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Topic: Themes or topics for The Mad Music Hour show
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Started by: soweird
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fjrigjwwe9r2threads:MessageText fiogf49gjkf0d Yeah, that's what I was actually thinking, though my ineloquence got in the way.
Thanks for clarifying.
--- peterpuck9
You could have a Mad History of the World. Monthy Python also has a lot of those hysterical/historical bits including ..............."The Spanish Inquisition"
--- zzyzyxrex
Maybe another possible topic would be songs about history or that are of some historical interest. Mant Tom Lehrer songs would fit into that category, like the "MLF Lullaby".
I'm thinking about songs like "Battle of New Orleans" or "Sink the Bismark" or anything off Stan Freberg's History of the USA"
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fjrigjwwe9r2threads:MessageText fiogf49gjkf0d I think a few CD's I am planning to make would make good show topics.
Science songs
Cow Songs
Farm Songs (without cows)
Throripy Songs
Super Heros
Religous Songs (Mormin Rap comes to mind)
Work Songs (white coller holler)
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fjrigjwwe9r2threads:MessageText fiogf49gjkf0d You could have a Mad History of the World. Monthy Python also has a lot of those hysterical/historical bits including ..............."The Spanish Inquisition"
--- zzyzyxrex
Maybe another possible topic would be songs about history or that are of some historical interest. Mant Tom Lehrer songs would fit into that category, like the "MLF Lullaby".
I'm thinking about songs like "Battle of New Orleans" or "Sink the Bismark" or anything off Stan Freberg's History of the USA"
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fjrigjwwe9r2threads:MessageText fiogf49gjkf0d Maybe another possible topic would be songs about history or that are of some historical interest. Mant Tom Lehrer songs would fit into that category, like the "MLF Lullaby".
I'm thinking about songs like "Battle of New Orleans" or "Sink the Bismark" or anything off Stan Freberg's History of the USA"
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fjrigjwwe9r2threads:MessageText fiogf49gjkf0d There aren't many songs with that topic. However, it qualifies as a Beatles parody. Or another topic could be the circus and side-show freaks. It would be a good excuse to play "Lydia The Tattooed Lady" and a new song I heard "B.A. Clown"
--- artpaul
How about songs about woman with Beards ?
I wrote one called She's gotta a gorgeous beard
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fjrigjwwe9r2threads:MessageText fiogf49gjkf0d How come there arn't ANY songs about BELLY BUTTON LINT.
NADA, NOTHING, GOOOOORNISHED, NISHDOO !!!!
It's absolutely not fair.
A belly button is one of the first things that we have to deal with in life and I for one want to show my appreciation for the fact that if they didn't tie it in a knot we would just deflate and spin around the room like a untied balloon.
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fjrigjwwe9r2threads:MessageText fiogf49gjkf0d How about songs about woman with Beards ?
I wrote one called She's gotta a gorgeous beard
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fjrigjwwe9r2threads:MessageText fiogf49gjkf0d Actually my favorite is the Society for Indecency to Naked Animals, a hoax perpetrated in the early 1960s. Writer and actor Buck Henry portrayed their frontman before the talk show host whose show he was appearing on (I can't remmeber if it was Jack Paar) caught on and stopped just short of exposing him on national TV. Their purpose of course was to put clothes on animals so they wouldn't be running around naked.
We could use a few organizations like that today. I can't think of too many outside of maybe Billionaires for Bush.
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fjrigjwwe9r2threads:MessageText fiogf49gjkf0d --- CoyoteJeff
Animals would make a good topic. Cats and Dogs alone could fill a whole show. I like animals. There cute and delicious.
--- jdzack
My favorite animal-related organization:
PETA (People for the Eating of Tasty Animals)
--- soweird
You guys should try new Guyko fur remover, just sprinkle some on, and the fur is gone. It's so easy to use, a caveman could do it.
