WFMU: Mid-Valley Mutations with Austin Rich: Playlist from January 18, 2022

Listener comments!
	🎸 ♥ 8:57pm Austin Rich: Good Hello!
	9:00pm Xeres: Welcome to The Demento Dimension!
	♥ 9:01pm DJ Babs: Heyoooooo!
	🎸 ♥ 9:01pm Aitch: but wait, there's more oddness, mutants at least
	9:02pm Mr Fab: I pretty much live in the Demento Dimension, but thanks!
	♥ 9:03pm Scott67: G'day Austin & Moist Mutants! 🍺😎🤙👣🐾🎶📻☀️🌏
	🎸 ♥ 9:03pm WR: I'm pretty much a friend of all ages, thanks.
	9:03pm Xeres: David Seville was the stage name of Ross Bagdasarian, which he later used as the name of the fictional manager of his cartoon band Alvin and the Chipmunks.
	🎸 ♥ 9:03pm Austin Rich: Good to see you, DJ Babs, Aitch, Mr. Fab & Scott67! Just getting warmed up with a little potion from the witch doctor...
	🎸 ♥ 9:03pm Austin Rich: Greetings, WR!
	♥ 9:03pm StringOFperils: I love the classics
	9:04pm Xeres: The sped-up tape technique used for the vocals on "Witch Doctor" in 1958, became the signature sound of the Chipmunks later that year on the hit single "The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don't Be Late.)"
	🎸 ♥ 9:04pm Kat in Chicago: Wallawallabingbang
	🎸 ♥ 9:04pm Krys O.: I was raised on Demento! Got to meet him when my ex played a show curated by the Doctor. (Link for later, chums: www.moorestevie.com...)
	🎸 ♥ 9:04pm Austin Rich: Nice to see you, String Ofperils
	♥ 9:05pm StringOFperils: Hello, Austin R :)
	🎸 ♥ 9:05pm Austin Rich: Hello Kat in Chicago and Krys O! I think this show will be a hit...
	9:06pm Otis: Hi Austin, all ready for the mutations.
	🎸 ♥ 9:07pm Austin Rich: There used to be a show in PDX called "Sound Judgement." Lots of indie rock and stuff like that.
	🎸 ♥ 9:07pm Austin Rich: Hello, Otis!
	🎸 ♥ 9:07pm Austin Rich: Sea Shanties are normal music?
	🎸 ♥ 9:08pm Austin Rich: Make sure to check the screen for more information! This should be running on all the TV Networks broadcasting in the Mid-Valley.
	9:08pm Mr Fab: Yes, Sea Shanties are normal music, but land shanties are weird.
	🎸 ♥ 9:09pm Austin Rich: I heard a Land Shanty warning of Land Sharks. I assume that's related?
	🎸 ♥ 9:09pm Krys O.: Gary Paxton of the Hollywood Argyles had a connection to Tammy Faye Bakker.
	9:09pm Sonderangebot: Land shanties are Einsturzende Neubauten-sounding like!
	🎸 ♥ 9:10pm Austin Rich: I'm assuming that this is the song that Hasil Atkins is referencing on his album, "Look At That Caveman Go!"
	♥ 9:10pm StringOFperils: I've seen Alex Chilton play Alley Oop...he said it was genius too
	9:10pm Mr Fab: I heard Kim Fowley was somehow involved, too.
	9:11pm Mr Fab: yes, Austin, and Bowie's "Life on Mars."
	🎸 ♥ 9:11pm Krys O.: Paxton and Fowley were roommates.
	♥ 9:11pm DJ Babs: I remember this song from my youngest of childhood and I think it's why I love garage music.
	🎸 ♥ 9:12pm Austin Rich: True story: when I ran Karaoke at a bar in Portland, a guy would come in with his own discs, and want to sing this song. And he would change the lyrics to something... very awful. It was really uncomfortable, but he tipped VERY well. It was weird.
	♥ 9:12pm DJ Babs: It holds up!
	♥ 9:12pm DJ Babs: That's....super creepy Rich! LOL
	9:12pm Xeres: LOL @ karaoke dude
	♥ 9:13pm StringOFperils: Yeah, there's a weird short story there...wonder what that guy's deal was.
	🎸 ♥ 9:13pm Austin Rich: I have a lot of Karaoke stories. Been meaning to turn it into a short story someday.
	🎸 ♥ 9:13pm Austin Rich: The song is suggestive enough... you don't have to change it at all.
	🎸 ♥ 9:14pm WR: When looking to see which of Saville / Bagdasarian or Sheb Wooley were first with the slow / fast singing and I learned of Mike Sammes doing UK puppet show characters Pinky and Perky. Any y'all deep collectors heard any of those?
	9:14pm Xeres: Napoleon XIV was a pseudonym for Jerry Samuels. The B-side of this single - released in 1966 - was the A-side played in reverse. And the B-side label was a mirror image of the A-side.
	♥ 9:14pm DJ Babs: This tune still disturbs me, lol.
	🎸 ♥ 9:14pm Austin Rich: Another true story: I have a tape my friend Colin made me of a remix of this song, with about four other versions of this song, all mixed together. I should play that on the show someday...
	9:15pm Xeres: WR thanks for that, I had been wondering who did it first.
	🎸 ♥ 9:15pm Austin Rich: Sheb Wooley is coming!
	9:16pm rebecca: this is SO ridiculously good!! thank you!
	🎸 ♥ 9:16pm Austin Rich: The best part of "They're Coming To Take Me Away" is that it isn't long. It only SEEMS long in our memory.
	🎸 ♥ 9:16pm Austin Rich: Thanks, rebecca!
	9:17pm Ellen: Austin, which song did you remix with Colin?
	🎸 ♥ 9:17pm WR: I first heard TCTTMAHH done by a couple of young (a bit older than I was) black gents were doing it. I thought it was a black thing and then soon after saw Napoleon XIV on Johnny Carson.
	9:17pm rebecca: you're welcome, glad to catch you live!
	🎸 ♥ 9:17pm Austin Rich: Ellen: They're Coming To Take Me Away, Ha Ha.
	🎸 ♥ 9:18pm Austin Rich: And: Great to see you in the chat, Ellen! Ellen put on some of the best shows I got to see, pre-Pandemic.
	🎸 ♥ 9:18pm Krys O.: Sheb Wooley makes me think of Scopitones.
	🎸 ♥ 9:18pm Austin Rich: I genuinely love this "The Blob" song so much. I've been toying with doing a cover, but I don't have a voice like this...
	♥ 9:18pm DJ Babs: Ah yes! This made our Halloween show, lol! It's so fun!
	🎸 ♥ 9:19pm Krys O.: One of Burt's best tunes.
	9:19pm Ellen: I grew up listening to Doctor Demento on the down low, hiding an ancient artifact of a transistor radio under my pillow. I had found it in my parents' basement and smuggled it upstairs. I got to tell this story to Doctor Demento himself, at World Con in Reno
	🎸 ♥ 9:19pm WR: I forgot to add, it was at a Rolling Stones concert in about 1966. These guys were sitting behind us and started doing TCTTMAHH every time there was delay between bands.
	9:19pm Xeres: Some of the tunes from this set are often heard in Halloween compilations, but I think they stand on their own year-'round.
	9:19pm Ellen: Thank you, Austin; you were essential to what made them so great! I love collaborating with you and I miss you. Also there's a funny story about The Blob
	🎸 ♥ 9:19pm Austin Rich: That "pop" is the OG Pop in a "pop" song.
	9:20pm Mr Fab: it really is a Bacharach classic, i'm glad others agree. It don't get much respect.
	🎸 ♥ 9:20pm WR: Xeres, regarding the sequence of when they came out, I just go by the Wikipedia for Sheb Wooley.
	🎸 ♥ 9:20pm Austin Rich: In fact, Xeres and I played together in "The Olsen Twins Ghostlight Ensemble" at one of Ellen's shows, pre-pandemic.
	9:20pm Ellen: My uncle was a Hollywood lawyer. He was trying to get Steve McQueen to agree to something. He sang the Beware of the Blob theme to him to get him on board
	🎸 ♥ 9:20pm Krys O.: @Ellen: My mom liked Dr. Demento. OTOH she hated when my dad watched wrestling on TV and he had to slink off and watch it on the down low.
	9:21pm Xeres: Oh, THAT Ellen! Hi Ellen!
	🎸 ♥ 9:21pm Austin Rich: Louis! Ha! It's Napoleon! Boy, wow botched that one?
	🎸 ♥ 9:22pm Krys O.: Andy Griffith's TV gf, Helen (Aneta Coursaut) was Steve's date in the Blob.
	🎸 ♥ 9:22pm WR: Funny Krys O. Was there more than one TV in the house or did your dad have to visit a friend.
	9:22pm Otis: Throwing in another vote for Bacharach Blob Bits. Never gets old.
	9:22pm Ellen: Yes, it's me! Hi, Xeres! I really loved The Olsen Twins Ghostlight Ensemble set. @Krys O. I am really enjoying your comments, thank you
	9:23pm Ellen: @Austin are you saying that is the etymology of "pop music"?
	🎸 ♥ 9:23pm Austin Rich: This story is true: I saw / met Dr. D one night. It was a lot of fun. He was hilarious, and very drunk.
	🎸 ♥ 9:24pm Krys O.: My dad would find TVs on the street and fix them. We had little portables all over. My first TV of my very own was a 9" B&W unit.
	🎸 ♥ 9:25pm Austin Rich: True again: I have visited the Reed College station a few times, and we did a few hours of shows one night. Tons of fun. It's a tiny station... but we had a blast.
	9:25pm Ellen: @Austin I'm sorry that I didn't ever get to see Doctor Demento perform live, I only met him in passing. He really liked my story, though, and thanked me for telling him it.
	9:25pm Ellen: I'm Jewish, I grew up listening to Allan Sherman! I love the whole My Son, the Celebrity album
	🎸 ♥ 9:26pm Krys O.: LOL! I sang a poppy punky cover of this and it used to get played on WFMU's Greasy Kids Stuff show.
	🎸 ♥ 9:26pm Austin Rich: It was one of those Reed College shows he put on every year for the students. A LOT of people where there, but we could all sit and meet him afterwards. He was very patient for people who he thought were Reed Students.
	9:26pm Xeres: We're featuring quite a bit of Jewish genius on this evening's program.
	🎸 ♥ 9:26pm Krys O.: Allan Sherman died on my 10th birthday.
