Happy Von’s Day

Today, we at the Pitch were suddenly made aware of a local singer by the name of Von Smith. What happened was, his mother called and directed us to YouTube videos of him by telling us to search for “Vonatron.” According to mumsy, the kid’s going to be on The View on Feb. 27 and is one of MTV’s “breakout artists for ’07,” and he’s about to sign to a label.

I went to YouTube and found this, a video of him singing at the groundbreaking ceremony of the downtown performing arts center.

I sent it around to coworkers. As Von’s shrill, soulful, cherubic coos sounded throughout the hallway issuing from computer speakers, an e-mail discussion of the lad ensued…