Chocolate trains and happy clowns….No, it’s not your worst nightmare, it’s the return of “Way Out Wednesday!”
Shout! Factory presents four more episodes of the classic show “Mystery Science Theater 3000,” featuring moon flights, a Russian Sinbad and two Master Ninjas!
Actor Larry Thor sings a fun collection of children’s songs about neighborhood fights, Gimme Pigs, and riding dinosaurs.
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…
Sing along with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Speed Racer, Super Chicken, and more as Way Out Wednesday presents “Toon Tunes: Action-Packed Anthems”!
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!”
“Way Out Wednesday” presents your Turkey Day gift from Tony Redman: “Thanksgiving Songs That Tickle Your Funnybone!”
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!”
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.
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”
In this week’s mixtape you’ll find pairs of the same song by two different artists. I did try to lay down some ground rules for myself, though: 1. No parody…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
This is a fun album showing just how many recording artists were willing to plug a certain soft drink. It’s interesting to see the different approaches taken. The cuts are…
One of the most fondly remembered Muppets from the early days of Sesame Street was Roosevelt Franklin. He was voiced by Matt Robinson, who played Gordon on the show. (In…
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…
Here’s an interesting album that I know next to nothing about. As I mention in the entry on my blog: All I know about this album is what’s on the…
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…
When I was younger, I loved Sesame Street, especially the Muppets. I still have cassette tapes (that’s audio, not video) of bits from the show. I’d spend the night at…
This album is very similar to a number of children’s albums I have, where the material is taken from a number of different sources that fall under the general artist…
Here’s another album featuring that ever-popular sailor man, Popeye. This one does expand things a bit, since not only do we have Jack Mercer as Popeye, we also have Mae…
What happens when you get Way Out…in barbershop harmony?
Chances are, even if you’ve never seen an episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000 (or MST3K for short), you still know the basic concept: bad guys shoot a good guy…