	🎸 ♥ 9:26pm Austin Rich: I do love that Greasy Kids Stuff.
	9:27pm Ellen: I have some friends who are Reedies. I can only imagine. I was a DJ on WCBN in Ann Arbor. @Krys O I would love to here you
	🎸 ♥ 9:27pm WR: Speedy Gonzo-less has played several versions of The Blob on his Sheena program Burbujas, since burbuha can be translated as either bubble or blob. wfmu.org...
	🎸 ♥ 9:28pm Austin Rich: I think Shel Silverstein was the EARLIEST subversive thing that I encountered as a kid that I really gelled with. I loved those books.
	9:28pm Ellen: @Xeres that's fantastic. I was a Shel Silverstein fan as a kid. There's no comparing anyone else's readings of his work with his own over-the-top vocalizations
	🎸 ♥ 9:29pm Austin Rich: @WR: I need to hear that.
	9:29pm Xeres: It's weird how he got to write children's books on the one hand, while also writing stoner classics.
	🎸 ♥ 9:29pm Austin Rich: Those Dr. Hook songs are pretty good, too.
	9:30pm Ellen: I found my dad's Tom Lehrer album. It stood out because it was a different size than all the other records. I was hooked
	🎸 ♥ 9:30pm Austin Rich: That must have been one of the 10" records, Ellen?
	🎸 ♥ 9:31pm WR: Speedo slips one in here and there, in the episode I linked to it is being done by a Chiapas Mexico style marimba band.
	♥ 9:31pm HyperDose: My life changed the day I discovered Bob & Doug McKenzie's Great White North album
	🎸 ♥ 9:31pm Krys O.: Nordine!
	🎸 ♥ 9:31pm Austin Rich: I genuinely think that Ken Nordine is an important piece of literature that every person should study. His voice is incredible, across a very vast body of work. Singular.
	🎸 ♥ 9:32pm Austin Rich: @HyperDose: That album is very important.
	🎸 ♥ 9:33pm WR: First heard Ken Nordine on one of his short syndicated radio shows. I just recently found that someone has added many of them to Archive.org.
	🎸 ♥ 9:33pm Austin Rich: Yes, @WR! I figured that out, too! I did a run of them last year... they're so great.
	🎸 ♥ 9:35pm Austin Rich: Ellen: Here's your Tom Lehrer!
	🎸 ♥ 9:36pm Austin Rich: The Karaoke Bar that I mentioned previously had "Poisoning Pigeons In The Park" and I used to sing that once a shift.
	9:36pm Xeres: I love songs about science.
	9:37pm Mr Fab: twas decades after i first heard this that i found out this a parody of Gilbert and Sullivan's "I Am The Very Model of a Modern Soldier."
	🎸 ♥ 9:37pm Austin Rich: Mr. Perry, my High School Chemistry Teacher, could sing this song from memory. He was a huge Lehrer fan, and actually saw him a couple times WAY back when.
	🎸 ♥ 9:38pm Austin Rich: Xeres: we should have included They Might Be Giants, "The Sun Is A Mass of Incandescent Gas" in this set."
	🎸 ♥ 9:38pm Austin Rich: Mr. Fab: I certainly didn't know it was a parody until MANY years after I heard the Lehrer version.
	9:38pm Xeres: @Austin: next year!
	9:39pm Ellen: @Austin Yes, 10-inch album, and thank you, I needed that! :) That is the most impressive tongue-twister of any songs that I can remember! There was an episode of Gilmore Girls in which Luke's daughter April sings The Elements but much slower!
	🎸 ♥ 9:39pm Austin Rich: I used to have this one memorized, as a youth.
	🎸 ♥ 9:41pm Austin Rich: Earnestly, I hadn't given Allan Sherman much of a chance until Demento opened my eyes. I just thought he didn't have the same scope as a lot of other novelty artists, and I was sort of wrong. My bad.
	🎸 ♥ 9:42pm Austin Rich: See, a Lenny Bruce joke? It's just... weird...
	9:43pm Xeres: Allan Sherman's "Downtown" is pretty hilarious, too.
	🎸 ♥ 9:43pm Austin Rich: Henry Mancini is another artist that I truly feel is an important part of musical history.
	🎸 ♥ 9:44pm Austin Rich: Make sure to tune in to any channel in the Mid-Valley to see that number.
	♥ 9:44pm StringOFperils: ^absolutely
	9:44pm Xeres: Your background music choices are great, Austin.
	9:46pm Xeres: Dr. Demento has a cameo appearance as a bum in the official video for "Fish Heads." The song was first released as a single in 1978, before its video was made in 1980, when it was aired on Saturday Night Live, and was subsequently given heavy rotation on MTV. The video includes a prolonged introduction before the music starts. Demento appears during this introduction, at around the 1:17 mark. Here's a link to the video: www.youtube.com...
	🎸 ♥ 9:46pm Austin Rich: This Barnes & Barnes album is truly a wonder. There is nothing else like it, except maybe Crispin Glover's albums.
	9:47pm Kitschy Mama: Oo fish heads is such a pleasure.
	🎸 ♥ 9:47pm Austin Rich: "... yeah."
	9:48pm Ellen: @Austin, yet another reason for me to be in awe of you :) As for Lenny Bruce, there is a talented actor portraying him in the excellent show, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. It's perhaps a bit romanticized version of him, but very charming, and his portrayer won an Emmy for it. Wow, I've never heard a Crispin Glover album, but I have heard that he is quite unusual
	9:48pm Xeres: You people are easily amused, LOL!
	9:49pm Ellen: I love the complexity of timing of this song.
	🎸 ♥ 9:49pm Austin Rich: I've been meaning to check out that Mrs. Maisel show, but there's just not enough hours in the day. So it goes. One of these days I'll be able to check it out.
	🎸 ♥ 9:49pm Krys O.: The titular song on Monster Walks the Winter Lake by David Thomas and the Pedestrians is based on this Playmates song.
	♥ 9:50pm StringOFperils: I did not know that, Krys O
	🎸 ♥ 9:50pm Austin Rich: As mentioned in the show, Xeres wrote the script for all the voice overs, and I added some bits during my bits. Xeres selected all the songs, but certainly, I was on board for all of these. There were a couple that I was unfamiliar with. The next two were new to me until Xeres hipped me to them.
	🎸 ♥ 9:51pm Austin Rich: @Krys O: I need to relisten, with that in mind!
	9:51pm Ellen: As a spoken-word performer myself, I appreciated the Ken Nordine word jazz. I should hear more of that
	9:52pm Mr Fab: that's funny, Krys. Pretty sure i bought that album years ago, but don't really remember it.
	🎸 ♥ 9:52pm Austin Rich: I could listen to that Ken Nordine stuff all the time. It's so good.
	9:53pm Mr Fab: lest we forget, Shel Silverstein also wrote Johnny Cash's "A Boy Named Sue."
	🎸 ♥ 9:53pm Austin Rich: Technically, this Dana Lyons song was from after the OG era that I listened to Dr. D. I sort of stopped listening to new episodes around the end of High School. I was listening to a lot of other stuff then, and he just fell away.
	9:53pm Ellen: I remember seeing Dana Lyons perform in Eugene when I was part of the proofreading collective at Earth First! when it was being published in Eugene. He was really into Earth First.
	9:53pm Xeres: So Austin tells me this Dana Lyons guy is a right-wing jerk..
	9:54pm Mr Fab: well he is into guns...
	🎸 ♥ 9:54pm Austin Rich: He's got a lot of "pro gun" songs, outside of this one.
	9:55pm Xeres: But Earth First is lefty. Guess it goes to show you the spectrum wraps all the way around backwards.
	🎸 ♥ 9:55pm Austin Rich: Eugene was like that. Remember the pro-logging rock band you played for me?
	9:55pm Ellen: There was a lot of variety in the EF! community
	9:56pm Xeres: While this tune, "Mr. Custer" lacks cultural sensitivity, at least the white dudes lose.
	🎸 ♥ 9:56pm Austin Rich: This Larry Verne song was also new to me.
	9:56pm Ellen: There were some definite vegans in EF! who helped me out when I was running Food Not Bombs, and then there were hunters who would bag their own deer for dinner, and both were EF!
	9:57pm Ellen: This song is new to me as well.
	9:58pm Xeres: I believe I first heard it on a Dr. D compilation.
	9:58pm davefromtoronto: wow - i had this on "funny funky hits" a million years ago.
	9:58pm Ellen: Seeing "b/w" in a lot of the descriptors makes me miss collecting 45s. I also had a couple ancient 78s. My dad had a 16 if I recall correctly. He's an avid collector with literally thousands of vinyl records.
	🎸 ♥ 9:59pm WR: Mr. Custer was one of the first 45s I bought as a kid! This sounds different than what I remember. Looking to see if there were multiple versions or 60s years is too long to remember reliably.
	🎸 ♥ 9:59pm Austin Rich: This was sort of a theme in pop music in that era, a lot of rock and roll was appropriating native American imagery for music. I'm sure you could do a whole show.
	9:59pm Mr Fab: Yep, I had "Mr Custer" on KTel's "Goofy Greats." 1975.
	10:00pm Ellen: I had this album (Steve Martin)
	10:00pm Xeres: And then there's Egyptian appropriation...
	🎸 ♥ 10:00pm Austin Rich: The Steve Martin albums and the George Carlin albums were essential listening among my friends growing up. We used to quote these all the time.
	10:00pm Mr Fab: I had almost all these records!
	10:00pm davefromtoronto: as long as you don't play any johnny rebel you're good...
	🎸 ♥ 10:01pm Austin Rich: We do not go there, Dave.
	🎸 ♥ 10:01pm Austin Rich: "Disco Tut."
	10:02pm Mr Fab: I sang this with our school choir. In church.
	10:02pm Ellen: An album I listened to quite a bit was The Original Not-Ready-For-Primetime Players (the first Saturday Night Live album). I actually performed 2 pieces in my high school variety show senior year
	🎸 ♥ 10:03pm Austin Rich: I think you've talked about that album before, Ellen! I liked that one, too!
	🎸 ♥ 10:03pm Austin Rich: Raymond Scott is VERY important to me. I love everything he's every done.
	🎸 ♥ 10:04pm WR: Best taste or taste best? You decide.
	10:04pm Ellen: I was attending Improv theater school (taught by the parents of actor Jeremy Piven) when I was listening to the SNL record. It was very influential on me
	🎸 ♥ 10:05pm Austin Rich: Tune in to any channel in the Mid-Valley. You'll see the number!
