Don-O's Hour Of Crap

The second of many threatened Xanadu-themed episodes has arrived to echo through out your mental chamber. This time, it’s an hour worth of covers of the title track. Amongst the guilty (other than yours truly) are Bob Downe, Hiromi Iwasaki, James Last, Javier Alvarez, LMP, Lounge-O-Leers, Mark S. Meritt, Picnic & Regine Velasquez. Plus, there’s a special section of various garage rock bands having a go with this fluffy piece of old Top 40 radio.

…and if THAT wasn’t enough, there’s a special surprise at this end of this show for you surviving X-fanboys and X-fangirls….

Good Luck,
Don-O

PS: The piece of art used for this podcast posting is done by John Hagen and it’s was lifted from The Book Of the SubGenius. It was abused by yours truly….

WEB SITES OF PARTICULAR INTERESTS: http://www.donosdump.com/xanadu.html http://manlyart.bigcartel.com/product/xanadu-grand-opening-poster http://xanaduonbroadway.com/ http://www.jefflynnesongs.com/xanadu/

Believe it or not, there was a very brief time in the Los Angeles talk radio market that wasn’t all paranoid bunker talk promoted by Rush Limbaugh and the rest of his clones from Fox News. Enter April Winchell with her rambling humorous rants that would make Rush blush without the political neo-con BS and pill-pooping paranoia! It was the fun ,questionable stunts and Mrs. Miller records that entertained many and helped April achieve cult status and good ratings within the LA’s large radio market…..which lead to her being replaced by the ‘Best Of Phil Hendrie’.

HoC pays tribute to what left of her radio legacy with moments from her yearly ‘Jerry Lewis Radio Spectacular’, introducing the world to Wing, tales of barfing on Lucile Ball (well, almost) and shares family moments of her father Paul Winchell. We mess ya, hon!

Web sites of interest: http://aprilwinchell.tradebit.com/files.php/6013-Sounds-MIDI-Voices http://www.regretsy.com/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Winchell http://www.youtube.com/user/aprilwinchell

You like the music of Burt Bacharach and Hal David?...hell, have you even heard of them!? Well, you’ll ponder that inquiry in horrid detail as we pay questionable tribute to The Burt. We got a Spike Jones-inspired de-arrangement of (They Long To Be) Close To You, birds falling from the sky, Sandra Bernhard wondering about the woman she could have been, an Accordion Symphonette and, to wrap it up, 30 continuous minutes of Wives & Lovers.

Praise Burt,
Don-O

Web sites of interest: http://musicformaniacs.blogspot.com/2006/11/riaa-dirt-bacharach.html http://www.comfortstand.com/catalog/001/ http://bacharachonline.com/ http://mrfab-riaa.blogspot.com/ otisfodder.com

This is the first chunk of my audio collection of oddball moments I’ve recorded off the radio over the decades. Included in this episode are Negativland’s visit to the Enchanted Tiki Room (this will be the closest these guys will ever get to “Exotica”) and the hosts of The Molotov Cocktail Hour try to explain a record they just played and the demented foreign movie it came from.

However, the big deal here is a tribute to The Firesign Theatre and one of its founding members, the late Peter Bergman. Some of the clips for this section are taken from the group’s 2011 box set, ‘Duke Of Madness Motors’. Grab this monster while you can!!

Praise the surrealness and Bergman!
Don-O

Web sites of interest: firesigntheatre.com, negativland.com, themolotovcocktailhour.com, kxlu.com & subgenius.com

P. S.: For a more through (and touching) Bergman/TFT tribute, swing on over to The Church Of The Sub-Genius’ own radio show/podcast Hour Of Slack for their own salute http://hourofslack.libsyn.com/webpage/hour-of-slack-1351-early-mourning-memorial-party-for-the-late-saint-peter-bergman. Highly Recommended!

One person’s obsession is another sap’s monkey on his or her back…and mine is the 1980 “musical fantasy of all time”, Xanadu, starring Olivia Newton-John and Gene Kelly. You’ll have to visit my Xanadu Preservation Society site at donosdump.com to go any further into this abyss.

Last year, on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of Xanadu’s release and it’s stubborn existence, I assembled a audio documentary called Returning To Xanadu, where I sequenced parts of the 1980 TV special, 2008 documentary and whatever else I had at hand telling a leaner story of who, where and ‘WTF?!’ behind this film.

…and we wrap it all up with what might be the closest thing you’ll hear to a Glee version of this movie. Good Luc-KA!

Another warning: this will be the first of many Xanadu-themed shows planned for this year. “…but f&%@$ing why?!”, you maybe asking. Well, this is my show and drug of choice, buck-o! If I have to live with all of this, so can you!!