Uncle Warren's Attic #12: What a world

What it is:

Excerpt from radio dramatization of It's A Wonderful Life with Jimmy Stewart and Donna Reed

Theme: "Seems Like Old Times," w.p. bluhm

A plug for the new Uncle Warren's Attic a-store

"Tip Toe Through the Tulips," Johnny Marvin (pictured)

A collage from the CD A Guitar's Carol by Keith L. Cooper

"Toastin' Marshmallows," Judy, Johnny & Billy (1959)

Vintage radio ad: Spry

"Melting," w.p. bluhm

"There Goes Robin" by "the Batman band." On the show I say this is the song that taught me the words pugilist and philanthropist, but when I listened again I misremembered. The mighty Robin is not described as a philanthropist in the song.

Coming soon: The "first annual" Uncle Warren Christmas Show.

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A new Christmas voice

I played you a piece by guitarist Keith Cooper back in Uncle Warren's Attic #3. Now he's put together a CD called "A Guitar's Carol," which has 11 wonderful tracks, ranging from amazing solo efforts on "The Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy" and "We Three Kings of Orient Are" to festive arrangements of "Oh Come All Ye Faithful" and "Hark the Herald Angels Sing" to an atmospheric rendering of "Carol of the Birds."

It's the best new Christmas music I've heard in a long time. It's only available now in "pre-release" form, as an insert to a Christmas card that's available only at Keith's concerts (we saw him over the weekend) and over the Web. You absolutely should check it out.

Uncle Warren's Attic #3

I'll give you eclectic, my pretty - and your little dog, too!

Our third trip to the attic, first in the new (ironically enough) basement studio, features:

Introduction: Galaxy magazine plug and close from X-Minus One
Theme: "Not to Return," Randy Bachman
Old radio PSA
"The Stars and Stripes Forever," Hurtado Brothers Royal Marimba Band
Warren nitpicks: Alternate endings of "Mirage" by Tommy James & the Shondells
"Kookie Hat," Freddy Cannon
"Cloud Burst," Keith L. Cooper (performing in Green Bay Oct. 21 to benefit Cup O'Joy Christian Coffeehouse)
"Outside Lefty's," w.p. bluhm
Ad: Rover 2000 TC, 1966 live ad by Jean Shepherd
"Keep Your Skirts Down Mary Ann," Aileen Stanley and Billy Murray; Frank Banta, piano

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