1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,000 If Helen Reddy sang, I Am Woman, 2 00:00:04,000 --> 00:00:08,000 Helen Woman would sing, I Am Ready. 3 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:10,000 Here's the theme. 4 00:00:10,000 --> 00:00:23,000 ¦ 5 00:00:23,000 --> 00:00:25,000 Hello there, I'm Peter Schickele, 6 00:00:25,000 --> 00:00:27,000 and this is Schickele Mix, 7 00:00:27,000 --> 00:00:30,000 a program dedicated to the proposition 8 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:32,000 that all musics are created equal. 9 00:00:32,000 --> 00:00:34,000 Or as Duke Ellington put it, 10 00:00:34,000 --> 00:00:37,000 if it sounds good, it is good. 11 00:00:37,000 --> 00:00:39,000 And to have good radio shows, 12 00:00:39,000 --> 00:00:41,000 you have to have good providers, 13 00:00:41,000 --> 00:00:43,000 somebody to bring home the bacon. 14 00:00:43,000 --> 00:00:46,000 In our case, we're talking about this very radio station. 15 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:49,000 And if, as some folks do at meals, 16 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:51,000 we said grace at the beginning of this program, 17 00:00:51,000 --> 00:00:53,000 those organizations would be 18 00:00:53,000 --> 00:00:56,000 the second recipient of our thanks. 19 00:00:56,000 --> 00:00:58,000 Speaking of meals, 20 00:00:58,000 --> 00:01:01,000 I don't know about your family, but both of mine, 21 00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:04,000 by that I mean the one of which I'm one of the kids 22 00:01:04,000 --> 00:01:07,000 as well as the one of which I'm one of the parents, 23 00:01:07,000 --> 00:01:09,000 we have certain catchphrases 24 00:01:09,000 --> 00:01:11,000 that are part of the family lingo, 25 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:15,000 one of which was contributed by my brother years and years ago. 26 00:01:15,000 --> 00:01:18,000 I was living on not much money in those days, 27 00:01:18,000 --> 00:01:20,000 and he was living on even less. 28 00:01:20,000 --> 00:01:23,000 But because of a film project we were both involved in, 29 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:25,000 we found ourselves one evening 30 00:01:25,000 --> 00:01:29,000 at the home of the sister of a very famous columnist. 31 00:01:29,000 --> 00:01:32,000 She lived in an exclusive residential area, 32 00:01:32,000 --> 00:01:35,000 you know, that you had to go through a gatehouse to enter. 33 00:01:35,000 --> 00:01:39,000 And although the atmosphere was relaxed and informal, 34 00:01:39,000 --> 00:01:43,000 the meal itself was fit for a king and or queen. 35 00:01:43,000 --> 00:01:45,000 And about halfway through it, 36 00:01:45,000 --> 00:01:48,000 my brother smacked his lips and said, 37 00:01:48,000 --> 00:01:52,000 boy, you know, good food is better than bad food. 38 00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:55,000 I find that to be a very profound statement. 39 00:01:55,000 --> 00:01:58,000 And it's applicable in such a wide range of fields, 40 00:01:58,000 --> 00:02:00,000 you know what I mean? 41 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:03,000 I mean, good music is better than bad music too, 42 00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:06,000 and good directions are better than bad directions. 43 00:02:06,000 --> 00:02:09,000 Good vibrations are certainly better than bad vibrations, 44 00:02:09,000 --> 00:02:11,000 and I think most of us would agree 45 00:02:11,000 --> 00:02:14,000 that good sex is better than bad sex. 46 00:02:14,000 --> 00:02:17,000 But let's get back to the subject of vittles. 47 00:02:17,000 --> 00:02:19,000 Today's program is called 48 00:02:19,000 --> 00:02:23,000 You Are and You Sing About What You Eat. 49 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:27,000 They say that some people eat to live and others live to eat. 50 00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:30,000 Well, I'm definitely in the latter category. 51 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:34,000 And now that I'm in my dotage, or should I say old dogage, 52 00:02:34,000 --> 00:02:36,000 I'm trying to learn some new tricks, 53 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:39,000 like not eating when I'm not hungry. 54 00:02:39,000 --> 00:02:43,000 Fortunately, music, even Brahms, isn't fattening. 55 00:02:43,000 --> 00:02:46,000 Now there's only one thing worse than bad food, 56 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:48,000 and that's no food. 57 00:02:48,000 --> 00:02:52,000 It would be nice to think that someday we will be able and willing 58 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:54,000 to move food around this planet 59 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:57,000 as efficiently as we now move guns and ammunition. 60 00:02:57,000 --> 00:02:59,000 In the meantime, here's the 61 00:02:59,000 --> 00:03:02,000 Food Is Better Than No Food Song Cycle. 62 00:03:02,000 --> 00:03:06,000 It's got 3 numbers and lasts about 9 1⁄2 minutes. 63 00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:08,000 See you later. 