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…
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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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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…
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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…
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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…
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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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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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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…
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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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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 whole sorry affair.
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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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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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If it’s Wednesday, it must be Way Out, and this week Tony Redman is going wayyyyyyyyyyyy out. (Get it? Ayyyyy? Ah, screw you people.)
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Well, since weÁ¢€â„¢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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HereÁ¢€â„¢s a patriotic selection for you called American Pie Á¢€” A Musical History of Our Country, brought to you by the Peter Pan ChildrenÁ¢€â„¢s Chorus. (Yeah, I know I should…
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With the Batman: Arkham Asylum game coming out this week (for PS3, Xbox360 and PCs), I thought IÁ¢€â„¢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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No one has ever combined an educational message with an irrational love of stripes like the ’70s PBS series Zoom — and in his latest installment of Way Out Wednesday, Tony Redman has dug up a soundtrack album.
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The Justice League of America…singing? It must be time for another installment of Tony Redman’s Way Out Wednesday!
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HereÁ¢€™s a wonderful record of songs featuring Batman and some of his DC Comics cast of characters, sung by a group called the Merriettes. Like the ChildrenÁ¢€™s Treasury of Superman…
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It’s Tony from Way Out Junk, and IÁ¢€â„¢ve got another crazy one for you. Remember the high-pitched singing rodent craze started by Alvin and the Chipmunks and then all the…
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This weekÁ¢€â„¢s Way Out Wednesday is dedicated to PopdoseÁ¢€â„¢s own D.W. Dunphy who left this comment on my very first post back in January: Á¢€Å“When are we getting those Kid…
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Here’s a fun album from 1966 featuring songs sung about — and sometimes sung by — Superman and his DC Comics universe of characters. The original album features two songs…
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Tony Redman has emerged from the Way Out archives for another week of strange and wonderful music, and oh my God, you guys — you’ve never heard E.T. quite like this.
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SummerÁ¢€â„¢s coming very soon, so I thought I put in this sweet treat for you. In 1964 there debuted a series of drink mixes called Funny Face. They had cool…
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Holy moley! ItÁ¢€â„¢s more Smurfs! Yep, itÁ¢€â„¢s another Way Out Wednesday with a second helping of those delightful little blue dudes, the Smurfs. IÁ¢€â„¢m not really as attached to this…
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HereÁ¢€â„¢s an interesting little album from 1958 featuring Little Johnny Everything and his sister Judy Everything who, with a name like that, must be doing quite well for themselves. The…