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fjrigjwwe9r2threads:MessageText fiogf49gjkf0d My favorite animal-related organization:
PETA (People for the Eating of Tasty Animals)
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fjrigjwwe9r2threads:MessageText fiogf49gjkf0d How about for Mothers Day, a show of songs that have either to do with either Mothers (anything by Frank Zappa's Mothers, to start with) or Days (like Stan Freberg's Day-O, songs by Dennis O'Day).
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fjrigjwwe9r2threads:MessageText fiogf49gjkf0d Animals would make a good topic. Cats and Dogs alone could fill a whole show. I like animals. There cute and delicious.
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fjrigjwwe9r2threads:MessageText fiogf49gjkf0d Just checked, yeh, that's the one.
--- Nigel128
Dr D played this one on show #11 last year - this was the first time I had heard it and thought it was Slim Dusty (A pub with no beer) but it was Slim Newton....Are all Aussie Demented Song Singers called Slim????
Only the good ones.
Alex
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fjrigjwwe9r2threads:MessageText fiogf49gjkf0d Dr D played this one on show #11 last year - this was the first time I had heard it and thought it was Slim Dusty (A pub with no beer) but it was Slim Newton....Are all Aussie Demented Song Singers called Slim????
--- macca45
In Australia, we have a song from back in the early 70's called "There Was A Redback On The Toilet Seat"
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fjrigjwwe9r2threads:MessageText fiogf49gjkf0d In Australia, we have a song from back in the early 70's called "There Was A Redback On The Toilet Seat"
For the uninitiated, a Redback is a very particularly dangerous spider, small but deadly, about 4 - 5 mm long.
Distinctive by a bright red stripe on its back
The song is about someone who got bitten in the old outhouse out the back.
If Capt. Wayne wants a copy, I can e-mail him.
Enjoyed the show on Television, how about a show on Radio, may or may not be enought songs, but who knows.
including.....
Radio Kaos -- Abrogast & Ross
Alex.
--- BorisBadenov
Don't forget "Singin' In The Bathrub" (either the R. Crumb or the new John Lithgow version) and of course "Don't Let Them Tear That Little Brown Building Down"
--- zzyzyxrex
And of course, if we're getting into bathroom humor here we need "Ruber Duckie, You're the One" & "Rub-a-dub-dub"
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fjrigjwwe9r2threads:MessageText fiogf49gjkf0d Don't forget "Singin' In The Bathrub" (either the R. Crumb or the new John Lithgow version) and of course "Don't Let Them Tear That Little Brown Building Down"
--- zzyzyxrex
And of course, if we're getting into bathroom humor here we need "Ruber Duckie, You're the One" & "Rub-a-dub-dub"
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fjrigjwwe9r2threads:MessageText fiogf49gjkf0d And of course, if we're getting into bathroom humor here we need "Ruber Duckie, You're the One" & "Rub-a-dub-dub"
--- BorisBadenov
Of course if you're *really* doing "bathroom humor" you should include songs like "I Wear Cologne" by the Dan Orr Project (a parody of Green Day's "Boulevard of Broken Dreams"), "Shaving Cream" (nice two-way bathroom humor song there) and anything you can find about Mr. Whipple.
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fjrigjwwe9r2threads:MessageText fiogf49gjkf0d Madman Moskowitz once did a show on "bathroom humor." (I think I may have mentioned this before) Poops, farts, pees, the Crepidation Contest, "I Really Gotta Go," "Diarrhea" and a bit about a guy who made his living building outhouses.
Of course if you're *really* doing "bathroom humor" you should include songs like "I Wear Cologne" by the Dan Orr Project (a parody of Green Day's "Boulevard of Broken Dreams"), "Shaving Cream" (nice two-way bathroom humor song there) and anything you can find about Mr. Whipple.
--- hackinbush
I don't know where this would fit, unless Cap'n Wayne does a theme show on bodily functions...or the gas shortage!
but I haven't heard "The Crepidation Contest" in a long, long time! Paul Boomer, Lord Windesmere and the blow by blow description would be cool!
