Vote on Your Favorite “Otter 841” Song

Posted by Rachel Goodman | Aug 4, 2023 | All Music, Station News, Updates | 14

KSQD is holding a contest for the best song about our famous surfboard-biting, surfing sea otter, called 841 by scientists. She has sparked a wave of opinion about what should be done, if anything, about her behavior, sparking internet memes, news frenzies, and in our case, a song contest

So…please take a moment to listen to all entries and vote for your favorite song. Here is the Ballot:

https://forms.gle/7j5HhFSw1Zwhe9d47

They are, in no particular order:

841 Otter Anthem by Andy Fairley

Otter in the Water by David Cameron

Fun, Fun, Fun by Marcy Boyd

Do as You Otter by Peter Weiss

Otter Girl by Alice D’Jardin

About The Author

Rachel Goodman

Rachel is host of Talk of the Bay and Board Chair of KSQD. She is the producer of radio documentaries such as Southern Songbirds: The Women of Early Country and Old Time Music, The Boomtown Chronicles, and Pastures of Plenty, a History of California Farmworkers. She teaches journalism at Cabrillo College in Aptos. She is a recipient of a Peabody award for excellence in journalism.

14 Comments

EUGENIA PEREZ on August 2, 2023 at 2:05 pm

Otter Girl Rocks
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- Jeremy true on August 2, 2023 at 3:28 pm
  
  😀
  
  yeah, it’s very sweet! 🙂
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Jeremy true on August 2, 2023 at 3:25 pm

awww- would have been nice to have heard about this before it got to the finalists! 😛

Maybe I’ll get bored enough and record an entire album of songs LOL
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Joe wilcox on August 2, 2023 at 9:13 pm

Not that it matters, but I’m the protester in thumbnail with the otter mask and surfboard sign 🙂
Without a doubt, it’s Otter Girl, a rebel ballad of freedom and love.

Be kind.
Stay stoked.
Keep 841 Free
💙
@circusjoe
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- Rachel Goodman on August 3, 2023 at 5:54 am
  
  The mask was a brilliant touch of street theater.
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Tom Price on August 3, 2023 at 10:40 pm

One of those songs is not about Otter 841. Am I right?
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- Rachel Goodman on August 4, 2023 at 7:06 am
  
  Correct.
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  - David Cameron on August 7, 2023 at 4:29 pm
    
    Thank you!
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Janey Eslick on August 4, 2023 at 10:25 am

Otter in the water
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- David Cameron on August 7, 2023 at 4:28 pm
  
  Thank you!
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- Toni Corrigan on August 10, 2023 at 6:02 pm
  
  Love Otter in the Water!!
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Isabel on August 4, 2023 at 6:36 pm

Otter in
the Water.
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Jill on August 8, 2023 at 7:21 pm

Otter Girl, no contest.
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Patti Pritchard on August 9, 2023 at 5:59 pm

Otter girl for sure1
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