	🎸 ♥ 10:05pm Austin Rich: It's time for your antique record of the program...
	🎸 ♥ 10:06pm Austin Rich: In reading about this song, I realize that it is an ANSWER song to another song that was also popular at the time. Maybe we should do ANSWER song someday, Xeres?
	10:06pm Xeres: I call this set of tunes "Peachy Keen"
	10:07pm Ellen: This is amusing. Wow I didn't know that was a thing. Answer songs? Like...songs written in direct response to other songs, as though they were a challenge?
	🎸 ♥ 10:07pm Austin Rich: I'm sure everyone knows that Billy Murray was like the Michael Jackson of his era: he just sold records like crazy, for the time. Super Popular. But is almost only remembered by record nerds these days. (Unless you listen to WFMU, then he's very well known.)
	10:07pm Xeres: It will be like Jeapordy, were the answer comes before the question.
	🎸 ♥ 10:07pm WR: I'm feeling very comfortable in this dimension. I wonder what the real estate cost is like for a comfy bungalow for two.
	🎸 ♥ 10:07pm Austin Rich: Ellen: Yeah! It's like you answer the questions they leave open in the other song.
	10:08pm Ellen: That sounds amazing. I'd be very curious to know the history of such and hear some examples. By the way, you're completely making my day, thank you for inviting me to the chat.
	🎸 ♥ 10:08pm Austin Rich: I remember, as a youth, before I'd heard this song, a kid was singing it, and I thought he was hilarious! How funny was this kid who kept almost swearing! Only later did I realize he stole the jokes...
	10:09pm Xeres: I thought this was by Benny Bell?
	🎸 ♥ 10:09pm Austin Rich: It's complicated... there's a whole backstory. Paul Wynn is the singer, but Benny Bell is the writer.
	10:10pm Ellen: I love the saxophone
	🎸 ♥ 10:10pm Austin Rich: And, of course, your token "Spike Jones" for the program.
	10:10pm Mr Fab: But the record is credited to Benny Bell. (At least mine is.)
	🎸 ♥ 10:11pm Austin Rich: Hmmmm. Maybe my research is off? Will have to check...
	🎸 ♥ 10:11pm Austin Rich: I've loved everything Spike Jones put to record, but that should be obvious by now; I think I've included something in almost every show... almost.
	10:12pm Ellen: I remember Der Fuhrer's Face with the raspberry
	10:13pm Mr Fab: this is the album I have: www.discogs.com...
	🎸 ♥ 10:13pm Austin Rich: We didn't play that one, but that one is pretty amazing, Ellen.
	🎸 ♥ 10:13pm Austin Rich: I've been looking for a copy of that album, Mr. Fab. I only have a cassette dub.
	10:14pm Xeres: "Lydia, the Tattooed Lady" first appeared in the Marx Brothers movie At the Circus (1939).
	10:14pm Ellen: I also love Spike Jonze (director of Being John Malkovich)
	🎸 ♥ 10:14pm Austin Rich: I think that's the version that's included here...
	10:14pm Xeres: Groucho singlehandedly shut down Wall Street for 15 minutes in 1950, when he took over a microphone on the trading floor of the New York Stock Exhange to tell jokes and to sing this song. Trading was suspended so that everyone could enjoy the performance.
	🎸 ♥ 10:14pm Austin Rich: I think I could just watch Marx Brothers movies over and over again and not feel like i'm missing much.
	10:14pm Ellen: So I swear I have a memory of this song sung by Kermit the Frog on the Muppet Show
	10:15pm Mr Fab: Ellen, this was Jim Henson's favorite song. It was played at his funeral.
	🎸 ♥ 10:15pm Austin Rich: I've known so many Lydia's in my day.
	🎸 ♥ 10:16pm Austin Rich: That's because Mr. Henson has perfect taste, Mr. Fab. It's a brilliant song.
	10:16pm Ellen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHXZA_5XMJ4 @Mr. Fab that's extraordinary
	10:17pm Ellen: @Xeres that's amazing. I would love a recording of that but I imagine there aren't any
	10:17pm Ellen: I am genuinely learning a lot from this chat. I should have screen shotted some of it
	🎸 ♥ 10:17pm Austin Rich: I also believe The Coasters are an important part of any well rounded American Education. Yeah, you can quote Shakespeare? But what about The Coasters?
	10:18pm Ellen: I am definitely curious what The Snake and the Book Worm sounds like. I definitely grew up a book worm, and now I read books for a living
	10:18pm Mr Fab: WFMU's archives are up forever, Ellen! Revisit this show any time.
	10:18pm Xeres: Pretty much everything the Coasters did was both a novelty tune, and an R&B classic at the same time.
	10:18pm Ellen: That's a seductive baritone
	10:19pm Mr Fab: "The Snake and the Book Worm" is another good one, about a would-be seducer.
	🎸 ♥ 10:20pm Austin Rich: I will follow up on the Paul Wynn / Benny Bell story. I'm not finding the source I was looking at, which is making me think I'm wrong...
	10:20pm Mr Fab: "both a novelty tune, and an R&B classic at the same time" - well said!
	10:20pm Ellen: The Coasters had a lot of great tunes.
	10:20pm Xeres: Red Ingle was frontman for Spike Jones & His City Slickers, until he quit in 1946 over a salary dispute, and formed his own band, Red Ingle & The Natural Seven. "Serutan Yob" is a parody of "Nature Boy," which in turn was written by Eden Ahbez and made popular by Nat King Cole in 1948.
	10:20pm Otis Fodder: Serutan Yob leads me back to the chat. Natures Boy, ahem.
	10:21pm Ellen: I've never heard this before.
	10:22pm Xeres: My dad used to recite the monologue from this from memory.
	🎸 ♥ 10:22pm Austin Rich: I have been told that there's a bit of a controversy about who wrote "Pop Corn." I had a roommate that said that this Russian version predates all of them, but I can't find a source for that either. So: Maybe?
	10:23pm Ellen: I have the same birthday as Jim Henson. I found out when I randomly met one of his sons at a party on Long Island (way before there was Google). It made me happy
	10:23pm Xeres: Popcorn is one of the few 45 singles that I still have from when I was a teen.
	10:24pm Otis Fodder: A Russian original would be interesting, just know it from Kingsley on and maybe, predated by The Percolator?
	10:24pm Mr Fab: Nope, Gershon Kingsley is Mr Popcorn. Reject Soviet popcorn propaganda!
	🎸 ♥ 10:24pm Austin Rich: I used to use buying King Missile albums as a pretext for talking to a record store girl that I was crushing on. This was while I was working at a bookstore across the way.
	10:25pm Otis Fodder: Oh wow, King Missle. Steal Stuff from Work was an anthem for office workers in the 90s.
	10:25pm Xeres: My 45 is by Hot Butter
	🎸 ♥ 10:25pm Austin Rich: I liked the idea that a bookstore boy and a record store girl would have met and dated... but it didn't happen.
	10:25pm Mr Fab: Yep , Hot Butter covered Gershon's 1st Moog Quartet.
	10:25pm Ellen: I saw Mr. Bungle live with Jonathan Christ from the Cathead days.
	🎸 ♥ 10:26pm Austin Rich: My roommate was certainly pro-soviet, so I can see the bias. I'll side with you, Mr. Fab.
	10:26pm Otis Fodder: Thankfully we have 79 versions on the WFMU blog to start with... blog.wfmu.org...
	🎸 ♥ 10:26pm Austin Rich: Ellen: I was at that show, too! We somehow met up in the crowd, magically.
	🎸 ♥ 10:27pm Austin Rich: This is sort of the "modern" era of Demento's show... in the spirt of, as they would say.
	10:27pm Xeres: The platypus is kind of a novelty animal.
	10:28pm Mr Fab: "Detachable Penis" is the usual King Missle go-to. Good tune, but nice to hear something else of theirs for a change.
	10:28pm Ellen: Such a small world. I love our shared history. It was dream-come-true territory to collaborate with you on so many shows pre-pandemic
	10:28pm Xeres: Hey, when you're our age, the 90s is still modern.
	🎸 ♥ 10:28pm Austin Rich: What was the inspiration for Cheesecake Truck, Xeres?
	🎸 ♥ 10:29pm Austin Rich: "A couple of blokes said that he was a hoax so they cut him to pieces and wrote a thesis."
	10:29pm Mr Fab: the idea of a Cheesecake Truck was a wacky idea in the '90s, but now there probably is such a thing.
	10:30pm Xeres: I mean, so much King Missile to choose from. But didn't "Cheesecake" come up in one of these chats in Sheena's room? I think I was influenced by that.
	🎸 ♥ 10:30pm Austin Rich: Good point, Mr. Fab! I like to point out that the Convenience Store scenes in "Heathers" don't play the same anymore, because stores are now like that.
	🎸 ♥ 10:31pm Austin Rich: I earnestly love most of the Bongwater catalog. They have a lot of under rated songs.
	10:31pm Ellen: I remember this song! Love Ann Magnuson
	10:31pm Mr Fab: "The platypus is kind of a novelty animal." - ha! I like the idea of other novelty things besides songs.
	🎸 ♥ 10:32pm Austin Rich: I was online friends with a gal who was friends with Ann Magnuson, and was on some Bongwater recordings. I was trying to interview this gal, but she passed before I could.
	🎸 ♥ 10:32pm Austin Rich: Stupid David! It's always his fault!
	10:32pm Xeres: I wonder if the good doctor has ever played a Bongwater song.
	🎸 ♥ 10:33pm Aitch: Jesus was Way Cool...
	10:33pm Xeres: I think Schlong is Austin's favorite band.
	🎸 ♥ 10:34pm Austin Rich: I think that Schlong are the single greatest prog-punk band out of that mid-90's crop of weirdos. But of course, Schlong sort of get forgotten these days. They have a documentary coming soon, that should be out maybe this year?
	🎸 ♥ 10:35pm Austin Rich: The Schlong complete cover of Fleetwood Mac's "Rumors," called "Tumors," and condenses the entire album into a 12 minutes 7", is pretty amazing.
	10:36pm Otis Fodder: Love FotC... just watched the show again over the holiday.
	🎸 ♥ 10:36pm Austin Rich: (But don't try googling "Schlong Tumors." Please, don't.)
	10:36pm Ellen: I love the Flight of the Conchords...and for that matter I love both versions of What We Do in the Shadows
	🎸 ♥ 10:37pm Austin Rich: If you want robot songs, Servotron delivers, for my money. Should have included some. Next time.