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fjrigjwwe9r2threads:MessageText fiogf49gjkf0d It's not really demented, but I think it has a nice little comic feel to it, particularly if you take into account the type of band Queen was, heavy rock, so to do Good Company & Seaside Rendezvous seems out of character.
Alex.
--- Dang
I didn't really hear this one as being demented. Maybe I'm not hearing so well these days.
--dang
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fjrigjwwe9r2threads:MessageText fiogf49gjkf0d Another possible segment (they do not have to take up a whole show) would be on Mad Magazine records.
Mad Magazine came out with a few records of good parodies of early sixties songs.
Of course, song parodies could be another topic. Maybe a Mad Magazine segment of that topic.
What is the funniest song parody? Probably something by Stan Freberg.
Steven Green
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fjrigjwwe9r2threads:MessageText fiogf49gjkf0d that would work in a show of demented "epics". along with things like the smoke off,legend of the uss titanic,the nixorcist,star trip etc. it'd be an easier show for cap'n wayne,that's for sure!
dd
--- hackinbush
I don't know where this would fit, unless Cap'n Wayne does a theme show on bodily functions...or the gas shortage!
but I haven't heard "The Crepidation Contest" in a long, long time! Paul Boomer, Lord Windesmere and the blow by blow description would be cool!
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fjrigjwwe9r2threads:MessageText fiogf49gjkf0d I don't know where this would fit, unless Cap'n Wayne does a theme show on bodily functions...or the gas shortage!
but I haven't heard "The Crepidation Contest" in a long, long time! Paul Boomer, Lord Windesmere and the blow by blow description would be cool!
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fjrigjwwe9r2threads:MessageText fiogf49gjkf0d i hear a dementedness in that it's not the bands normal guitar,bass drum,keyboard sound. it kind of reminds me of the beatles' "honey pie".
it's starting to look like there might be enough songs for a whole MMH.
i also thought of the "whiskey bar" song by the doors. i always forget the name, but i've heard dr.d play the original version. i think it's of german origin.
the bear from canned heat did a rocking version of the chipmunks "christmas song" with alvin,simon and theodore.
jefferson airplane did "lather" with grace slick playing her nose.
dd
--- Dang
I didn't really hear this one as being demented. Maybe I'm not hearing so well these days.
--dang
--- macca45
Good Company -- Queen (from the same album as the above)
Alex
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fjrigjwwe9r2threads:MessageText fiogf49gjkf0d I didn't really hear this one as being demented. Maybe I'm not hearing so well these days.
--dang
--- macca45
Good Company -- Queen (from the same album as the above)
Alex
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fjrigjwwe9r2threads:MessageText fiogf49gjkf0d
--- Dang
The Attack of The Giant Ants -- Blondie
Lazing On A Sunday Afternoon -- Queen
I'm In Love With My Car -- Queen
Good Company -- Queen (from the same album as the above)
Alex
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fjrigjwwe9r2threads:MessageText fiogf49gjkf0d I just listened to a tape from the 3-21-04 show where half the show had this topic. To BorisBadenov, that was the show.
Here is the playlist.
Ito Eats Elvis Presley
Dominic (excerpt) Elvis Presley
Old MacDonald (edit) Elvis Presley
Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport The Beatles w/ Rolf Harris
Cobwebs And Strange The Who
Mother's Lament Cream
She's Goin' Bald The Beach Boys
Big Ten Inch Record Aerosmith
Old Ben Lucas Kinky Friedman (w/ Eric Clapton)
No Anchovies, Please The J. Geils Band
Friends The Police
Big Bad Bill (Is Sweet William Now) Van Halen
Bugs Pearl Jam
You Know My Name (Look Up The Number) (stereo edit) The Beatles
I will probably erase the tape soon. If anyone wants to trade for it, I will save the tape and do a trade.
peppertree5706@hotmail.com
Steven Green
--- danny d
how about serious rock bands being not-so-serious? some that come to mind...
plexiglass toilet by styx
mothers' lament by cream
you know my name (look up the number) by the beatles
cobwebs and strange by the who
i'm gonna buy me a dog by the monkees (yeah i know, "THEY ARE A SERIOUS ROCK BAND???")
the girl with the far away eyes by the stones
hot dog by led zeppelin
that's not enough for a whole show,but there must be more.
anyone care to add some others?
dd
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fjrigjwwe9r2threads:MessageText fiogf49gjkf0d I remember a disco song called, "Ease On Down The Road." By the end of the album version, everyone on the song was laughing and they stopped the song.
