Related ArticlesWow, I can’t believe how long it’s been. I just returned from a fab trip to Hawaii with the Double Dutch Family. DD Dad entertained the masses at Germaine’s Luau outside Honolulu:Despite the crap weather, we all had a great time! Dad announced on the trip that Frankie is interested in collaborating again. Maybe the Double Dutch is back on the street.
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Madonna goes old school in her new Sticky and Sweet Tour! The show features a remix of “Into the Grove” that samples Double Dutch Bus as Madonna jumps rope. See for yourself:
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Just got word that Double Dutch is again being featured at the Phillies Game on the board during the Septa bus race. (Thanks for the tip, JRS.)
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Apparently, Raven was in Philly for the Disney Music Block Party Tour. She hosted the event, although, she didn’t sing. Dad tracked her down, got the photo and an autographed copy of the DVD.
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Not sure of the story yet… just know that Dad finally met Raven as the photo shows. Weird– she looks like she could be my sister.
Bill Bloom, writer of Double Dutch Bus, and Raven Symone
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I just think of my dad as my dad, so it was odd for me to discover he has his own Wikipedia reference. This discovery led me to Google him to see where else he appears on the world wide web… I found that he has a wicked first place ranking for his website (nice SEO, dad!). Elaine’s blog gets a second place ranking– pretty impressive for a post she made in 2005. From there the entries feature a variety of “Bill Blooms” from across the country. One of the more amusing finds is a quotation from dad in an Intelligencer article about the a protest in support of Siren Records in Doylestown: “The kids in Doylestown don’t get a fair shake,” Bloom said. “The borough’s attitude is kind of repressive.” He’s such a hippie, err, I mean so progressive. Anyway, my favorite Google reference of dad links to video from the 2004 BMI awards where he’s rockin’ his gangsta sun glasses. That’s how he rolls…
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Wow, life really caught up with me the past few months. I’ve been busy developing a personal balanced scorecard, launching Aquent’s Facebook presence, visiting Southeast Asia, among other stuff. Since then, Raven-Symone finally released her album featuring Double Dutch Bus. And, College Road Trip was released on Blu Ray and DVD.
Meanwhile, I realized that Double Dutch Bus has its own Facebook! Looks like it was created by some kids in the mid-West. I think I need to do some work as a contributor to make a it a little more interesting.
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Double Dutch Bus made it to the iTunes “Best of the Store” list this week!
Click here to download the single:
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My sister sent me a text after seeing Road Trip today and commented that the movie is “the story of our lives”. She reminded me that we did indeed have a pet pig. Although, ours didn’t have any kind of special powers (other than busting through it’s outdoor pen).
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Last night I went to see Disney’s latest kids movie, College Road Trip, which, despite being annoyingly saccharine, reminded me a lot of the college tour I took with my father back in the day. Like Melanie (Raven-Symone’s character), my mother was a real estate agent who stayed home with my siblings while dad and I set off to visit colleges. While Martin Lawrence torments his on-screen daughter with his rendition of Double Dutch Bus during their trip; it just so happens that my dad actually wrote the song. In the movie, Melanie’s girlfriends plan a sleepover on campus that scares the crap out of Martin’s character. In my real-life version of the story, I finagled a sleepover on campus in a boy’s dorm. <Hmm, wonder what dad thought about that?> As Donnie Osmond (another annoyance in the film) might say, I guess I was a little more rock and roll than Melanie. Overall, the movie was mildly entertaining, but the star of the film was neither Raven, Martin, Donnie nor the pet pig. Clearly, it was the Double Dutch Bus. Gimme a “ho” if you got your funky bus fare.
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Confessions of a Double Dutch Daughter 