64 00:03:12,000 --> 00:03:14,000 Is it worth the waiting for 65 00:03:14,000 --> 00:03:16,000 If we live to 84 66 00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:19,000 All we ever get is cruel 67 00:03:19,000 --> 00:03:21,000 Every day we say our prayer 68 00:03:21,000 --> 00:03:23,000 Will they change the bill of fare 69 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:27,000 Still we get the same old cruel 70 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:29,000 There's not a crust, not a crumb 71 00:03:29,000 --> 00:03:34,000 Can we find, can we beg, can we borrow a cash 72 00:03:34,000 --> 00:03:38,000 But there's nothing to stop us from getting a thrill 73 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:41,000 When we all close our eyes 74 00:03:41,000 --> 00:03:46,000 And imagine 75 00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:51,000 Food, glorious food 76 00:03:51,000 --> 00:03:55,000 Hot, sausage and mustard 77 00:03:55,000 --> 00:03:59,000 Wow, we're in the mood 78 00:03:59,000 --> 00:04:03,000 Cold, jelly and custard 79 00:04:03,000 --> 00:04:08,000 Warm, peas, pudding and savoy 80 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:12,000 But next is the question 81 00:04:12,000 --> 00:04:16,000 Raise, gentlemen, heavy voice 82 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:21,000 In digestion 83 00:04:21,000 --> 00:04:25,000 Food, glorious food 84 00:04:25,000 --> 00:04:28,000 We're anxious to try it 85 00:04:28,000 --> 00:04:31,000 Three banquets a day 86 00:04:31,000 --> 00:04:34,000 Our favorite diet 87 00:04:34,000 --> 00:04:37,000 Just think of our great big steak 88 00:04:37,000 --> 00:04:40,000 And most astute of food 89 00:04:40,000 --> 00:04:46,000 Food, glorious food 90 00:04:46,000 --> 00:04:50,000 Food, glorious food 91 00:04:50,000 --> 00:04:53,000 What is a more handsome 92 00:04:53,000 --> 00:04:56,000 Cup, smaller or jute 93 00:04:56,000 --> 00:04:59,000 Still worth the game's ransom 94 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:02,000 What is it we dream about 95 00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:05,000 What brings on a sigh 96 00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:07,000 Peaches and cream about 97 00:05:07,000 --> 00:05:10,000 Six feet high 98 00:05:10,000 --> 00:05:13,000 Food, glorious food 99 00:05:13,000 --> 00:05:15,000 Eats right to the menu 100 00:05:15,000 --> 00:05:18,000 Just loosen your belt 101 00:05:18,000 --> 00:05:21,000 Two inches and then you 102 00:05:21,000 --> 00:05:24,000 Work up a new appetite 103 00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:26,000 In this Italian 104 00:05:26,000 --> 00:05:28,000 And food, once again 105 00:05:28,000 --> 00:05:30,000 Food, fabulous food 106 00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:35,000 Food, glorious food 107 00:05:35,000 --> 00:05:38,000 Food, glorious food 108 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:41,000 Don't care what it looks like 109 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:43,000 But I'm the judge 110 00:05:43,000 --> 00:05:46,000 Food, don't care what it looks like 111 00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:49,000 Just thinking of growing fat 112 00:05:49,000 --> 00:05:52,000 Nonsense is so really 113 00:05:52,000 --> 00:05:55,000 One moment of knowing that 114 00:05:55,000 --> 00:05:58,000 Full of feeling 115 00:05:58,000 --> 00:06:01,000 Food, glorious food 116 00:06:01,000 --> 00:06:04,000 What would we live for 117 00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:07,000 That extra bit more 118 00:06:07,000 --> 00:06:10,000 That's all that we live for 119 00:06:10,000 --> 00:06:12,000 Why should we be faint and true 120 00:06:12,000 --> 00:06:14,000 Do nothing but prove 121 00:06:14,000 --> 00:06:16,000 I'm food 122 00:06:16,000 --> 00:06:17,000 Magical 123 00:06:17,000 --> 00:06:18,000 Food 124 00:06:18,000 --> 00:06:19,000 Wonderful 125 00:06:19,000 --> 00:06:20,000 Food 126 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:21,000 Fabulous 127 00:06:21,000 --> 00:06:22,000 Food 128 00:06:22,000 --> 00:06:23,000 Fabulous 129 00:06:23,000 --> 00:06:24,000 Food 130 00:06:24,000 --> 00:06:29,000 Fabulous food 131 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:34,000 I've been leaving on my things 132 00:06:34,000 --> 00:06:37,000 So in the morning when the morning bird sings 133 00:06:37,000 --> 00:06:41,000 There's still dinner on my dinner jacket 134 00:06:41,000 --> 00:06:43,000 Till the dinner bell rings 135 00:06:43,000 --> 00:06:48,000 Experimenting from a spoon 136 00:06:48,000 --> 00:06:55,000 Scatting 137 00:06:55,000 --> 00:06:58,000 Waiting for the dinner bell to do the bell thing 138 00:06:58,000 --> 00:07:01,000 Dinner bell, dinner bell ring 139 00:07:01,000 --> 00:07:04,000 I've been leaving on my things 140 00:07:04,000 --> 00:07:07,000 So in the morning when the morning bird sings 141 00:07:07,000 --> 00:07:11,000 There's still dinner on my dinner jacket 142 00:07:11,000 --> 00:07:13,000 Till the dinner bell rings 143 00:07:13,000 --> 00:07:16,000 I don't want a pizza, I don't want a pizza 144 00:07:16,000 --> 00:07:18,000 I don't want a peanut brittle, I don't want a fair 145 00:07:18,000 --> 00:07:20,000 I don't want a bagel, I don't want a beetle 146 00:07:20,000 --> 00:07:22,000 I wouldn't like a bag of beef or a beer 147 00:07:22,000 --> 00:07:25,000 Or a cup of chowder, corn cake, or cream 148 00:07:25,000 --> 00:07:27,000 Cauliflower, cause I'm waiting for the dinner bell 149 00:07:27,000 --> 00:07:29,000 To do the bell thing 150 00:07:29,000 --> 00:07:32,000 Dinner bell, dinner bell ring 151 00:07:32,000 --> 00:07:35,000 Show the basket that will come 152 00:07:35,000 --> 00:07:38,000 For a plumber's number 153 00:07:38,000 --> 00:07:41,000 That will keep it in the train 154 00:07:41,000 --> 00:07:44,000 Dinner bell, dinner bell ring 155 00:07:44,000 --> 00:07:46,000 I don't know whether I'd rather be having a bottle of vinegar 156 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:48,000 I don't know whether I'd rather be having an egg 157 00:07:48,000 --> 00:07:50,000 I don't know whether I'd rather be having an offer of bacon 158 00:07:50,000 --> 00:07:52,000 Or whether I'd rather be having a basket of garlic bread 159 00:07:52,000 --> 00:07:54,000 I don't know whether I'd rather be having some pie 160 00:07:54,000 --> 00:07:56,000 Or saving my appetite 161 00:07:56,000 --> 00:07:59,000 Cause I'm waiting for the dinner bell to do the bell thing 162 00:07:59,000 --> 00:08:02,000 Dinner bell, dinner bell ring 163 00:08:02,000 --> 00:08:05,000 I've been leaving on my things 164 00:08:05,000 --> 00:08:08,000 So in the morning when the morning bird sings 165 00:08:08,000 --> 00:08:11,000 There's still dinner on my dinner jacket 166 00:08:11,000 --> 00:08:14,000 Till the dinner bell does the bell thing 167 00:08:14,000 --> 00:08:16,000 Dinner bell, dinner bell do the bell thing 168 00:08:16,000 --> 00:08:20,000 I'm waiting for the dinner bell to do the bell thing 169 00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:34,000 Dinner bell, dinner bell ding, ding, ding 170 00:08:34,000 --> 00:09:00,400 Hawks and crows do lots of things, but the canary only sings, she is a courtesan on wings, 171 00:09:00,400 --> 00:09:10,400 so I've heard. Eagles and storks are twice as strong, all the canary knows is song, 172 00:09:10,400 --> 00:09:19,900 but the canary gets along, gilded bird. Sing for your supper, and you'll get breakfast, 173 00:09:19,900 --> 00:09:30,900 songbirds always eat, if their song is sweet to hear. Sing for your luncheon, and you'll 174 00:09:30,900 --> 00:09:44,400 get dinner, dine with wine of choice, if romance is in your voice. I heard from a wise canary, 175 00:09:44,400 --> 00:09:53,900 thrilling makes a fellow willing, so little swallow, swallow no. Now is the time to sing 176 00:09:53,900 --> 00:10:01,900 for your supper, and you'll get breakfast, songbirds are not dumb, they don't buy a prop 177 00:10:01,900 --> 00:10:13,900 of bread, it's said, so sing and you'll be fed. Sing for your supper, and you'll get 178 00:10:13,900 --> 00:10:25,400 breakfast, songbirds always eat, if their song is sweet to hear. Sing for your luncheon, 179 00:10:25,400 --> 00:10:37,400 and you'll get dinner, dine with wine of choice, if romance is in your voice. I heard from 180 00:10:37,400 --> 00:10:47,400 a wise canary, thrilling makes you willing, so little swallow, swallow no. Now is the 181 00:10:47,400 --> 00:10:54,400 time to sing for your supper, and you'll get breakfast, songbirds are not dumb, they 182 00:10:54,400 --> 00:11:08,400 don't buy a crumb of bread, it's said, so sing and you'll be fed. Sing for your supper, 183 00:11:08,400 --> 00:11:19,400 and you'll get breakfast, songbirds always eat, if their song is sweet to hear. Sing 184 00:11:19,400 --> 00:11:27,400 for your luncheon, and you'll get dinner, dine with wine of choice, if romance is in 185 00:11:27,400 --> 00:11:39,400 your voice. I heard from a wise canary, thrilling makes a fellow willing, so little swallow, 186 00:11:39,400 --> 00:11:49,400 swallow no. Now is the time to sing for your supper, you'll get breakfast, songbirds are 187 00:11:49,400 --> 00:11:55,400 not dumb, they don't have to buy a crumb of bread, a spoon of bread, just sing instead. 188 00:11:55,400 --> 00:12:02,400 You don't have to buy even a crumb of bread, it's said, you'll be fed if you sing. 189 00:12:02,400 --> 00:12:22,400 So sing and you'll be fed. 190 00:12:22,400 --> 00:12:28,400 The Food is Better Than No Food Song Cycle. The first number was of course the first number 191 00:12:28,400 --> 00:12:37,400 from Oliver, the musical. This was the original Broadway cast recording. And then we heard 192 00:12:37,400 --> 00:12:44,400 a tune from one of my favorite newer groups, They Might Be Giants. This is from their album 193 00:12:44,400 --> 00:12:50,400 Apollo 18. The tune is called Dinner Bell. And then finally from one of my favorite musicals, 194 00:12:50,400 --> 00:12:57,400 The Boys from Syracuse, Rogers and Hart, and that was Sing for Your Supper. This is from 195 00:12:57,400 --> 00:13:04,400 the 25th anniversary revival of The Boys from Syracuse in New York. It opened on April 15, 196 00:13:04,400 --> 00:13:11,400 1963. I saw that production. Sing for Your Supper with Alan Hanley, Julianne Marie and 197 00:13:11,400 --> 00:13:13,400 Karen Morrow. 