	🎸 ♥ 10:38pm Austin Rich: There was a Eugene band, Mondale, that had a lot of nerdy songs, and even sang in Computer Script. They would count off their songs "0 1 0 1" and stuff like that.
	10:38pm Ellen: I'm excited that there will be a next time
	10:39pm Otis Fodder: Good night all, off to shut down. Great picks/set here Xeres & AR... wow, nice way to jet out with The Rutles (and still a fav album!)
	10:39pm Xeres: We could fill a couple of two-hour shows with robot songs.
	🎸 ♥ 10:39pm Austin Rich: Controversial Take: I love The Rutles. I only sort of like The Beatles.
	🎸 ♥ 10:39pm Austin Rich: Night Otis!
	10:40pm Xeres: The Rutles were basically the Bonzo Dog Band
	10:40pm Ellen: The Rutles are pretty amazing. You know that's Eric Idle from Monty Python
	🎸 ♥ 10:40pm Austin Rich: Bonzo Dog Band is... very important.
	🎸 ♥ 10:40pm Austin Rich: I love Eric Idle's stuff, too.
	10:41pm Mr Fab: jello Biafra had a bit about band names, and thought it would be great if a hair-metal band called themselves "Mondale." Guess someone (not necessarily metal) took him up on it.
	🎸 ♥ 10:41pm Austin Rich: They named themselves after that Jello Bit!
	🎸 ♥ 10:42pm Austin Rich: Sorry that the TV signal has not worked all the time!
	🎸 ♥ 10:42pm Austin Rich: (I knew the guys in the band.)
	10:43pm Ellen: I interviewed Jello Biafra for The Southern Willamette Alliance newspaper during the Die For Oil, Sucker! tour. He randomly grabbed me and shoved his tongue down my throat. True story
	🎸 ♥ 10:43pm Austin Rich: Woah! That's really weird, Ellen. Creepy.
	🎸 ♥ 10:43pm Austin Rich: Any chance I can get to use the Universal Telephone ring, I take it.
	🎸 ♥ 10:44pm Austin Rich: This is our "country" block.
	10:45pm Ellen: Do you include Ray Stevens?
	10:45pm Xeres: This choice was inspired by a question Austin once asked on facebook,
	🎸 ♥ 10:45pm Aitch: Be nice to hear Ween's Fluffy, for ARB
	🎸 ♥ 10:45pm Austin Rich: Ray Stevens did not make the cut.
	10:45pm Ellen: I haven't had this much relaxation / fun in awhile. Thank you
	🎸 ♥ 10:46pm Austin Rich: I thought about Ween... I think we might have to do a country edition, actually.
	10:46pm Xeres: Glad to hear it, Ellen! Thanks for tuning in!
	🎸 ♥ 10:47pm Austin Rich: We're live every week, Ellen! And I just took on a second show, Mondays! So there's lots of radio these days.
	10:47pm Ellen: I am not surprised Loretta Lynn did comedy, she was on one of the most memorable episodes of The Muppet Show
	10:48pm Mr Fab: in the world of country music c. 1970,there was honkytonk/outlaw country at one end, commercial Nashville sounds at the other end...and then there was Jack Blanchard & Misty Morgan. Two weirdos in their own world.
	10:48pm Mr Fab: Ellen. this channel is 24/7 fun! It's what we do.
	🎸 ♥ 10:49pm Austin Rich: When I first got on at KWVA in Eugene, I was excited that they actually had Fugs albums. I had only ever heard about them, and had no idea what they sounded like. They sort of blew my mind. I still love them, quite a bit.
	10:49pm Ellen: What time on Mondays, and what theme? Here on this same station? How did you connect with it? Oh I remember Ruth Buzzy I think from Hee Haw
	10:49pm Ellen: Or no, now that I think about it, Laugh-In
	🎸 ♥ 10:50pm Austin Rich: The Monday show is all Old Time Radio. 3 PM PST / 6 PM EST. Detectives and stuff like that.
	🎸 ♥ 10:50pm Austin Rich: wfmu.org...
	10:52pm Ellen: I'd like to hear the recording of the attempt to exorcize demons from the Pentagon that the Fugs were involved in along I believe with Abbie Hoffman and the Yippies
	🎸 ♥ 10:53pm Austin Rich: Thanks Xeres, for doing so much work assembling / writing this show. I had a blast making it afterwards. It was so much fun... we'll be doing more, for sure! And we've done lots of other stuff, too! I'll try to have links for the show notes later.
	10:53pm Xeres: The Fugs were radical, for sure.
	🎸 ♥ 10:53pm Aitch: nothing to worry about really
	🎸 ♥ 10:54pm WR: Really fun episode Austin!
	♥ 10:54pm Scott67: Thanks Austin & co! 🍻✌😎👣🎶📻🌞🌏
	10:54pm Xeres: Thank you too, Austin, it was a lot of fun. And thanks to all our listeners and chatters tonight. I have found this very validating.
	🎸 ♥ 10:54pm Austin Rich: Thanks Scott67!
	10:55pm Ellen: If you remind me Monday I would like to tune in. I don't trust my memory with as much as I have rattling about in there
	🎸 ♥ 10:55pm Austin Rich: Thanks WR!
	10:55pm Xeres: Lots of collective musical and cultural knowledge in this room!
	🎸 ♥ 10:55pm Austin Rich: Xeres and I are singing and Mx-80 song...
	10:56pm Mr Fab: That's right, folks, Austin will be debuting ANOTHER show this Monday. Two shows a week! Two totally different concepts.
	🎸 ♥ 10:56pm Austin Rich: I can't wait! I love old time radio... and I think you will, too.
	10:56pm Ellen: This was a treasure. Thank you both <3
	10:57pm Ellen: I saw the radio version of Casablanca at the Hult Center. It was delightful. Glad you fit some Negativland in there.
	🎸 ♥ 10:57pm Austin Rich: When Xeres said he wanted to do this show with me, I insisted that this Buchanan & Goodman song be in the show.
	🎸 ♥ 10:58pm Austin Rich: I have the 45! But this recording is not from the 45.
	10:58pm Ellen: It's fab
	🎸 ♥ 10:58pm Aitch: Ta AR.
	10:58pm Mr Fab: proto-sampling
	🎸 ♥ 10:58pm Austin Rich: These guys invented it, almost!
	🎸 ♥ 10:59pm Austin Rich: My friend Colin would make his own version of this song, but with songs he liked, with jokes he wrote. Those tapes are pretty funny, but not as good as the original.
	🎸 ♥ 11:01pm Austin Rich: Night Everyone!
	11:01pm Rebecca: nice work, guys. great way to pass the shift!
	11:01pm Xeres: Be seeing you.
	11:01pm Mr Fab: !ouy knaht
	🎸 ♥ 11:18pm WR: And thank you Xeres!

Mid-Valley Mutations with Austin Rich: Playlist from January 18, 2022

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A combination of collage, new experimental records and other bits and bobs, Mid-Valley Mutations is a tour through the mind of Austin Rich, who has been broadcasting in some form since 1998. Heavily influenced by Dr Demento, Don Joyce and old fashioned College Radio, Austin creates Audio Essays on a variety of subjects, and even just plays records, from time to time. Sometimes Live music and Interviews will grace the program, helping create a situation where you don't really know what you're going to hear, when you tune in. What you need to know is when you enter the Mid-Valley region, be prepared for the Musical Mutations... in whatever form they take.

