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Dedicated to all music odd, silly or forgotten, Crazy College has been hitting the airways since 1984. Hosted by Geo. Stewart, it's a fun way to look at the whole panoply of American social attitudes and what them change, sometime even evolving for the better. Spike Jones, Stan Freberg Allan Sherman, they all have a home here, as do Brother Theodore, Billy Murray, Raymond Scott and more
To write us directly, use the link on the left or type "CrazyCollege", the "@"sign, and then "Verizon.net"
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Our Motto-
"Never underestimate the potency of cheap music."
- Amanda Prynne, Private Lives
The Time I Met Ray Harryhausen at a Museum
Terry Gilliam said it best when he heard that the master animator Ray Harryhausen had died. "What we do now digitally with computers, Ray did digitally long before but without computers. Only with his digits".
Ray brought life to inanimate simulacra of wire, foam and fur for a dozen of films, having apprenticed under Willis O'Brian, the maker of King Kong and Mighty Joe Young.
One time he came to Delaware and I got to shake his hand.
It was back in the late 80s. I was talking to a friend who happened to be a curator at the Delaware Art Museum. It's a small museum, started in the late 1800s by local rich ladies who took art classes drawing still lifes with the disciples of Schoonover and Wyeth who had made the surrounding rural areas their home. Those days were long gone; the dusty dim maze of walls lined with dusty dim portraits received few visitors anymore, which was a shame really as a lot of it was quite good. It was a museum in transition, always looking for traveling shows that would be inexpensive to mount but popular enough to draw some attention. My curator friend was in charge of just such a show, opening in just a few weeks: an exhibition of Frederic Remington sculptures, oh, and by the way "some guy name Ray Harryhausen who made movies and was a big fan was coming to the opening night. Ever hear of him?" I was flabbergasted. He had started my love of movies as a child, scared me senseless with Earth vs. The Flying Saucers and the Seventh Voyage of Sinbad. I blurted out in what amounted to a yell, "Don't you know who he is?" and proceeded to tell him his history - in detail. I also suggested that Harryhausen would be a bigger draw then Remington would be and that they should get a press release out immediately. I also suggested they contact a local AM radio host, Mr. Movie, whose photographic memory gave him more facts than taste which he would prove every Saturday night for a few hours.
Opening night was mobbed with art lovers, movie lovers and the few who were both. The talk show host got an interview and wasted the opportunity asking the same basic question that Ray had answered too many times before to really be engaged. I really couldn't get close enough to be introduced, so I spent my time drinking champagne and eating the various canapés while admiring Remington's skill of capturing movement in clay and bronze and realizing THAT was why Ray was such a fan.
Delaware in August can be brutally hot - even late in the evening. The museum's air condition did its best but I still sought relief outside on the steps, already a bit crowded by others who didn't mind the humidity. One turned out to be Ray's wife. We talked for a while about all sorts of things, including, of course, Ray and his films until Ray finally appeared, anxious to leave, but held back by his wife who forced an introduction. "Ray, this is the man who helped set this up" (overstating my involvement). With a smile and a handshake he said, "Well, it was a great evenings." "It was great to have you here," I replied, adding "- and I love your films." With that they were gone and I went back in for another glass of champagne.
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I've never seen so much poetry with so many strings attached. The Cashore Marionettes were in town last April to present a program of moving vinettes lifted from everyday life. A touch of Chaplin, a bit of Tate and a whiff Keaton made for a quietly profound vision of the human condition in all its manifestations.
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To me a house without squeaky floors can never be a home.
• An amazing mechanical doll at a Living Museum in Vermont
Look what some listener sent us: a Steel needle case for 78s. If you loved your recorders, which cost close to a day's salary for the average working man at the time (It's why we need strong unions),and then you had to change your needle after every fifth play.
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May 19
"Lawyers and other Lowlifes"
On the next edition of Crazy College we'll sneak a peak at some famous lawyers' briefs. Then Mickey Katz, Allan Sherman, and Peter Sellers salute The Beatles; Mel Brooks re-fights The Second World War. And Tim Lehrer proves that love hurts when he does the Masochistic Tango.
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"Saluting Burt Williams" This week we salute the first few decades of the phonograph. You’ll hear a heaping helping of rare and wonderful recordings from artist mostly forgotten. But many of the tunes live on, tunes like Red Wing and In the Good Old Summertime. Plus we’re salute the first Negro star of the vaudeville stage, Bert Williams.
• June 2
East Meats West"
This week East meets West as we ride the ranges with Cole Porter, Iggy Pop, and Debbie Harry. Then we play the Occidental tourist and visit the mystic East with our guides Ruth Wallis, Steve Martin, and Sophie Tucker.
• June 9
"Les Barker"
This week we are visited by poet Les Barker who will declaim for us and play a whole mess of his favorite silly songs from the likes of the Goons, The Bonzo Dog Band and George Formby Jr.
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June 16
"The Lighter Side of Substance Abuse
A special edition of "Crazy College this week as we revisit a show from 1967 when Geo was known as "The Love Brother" in the "Seventh House Of Crazy". Yes, it's one full hour of silly psychedelia, songs that groups like Jefferson Airplane, The Who, even The Electric Prunes, vehemently deny they ever recorded. Peace
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Join me every Sunday evening at 6:00 PM on 91.3 FM, WVUD, Newark where like an babbling brook, they STREAM! Professor Emeritus Dr. Soupy Sales
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I though you might enjoy 4E's business card that a good friend sent me.. �
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From the G. Stewart/C. Healy Archives: A 7 year old Andrew Warhola does his first silk screen: "36 Wax Coke Bottles."
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Now hear all WVUD's fine programming over the web by going to the web page and then clicking on "LISTEN", something good to do on Sunday nights twix 6 and 7 on WVUD...
NEWS FLASHS!..We're Back! ...but for how long?...SEE EXCERPTS FROM THE CRAZY COLLEGE TV SHOW, BAKED POTATO, now on YOUTUBE!! Click on the link in the sidebar to your left (my right). But don't tell mom...
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Brain Drool
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Articles on Annette Funicello and Little Golden Records have been archived in
"Miscellaneous Musings."
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Updated 12/23/2012.
This is the Crazy College Promise:
We will update this website a lot, so you call come back now!"Crazy College" TM. All original material copyright George Stewart.
Rights to all other material remains with the original copyright holders
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This leading page designed according to Geo's desires by: Neil Banerjee [Neil does a really neat show of music from the Indian Subcontinant that you should listen to on Sundays at 4pm (skbde@yahoo.com)
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