198 00:13:13,400 --> 00:13:19,400 Now of course we don't ingest edible material solely for the sake of nutrition or even gluttony. 199 00:13:19,400 --> 00:13:26,400 We also do it for medicinal reasons. It's the first of two tidbit times on today's show 200 00:13:26,400 --> 00:13:32,400 and we're going to hear an unaccompanied vocal composition entitled Jenks's Vegetable Compound 201 00:13:32,400 --> 00:13:40,400 by one J.C. Macy. Sort of sounds like a department store merger, doesn't it? J.C. Macy flourished 202 00:13:40,400 --> 00:13:46,400 at the turn of the century. The liner notes on this album refer to the undergraduate humor 203 00:13:46,400 --> 00:13:51,400 of this piece. All I can say is that when I was an undergraduate, I sure wish I had 204 00:13:51,400 --> 00:13:56,400 heard my music performed by groups as good as the King's Singers. 205 00:14:22,400 --> 00:14:26,400 John Smith was afflicted with severe aggravation. 206 00:14:26,400 --> 00:14:30,400 Oh, friends. 207 00:14:30,400 --> 00:14:34,400 With 15 diseases in one combination. 208 00:14:34,400 --> 00:14:38,400 Oh, friends. 209 00:14:38,400 --> 00:14:40,400 The doctors gave him up. 210 00:14:40,400 --> 00:14:46,400 The doctors gave him up. They all gave him up. Everybody gave him up. 211 00:14:46,400 --> 00:14:47,400 Except his wife. 212 00:14:47,400 --> 00:14:49,400 Except his wife. 213 00:14:49,400 --> 00:14:52,400 She made up her mind. 214 00:14:52,400 --> 00:14:57,400 And when a woman makes her mind up, 215 00:14:57,400 --> 00:15:01,400 It's there to stay always. 216 00:15:01,400 --> 00:15:05,400 When she makes her mind up, 217 00:15:05,400 --> 00:15:09,400 It's there always. 218 00:15:09,400 --> 00:15:13,400 Though the summer roses fade. 219 00:15:13,400 --> 00:15:18,400 Though the summer roses fade. 220 00:15:18,400 --> 00:15:20,400 His wife. 221 00:15:20,400 --> 00:15:26,400 She bought a bottle of the great vegetable remedy 222 00:15:26,400 --> 00:15:30,400 To be well shaken before taken 223 00:15:30,400 --> 00:15:34,400 And kept in a very cool place. 224 00:15:34,400 --> 00:15:36,400 Well cooked. 225 00:15:36,400 --> 00:15:39,400 See directions on the bottle. 226 00:15:39,400 --> 00:15:40,400 And read. 227 00:15:40,400 --> 00:15:44,400 And read the testimonials 228 00:15:44,400 --> 00:15:52,400 Very carefully, quite carefully. 229 00:15:52,400 --> 00:15:55,400 He took the contents of 15 bottles did Smith. 230 00:15:55,400 --> 00:15:58,400 One bottle to each disease. 231 00:15:58,400 --> 00:16:01,400 And experienced a very great change. 232 00:16:01,400 --> 00:16:02,400 Hear, hear. 233 00:16:02,400 --> 00:16:04,400 Was relieved. 234 00:16:04,400 --> 00:16:06,400 Of his money. 235 00:16:06,400 --> 00:16:10,400 Ah. 236 00:16:10,400 --> 00:16:18,400 Children cry for it. 237 00:16:18,400 --> 00:16:21,400 Not a family should be without it. 238 00:16:21,400 --> 00:16:24,400 Read the testimonials 239 00:16:24,400 --> 00:16:27,400 From reliable sources. 240 00:16:27,400 --> 00:16:32,400 From all sources. 241 00:16:32,400 --> 00:16:34,400 Jones was a total wreck. 242 00:16:34,400 --> 00:16:35,400 He was. 243 00:16:35,400 --> 00:16:37,400 He couldn't lie down. 244 00:16:37,400 --> 00:16:39,400 He couldn't sit up. 245 00:16:39,400 --> 00:16:42,400 Nothing for three long years. 246 00:16:42,400 --> 00:16:45,400 Jones was a total wreck. 247 00:16:45,400 --> 00:16:49,400 Without any doubt worth talking about. 248 00:16:49,400 --> 00:16:52,400 He was a total wreck. 249 00:16:52,400 --> 00:16:55,400 Till at last he was persuaded 250 00:16:55,400 --> 00:17:00,400 By a highly respectable neighbor across the way 251 00:17:00,400 --> 00:17:04,400 To procure a bottle of Jenks' vegetable compound. 252 00:17:04,400 --> 00:17:07,400 And now he eats four meals a day. 253 00:17:07,400 --> 00:17:10,400 And sometimes five. 254 00:17:10,400 --> 00:17:11,400 Get the genuine. 255 00:17:11,400 --> 00:17:13,400 Take no other. 256 00:17:13,400 --> 00:17:15,400 While there's life 257 00:17:15,400 --> 00:17:21,400 There is hope, dear friends. 258 00:17:21,400 --> 00:17:24,400 Sold, sold everywhere. 259 00:17:24,400 --> 00:17:26,400 All the chemists keep it. 260 00:17:26,400 --> 00:17:28,400 Be sure to get the genuine. 261 00:17:28,400 --> 00:17:30,400 Beware of imitations. 262 00:17:30,400 --> 00:17:32,400 Beware of imitations. 263 00:17:32,400 --> 00:17:34,400 Sold, sold everywhere. 264 00:17:34,400 --> 00:17:38,400 And so was Jones. 265 00:17:38,400 --> 00:17:40,400 Jenks' compound. 266 00:17:40,400 --> 00:17:42,400 Good for man. 267 00:17:42,400 --> 00:17:44,400 Jenks' good for man. 268 00:17:44,400 --> 00:17:46,400 Good for man. 269 00:17:46,400 --> 00:17:47,400 For man. 270 00:17:47,400 --> 00:17:49,400 Or beast. 271 00:17:49,400 --> 00:17:54,400 A little tidbit there was Jenks' Vegetable Compound 272 00:17:54,400 --> 00:17:55,400 by J.C. Macy, 273 00:17:55,400 --> 00:17:58,400 sung by the King's Singers 274 00:17:58,400 --> 00:18:01,400 on their album Victorian Collection. 