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Way Out Wednesday: The Big Top Singers, “Let’s All Go to the Circus”

Tony Redman February 17, 2010 1

In honor of the Winter Olympics taking place in Canada, Way Out Wednesday (sort of) salutes our buddies up north (or whatever direction gets you to Canada) with this album of circus songs published

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Way Out Wednesday: The Stars of Gentle Ben, “The Bear Facts”

Tony Redman February 10, 2010 2

Remember the 1967 television show Gentle Ben? It was a heartwarming adventure about a boy and his bear, sort of like if Lassie was a grizzly and Timmy was Ron Howard’s brother. I would

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Way Out Wednesday: Big Daddy, “Sgt. Pepper’s”

Tony Redman January 20, 2010 5

I conclude my look at the band Big Daddy with their last album of all new performances, 1992′s Sgt. Pepper’s. Here they took on the awesome challenge of recording every track from the classic

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Way Out Wednesday: Big Daddy, “Meanwhile, Back in the States”

Tony Redman January 13, 2010 4

In this week’s Way Out Wednesday, I’ll talk about the second album from novelty band Big Daddy. If you’d like to read their fictional backstory, you can find it in last week’s report here.

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Way Out Wednesday: Big Daddy, “What Really Happened to the Band of ’59?”

Tony Redman January 6, 2010 4

I’ve written previously about the novelty group Big Daddy. In case you’ve slept since then, here’s the concept for the band: While on a USO tour of Southeast Asia in 1959, Big Daddy was

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Way Out Wednesday: “Clyde & Phyllis, A Musical Fantasy About the World’s First Guitar Playing Elephant”

Tony Redman November 11, 2009 4

Tony Redman has taken us to some way-out places before, but this week's album -- which follows a guitar-playing elephant into space -- is WAY way out

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Way Out Wednesday: “Freddy’s Greatest Hits”, The Elm Street Group

Tony Redman October 28, 2009 2

In 1984, the movie Nightmare on Elm Street premiered and a new horror icon was born in Freddy Krueger. However, three years (and two sequels later), Freddy had already gone from being a frightening

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Way Out Wednesday: The Satellite Singers and Orchestra, “Journey to the Moon”

Tony Redman October 21, 2009 4

What with that jerk Obama bombing the moon, our nearest celestial neighbor has been in Tony Redman's thoughts, and he's reaching out in a new Way Out Wednesday

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Way Out Wednesday: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, “Coming Out of Their Shells”

Tony Redman October 7, 2009 6

What could possibly be more '90s than men in turtle costumes singing, dancing, and rapping on stage? A Pizza Hut-distributed soundtrack, that's what -- and Tony Redman is here to help us relive the

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Way Out Wednesday: Shirley, Squirrely & Melvin, “Live”

Tony Redman September 30, 2009 5

What's worse than those little idiots Alvin, Simon, and Theodore? How about ripoff singing chipmunks named Shirley, Squirrely, and Melvin? It's just another week for Tony Redman and Way Out Wednesday!

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