February 24, 2017• Music, Way Out Junk
A guitar playing elephant and an ant worry that their romance is doomed, but somehow love finds a way in this month's Way Out Junk!...
January 27, 2017• Music, Way Out Junk
Way back in 2009, back when President Obama still had that new car smell, I had started a column here called “Way Out...
March 21, 2012• Music, Way Out Wednesday
Why is this crudely drawn duck inflating his head with a tire pump? He's celebrating the return of "Way Out Wednesday"!...
April 20, 2011• Music, Way Out Wednesday
What happens when you combine Dixieland music with popular songs from the '70s? You get "The Next Hundred Years" by the Ragtimers, this...
April 6, 2011• Music, Way Out Wednesday
Chocolate trains and happy clowns....No, it's not your worst nightmare, it's the return of "Way Out Wednesday!"...
February 23, 2011• Music, Way Out Wednesday
Actor Larry Thor sings a fun collection of children's songs about neighborhood fights, Gimme Pigs, and riding dinosaurs. ...
February 2, 2011• Music, Way Out Wednesday
It takes many elements to make a record. If one or two of those elements go wrong, it can turn a well produced album into an interesting...
January 19, 2011• Music, Way Out Wednesday
Sing along with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Speed Racer, Super Chicken, and more as Way Out Wednesday presents "Toon Tunes:...
January 5, 2011• Music, Way Out Wednesday
For the first "Way Out Wednesday" of 2011, Tony Redman features the best Popeye album without Popeye in it, with Captain Paul and the...
November 24, 2010• Music, Way Out Wednesday
"Way Out Wednesday" presents your Turkey Day gift from Tony Redman: "Thanksgiving Songs That Tickle Your Funnybone!"...
November 10, 2010• Music, Way Out Wednesday
Get happy as "Way Out Wednesday" returns with a fun mishmash of an album called "'You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown" and Other Happiness...
October 13, 2010• Music, Way Out Wednesday
Piping hot pizza and piping hot ... organ music? Way Out Wednesday presents "At the Organ Grinder, Vol. 2," plus a chance to help out a...
September 29, 2010• Music, Way Out Wednesday
What's scarier than Tammy Faye Bakker in full "PTL Club" mode? Tammy Faye Bakker ... and puppets! Way Out Wednesday returns with "Oops!...
September 1, 2010• Music, Way Out Wednesday
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...
August 18, 2010• Music, Way Out Wednesday
Today’s selection is an album from the Pickwick Children’s Chorus. Was there an actual Pickwick Children’s Chorus? I don’t know...
July 28, 2010• Music, Way Out Wednesday
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...
July 7, 2010• Music, Way Out Wednesday
Our selection for this week is the Peter Pan Orchestra & Chorus’s I Believe: Songs of Devotion, an album of religious numbers...
June 30, 2010• Music, Way Out Wednesday
One of the biggest American trends in the mid to late 1970s was CB radios. Originally used by truckers to communicate with each other,...
April 28, 2010• Music, Way Out Wednesday
Comedian Don Novello has been portraying the part of chain-smoking priest Father Guido Sarducci ever since he bought the outfit for the...
April 9, 2010• Music, The Weekly Mixtape
As you know if you follow my quasi-weekly column “Way Out Wednesday,” I also run a blog called “Way Out Junk.” (It is, in fact,...
February 24, 2010• Music, Way Out Wednesday
In 1954, before Mister Rogers brought his Neighborhood to national television, he was a part of a local show in Pittsburgh called The...
January 27, 2010• Music, Way Out Wednesday
It’s time to dig way back in the Way Out Junk archives for this children’s album. I’m not sure how old this one is, but the cover...
December 23, 2009• Music, Way Out Wednesday
This week I have a special holiday treat for you. It’s the 1975 album “How the Grinch Stole Christmas”, performed by Zero Mostel....
December 16, 2009• Music, Way Out Wednesday
With the holidays coming up, I thought I’d present a Christmas selection from my blog, “Way Out Junk.” This features Boris Karloff,...
December 2, 2009• Music, Way Out Wednesday
“Now here’s something we hope you’ll really like…” There have been a number of children’s records based on cartoons. This...
November 18, 2009• Music, Way Out Wednesday
This week, Tony Redman revisits a musical tribute to the barrel-tossing simian who stole countless quarters from children in the '80s....
September 23, 2009• Music, Way Out Wednesday
Not all would-be preteen heartthrobs are created equal, as proven by the subject of Tony Redman's latest Way Out Wednesday, a horrifying TV...
September 9, 2009• Music, Way Out Wednesday
Well, since we’re in a Beatles state of mind here at Popdose, I wanted to find something relevant to the topic, and here it is....
August 26, 2009• Music, Way Out Wednesday
With the Batman: Arkham Asylum game coming out this week (for PS3, Xbox360 and PCs), I thought I’d throw out another Batman-related...
August 19, 2009• Music, Way Out Wednesday
For this week's installment of Way Out Wednesday, Tony Redman ventures deep into the dark, pustular heart of Xavier Roberts' most famous...