275 00:18:01,400 --> 00:18:04,400 And this is a fairly old LP, 276 00:18:04,400 --> 00:18:07,400 and if you heard a little bit of echo in the background, 277 00:18:07,400 --> 00:18:10,400 that is not a double chorus effect. 278 00:18:10,400 --> 00:18:14,400 That's just something that happens in old LPs. 279 00:18:14,400 --> 00:18:15,400 I'm Peter Shickley, 280 00:18:15,400 --> 00:18:18,400 and the program is still Shickley Mix 281 00:18:18,400 --> 00:18:22,400 from PRI, Public Radio International. 282 00:18:22,400 --> 00:18:26,400 There tends to be an especially strong bond 283 00:18:26,400 --> 00:18:28,400 between food and musicians. 284 00:18:28,400 --> 00:18:32,400 A lot of musicians are good and I mean serious cooks. 285 00:18:32,400 --> 00:18:34,400 That category, by the way, 286 00:18:34,400 --> 00:18:36,400 does not include your humble host, 287 00:18:36,400 --> 00:18:38,400 who can spread peanut butter very evenly, 288 00:18:38,400 --> 00:18:39,400 but that's about it. 289 00:18:39,400 --> 00:18:41,400 But at least two musicians I know 290 00:18:41,400 --> 00:18:43,400 have actually started restaurants. 291 00:18:43,400 --> 00:18:45,400 Now for us touring musicians, 292 00:18:45,400 --> 00:18:47,400 food is a major concern. 293 00:18:47,400 --> 00:18:49,400 In the first place, when you're on the road, 294 00:18:49,400 --> 00:18:52,400 meals are often the only events of interest 295 00:18:52,400 --> 00:18:54,400 aside from the concerts. 296 00:18:54,400 --> 00:18:55,400 And secondly, 297 00:18:55,400 --> 00:18:58,400 most of us don't like to eat right before concerts, 298 00:18:58,400 --> 00:19:00,400 which means we're famished afterwards. 299 00:19:00,400 --> 00:19:03,400 But in smaller towns, it's often quite a trick 300 00:19:03,400 --> 00:19:06,400 to find some place open after 10 p.m. 301 00:19:06,400 --> 00:19:09,400 Of course, sometimes there's a reception, 302 00:19:09,400 --> 00:19:10,400 but the food at such gatherings 303 00:19:10,400 --> 00:19:14,400 is often nothing more than cheese cubes and toothpicks. 304 00:19:14,400 --> 00:19:16,400 Besides, one of the main points of those things 305 00:19:16,400 --> 00:19:19,400 is to allow people to meet and talk with the performers. 306 00:19:19,400 --> 00:19:21,400 And it has happened more than once to me 307 00:19:21,400 --> 00:19:24,400 that by the time I got over to the table, 308 00:19:24,400 --> 00:19:26,400 all the food was gone. 309 00:19:26,400 --> 00:19:28,400 Somebody once told me that one of the big bands, 310 00:19:28,400 --> 00:19:30,400 Count Basie's I think it was, 311 00:19:30,400 --> 00:19:33,400 had perfected the technique of entering the room 312 00:19:33,400 --> 00:19:36,400 where a post-concert reception was being held, 313 00:19:36,400 --> 00:19:40,400 descending on the food table like a swarm of locusts, 314 00:19:40,400 --> 00:19:43,400 sweeping it clean practically without breaking stride, 315 00:19:43,400 --> 00:19:45,400 and disappearing out the other door 316 00:19:45,400 --> 00:19:47,400 without talking to a soul. 317 00:19:47,400 --> 00:19:48,400 When you're on the trail, 318 00:19:48,400 --> 00:19:51,400 you can't afford to be too picky about your food, 319 00:19:51,400 --> 00:19:54,400 unless you can afford to bring it with you, 320 00:19:54,400 --> 00:19:56,400 as I believe Carol Channing used to do. 321 00:19:56,400 --> 00:19:59,400 Years ago, my friend Philip Glass told me 322 00:19:59,400 --> 00:20:00,400 that when he was on tour, 323 00:20:00,400 --> 00:20:03,400 he sometimes abandoned his vegetarian ways 324 00:20:03,400 --> 00:20:06,400 because he got so tired of grilled cheese sandwiches. 325 00:20:06,400 --> 00:20:09,400 Of course, it's easier to be a vegetarian now 326 00:20:09,400 --> 00:20:10,400 than it was then. 327 00:20:10,400 --> 00:20:14,400 Okay, our first song cycle dealt with food in general. 328 00:20:14,400 --> 00:20:18,400 The Let's Get Specific food song cycle 329 00:20:18,400 --> 00:20:21,400 zeroes in on three favorite comestibles 330 00:20:21,400 --> 00:20:25,400 and takes a little over nine minutes to do so. 331 00:20:25,400 --> 00:20:28,400 I'm gonna be around my vegetables 332 00:20:28,400 --> 00:20:31,400 I'm gonna chow down my vegetables 333 00:20:31,400 --> 00:20:36,400 I love you most of all 334 00:20:36,400 --> 00:20:40,400 My favorite vegetable 335 00:20:40,400 --> 00:20:49,400 If you brought a big brown bag of them home 336 00:20:49,400 --> 00:20:56,400 I'd jump up and down and hope you'd toss me a carrot 337 00:20:56,400 --> 00:21:00,400 I'm gonna keep well my vegetables 338 00:21:00,400 --> 00:21:03,400 cart off and sell my vegetables 339 00:21:03,400 --> 00:21:08,400 I love you most of all 340 00:21:08,400 --> 00:21:13,400 My favorite vegetable 341 00:21:13,400 --> 00:21:18,400 I tried to kick the ball 342 00:21:18,400 --> 00:21:22,400 but my tenny flew right off 343 00:21:22,400 --> 00:21:25,400 I'm red as a beet 344 00:21:25,400 --> 00:21:49,400 cause I'm so embarrassed 345 00:21:49,400 --> 00:21:55,400 Jump, jump, jump, jump 346 00:21:55,400 --> 00:21:58,400 I know that you feel better 347 00:21:58,400 --> 00:22:02,400 when you send us in your letter 348 00:22:02,400 --> 00:22:08,400 and tell us the name of your 349 00:22:08,400 --> 00:22:14,400 your favorite vegetable 350 00:22:14,400 --> 00:22:16,400 I know that you feel better 351 00:22:16,400 --> 00:22:20,400 when you send us in your letter 352 00:22:20,400 --> 00:22:25,400 and tell us the name of your 353 00:22:25,400 --> 00:22:28,400 your favorite vegetable 354 00:22:34,400 --> 00:22:38,400 First time I come to the America 355 00:22:38,400 --> 00:22:41,400 What happened? 