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Way Out Wednesday: The Topsiders, “Rock Goes Folk”
So what did they call mashups before the term existed? Well, whatever you call it, this is one. The Topsiders decided to take popular hits of the day and rearrange them with a folk
Read More »Way Out Wednesday: “The Pickwick Children’s Chorus Sing ‘Chitty Chitty Bang Bang’ and Other Fun Songs of Today
Today’s selection is an album from the Pickwick Children’s Chorus. Was there an actual Pickwick Children’s Chorus? I don’t know but, unlike a lot of records like this, this at least sounds like the
Read More »DVD Review: “The Lost Skeleton Returns Again” and “Dark and Stormy Night”
In 2001, Larry Blamire created a movie called The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra, a parody of science fiction films of the 1950s. The movie never had a wide release, playing only at film festivals
Read More »The Friday Mixtape: 8/6/10 — Fake Band Edition
All the songs on this mixtape are either performed by fictional musical acts or fictional characters performing as a musical act. I apologize that the sound isn’t better on some of these selections; many
Read More »Way Out Wednesday: “Danny Kaye Tells Six Stories From Faraway Places”
Danny Kaye was a great actor, singer, dancer and comedian. He also was a wonderful storyteller, as you’ll hear in the album I’m featuring today, Danny Kaye Tells Six Stories From Faraway Places. The
Read More »Way Out Wednesday: The Peter Pan Orchestra & Chorus, “I Believe: Songs of Devotion”
Our selection for this week is the Peter Pan Orchestra & Chorus’s I Believe: Songs of Devotion, an album of religious numbers presumably geared toward children. But this is quite a variety of songs. Here’s
Read More »Way Out Wednesday: Jodie Lyons, “Talkin’ Smokey”
One of the biggest American trends in the mid to late 1970s was CB radios. Originally used by truckers to communicate with each other, scads of other people decided to get into the act
Read More »Way Out Wednesday: The Peter Pan Pop Singers and Orchestra, “The Unicorn”
As you can see, this children’s album is performed by the Peter Pan Pop Singers and Orchestra, as opposed to just the Peter Pan Singers and Orchestra. I’m not sure when this came out.
Read More »The Friday Mixtape: 5/28/10 — Doin’ It A Cappella Style!
A cappella is defined as music that is sung without instrumental accompaniment. According to the Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, a cappella music was originally “composed to be performed in chapels which, unlike large churches,
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