Dr Wingnut

Category: Things to find

  • Stuck in my head

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    So I have this song lyric that is stuck in my head, “Today is Monday (or any other day of the week), what’s on the menu?”  I wonder if it was from Romper Room, or Captain Kangaroo in the 1960’s.  I’d like to get the whole thing so I could rinse it out of my…

  • Ray’s Male Heterosexual Dance Hall

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    I saw this late one night on KTCA when they were playing shorts and have been looking for it on DVD for quite some time.  It’s the perfect job networking film, and won the Academy Award for short live action film in 1988.

  • Scott Joplin

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    On the note of fabulous music not being released on CD, another one of my favorite albums is the E. Power Biggs LP where he plays Scott Joplin music on the Pedal Harpsichord.When I went looking for the first volume, I found that Dr. Biggs had also released a second volume.OK Columbia — how come…

  • Pass In Review

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    I was watching the latest Looney Tunes Golden Collection (Volume 6) with the WWII cartoons on it, and remembered this really great LP that my parents owned.  I had made a cassette from it and I wondered if it had ever been released on CD or if there are MP3s of the tracks anywhere.  It’s…

  • ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas

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    Once upon a time, there was a singing group called Fred Waring and the Pennsylvanians… in 1955 they released an album called “‘Twas The Night Before Christmas” that had some really fun versions of; Jingle Bells, Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, Santa Claus is Coming to Town, and ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas, on one…

  • Little Sisters of the Grassland

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    I only have a bad copy on tape of this vinyl album.  Wish there was a CD issue of:Boston Symphony Orchestra, Wu Tsu-Chiang composer, Concerto for Pipa & Orchestra “Little Sisters of the Grassland”, Ozawa (Liu Teh-hai) [1979]Philips 9500 692 S Wu: Little Sisters of the Grassland (LIU TEH-HAI, pipa); Liszt: Concerto #1 (LIU SHIH-KUN,…