356 00:22:41,400 --> 00:22:45,400 First thing I see is the ice cream car 357 00:22:45,400 --> 00:22:48,400 The ice cream car 358 00:22:48,400 --> 00:22:56,400 And ever since I lick my tongue on it 359 00:22:56,400 --> 00:23:00,400 I cannot leave it alone 360 00:23:00,400 --> 00:23:07,400 Oh, the ice cream car 361 00:23:07,400 --> 00:23:14,400 As long as I stay in the America 362 00:23:14,400 --> 00:23:20,400 I never get tired of my ice cream car 363 00:23:20,400 --> 00:23:22,400 Ha! You're a skank! 364 00:23:22,400 --> 00:23:25,400 It's not cool 365 00:23:25,400 --> 00:23:27,400 It's awful 366 00:23:27,400 --> 00:23:29,400 It overdoes 367 00:23:29,400 --> 00:23:35,400 As good as any king can get on his throne 368 00:23:35,400 --> 00:23:39,400 I dream of my ice cream car 369 00:23:39,400 --> 00:23:42,400 I dream of my ice cream car 370 00:23:42,400 --> 00:23:46,400 I dream, I scream, I scream, I scream 371 00:23:46,400 --> 00:23:50,400 I dream, I scream, I scream, I scream 372 00:23:50,400 --> 00:24:10,400 I'm nuts about ice cream 373 00:24:10,400 --> 00:24:17,400 When I go into the drugstore 374 00:24:17,400 --> 00:24:21,400 It is the wonderful spot 375 00:24:21,400 --> 00:24:25,400 There you find a marble fountain 376 00:24:25,400 --> 00:24:30,400 With a bill of fur cold and hot 377 00:24:30,400 --> 00:24:34,400 There doctors, sailors, or workers 378 00:24:34,400 --> 00:24:38,400 Can sit down and eat around the seat 379 00:24:38,400 --> 00:24:43,400 And buy from the soda jerk 380 00:24:43,400 --> 00:24:48,400 A million good things to eat 381 00:24:48,400 --> 00:24:52,400 When I go into the drugstore 382 00:24:52,400 --> 00:24:56,400 It is the wonderful spot 383 00:24:56,400 --> 00:25:00,400 There you find a marble fountain 384 00:25:00,400 --> 00:25:05,400 With a bill of fur cold and hot 385 00:25:05,400 --> 00:25:08,400 You can get chicken hash 386 00:25:08,400 --> 00:25:11,400 You can get potato mash 387 00:25:11,400 --> 00:25:14,400 You can get summer squash 388 00:25:14,400 --> 00:25:16,400 But I want succotash 389 00:25:16,400 --> 00:25:17,400 Succotash! 390 00:25:17,400 --> 00:25:20,400 Take me to some storey 391 00:25:20,400 --> 00:25:23,400 Where I'll have my glory 392 00:25:23,400 --> 00:25:25,400 I'm gonna take you, I'm gonna take you 393 00:25:25,400 --> 00:25:27,400 I'm gonna take you, I'm gonna take you 394 00:25:27,400 --> 00:25:29,400 I'm gonna take you, I'm gonna take you 395 00:25:29,400 --> 00:25:38,400 But a hundred percent 396 00:25:38,400 --> 00:25:46,400 But a hundred percent 397 00:25:46,400 --> 00:25:51,400 Of all the drugstore ice cream is the queen 398 00:25:51,400 --> 00:25:55,400 Of all the drugstore ice cream is the queen 399 00:25:55,400 --> 00:26:04,400 Of the queen 400 00:26:04,400 --> 00:26:07,400 Vanilla! 401 00:26:07,400 --> 00:26:09,400 Ah, vanilla! 402 00:26:09,400 --> 00:26:11,400 Ah, vanilla! 403 00:26:11,400 --> 00:26:13,400 Ah, cordoni! 404 00:26:13,400 --> 00:26:15,400 Ah, spumoni! 405 00:26:15,400 --> 00:26:16,400 And chocolate! 406 00:26:16,400 --> 00:26:17,400 And coconut! 407 00:26:17,400 --> 00:26:19,400 Pineapple and pecans! 408 00:26:19,400 --> 00:26:21,400 Strawberry, maple, walnuts! 409 00:26:21,400 --> 00:26:25,400 The gift of the gods to the man! 410 00:26:25,400 --> 00:26:29,400 And how about the soda and banana split? 411 00:26:29,400 --> 00:26:31,400 What's that blunder, Ben? 412 00:26:31,400 --> 00:26:33,400 The grunts, makes question the great 413 00:26:33,400 --> 00:26:34,400 Hallelujah! 414 00:26:34,400 --> 00:26:35,400 Hallelujah! 415 00:26:35,400 --> 00:26:48,400 Hallelujah! 416 00:26:48,400 --> 00:26:52,040 Andy-andy-ash 417 00:26:52,040 --> 00:27:00,260 to light the fire 418 00:27:00,260 --> 00:27:03,000 fly five, four, three, zwo, two, one 419 00:27:02,980 --> 00:27:07,740 Ali Abed 420 00:27:07,740 --> 00:27:28,140 I am a can of tuna, protein in a tin I have been on this shelf since before she 421 00:27:28,140 --> 00:27:32,780 met him I've heard all their arguments, I've watched 422 00:27:32,780 --> 00:27:38,380 them making up I feel like I'm family, Lord knows I've seen 423 00:27:38,380 --> 00:27:44,780 enough She puts her hand on me, she craves a casserole 424 00:27:44,780 --> 00:27:52,140 He always doubts her with a resounding no How old is that can of tuna? 425 00:27:52,140 --> 00:27:57,820 Flipper could be in there She contends that he is crazy, but my life 426 00:27:57,820 --> 00:28:02,540 is fair I sit on the lower shelf, I didn't see more 427 00:28:02,540 --> 00:28:06,620 of these two You won't believe the way they fight, the 