This was cut out of the hit single version. (1976)
I also remember a live version of Are You Lonesome Tonight where Elvis laughs through most of the song.
Steven Green
--- macca45
How about songs that started out as serious songs, but became demented, or should never have been released.
One springs to mind, Richard Chamberlain singing the theme to Dr Kildare, "Three Stars Will Shine Tonight"
Or anything be Mrs Miller.
Topic has probably been suggested before.
Alex.
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fjrigjwwe9r2threads:MessageText fiogf49gjkf0d Yeah the Monkees did some goofy stuff.
I remember Doctor D played "Cobwebs and Strange" last year during a show with the theme "What were they thinking?" His comment was we can't really be sure what the Who were thinking when they recorded "Cobwebs and Strange" but by all accounts they had a great time marching around the studio.
Personally I think "Cobwebs and Strange" would be a great name for a demented music podcast and if I ever lose my mind, ante up the ASCAP fees and decide to go live on the web, maybe that's exactly what I'll do and the theme song I'll use.
--- danny d
cobwebs and strange by the who
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fjrigjwwe9r2threads:MessageText fiogf49gjkf0d It may sound stupid, but maybe songs you don't like or songs gone wrong. You don't necessarily have to listen to them if they get played on the show.
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fjrigjwwe9r2threads:MessageText fiogf49gjkf0d How about songs that started out as serious songs, but became demented, or should never have been released.
One springs to mind, Richard Chamberlain singing the theme to Dr Kildare, "Three Stars Will Shine Tonight"
Or anything be Mrs Miller.
Topic has probably been suggested before.
Alex.
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fjrigjwwe9r2threads:MessageText fiogf49gjkf0d The Attack of The Giant Ants -- Blondie
Lazing On A Sunday Afternoon -- Queen
I'm In Love With My Car -- Queen
Zerox Machine -- Adam and The Ants
--dang
-- danny d
how about serious rock bands being not-so-serious? some that come to mind...
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fjrigjwwe9r2threads:MessageText fiogf49gjkf0d how about serious rock bands being not-so-serious? some that come to mind...
plexiglass toilet by styx
mothers' lament by cream
you know my name (look up the number) by the beatles
cobwebs and strange by the who
i'm gonna buy me a dog by the monkees (yeah i know, "THEY ARE A SERIOUS ROCK BAND???")
the girl with the far away eyes by the stones
hot dog by led zeppelin
that's not enough for a whole show,but there must be more.
anyone care to add some others?
dd
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fjrigjwwe9r2threads:MessageText fiogf49gjkf0d We could use some March Maddness.
At about 6 months since Halloween, a show of phycos & such, or just plain scary stuff (like Gas Station Washroom - The Frantics) might be on order.
Another kind of March Maddness would be the fanatic fan, the extreme.
-Tim
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fjrigjwwe9r2threads:MessageText fiogf49gjkf0d it's still about6 weeks off, but how about a show themed around springtime/St. Patrick's Day/things that are green?
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fjrigjwwe9r2threads:MessageText fiogf49gjkf0d Just thought of long songs and short songs (separate.)
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fjrigjwwe9r2threads:MessageText fiogf49gjkf0d one more...Lalo Guerrero, of "Tacos For Two" and "Pancho Lopez" fame, passed away last March, at 88. I've already emailed the Doc with a request remembering him after the Funny 25 show, but I thought I'd add him to this list, too.
