Dear Lorne Michaels, the team of Saturday Night Live, NBC, and Broadway Video -



The recent SNL skit "Electric Shoes" features a superlative performance from longtime cast member Kenan Thompson as fictional soul singer and Stax recording artist Jarvis Fillmore. The titular song and its seemingly endless series of encores represent the latest entry in a long tradition of fantastic marriages of music & comedy to grace the SNL stage at studio 8H.



In recent years, Saturday Night Live has embraced its status as a multimedia entertainment empire by producing full length recordings of songs written for sketches, such as the 7" single release of "Fist Fight!" by Crisis of Conformity, from the sketch "Punk Band Reunion at the Wedding" in season 35, and the digital release of the Ian Rubbish & the Bizzaros EP from season 38's "History of Punk" sketch. Further back, we had the the extensive recording career of such SNL-based musical acts as The Lonely Island. Of course, the tradition goes back to the very beginnings of the show, with the discography of the Blues Brothers diving deep into characters whose musical career we saw glimpses of on the show.



"Electric Shoes" is a song that is such a great pastiche of the high energy classic soul sound, as well as lending itself to the great comedy, thanks to a great performance by the band as well as Thompson himself, who sells the performance expertly. If there is one fault in the sketch, it is only that we the audience are only treated to what appears to be the final moments of a much longer song (and then several subsequent encores). In the case of the Ian Rubbish material, fans were delighted when songs that were only featured in brief clips within the sketch were expanded to fully fleshed out songs. We, the undersigned, believe that a full song recording of "Electric Shoes" by Jarvis Fillmore, if made available to the public, would be incredibly popular with audiences and a hilarious addition to the canon of SNL music. We ask for the digital and/or physical release of the full "Electric Shoes" song...with as many encores as will fit on the tape.



Thank you in advance for your consideration.



PS We, the undersigned would also love a single of Peter Dinklage AKA Jonathan Comets [feat. Gwen Stefani] doing "Space Pants" from season 41's "Mafia Meeting."