428 00:28:06,620 --> 00:28:18,620 things we could tell you Then one awful day, the man went away 429 00:28:18,620 --> 00:28:32,460 She became unhinged, went on an eating binge She ripped me open, mixed my guts with mayonnaise 430 00:28:32,460 --> 00:28:37,580 She tossed me in the garbage, I lay there in a daze 431 00:28:37,580 --> 00:28:42,140 Can't believe she won't recycle, where was she on Earth day? 432 00:28:42,140 --> 00:28:47,100 I could become a frying pan or a brand new Chevrolet 433 00:28:47,100 --> 00:28:51,660 I am taken to the dump, you don't know how this feels 434 00:28:51,660 --> 00:28:56,460 I'm in a plastic coffin on top of orange peels 435 00:28:56,460 --> 00:29:01,100 All that time we spent together, now in an angry flash 436 00:29:01,100 --> 00:29:13,580 I have been reduced to a useless piece of, useless piece of, useless piece of trash 437 00:29:13,580 --> 00:29:31,820 And the let's get specific food song cycle goes off into the sunset. 438 00:29:31,820 --> 00:29:38,540 It began with a tremendous favorite of mine, Vegetables from the Beach Boys album, Smiley 439 00:29:38,540 --> 00:29:40,300 Smile. 440 00:29:40,300 --> 00:29:45,020 And those of you who liked that album, Smiley Smile, and the one that came after it, Wild 441 00:29:45,020 --> 00:29:50,780 Honey, if you haven't replaced it on CD yet, if you haven't replaced those two, I strongly 442 00:29:50,780 --> 00:29:57,300 suggest you get the CD, the two albums on one CD with some very interesting liner notes. 443 00:29:57,300 --> 00:30:02,180 It really gives you a sense of the history of the time and what a competition there was 444 00:30:02,180 --> 00:30:05,300 for the great rock and roll album. 445 00:30:05,300 --> 00:30:09,340 And there had been a lot of publicity about how Smile, as it was going to be called, was 446 00:30:09,340 --> 00:30:13,420 going to be the great album and blow the Beatles out of the water. 447 00:30:13,420 --> 00:30:18,480 And then the Beatles came out with Sergeant Pepper right about the same time that Smiley 448 00:30:18,480 --> 00:30:24,740 Smile came out and it was the beginning of a down period for the Beach Boys and a lot 449 00:30:24,740 --> 00:30:27,300 of people thought this was a real letdown, this album. 450 00:30:27,300 --> 00:30:28,500 I think it's a great album. 451 00:30:28,500 --> 00:30:34,020 I'm a silly person, I admit it, but I think it's a wonderful, sunny, great album. 452 00:30:34,020 --> 00:30:39,120 It's two hits everybody likes, Heroes and Villains and Good Vibrations, but I love tunes 453 00:30:39,120 --> 00:30:41,140 like this, Vegetables. 454 00:30:41,140 --> 00:30:45,300 Also the notes will give you some interesting little bits of trivia, like the fact that 455 00:30:45,300 --> 00:30:51,900 the chomping on Vegetables that provides some of the percussion includes Paul McCartney, 456 00:30:51,900 --> 00:30:53,820 who had dropped by. 457 00:30:53,820 --> 00:30:57,300 And as a matter of fact, there's a note here by Al Jardine, one of the members of the Beach 458 00:30:57,300 --> 00:30:58,300 Boys. 459 00:30:58,300 --> 00:31:03,100 He sort of blew it because Paul McCartney was hanging around, but Al went into the booth 460 00:31:03,100 --> 00:31:07,540 to listen to his, that is Al's vocal work on the tune they were working on. 461 00:31:07,540 --> 00:31:13,380 And while he was in there, Paul played the spectacular A Day in the Life from the as 462 00:31:13,380 --> 00:31:17,700 yet unreleased Sergeant Pepper LP for Brian Wilson. 463 00:31:17,700 --> 00:31:22,380 Al says, I'll always regret missing that, I'll bet he does. 464 00:31:22,380 --> 00:31:24,940 Okay, Smiley Smiles, Vegetables. 465 00:31:24,940 --> 00:31:33,780 Then we had the Ice Cream Sextet from Street Scene, Kurt Weill's American musical with 466 00:31:33,780 --> 00:31:42,060 the lyrics by Langston Hughes, and that was sung by David Marsh and Anthony Mee. 467 00:31:42,060 --> 00:31:46,020 And then in an unusual problem here, I'm not quite sure whether the character of Henry 468 00:31:46,020 --> 00:31:51,620 Davis was sung by Ben Holt or Bruce Hubbard, because Ben Holt apparently died while this 469 00:31:51,620 --> 00:31:52,900 recording was being made. 470 00:31:52,900 --> 00:31:57,780 So some of it is one voice and some of it is the other, Kurt Weill's Street Scene. 471 00:31:57,780 --> 00:32:05,340 And we ended with the Chenille Sisters singing I Am a Can of Tuna from their album Mama, 472 00:32:05,340 --> 00:32:07,100 I Want to Make Rhythm. 473 00:32:07,100 --> 00:32:14,800 This may very well be the only song ever written from the point of view of a tin can. 474 00:32:14,800 --> 00:32:17,840 And here it is, Tidbit 2 time. 475 00:32:17,840 --> 00:32:22,380 The song you are about to hear chronicles what has got to be one of the most surprising 476 00:32:22,380 --> 00:32:25,340 meals in repast history. 477 00:32:25,340 --> 00:32:30,260 Now this cut has a great groove going, so you can just bop along on that if you want. 478 00:32:30,260 --> 00:32:35,340 But I do suggest that keeping track of the words will deepen your experience of this 479 00:32:35,340 --> 00:32:36,340 tune. 480 00:32:36,340 --> 00:32:52,500 I went to church last Sunday, so I could sing and pray, but something quite unusual happened 481 00:32:52,500 --> 00:32:55,460 on that day. 482 00:32:55,460 --> 00:33:02,340 My church, it started right on time, just like it does without a doubt. 