--- soweird
How about one of the January shows being a tribute to entertainers who passed away during 2005. Songs by or about these entertainers.
James Doohan
Bob Denver
Don Adams
Richard Pryor
The Crusher
Eddie Guerrero
Johnny Carson
Frank Gorshin
Thurl Ravenscroft
Eddie Albert
Leon Askin
Paul Winchell
Nipsey Russell
Pat Morita
There must be more names to add to this list.
So what do you think Captain, aarrr ya with me on this?
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fjrigjwwe9r2threads:MessageText fiogf49gjkf0d How about one of the January shows being a tribute to entertainers who passed away during 2005. Songs by or about these entertainers.
James Doohan
Bob Denver
Don Adams
Richard Pryor
The Crusher
Eddie Guerrero
Johnny Carson
Frank Gorshin
Thurl Ravenscroft
Eddie Albert
Leon Askin
Paul Winchell
Nipsey Russell
Pat Morita
Vincent Schiavelli
There must be more names to add to this list.
So what do you think Captain, aarrr ya with me on this?
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fjrigjwwe9r2threads:MessageText fiogf49gjkf0d Poems, Limericks.
Ballads.
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fjrigjwwe9r2threads:MessageText fiogf49gjkf0d Yep, the version I have is 18-1/2 minutes so it's possible, but it'd be 1/3 of the whole show!
--- peterpuck9
--- HalfBee
Gotta love the twenty-seven eight by ten color photos with the circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one...
If I remember right the running time on this is 27 minutes which means a large chunk of the podcast, perhaps an all Guthrie show (unless there aren't that many actual thanksgiving songs).
Actually, 18:20
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fjrigjwwe9r2threads:MessageText fiogf49gjkf0d
--- HalfBee
Gotta love the twenty-seven eight by ten color photos with the circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one...
If I remember right the running time on this is 27 minutes which means a large chunk of the podcast, perhaps an all Guthrie show (unless there aren't that many actual thanksgiving songs).
Actually, 18:20
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fjrigjwwe9r2threads:MessageText fiogf49gjkf0d Gotta love the twenty-seven eight by ten color photos with the circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one...
If I remember right the running time on this is 27 minutes which means a large chunk of the podcast, perhaps an all Guthrie show (unless there aren't that many actual thanksgiving songs).
Live from the group W bench...
-----------Edited----------
Ok... I humbly bow before your mighty knowledge of things such as play lengths... I dug out my tape and it does run about 18 minutes (didn't time it other than by minute hand). In my defense, at the end he does say he's been singing this song for 25 minutes...
One thing I did find out is that the tape copy I have isn't of the best quality and would enjoy having a nice digital version of it... go for it wayne...
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fjrigjwwe9r2threads:MessageText fiogf49gjkf0d Warning: Funny Music may cause you to think.
ala
Phil Oches - Close Circle of Freinds,
Country Joe & The Fish - Feel Like I'm Fixing to Die Rag
Joel Mabus - Hitler Was a Vegetarian
others?
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fjrigjwwe9r2threads:MessageText fiogf49gjkf0d With Thanksgiving on the horizon: Food and Arlo Guthrie's Alice's Restaurant. Besides its anti-establishment, anti-draft, its central theme occurs around Thanksgiving.
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fjrigjwwe9r2threads:MessageText fiogf49gjkf0d
--- peppertree5706
Ex wives, alimony and taxes.
That's almost as bad as dentists and death!
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fjrigjwwe9r2threads:MessageText fiogf49gjkf0d Ex wives, alimony and taxes.
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fjrigjwwe9r2threads:MessageText fiogf49gjkf0d Yes, Alcohol!
--- Nigel128
Alcohol!