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Artist	Track	Album	Approx. start time
Music behind DJ: Mini-Mutations	Show Intro "Show Intro" by "Mini-Mutations"	Unique For This Show	0:00:00 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Jörgen Ingmann	Apache [Excerpt] "Apache [Excerpt]" by "Jörgen Ingmann"	"Apache" b/w "Echo Boogie"	0:00:25 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Crispin Hellion Glover	Overture "Overture" by "Crispin Hellion Glover"	The Big Problem ≠ The Solution. The Solution = Let It Be.	0:01:05 (Pop-up)
David Seville	Witch Doctor "Witch Doctor" by "David Seville"	"Witch Doctor" b/w "Don't Whistle At Me, Baby"	0:01:34 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Vince Guaraldi	Blues For Peanuts [Excerpt]	The Definitive Vince Guaraldi	0:03:53 (Pop-up)
The Hollywood Argyles	Alley Oop "Alley Oop" by "The Hollywood Argyles"	"Alley Oop" b/w "Sho' Know a Lot About Love"	0:07:09 (Pop-up)
Sam The Sham & The Pharaohs	Li'l Red Riding Hood	"Li'l Red Riding Hood" b/w "Love Me Like Before"	0:09:45 (Pop-up)
Napoleon XIV	They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa!	"They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa!" b/w "!aaaH-aH ,yawA eM ekaT oT gnimoC er'yehT"	0:12:20 (Pop-up)
Sheb Wooley	The Purple People Eater	"The Purple People Eater" b/w "I Can't Believer You're Mine"	0:14:23 (Pop-up)
The Five Blobs	The Blob "The Blob" by "The Five Blobs"	"The Blob" b/w "Saturday Night in Tiajuana"	0:16:35 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass	Spanish Flea	Going Places	0:19:08 (Pop-up)
Allan Sherman	Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh! (A Letter From Camp)	My Son, The Nut	0:23:38 (Pop-up)
Shel Silverstein	Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take the Garbage Out	Dr. Demento 20th Anniversary Collection: The Greatest Novelty Records Of All Time	0:26:22 (Pop-up)
Ken Nordine	Fliberty Jib "Fliberty Jib" by "Ken Nordine"	Word Jazz	0:29:17 (Pop-up)
Tom Lehrer	The Elements "The Elements" by "Tom Lehrer"	An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer	0:33:55 (Pop-up)
Monty Python	The Galaxy Song "The Galaxy Song" by "Monty Python"	Monty Python's "Meaning of Life"	0:36:13 (Pop-up)
Allan Sherman	Back At Camp Granada (Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah revisited)	Nutty But Nice	0:38:45 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Henry Mancini	Baby Elephant Walk "Baby Elephant Walk" by "Henry Mancini"	The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack to, "Hatari!"	0:41:58 (Pop-up)
Barnes & Barnes	Fish Heads "Fish Heads" by "Barnes & Barnes"	Voobaha	0:44:23 (Pop-up)
The Playmates	Beep Beep "Beep Beep" by "The Playmates"	"Your Love" b/w "Beep Beep"	0:46:46 (Pop-up)
Dana Lyons	Cows With Guns "Cows With Guns" by "Dana Lyons"	Cows With Guns	0:49:53 (Pop-up)
Larry Verne	Mr. Custer "Mr. Custer" by "Larry Verne"	"Mr. Custer" b/w "Okeefenokee Two Step"	0:54:55 (Pop-up)
Steve Martin	King Tut (Live) "King Tut (Live)" by "Steve Martin"	A Wild and Crazy Guy	0:57:59 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: The Raymond Scott Quintette	Powerhouse	"Powerhouse" b/w "The Toy Trumpet"	1:01:14 (Pop-up)
Billy Murray	Hinky Dinky Parlay Voo	"Hinky Dinky Parlay Voo" b/w "We Don't Get Much Money, But We Have A Lot Of Fun"	1:03:44 (Pop-up)
Paul Wynn	Shaving Cream "Shaving Cream" by "Paul Wynn"	Cocktail Party Songs	1:06:23 (Pop-up)
Spike Jones and His City Slickers	William Tell Overture	"William Tell Overture" b/w "By The Beautiful Sea"	1:09:02 (Pop-up)
Groucho Marx	Lydia The Tattooed Lady	From the film "At The Circus"	1:12:21 (Pop-up)
The Coasters	Shoppin' For Clothes	"Shoppin' For Clothes" b/w "The Snake and the Book Worm"	1:15:34 (Pop-up)
Red Ingle	Serutan Yob (A Song For Backward Boys And Girls Under 40)	"Oh! Nick-O-Deemo" b/w "Serutan Yob (A Song For Backward Boys And Girls Under 40)"	1:18:31 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Orkestar Vyacheslav Mescherin	Vozdushnaya Kukuruza (Popcorn!)	Orkestar Vyacheslav Mescherin	1:21:06 (Pop-up)
King Missle	Cheesecake Truck "Cheesecake Truck" by "King Missle"	Mystical Shit	1:22:42 (Pop-up)
Mr. Bungle	Platypus "Platypus" by "Mr. Bungle"	Disco Volante	1:23:56 (Pop-up)
Bongwater	David Bowie Wants Ideas	Double Bummer	1:28:57 (Pop-up)
Schlong	I Feel Pretty "I Feel Pretty" by "Schlong"	Punk Side Story: The Original Drunk Punk Play	1:31:07 (Pop-up)
Flight of the Conchords	Robots "Robots" by "Flight of the Conchords"	Flight Of The Conchords	1:33:48 (Pop-up)
The Rutles	The Knicker Elastic King	Archaeology	1:37:23 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Danny Elfman	The Breakfast Machine	The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack to, "Pee-Wee's Big Adventure"	1:39:58 (Pop-up)
Jack Blanchard & Misty Morgan	Tennessee Bird Walk	Birds Of A Feather	1:42:14 (Pop-up)
Conway Twitty and Loretta Lynn	You're the Reason Our Kids are Ugly	Honky Tonk Heroes	1:44:58 (Pop-up)
The Fugs	Nothing "Nothing" by "The Fugs"	The Fugs First Album	1:47:21 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ: Blain Morris	I Left My Heart In San Francisco	The Trailer Park Boys	1:51:35 (Pop-up)
Negativland	The Piddle Diddle Report: A Future Confronting The Past Which Is Our Future, Last Call From Howland Island, Eaten By A Black Hole, Returned To Your Rightful Channel [Excerpt]	Over The Edge Vol. 7: Time Zones Exchange Project	1:55:08 (Pop-up)
Buchanan & Goodman	The Flying Saucer (Part 1)	"The Flying Saucer (Part 1)" b/w "The Flying Saucer (Part 2)"	1:55:44 (Pop-up)
VIX NOELOPAN	!aaaH-aH ,yawA eM ekaT oT gnimoC er'yehT	"They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa!" b/w "!aaaH-aH ,yawA eM ekaT oT gnimoC er'yehT"	1:58:17 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	🎸 ♥ 8:57pm Austin Rich: Good Hello!
	9:00pm Xeres: Welcome to The Demento Dimension!
	♥ 9:01pm DJ Babs: Heyoooooo!
	🎸 ♥ 9:01pm Aitch: but wait, there's more oddness, mutants at least
	9:02pm Mr Fab: I pretty much live in the Demento Dimension, but thanks!
	♥ 9:03pm Scott67: G'day Austin & Moist Mutants! 🍺😎🤙👣🐾🎶📻☀️🌏
	🎸 ♥ 9:03pm WR: I'm pretty much a friend of all ages, thanks.
	9:03pm Xeres: David Seville was the stage name of Ross Bagdasarian, which he later used as the name of the fictional manager of his cartoon band Alvin and the Chipmunks.
	🎸 ♥ 9:03pm Austin Rich: Good to see you, DJ Babs, Aitch, Mr. Fab & Scott67! Just getting warmed up with a little potion from the witch doctor...
	🎸 ♥ 9:03pm Austin Rich: Greetings, WR!
	♥ 9:03pm StringOFperils: I love the classics
	9:04pm Xeres: The sped-up tape technique used for the vocals on "Witch Doctor" in 1958, became the signature sound of the Chipmunks later that year on the hit single "The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don't Be Late.)"
	🎸 ♥ 9:04pm Kat in Chicago: Wallawallabingbang
	🎸 ♥ 9:04pm Krys O.: I was raised on Demento! Got to meet him when my ex played a show curated by the Doctor. (Link for later, chums: www.moorestevie.com...)
	🎸 ♥ 9:04pm Austin Rich: Nice to see you, String Ofperils
	♥ 9:05pm StringOFperils: Hello, Austin R :)
	🎸 ♥ 9:05pm Austin Rich: Hello Kat in Chicago and Krys O! I think this show will be a hit...
	9:06pm Otis: Hi Austin, all ready for the mutations.
	🎸 ♥ 9:07pm Austin Rich: There used to be a show in PDX called "Sound Judgement." Lots of indie rock and stuff like that.
	🎸 ♥ 9:07pm Austin Rich: Hello, Otis!
	🎸 ♥ 9:07pm Austin Rich: Sea Shanties are normal music?
	🎸 ♥ 9:08pm Austin Rich: Make sure to check the screen for more information! This should be running on all the TV Networks broadcasting in the Mid-Valley.
	9:08pm Mr Fab: Yes, Sea Shanties are normal music, but land shanties are weird.
	🎸 ♥ 9:09pm Austin Rich: I heard a Land Shanty warning of Land Sharks. I assume that's related?
	🎸 ♥ 9:09pm Krys O.: Gary Paxton of the Hollywood Argyles had a connection to Tammy Faye Bakker.
	9:09pm Sonderangebot: Land shanties are Einsturzende Neubauten-sounding like!
	🎸 ♥ 9:10pm Austin Rich: I'm assuming that this is the song that Hasil Atkins is referencing on his album, "Look At That Caveman Go!"
	♥ 9:10pm StringOFperils: I've seen Alex Chilton play Alley Oop...he said it was genius too
	9:10pm Mr Fab: I heard Kim Fowley was somehow involved, too.
	9:11pm Mr Fab: yes, Austin, and Bowie's "Life on Mars."
	🎸 ♥ 9:11pm Krys O.: Paxton and Fowley were roommates.
	♥ 9:11pm DJ Babs: I remember this song from my youngest of childhood and I think it's why I love garage music.
	🎸 ♥ 9:12pm Austin Rich: True story: when I ran Karaoke at a bar in Portland, a guy would come in with his own discs, and want to sing this song. And he would change the lyrics to something... very awful. It was really uncomfortable, but he tipped VERY well. It was weird.
	♥ 9:12pm DJ Babs: It holds up!
	♥ 9:12pm DJ Babs: That's....super creepy Rich! LOL
	9:12pm Xeres: LOL @ karaoke dude
	♥ 9:13pm StringOFperils: Yeah, there's a weird short story there...wonder what that guy's deal was.
	🎸 ♥ 9:13pm Austin Rich: I have a lot of Karaoke stories. Been meaning to turn it into a short story someday.
	🎸 ♥ 9:13pm Austin Rich: The song is suggestive enough... you don't have to change it at all.
	🎸 ♥ 9:14pm WR: When looking to see which of Saville / Bagdasarian or Sheb Wooley were first with the slow / fast singing and I learned of Mike Sammes doing UK puppet show characters Pinky and Perky. Any y'all deep collectors heard any of those?
	9:14pm Xeres: Napoleon XIV was a pseudonym for Jerry Samuels. The B-side of this single - released in 1966 - was the A-side played in reverse. And the B-side label was a mirror image of the A-side.
	♥ 9:14pm DJ Babs: This tune still disturbs me, lol.
	🎸 ♥ 9:14pm Austin Rich: Another true story: I have a tape my friend Colin made me of a remix of this song, with about four other versions of this song, all mixed together. I should play that on the show someday...
	9:15pm Xeres: WR thanks for that, I had been wondering who did it first.
	🎸 ♥ 9:15pm Austin Rich: Sheb Wooley is coming!
	9:16pm rebecca: this is SO ridiculously good!! thank you!
	🎸 ♥ 9:16pm Austin Rich: The best part of "They're Coming To Take Me Away" is that it isn't long. It only SEEMS long in our memory.
	🎸 ♥ 9:16pm Austin Rich: Thanks, rebecca!
	9:17pm Ellen: Austin, which song did you remix with Colin?
	🎸 ♥ 9:17pm WR: I first heard TCTTMAHH done by a couple of young (a bit older than I was) black gents were doing it. I thought it was a black thing and then soon after saw Napoleon XIV on Johnny Carson.
	9:17pm rebecca: you're welcome, glad to catch you live!
	🎸 ♥ 9:17pm Austin Rich: Ellen: They're Coming To Take Me Away, Ha Ha.
	🎸 ♥ 9:18pm Austin Rich: And: Great to see you in the chat, Ellen! Ellen put on some of the best shows I got to see, pre-Pandemic.
	🎸 ♥ 9:18pm Krys O.: Sheb Wooley makes me think of Scopitones.
	🎸 ♥ 9:18pm Austin Rich: I genuinely love this "The Blob" song so much. I've been toying with doing a cover, but I don't have a voice like this...
	♥ 9:18pm DJ Babs: Ah yes! This made our Halloween show, lol! It's so fun!
	🎸 ♥ 9:19pm Krys O.: One of Burt's best tunes.
