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Way Out Wednesday: The Temple City Kazoo Orchestra, “Some Kazoos”
This album from 1978 features the Temple City Kazoo Orchestra playing that most maligned of instruments, the kazoo. The kazoo was invented by an African-American named Alabama Vest in Macon, Georgia sometime in the
Read More »Way Out Wednesday: The Peter Pan Orchestra and Chorus, “What’s the Good Word?”
Today’s Way Out Wednesday features this album by the Peter Pan Orchestra and Chorus, called What’s the Good Word? It has fun little ditties about different parts of speech and different kinds of words.
Read More »Way Out Wednesday: The Three Stooges, “Madcap Musical Nonsense at Your House”
Today’s Way Out Wednesday nugget of joy is brought to you by the Three Stooges. The Stooges made a number of popular short subjects in the 1940s. Later, when television was new, stations needed
Read More »Way Out Wednesday: The Best of Big Daddy
Big Daddy is a musical group with a rather unusual back story. I’ll let the liner notes explain: While on a USO tour of Southeast Asia in 1959, Big Daddy was captured by Communist
Read More »Way Out Wednesday: A Calendar of Happy Thoughts
It’s time once again to dig deep into the Way Out Junk archives to bring you another installment of “Way Out Wednesday.” This week, we spotlight the wonderful children’s album A Calendar of Happy
Read More »Way Out Wednesday: The Electric Company
When I was younger, one of my favorite television shows was The Electric Company, a children’s series on PBS that helped teach kids how to read. Now, I was 10 years old at the
Read More »Way Out Wednesday: Rerun Rock
This week’s selections are from an album called Rerun Rock. The concept for this album is this: How would classic TV theme songs sound if they were performed by famous singers? The first one
Read More »Way Out Wednesday: The Green Album
Here are two tracks from The Green Album, an album of tribute songs about clay superstars Gumby and Pokey released in 1989. The first one, “The Ballad of Gumby,” performed by Rick Schulman, is
Read More »Way Out Wednesday: Wayout
Hello, my name is Tony, and I run a blog called Way Out Junk that focuses mostly on out-of-print children’s and novelty albums. Jeff contacted me and asked if I’d be interested in writing
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