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fjrigjwwe9r2threads:MessageText fiogf49gjkf0d a semi-regular feature i miss from the KMET days is "the railroad hour". just lots of old train songs.
with the 25th anniversary of john lennon's murder a little more than a month away,how about a beatles/lennon tribute?
television is a great subject.
fast/junk food.
animals.
dd
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fjrigjwwe9r2threads:MessageText fiogf49gjkf0d How about fart songs? I've got a few of them on my website (www.nworbcire.com) that you could use.
(By the way, Wayne, feel free to use any of my songs anytime!)
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fjrigjwwe9r2threads:MessageText fiogf49gjkf0d I like the topic of cheese that peterpuck9 suggested.I've written a few cheese songs myself and the one Dr Demento played I think people would like is Let's Eat Cheese Mama,About the other topic of long songs I would like to mention The Great LukeSki Fanboy Christmas.
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fjrigjwwe9r2threads:MessageText fiogf49gjkf0d Wayne, thanks for the great "Mad Music Hour" shows. Nice job!
Here's a couple ideas for show topics:
THE LONGEST NOVELTY SONGS & SKITS EVER
Arlo's Alice's Restaurant is one; Wes Harrison's "The Great Duck Hunt" is a rare gem.
TV STARS WHO (TRY TO) SING
Go beyond the "Golden Throats" collection and include Jack Klugman and Tony Randall singing You're So Vain; Carroll O'Connor and Jean Stapleton singing Oh Babe, What Would You Say; Lee Majors singing The Unknown Stuntman; Larry Hagman singing Queen if the Silver Dollar; etc.
-- Zack
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fjrigjwwe9r2threads:MessageText fiogf49gjkf0d Hopefully, we will come up with some different topics then Dr D just so we can have variety and some different songs be played. And if you have a Funny 25 or A Mad Countdown, it should be limited to recent songs.
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fjrigjwwe9r2threads:MessageText fiogf49gjkf0d My topics are Jack Radio and Cheese. Or maybe you could do a Jack Cheese show if you can't find enough songs.
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fjrigjwwe9r2threads:MessageText fiogf49gjkf0d Hey Statin' Ilin! Were you thinking the top 25 new songs in 2005, or the most requested?
I like both ideas, but the top 25 of this year's new recordings might be more intersting (Luke Ski, Sudden Death, Hard N' Phirm, Art Paul Schlosser, Christine Lavin, Ivor Biggun, Steven Lynch, etc.).
--- A-Log
How about a yearly countdown of the best songs of the past year ala "The Funny 25"?
Anthony "A-Log" LoGatto
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fjrigjwwe9r2threads:MessageText fiogf49gjkf0d Censorship
Cartoon/TV songs
Interviews
Cars
Government-related songs
Stupidity
Medical dementia
Parodies
Science and technology
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fjrigjwwe9r2threads:MessageText fiogf49gjkf0d How about An All Eating Show !
Here are some I wrote:
Have A Peanut Butter Sandwich,Eat Nutriously,Let's Eat Cheese Mama,Purple Bananas On the Moon,The Worst Pie,The Worst Restaurant and I'm sure you could play at least a 100 of Weird Al songs not to mention Fruit Loops by The Great LukeSki
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fjrigjwwe9r2threads:MessageText fiogf49gjkf0d How about a yearly countdown of the best songs of the past year ala "The Funny 25"?
Anthony "A-Log" LoGatto
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fjrigjwwe9r2threads:MessageText fiogf49gjkf0d Alcohol!
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fjrigjwwe9r2threads:MessageText fiogf49gjkf0d We need to start a list of show themes or topics for The Mad Music Hour show. There are several that reoccur each year.
Halloween
Thanksgiving
Christmas
New Year's
Valentine's Day
Saint Patrick's Day
Easter
Memorial Day
Fourth of July
Labor Day
Here are a couple of special ones.
"Demented Doctors" on the yearly anniversary of the Doctor Demento show.
"Pirates" on the yearly anniversary of The Mad Music Hour show.
Here are some other topics I was thinking about.
"Yard and garden tools, power equipment"
"Judges and lawyers"
"Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, Coast Guard"
"Space travel, our sun and planets"
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