	9:19pm Ellen: I grew up listening to Doctor Demento on the down low, hiding an ancient artifact of a transistor radio under my pillow. I had found it in my parents' basement and smuggled it upstairs. I got to tell this story to Doctor Demento himself, at World Con in Reno
	🎸 ♥ 9:19pm WR: I forgot to add, it was at a Rolling Stones concert in about 1966. These guys were sitting behind us and started doing TCTTMAHH every time there was delay between bands.
	9:19pm Xeres: Some of the tunes from this set are often heard in Halloween compilations, but I think they stand on their own year-'round.
	9:19pm Ellen: Thank you, Austin; you were essential to what made them so great! I love collaborating with you and I miss you. Also there's a funny story about The Blob
	🎸 ♥ 9:19pm Austin Rich: That "pop" is the OG Pop in a "pop" song.
	9:20pm Mr Fab: it really is a Bacharach classic, i'm glad others agree. It don't get much respect.
	🎸 ♥ 9:20pm WR: Xeres, regarding the sequence of when they came out, I just go by the Wikipedia for Sheb Wooley.
	🎸 ♥ 9:20pm Austin Rich: In fact, Xeres and I played together in "The Olsen Twins Ghostlight Ensemble" at one of Ellen's shows, pre-pandemic.
	9:20pm Ellen: My uncle was a Hollywood lawyer. He was trying to get Steve McQueen to agree to something. He sang the Beware of the Blob theme to him to get him on board
	🎸 ♥ 9:20pm Krys O.: @Ellen: My mom liked Dr. Demento. OTOH she hated when my dad watched wrestling on TV and he had to slink off and watch it on the down low.
	9:21pm Xeres: Oh, THAT Ellen! Hi Ellen!
	🎸 ♥ 9:21pm Austin Rich: Louis! Ha! It's Napoleon! Boy, wow botched that one?
	🎸 ♥ 9:22pm Krys O.: Andy Griffith's TV gf, Helen (Aneta Coursaut) was Steve's date in the Blob.
	🎸 ♥ 9:22pm WR: Funny Krys O. Was there more than one TV in the house or did your dad have to visit a friend.
	9:22pm Otis: Throwing in another vote for Bacharach Blob Bits. Never gets old.
	9:22pm Ellen: Yes, it's me! Hi, Xeres! I really loved The Olsen Twins Ghostlight Ensemble set. @Krys O. I am really enjoying your comments, thank you
	9:23pm Ellen: @Austin are you saying that is the etymology of "pop music"?
	🎸 ♥ 9:23pm Austin Rich: This story is true: I saw / met Dr. D one night. It was a lot of fun. He was hilarious, and very drunk.
	🎸 ♥ 9:24pm Krys O.: My dad would find TVs on the street and fix them. We had little portables all over. My first TV of my very own was a 9" B&W unit.
	🎸 ♥ 9:25pm Austin Rich: True again: I have visited the Reed College station a few times, and we did a few hours of shows one night. Tons of fun. It's a tiny station... but we had a blast.
	9:25pm Ellen: @Austin I'm sorry that I didn't ever get to see Doctor Demento perform live, I only met him in passing. He really liked my story, though, and thanked me for telling him it.
	9:25pm Ellen: I'm Jewish, I grew up listening to Allan Sherman! I love the whole My Son, the Celebrity album
	🎸 ♥ 9:26pm Krys O.: LOL! I sang a poppy punky cover of this and it used to get played on WFMU's Greasy Kids Stuff show.
	🎸 ♥ 9:26pm Austin Rich: It was one of those Reed College shows he put on every year for the students. A LOT of people where there, but we could all sit and meet him afterwards. He was very patient for people who he thought were Reed Students.
	9:26pm Xeres: We're featuring quite a bit of Jewish genius on this evening's program.
	🎸 ♥ 9:26pm Krys O.: Allan Sherman died on my 10th birthday.
	🎸 ♥ 9:26pm Austin Rich: I do love that Greasy Kids Stuff.
	9:27pm Ellen: I have some friends who are Reedies. I can only imagine. I was a DJ on WCBN in Ann Arbor. @Krys O I would love to here you
	🎸 ♥ 9:27pm WR: Speedy Gonzo-less has played several versions of The Blob on his Sheena program Burbujas, since burbuha can be translated as either bubble or blob. wfmu.org...
	🎸 ♥ 9:28pm Austin Rich: I think Shel Silverstein was the EARLIEST subversive thing that I encountered as a kid that I really gelled with. I loved those books.
	9:28pm Ellen: @Xeres that's fantastic. I was a Shel Silverstein fan as a kid. There's no comparing anyone else's readings of his work with his own over-the-top vocalizations
	🎸 ♥ 9:29pm Austin Rich: @WR: I need to hear that.
	9:29pm Xeres: It's weird how he got to write children's books on the one hand, while also writing stoner classics.
	🎸 ♥ 9:29pm Austin Rich: Those Dr. Hook songs are pretty good, too.
	9:30pm Ellen: I found my dad's Tom Lehrer album. It stood out because it was a different size than all the other records. I was hooked
	🎸 ♥ 9:30pm Austin Rich: That must have been one of the 10" records, Ellen?
	🎸 ♥ 9:31pm WR: Speedo slips one in here and there, in the episode I linked to it is being done by a Chiapas Mexico style marimba band.
	♥ 9:31pm HyperDose: My life changed the day I discovered Bob & Doug McKenzie's Great White North album
	🎸 ♥ 9:31pm Krys O.: Nordine!
	🎸 ♥ 9:31pm Austin Rich: I genuinely think that Ken Nordine is an important piece of literature that every person should study. His voice is incredible, across a very vast body of work. Singular.
	🎸 ♥ 9:32pm Austin Rich: @HyperDose: That album is very important.
	🎸 ♥ 9:33pm WR: First heard Ken Nordine on one of his short syndicated radio shows. I just recently found that someone has added many of them to Archive.org.
	🎸 ♥ 9:33pm Austin Rich: Yes, @WR! I figured that out, too! I did a run of them last year... they're so great.
	🎸 ♥ 9:35pm Austin Rich: Ellen: Here's your Tom Lehrer!
	🎸 ♥ 9:36pm Austin Rich: The Karaoke Bar that I mentioned previously had "Poisoning Pigeons In The Park" and I used to sing that once a shift.
	9:36pm Xeres: I love songs about science.
	9:37pm Mr Fab: twas decades after i first heard this that i found out this a parody of Gilbert and Sullivan's "I Am The Very Model of a Modern Soldier."
	🎸 ♥ 9:37pm Austin Rich: Mr. Perry, my High School Chemistry Teacher, could sing this song from memory. He was a huge Lehrer fan, and actually saw him a couple times WAY back when.
	🎸 ♥ 9:38pm Austin Rich: Xeres: we should have included They Might Be Giants, "The Sun Is A Mass of Incandescent Gas" in this set."
	🎸 ♥ 9:38pm Austin Rich: Mr. Fab: I certainly didn't know it was a parody until MANY years after I heard the Lehrer version.
	9:38pm Xeres: @Austin: next year!
	9:39pm Ellen: @Austin Yes, 10-inch album, and thank you, I needed that! :) That is the most impressive tongue-twister of any songs that I can remember! There was an episode of Gilmore Girls in which Luke's daughter April sings The Elements but much slower!
	🎸 ♥ 9:39pm Austin Rich: I used to have this one memorized, as a youth.
	🎸 ♥ 9:41pm Austin Rich: Earnestly, I hadn't given Allan Sherman much of a chance until Demento opened my eyes. I just thought he didn't have the same scope as a lot of other novelty artists, and I was sort of wrong. My bad.
	🎸 ♥ 9:42pm Austin Rich: See, a Lenny Bruce joke? It's just... weird...
	9:43pm Xeres: Allan Sherman's "Downtown" is pretty hilarious, too.
	🎸 ♥ 9:43pm Austin Rich: Henry Mancini is another artist that I truly feel is an important part of musical history.
	🎸 ♥ 9:44pm Austin Rich: Make sure to tune in to any channel in the Mid-Valley to see that number.
	♥ 9:44pm StringOFperils: ^absolutely
	9:44pm Xeres: Your background music choices are great, Austin.
	9:46pm Xeres: Dr. Demento has a cameo appearance as a bum in the official video for "Fish Heads." The song was first released as a single in 1978, before its video was made in 1980, when it was aired on Saturday Night Live, and was subsequently given heavy rotation on MTV. The video includes a prolonged introduction before the music starts. Demento appears during this introduction, at around the 1:17 mark. Here's a link to the video: www.youtube.com...
	🎸 ♥ 9:46pm Austin Rich: This Barnes & Barnes album is truly a wonder. There is nothing else like it, except maybe Crispin Glover's albums.
	9:47pm Kitschy Mama: Oo fish heads is such a pleasure.
	🎸 ♥ 9:47pm Austin Rich: "... yeah."
	9:48pm Ellen: @Austin, yet another reason for me to be in awe of you :) As for Lenny Bruce, there is a talented actor portraying him in the excellent show, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. It's perhaps a bit romanticized version of him, but very charming, and his portrayer won an Emmy for it. Wow, I've never heard a Crispin Glover album, but I have heard that he is quite unusual
	9:48pm Xeres: You people are easily amused, LOL!
	9:49pm Ellen: I love the complexity of timing of this song.
	🎸 ♥ 9:49pm Austin Rich: I've been meaning to check out that Mrs. Maisel show, but there's just not enough hours in the day. So it goes. One of these days I'll be able to check it out.
	🎸 ♥ 9:49pm Krys O.: The titular song on Monster Walks the Winter Lake by David Thomas and the Pedestrians is based on this Playmates song.
	♥ 9:50pm StringOFperils: I did not know that, Krys O
	🎸 ♥ 9:50pm Austin Rich: As mentioned in the show, Xeres wrote the script for all the voice overs, and I added some bits during my bits. Xeres selected all the songs, but certainly, I was on board for all of these. There were a couple that I was unfamiliar with. The next two were new to me until Xeres hipped me to them.
	🎸 ♥ 9:51pm Austin Rich: @Krys O: I need to relisten, with that in mind!
	9:51pm Ellen: As a spoken-word performer myself, I appreciated the Ken Nordine word jazz. I should hear more of that
	9:52pm Mr Fab: that's funny, Krys. Pretty sure i bought that album years ago, but don't really remember it.
	🎸 ♥ 9:52pm Austin Rich: I could listen to that Ken Nordine stuff all the time. It's so good.
	9:53pm Mr Fab: lest we forget, Shel Silverstein also wrote Johnny Cash's "A Boy Named Sue."
