I’ve written about Mark Fox
and the creepy ‘child’ Lil’ Markie before, but I’ve just found a copy of his
third album Little Bits for Children Everywhere and felt compelled to share it with you.
This time credited to ‘Mark
Fox Featuring Little Markie’ (although, according to the label, this travesty is
entirely down to Little Markie himself), and housed in a sleeve that’s a
complete rip off of the posthumous Elvis collection Sings For Children… and
Grownups Too! - right down to the colours of the Crayola crayons - Little Bits features
Pastor Mark Fox duetting with his inner child on a half dozen tracks on side
one, with the flip given over to his famous Story of an Alcoholic Father discourse. Elvis
If you had only
heard, but not seen, Lil’ Markie you'd be forgiven for thinking that he was a pudgy,
apple-cheeked nine year-old, sweetly singing his way through life with songs
about Jesus – but Markie is, in fact, the creation of adult evangelist Mark
Fox, who uses his ability to switch between his own voice and a terrifying,
childish, Donald Duck-esque falsetto to sing cautionary Christian tales with
titles such as the aforementioned Story Of An Alcoholic Father (Something's
Happened To Daddy), I
Will Obey The Lord and
the incredibly vile Diary Of An Unborn Child - the story of a foetus, from conception
to abortion; a disgusting diatribe based on an article which originally
appeared in a Jehovah's Witness magazine. It’s all very Baby Lu-Lu.
Mark/Lil’ Markie/Little
Markie released a slew of similarly insane ramblings, many through his own Mark
Fox Family Ministries company. He also briefly recorded under his own name,
issuing the gospel album Let The Son Shine In: on the back cover he is described as 'a personable young man who communicates Christ through his music.' The not-so-fantastic Mr Fox even had
his own public access TV show for a while. I assume that the majority of people
tuning in to his programme would have reached for the phone to call 911 as soon
as Mark stopped singing in his usual pleasant baritone and started screeching
like a lisping simpleton for fear that the evangelist had actually swallowed
and was choking to death on a Tickle Me Elmo doll. He’s a ventriloquist without
a dummy (unless you count those in his audience that is), a scary enough
concept in itself.
Many of the
tracks on the Lil’ Markie/Little Markie/Mark Fox albums were written by Rick
and Rosemary Wilhelm, regular performers on the Christian Baptist church
circuit, who released their own eponymous album in 1977. The couple are still
active today. Mark Fox is still about too, troubling people in churches around
the United States with his insane alter ego.
Anyway, judge
for yourself after you listen to a couple of tracks from Little Bits for Children Everywhere – the medley of B-O-R-N A-G-A-I-N/For God So Loved The World and the ‘duet’ J-E-S-U-S. ‘Little’ Marcy Tigner must be turning in her grave.
Enjoy!
" incredibly vile Diary Of An Unborn Child - the story of a foetus, from conception to abortion; a disgusting diatribe"
ReplyDeleteWow, very down on human reproduction, aren't you? Not so troubled by the taking of human life though...
Nothing whatsoever against human reproduction, Reimer: it's kind of important. However I am vehemently opposed to sanctimonious religious hypocrites thinking they can tell a woman what to do with her body, and sick to death of people who cherry pick bits from their particular chosen book of fairytales to browbeat other people with.
DeleteHmmm...opposed to people telling a woman what tp do with her body? But the baby isn't her body. A baby is a person in their own right with their own identifying fingerprints by 9 weeks. You've got this all wrong
ReplyDelete. Opposing abortion is not objecting a woman's right to her own body. It is opposing a woman's rights superceding the rights pf the person temporarily living in her womb.
Whyyyy did you kiiiill meee Mommyyyy...
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