios is a multinational company with offices in Los Angeles, CA and Lima, Peru.  www.northsouthstudios.com

Sha Na Na continues to record and perform worldwide, living proof of their claim that “Rock and Roll is here to stay.”

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