	🎸 ♥ 9:53pm Austin Rich: Technically, this Dana Lyons song was from after the OG era that I listened to Dr. D. I sort of stopped listening to new episodes around the end of High School. I was listening to a lot of other stuff then, and he just fell away.
	9:53pm Ellen: I remember seeing Dana Lyons perform in Eugene when I was part of the proofreading collective at Earth First! when it was being published in Eugene. He was really into Earth First.
	9:53pm Xeres: So Austin tells me this Dana Lyons guy is a right-wing jerk..
	9:54pm Mr Fab: well he is into guns...
	🎸 ♥ 9:54pm Austin Rich: He's got a lot of "pro gun" songs, outside of this one.
	9:55pm Xeres: But Earth First is lefty. Guess it goes to show you the spectrum wraps all the way around backwards.
	🎸 ♥ 9:55pm Austin Rich: Eugene was like that. Remember the pro-logging rock band you played for me?
	9:55pm Ellen: There was a lot of variety in the EF! community
	9:56pm Xeres: While this tune, "Mr. Custer" lacks cultural sensitivity, at least the white dudes lose.
	🎸 ♥ 9:56pm Austin Rich: This Larry Verne song was also new to me.
	9:56pm Ellen: There were some definite vegans in EF! who helped me out when I was running Food Not Bombs, and then there were hunters who would bag their own deer for dinner, and both were EF!
	9:57pm Ellen: This song is new to me as well.
	9:58pm Xeres: I believe I first heard it on a Dr. D compilation.
	9:58pm davefromtoronto: wow - i had this on "funny funky hits" a million years ago.
	9:58pm Ellen: Seeing "b/w" in a lot of the descriptors makes me miss collecting 45s. I also had a couple ancient 78s. My dad had a 16 if I recall correctly. He's an avid collector with literally thousands of vinyl records.
	🎸 ♥ 9:59pm WR: Mr. Custer was one of the first 45s I bought as a kid! This sounds different than what I remember. Looking to see if there were multiple versions or 60s years is too long to remember reliably.
	🎸 ♥ 9:59pm Austin Rich: This was sort of a theme in pop music in that era, a lot of rock and roll was appropriating native American imagery for music. I'm sure you could do a whole show.
	9:59pm Mr Fab: Yep, I had "Mr Custer" on KTel's "Goofy Greats." 1975.
	10:00pm Ellen: I had this album (Steve Martin)
	10:00pm Xeres: And then there's Egyptian appropriation...
	🎸 ♥ 10:00pm Austin Rich: The Steve Martin albums and the George Carlin albums were essential listening among my friends growing up. We used to quote these all the time.
	10:00pm Mr Fab: I had almost all these records!
	10:00pm davefromtoronto: as long as you don't play any johnny rebel you're good...
	🎸 ♥ 10:01pm Austin Rich: We do not go there, Dave.
	🎸 ♥ 10:01pm Austin Rich: "Disco Tut."
	10:02pm Mr Fab: I sang this with our school choir. In church.
	10:02pm Ellen: An album I listened to quite a bit was The Original Not-Ready-For-Primetime Players (the first Saturday Night Live album). I actually performed 2 pieces in my high school variety show senior year
	🎸 ♥ 10:03pm Austin Rich: I think you've talked about that album before, Ellen! I liked that one, too!
	🎸 ♥ 10:03pm Austin Rich: Raymond Scott is VERY important to me. I love everything he's every done.
	🎸 ♥ 10:04pm WR: Best taste or taste best? You decide.
	10:04pm Ellen: I was attending Improv theater school (taught by the parents of actor Jeremy Piven) when I was listening to the SNL record. It was very influential on me
	🎸 ♥ 10:05pm Austin Rich: Tune in to any channel in the Mid-Valley. You'll see the number!
	🎸 ♥ 10:05pm Austin Rich: It's time for your antique record of the program...
	🎸 ♥ 10:06pm Austin Rich: In reading about this song, I realize that it is an ANSWER song to another song that was also popular at the time. Maybe we should do ANSWER song someday, Xeres?
	10:06pm Xeres: I call this set of tunes "Peachy Keen"
	10:07pm Ellen: This is amusing. Wow I didn't know that was a thing. Answer songs? Like...songs written in direct response to other songs, as though they were a challenge?
	🎸 ♥ 10:07pm Austin Rich: I'm sure everyone knows that Billy Murray was like the Michael Jackson of his era: he just sold records like crazy, for the time. Super Popular. But is almost only remembered by record nerds these days. (Unless you listen to WFMU, then he's very well known.)
	10:07pm Xeres: It will be like Jeapordy, were the answer comes before the question.
	🎸 ♥ 10:07pm WR: I'm feeling very comfortable in this dimension. I wonder what the real estate cost is like for a comfy bungalow for two.
	🎸 ♥ 10:07pm Austin Rich: Ellen: Yeah! It's like you answer the questions they leave open in the other song.
	10:08pm Ellen: That sounds amazing. I'd be very curious to know the history of such and hear some examples. By the way, you're completely making my day, thank you for inviting me to the chat.
	🎸 ♥ 10:08pm Austin Rich: I remember, as a youth, before I'd heard this song, a kid was singing it, and I thought he was hilarious! How funny was this kid who kept almost swearing! Only later did I realize he stole the jokes...
	10:09pm Xeres: I thought this was by Benny Bell?
	🎸 ♥ 10:09pm Austin Rich: It's complicated... there's a whole backstory. Paul Wynn is the singer, but Benny Bell is the writer.
	10:10pm Ellen: I love the saxophone
	🎸 ♥ 10:10pm Austin Rich: And, of course, your token "Spike Jones" for the program.
	10:10pm Mr Fab: But the record is credited to Benny Bell. (At least mine is.)
	🎸 ♥ 10:11pm Austin Rich: Hmmmm. Maybe my research is off? Will have to check...
	🎸 ♥ 10:11pm Austin Rich: I've loved everything Spike Jones put to record, but that should be obvious by now; I think I've included something in almost every show... almost.
	10:12pm Ellen: I remember Der Fuhrer's Face with the raspberry
	10:13pm Mr Fab: this is the album I have: www.discogs.com...
	🎸 ♥ 10:13pm Austin Rich: We didn't play that one, but that one is pretty amazing, Ellen.
	🎸 ♥ 10:13pm Austin Rich: I've been looking for a copy of that album, Mr. Fab. I only have a cassette dub.
	10:14pm Xeres: "Lydia, the Tattooed Lady" first appeared in the Marx Brothers movie At the Circus (1939).
	10:14pm Ellen: I also love Spike Jonze (director of Being John Malkovich)
	🎸 ♥ 10:14pm Austin Rich: I think that's the version that's included here...
	10:14pm Xeres: Groucho singlehandedly shut down Wall Street for 15 minutes in 1950, when he took over a microphone on the trading floor of the New York Stock Exhange to tell jokes and to sing this song. Trading was suspended so that everyone could enjoy the performance.
	🎸 ♥ 10:14pm Austin Rich: I think I could just watch Marx Brothers movies over and over again and not feel like i'm missing much.
	10:14pm Ellen: So I swear I have a memory of this song sung by Kermit the Frog on the Muppet Show
	10:15pm Mr Fab: Ellen, this was Jim Henson's favorite song. It was played at his funeral.
	🎸 ♥ 10:15pm Austin Rich: I've known so many Lydia's in my day.
	🎸 ♥ 10:16pm Austin Rich: That's because Mr. Henson has perfect taste, Mr. Fab. It's a brilliant song.
	10:16pm Ellen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHXZA_5XMJ4 @Mr. Fab that's extraordinary
	10:17pm Ellen: @Xeres that's amazing. I would love a recording of that but I imagine there aren't any
	10:17pm Ellen: I am genuinely learning a lot from this chat. I should have screen shotted some of it
	🎸 ♥ 10:17pm Austin Rich: I also believe The Coasters are an important part of any well rounded American Education. Yeah, you can quote Shakespeare? But what about The Coasters?
	10:18pm Ellen: I am definitely curious what The Snake and the Book Worm sounds like. I definitely grew up a book worm, and now I read books for a living
	10:18pm Mr Fab: WFMU's archives are up forever, Ellen! Revisit this show any time.
	10:18pm Xeres: Pretty much everything the Coasters did was both a novelty tune, and an R&B classic at the same time.
	10:18pm Ellen: That's a seductive baritone
	10:19pm Mr Fab: "The Snake and the Book Worm" is another good one, about a would-be seducer.
	🎸 ♥ 10:20pm Austin Rich: I will follow up on the Paul Wynn / Benny Bell story. I'm not finding the source I was looking at, which is making me think I'm wrong...
	10:20pm Mr Fab: "both a novelty tune, and an R&B classic at the same time" - well said!
	10:20pm Ellen: The Coasters had a lot of great tunes.
	10:20pm Xeres: Red Ingle was frontman for Spike Jones & His City Slickers, until he quit in 1946 over a salary dispute, and formed his own band, Red Ingle & The Natural Seven. "Serutan Yob" is a parody of "Nature Boy," which in turn was written by Eden Ahbez and made popular by Nat King Cole in 1948.
	10:20pm Otis Fodder: Serutan Yob leads me back to the chat. Natures Boy, ahem.
	10:21pm Ellen: I've never heard this before.
	10:22pm Xeres: My dad used to recite the monologue from this from memory.
	🎸 ♥ 10:22pm Austin Rich: I have been told that there's a bit of a controversy about who wrote "Pop Corn." I had a roommate that said that this Russian version predates all of them, but I can't find a source for that either. So: Maybe?
	10:23pm Ellen: I have the same birthday as Jim Henson. I found out when I randomly met one of his sons at a party on Long Island (way before there was Google). It made me happy
	10:23pm Xeres: Popcorn is one of the few 45 singles that I still have from when I was a teen.
	10:24pm Otis Fodder: A Russian original would be interesting, just know it from Kingsley on and maybe, predated by The Percolator?
	10:24pm Mr Fab: Nope, Gershon Kingsley is Mr Popcorn. Reject Soviet popcorn propaganda!
	🎸 ♥ 10:24pm Austin Rich: I used to use buying King Missile albums as a pretext for talking to a record store girl that I was crushing on. This was while I was working at a bookstore across the way.
	10:25pm Otis Fodder: Oh wow, King Missle. Steal Stuff from Work was an anthem for office workers in the 90s.
