(May 19, 2008) Downey, CA – Congresswoman Lucille Roybal-Allard (CA-34) congratulates 80-year-old Downey resident Stanley Hoffman at the Downey City Library on the inclusion of his song Satellite Baby into a PBS documentary about the Explorer 1 satellite. Mr. Hoffman’s song was used at the end of a documentary about the historic launching of the spacecraft released earlier this year by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Entitled JPL and the Beginnings of the Space Age, the documentary chronicles the story of Explorer 1, which became America’s first Earth-orbiting satellite when it sailed into space on Jan. 31, 1958. Born in Boyle Heights, Mr. Hoffman is a Los Angeles native. He was working nightclubs in Toledo, Ohio as a stand-up comedian when he wrote and recorded the song in 1956 at the age of 28. A couple years later, he returned to California and eventually Los Angeles to work in real estate. He has been a Downey resident for 36 years. He now uses the CD recording name of Kwayzar – inspired by the term Quasar, an extremely bright and distant active galactic nucleus in the universe. He also coined the term, CyberRap, to describe his musical lyrics about science and space technology. To listen to his song, Satellite Baby, visit www.cdbaby.com/cd/kwayzar and click number 11 Satellite Baby on the lefthand side of the homepage.

Mr. Hoffman’s lyrics to Satellite Baby are as follows:

Three seconds, two seconds, 1 second, blast off!

Satellite baby, come on back down to Earth
Satellite baby, come on back down to Earth
Magnetic daddy's found out what you are worth

Nuclear baby, don't fission out on me
Nuclear baby, don't fission out on me
Electron daddy loves your solar energy

We’re gonna rock it, we’re gonna rock it
In a guided missile every night
We’re gonna rock it, yeah rock it
Until we reach the speed of light
We’re gonna blast off on a supersonic flight

Satellite Baby gassin’ up all that void
Satellite Baby shakin’ that asteroid
Well I’ll love you a million light years planetoid

We’re gonna rock it, we’re gonna rock it
Around the moon with all our might
We’re gonna rock it, yeah rock it
Until the Earth is out of sight
On Zero X interplanetary flight

Satellite Baby. come on back down to Earth
Satellite Baby, come on back down to Earth
Isotopic daddy’s found out what you are worth