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!
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Way back in 2009, back when President Obama still had that new car smell, I had started a column here called “Way Out Wednesday”. It featured odd albums from my…
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Why is this crudely drawn duck inflating his head with a tire pump? He’s celebrating the return of “Way Out Wednesday”!
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What happens when you combine Dixieland music with popular songs from the ’70s? You get “The Next Hundred Years” by the Ragtimers, this week’s album featured on “Way Out Wednesday.”
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Chocolate trains and happy clowns….No, it’s not your worst nightmare, it’s the return of “Way Out Wednesday!”
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Actor Larry Thor sings a fun collection of children’s songs about neighborhood fights, Gimme Pigs, and riding dinosaurs.
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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 train wreck. That…
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Sing along with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Speed Racer, Super Chicken, and more as Way Out Wednesday presents “Toon Tunes: Action-Packed Anthems”!
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For the first “Way Out Wednesday” of 2011, Tony Redman features the best Popeye album without Popeye in it, with Captain Paul and the Seafaring Band’s “The Popeye Song Folio!”
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“Way Out Wednesday” presents your Turkey Day gift from Tony Redman: “Thanksgiving Songs That Tickle Your Funnybone!”
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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 Songs!”
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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 little friend of mine.
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What’s scarier than Tammy Faye Bakker in full “PTL Club” mode? Tammy Faye Bakker … and puppets! Way Out Wednesday returns with “Oops! There Comes a Smile”
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Comedian Don Novello has been portraying the part of chain-smoking priest Father Guido Sarducci ever since he bought the outfit for the character in 1974. Probably best known from his…
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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, what got me the Popdose…
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In 1954, before Mister Rogers brought his Neighborhood to national television, he was a part of a local show in Pittsburgh called The Children’s Corner. A woman named Josie Carey…
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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 seems to indicate…
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This week I have a special holiday treat for you. It’s the 1975 album “How the Grinch Stole Christmas”, performed by Zero Mostel. Even though Karloff’s version of The Grinch…
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With the holidays coming up, I thought I’d present a Christmas selection from my blog, “Way Out Junk.” This features Boris Karloff, not too long after he narrated “How the…
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“Now here’s something we hope you’ll really like…” There have been a number of children’s records based on cartoons. This removes the visuals that we’re used to, leaving only the…
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This week, Tony Redman revisits a musical tribute to the barrel-tossing simian who stole countless quarters from children in the ’80s.
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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 tie-in from the “star” of Sigmund and the Sea Monsters.
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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. Sorta. This is a group…
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With the Batman: Arkham Asylum game coming out this week (for PS3, Xbox360 and PCs), I thought I’d throw out another Batman-related album for you. When the Batman TV show…
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For this week’s installment of Way Out Wednesday, Tony Redman ventures deep into the dark, pustular heart of Xavier Roberts’ most famous creations. And they sing. Oh God, how they sing.
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