	10:25pm Xeres: My 45 is by Hot Butter
	🎸 ♥ 10:25pm Austin Rich: I liked the idea that a bookstore boy and a record store girl would have met and dated... but it didn't happen.
	10:25pm Mr Fab: Yep , Hot Butter covered Gershon's 1st Moog Quartet.
	10:25pm Ellen: I saw Mr. Bungle live with Jonathan Christ from the Cathead days.
	🎸 ♥ 10:26pm Austin Rich: My roommate was certainly pro-soviet, so I can see the bias. I'll side with you, Mr. Fab.
	10:26pm Otis Fodder: Thankfully we have 79 versions on the WFMU blog to start with... blog.wfmu.org...
	🎸 ♥ 10:26pm Austin Rich: Ellen: I was at that show, too! We somehow met up in the crowd, magically.
	🎸 ♥ 10:27pm Austin Rich: This is sort of the "modern" era of Demento's show... in the spirt of, as they would say.
	10:27pm Xeres: The platypus is kind of a novelty animal.
	10:28pm Mr Fab: "Detachable Penis" is the usual King Missle go-to. Good tune, but nice to hear something else of theirs for a change.
	10:28pm Ellen: Such a small world. I love our shared history. It was dream-come-true territory to collaborate with you on so many shows pre-pandemic
	10:28pm Xeres: Hey, when you're our age, the 90s is still modern.
	🎸 ♥ 10:28pm Austin Rich: What was the inspiration for Cheesecake Truck, Xeres?
	🎸 ♥ 10:29pm Austin Rich: "A couple of blokes said that he was a hoax so they cut him to pieces and wrote a thesis."
	10:29pm Mr Fab: the idea of a Cheesecake Truck was a wacky idea in the '90s, but now there probably is such a thing.
	10:30pm Xeres: I mean, so much King Missile to choose from. But didn't "Cheesecake" come up in one of these chats in Sheena's room? I think I was influenced by that.
	🎸 ♥ 10:30pm Austin Rich: Good point, Mr. Fab! I like to point out that the Convenience Store scenes in "Heathers" don't play the same anymore, because stores are now like that.
	🎸 ♥ 10:31pm Austin Rich: I earnestly love most of the Bongwater catalog. They have a lot of under rated songs.
	10:31pm Ellen: I remember this song! Love Ann Magnuson
	10:31pm Mr Fab: "The platypus is kind of a novelty animal." - ha! I like the idea of other novelty things besides songs.
	🎸 ♥ 10:32pm Austin Rich: I was online friends with a gal who was friends with Ann Magnuson, and was on some Bongwater recordings. I was trying to interview this gal, but she passed before I could.
	🎸 ♥ 10:32pm Austin Rich: Stupid David! It's always his fault!
	10:32pm Xeres: I wonder if the good doctor has ever played a Bongwater song.
	🎸 ♥ 10:33pm Aitch: Jesus was Way Cool...
	10:33pm Xeres: I think Schlong is Austin's favorite band.
	🎸 ♥ 10:34pm Austin Rich: I think that Schlong are the single greatest prog-punk band out of that mid-90's crop of weirdos. But of course, Schlong sort of get forgotten these days. They have a documentary coming soon, that should be out maybe this year?
	🎸 ♥ 10:35pm Austin Rich: The Schlong complete cover of Fleetwood Mac's "Rumors," called "Tumors," and condenses the entire album into a 12 minutes 7", is pretty amazing.
	10:36pm Otis Fodder: Love FotC... just watched the show again over the holiday.
	🎸 ♥ 10:36pm Austin Rich: (But don't try googling "Schlong Tumors." Please, don't.)
	10:36pm Ellen: I love the Flight of the Conchords...and for that matter I love both versions of What We Do in the Shadows
	🎸 ♥ 10:37pm Austin Rich: If you want robot songs, Servotron delivers, for my money. Should have included some. Next time.
	🎸 ♥ 10:38pm Austin Rich: There was a Eugene band, Mondale, that had a lot of nerdy songs, and even sang in Computer Script. They would count off their songs "0 1 0 1" and stuff like that.
	10:38pm Ellen: I'm excited that there will be a next time
	10:39pm Otis Fodder: Good night all, off to shut down. Great picks/set here Xeres & AR... wow, nice way to jet out with The Rutles (and still a fav album!)
	10:39pm Xeres: We could fill a couple of two-hour shows with robot songs.
	🎸 ♥ 10:39pm Austin Rich: Controversial Take: I love The Rutles. I only sort of like The Beatles.
	🎸 ♥ 10:39pm Austin Rich: Night Otis!
	10:40pm Xeres: The Rutles were basically the Bonzo Dog Band
	10:40pm Ellen: The Rutles are pretty amazing. You know that's Eric Idle from Monty Python
	🎸 ♥ 10:40pm Austin Rich: Bonzo Dog Band is... very important.
	🎸 ♥ 10:40pm Austin Rich: I love Eric Idle's stuff, too.
	10:41pm Mr Fab: jello Biafra had a bit about band names, and thought it would be great if a hair-metal band called themselves "Mondale." Guess someone (not necessarily metal) took him up on it.
	🎸 ♥ 10:41pm Austin Rich: They named themselves after that Jello Bit!
	🎸 ♥ 10:42pm Austin Rich: Sorry that the TV signal has not worked all the time!
	🎸 ♥ 10:42pm Austin Rich: (I knew the guys in the band.)
	10:43pm Ellen: I interviewed Jello Biafra for The Southern Willamette Alliance newspaper during the Die For Oil, Sucker! tour. He randomly grabbed me and shoved his tongue down my throat. True story
	🎸 ♥ 10:43pm Austin Rich: Woah! That's really weird, Ellen. Creepy.
	🎸 ♥ 10:43pm Austin Rich: Any chance I can get to use the Universal Telephone ring, I take it.
	🎸 ♥ 10:44pm Austin Rich: This is our "country" block.
	10:45pm Ellen: Do you include Ray Stevens?
	10:45pm Xeres: This choice was inspired by a question Austin once asked on facebook,
	🎸 ♥ 10:45pm Aitch: Be nice to hear Ween's Fluffy, for ARB
	🎸 ♥ 10:45pm Austin Rich: Ray Stevens did not make the cut.
	10:45pm Ellen: I haven't had this much relaxation / fun in awhile. Thank you
	🎸 ♥ 10:46pm Austin Rich: I thought about Ween... I think we might have to do a country edition, actually.
	10:46pm Xeres: Glad to hear it, Ellen! Thanks for tuning in!
	🎸 ♥ 10:47pm Austin Rich: We're live every week, Ellen! And I just took on a second show, Mondays! So there's lots of radio these days.
	10:47pm Ellen: I am not surprised Loretta Lynn did comedy, she was on one of the most memorable episodes of The Muppet Show
	10:48pm Mr Fab: in the world of country music c. 1970,there was honkytonk/outlaw country at one end, commercial Nashville sounds at the other end...and then there was Jack Blanchard & Misty Morgan. Two weirdos in their own world.
	10:48pm Mr Fab: Ellen. this channel is 24/7 fun! It's what we do.
	🎸 ♥ 10:49pm Austin Rich: When I first got on at KWVA in Eugene, I was excited that they actually had Fugs albums. I had only ever heard about them, and had no idea what they sounded like. They sort of blew my mind. I still love them, quite a bit.
	10:49pm Ellen: What time on Mondays, and what theme? Here on this same station? How did you connect with it? Oh I remember Ruth Buzzy I think from Hee Haw
	10:49pm Ellen: Or no, now that I think about it, Laugh-In
	🎸 ♥ 10:50pm Austin Rich: The Monday show is all Old Time Radio. 3 PM PST / 6 PM EST. Detectives and stuff like that.
	🎸 ♥ 10:50pm Austin Rich: wfmu.org...
	10:52pm Ellen: I'd like to hear the recording of the attempt to exorcize demons from the Pentagon that the Fugs were involved in along I believe with Abbie Hoffman and the Yippies
	🎸 ♥ 10:53pm Austin Rich: Thanks Xeres, for doing so much work assembling / writing this show. I had a blast making it afterwards. It was so much fun... we'll be doing more, for sure! And we've done lots of other stuff, too! I'll try to have links for the show notes later.
	10:53pm Xeres: The Fugs were radical, for sure.
	🎸 ♥ 10:53pm Aitch: nothing to worry about really
	🎸 ♥ 10:54pm WR: Really fun episode Austin!
	♥ 10:54pm Scott67: Thanks Austin & co! 🍻✌😎👣🎶📻🌞🌏
	10:54pm Xeres: Thank you too, Austin, it was a lot of fun. And thanks to all our listeners and chatters tonight. I have found this very validating.
	🎸 ♥ 10:54pm Austin Rich: Thanks Scott67!
	10:55pm Ellen: If you remind me Monday I would like to tune in. I don't trust my memory with as much as I have rattling about in there
	🎸 ♥ 10:55pm Austin Rich: Thanks WR!
	10:55pm Xeres: Lots of collective musical and cultural knowledge in this room!
	🎸 ♥ 10:55pm Austin Rich: Xeres and I are singing and Mx-80 song...
	10:56pm Mr Fab: That's right, folks, Austin will be debuting ANOTHER show this Monday. Two shows a week! Two totally different concepts.
	🎸 ♥ 10:56pm Austin Rich: I can't wait! I love old time radio... and I think you will, too.
	10:56pm Ellen: This was a treasure. Thank you both <3
	10:57pm Ellen: I saw the radio version of Casablanca at the Hult Center. It was delightful. Glad you fit some Negativland in there.
	🎸 ♥ 10:57pm Austin Rich: When Xeres said he wanted to do this show with me, I insisted that this Buchanan & Goodman song be in the show.
	🎸 ♥ 10:58pm Austin Rich: I have the 45! But this recording is not from the 45.
	10:58pm Ellen: It's fab
	🎸 ♥ 10:58pm Aitch: Ta AR.
	10:58pm Mr Fab: proto-sampling
	🎸 ♥ 10:58pm Austin Rich: These guys invented it, almost!
	🎸 ♥ 10:59pm Austin Rich: My friend Colin would make his own version of this song, but with songs he liked, with jokes he wrote. Those tapes are pretty funny, but not as good as the original.
	🎸 ♥ 11:01pm Austin Rich: Night Everyone!
	11:01pm Rebecca: nice work, guys. great way to pass the shift!
	11:01pm Xeres: Be seeing you.
	11:01pm Mr Fab: !ouy knaht
	🎸 ♥ 11:18pm WR: And thank you Xeres!

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