Magic Whistle Radio Hour 183

Things I've collected over the years or acquired on mixtapes and comps or gathered from the internet or the library or my parents' attic. The different sources are the reason for the volume disparity. I make no claims to "discovering" or "owning" anything. Probably neither do you. It's whatever I feel like playing that week. Every Saturday. No repeats. Things that may or may not be familiar. Who knows? The time's next to each song in case you don't like something or it's icky or if you don't want your kids to hear it. Don't let offense at one song cloud your impression of the curation as a whole Past weeks here too. Just type "Audio" in the search engine. Or if you're too lazy to press a button more than once, here's everything up to January 2018. You don't get the all playlists, though. You can right-click this if you want to save a zip file of this one (containing an mp3 of the file) for later. Here what information I was able to find:

0:00 SPIKE MILLIGAN- Q-5 Piano Song (1969)
2:23 DAWS BUTLER & TIP CORNING- Chirpy Cricket (1947)

8:04 JOHN BENNEFIELD w/THE HOLLOWAY SISTERS- Crying the Blues in My Dreams (1957)

10:38 JIM KANDY- Cocaine Blues (1965)

13:06 SWEET VIOLET BOYS- Show Me a Man Who Won't
15:32 RALPH MARTERIE- Crazy 'Bout Lollipop (1954)
18:17 TERRI “CUP CAKE” O'MASON- Limericks
   from LP Adam Stag Party Special #2, 1960
18:43 DEBBIE DEAN- Don't Let Him Shop Around (1961)

21:19 THE TRASHMEN- Peppermint Man

22:22 GARY SHELTON- Don't Send Me Away (1957)
24:26 ROD WILLIS- The Cat (1959)

26:48 AL SERINO- Dreams of You-Know-Who (1959)
“A thoughtful ballad, full of nature philosophy, Fair material, handled on okay form.”

29:03 ZANE ASHTON- He Was a Mean Dragon (1961)
32:02 ELLA JOHNSON- Don't Shout at Me Daddy (1958)
34:20 LEGENDARY STARDUST COWBOY- Relaxation

37:10 FATS WALLER & CAB CALLOWAY & HIS ORCHESTRA- Walking the Dog
38:37 DON BOWMAN- The San Francisco Scene (1968)

40:54 FRANK CRUMIT- Chili Bean (1920)
43:48 SONNY RICHARD'S “PANIC'S”- The Voo Doo Walk (1962)

46:04 FRANKIE SARDO- The Class-Room (1958)

48:00 THE SWINGERS- Bay-Hay-Bee Doll (1966)

51:07 GENERAL ELECTRIC- Supermink
   from LP Go Fly a Kite!, 1966
53:00 BUDDY HACKETT- The Diet
   from LP The Original Chinese Waiter, 1960
“Naturally funny people, instinctively funny people, aren't easy to find in these times. Sure, there are any number of people who can stand up, tell a few jokes, and thereby pump out a chuckle or two. But people who can convulse an audience merely by walking out on stage are a rarity.

“Buddy Hackett can have you rolling in the aisle on the nightclub floor before he opens his mouth. In fact, his closed mouth is a riot. There it is stuck on his face as if God had been playing in-the-mouth and puckered and small and lost, but not quite as lost as those tiny, startled eyes. 'What's going on out here?' they seem to want to know.

“Buddy Hackett is a funny man, sitting on a television talk show panel, his feet not touching the floor, seemingly patched haphazardly together like Humpty Dumpty after the fall. A funny man, and he hasn't said a word.

“And then he starts to talk and he is even funnier, as he lets words of (not so) fool's wisdom tumble from his mouth, or even better as he frolics through some of his comedy routines, as he does boisterously on this album.

“Every truly great comedian has his famous characterization. Charlie Chaplin has his little tramp, Bert Lahr his woodsman, W. C. Fields his beset sot, Harpo Marx his tousled deaf mute, Dick Shawn his senile Civil War vet, and Buddy Hackett his Chinese waiter.

“Everybody knows Buddy Hackett's Chinese waiter routine. If they don't, they should. It's the kind of timeless comedy that grows with repeated listens. Listen and listen and...”

55:24 DEEP RIVER BOYS- The Story of Eebobaleebob
58:15 CAROL KAY & THE STONE TONES- Shook Out of Shape (1964)
   from The Incredidibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies !!? (1964)