483 00:33:02,340 --> 00:33:06,940 Everything was all just fine, except when it came time to let us out. 484 00:33:06,940 --> 00:33:13,620 You know, the preacher, he kept preaching, he told us, I have one more thing to say, 485 00:33:13,620 --> 00:33:20,060 children, before you think of leaving, you better think about the judgment day. 486 00:33:20,060 --> 00:33:29,980 Now, everyone got nervous, because everyone was hungry, too, and everyone was wondering 487 00:33:29,980 --> 00:33:37,100 what was the next thing he would do, and the preacher, he kept preaching, he said, now, 488 00:33:37,100 --> 00:33:44,980 I'll remind you, if I may, you all better pay attention, or I might decide to preach 489 00:33:44,980 --> 00:33:45,980 all day. 490 00:33:45,980 --> 00:33:54,020 Now, everyone was getting so hungry, the old ones started feeling ill, and the weak ones 491 00:33:54,020 --> 00:34:00,540 started passing out, and the young ones, they could not sit still, and the preacher's voice 492 00:34:00,540 --> 00:34:01,540 rose higher. 493 00:34:01,540 --> 00:34:10,540 I snuck up to the balcony, and I crept into the choir, and I begged them, brothers, sisters, 494 00:34:10,540 --> 00:34:11,540 help me please. 495 00:34:11,540 --> 00:34:18,740 I said, when I give you a signal, I said, when I raise up my hands, won't you please 496 00:34:18,740 --> 00:34:21,740 adjoin with me together? 497 00:34:21,740 --> 00:34:29,740 I praised the Lord, I have a plan, and the preacher, he kept preaching, long is the struggle, 498 00:34:29,740 --> 00:34:35,940 hard to find, and I prayed, Father, please forgive me, and then I stood up, and with 499 00:34:35,940 --> 00:34:44,060 all my might, I sang, to the Lord, let praises be, it's time for dinner now, let's go, we 500 00:34:44,060 --> 00:34:50,260 got some beans and some good cornbread, now listen to what the preacher said, now, it's 501 00:34:50,260 --> 00:34:57,740 to the Lord, let praises be, it's time for dinner now, let's go, yes, and I did give 502 00:34:57,740 --> 00:35:06,260 the signal, and yes, I raised up my hands, and then adjoined with me the choir, I said, 503 00:35:06,260 --> 00:35:13,260 every woman, a child, a man, I sang, to the Lord, let praises be, it's time for dinner 504 00:35:13,260 --> 00:35:20,260 now, let's go, we got some beans and some good cornbread, now listen to what the preacher 505 00:35:20,260 --> 00:35:27,260 said, now, it's to the Lord, let praises be, it's time for dinner now, let's go, 506 00:35:27,260 --> 00:35:34,660 and the preacher, he stopped preaching, and a hush, the church did fill, and then a great 507 00:35:34,660 --> 00:35:44,660 white dove, from up above, landed on the windowsill, and the dove flew down beside him, a fork 508 00:35:44,660 --> 00:35:52,260 appeared right in his hand, everybody watching, the preacher ate that bird right there, and 509 00:35:52,260 --> 00:35:59,260 then, now, everyone got really nervous, and the preacher, he did start to glow, and as 510 00:35:59,260 --> 00:36:08,260 he watched on in disbelief, these were the words he spoke, and the mama's in the kitchen, 511 00:36:08,260 --> 00:36:16,260 she's been there all day, I know she's cooking something good, so let's bow our heads in 512 00:36:16,260 --> 00:36:24,260 praise, to the Lord, let praises be, it's time for dinner now, let's go, we got some 513 00:36:24,260 --> 00:36:31,260 beans and some good cornbread, now listen to what the preacher said, to the Lord, let 514 00:36:31,260 --> 00:36:39,260 praises be, it's time for dinner now, let's go, and the moral of this story, children, 515 00:36:39,260 --> 00:36:47,260 it is plain but true, God knows if a preacher preaches long enough, even he'll get hungry 516 00:36:47,260 --> 00:36:55,260 too, and he'll sing, to the Lord, let praises be, it's time for dinner now, let's go, we 517 00:36:55,260 --> 00:37:02,260 got some beans and some good cornbread, now listen to what the preacher said, to the Lord, 518 00:37:02,260 --> 00:37:26,260 let s comments. 519 00:37:26,260 --> 00:37:29,080 ♪ To the Lord, let praises be 520 00:37:29,080 --> 00:37:30,620 ♪ It's time for dinner 521 00:37:30,620 --> 00:37:32,180 ♪ Now let's go eat 522 00:37:32,180 --> 00:37:33,700 ♪ We got some food 523 00:37:33,700 --> 00:37:35,500 ♪ And good cold bread 524 00:37:35,500 --> 00:37:38,520 ♪ Listen to what the preacher said 525 00:37:38,520 --> 00:37:41,460 ♪ To the Lord, let praises be 526 00:37:41,460 --> 00:37:42,900 ♪ It's time for dinner 527 00:37:42,900 --> 00:37:44,540 ♪ Now let's go eat 528 00:37:44,540 --> 00:37:45,300 ♪ We got some food 529 00:37:45,300 --> 00:37:48,200 ♪ And good cold bread 530 00:37:48,200 --> 00:37:50,800 ♪ Listen, listen to him say 531 00:37:50,800 --> 00:37:53,640 ♪ To the Lord, let praises be 532 00:37:53,640 --> 00:37:57,640 It's time for dinner now, 533 00:37:53,640 --> 00:37:57,640 let's go eat. 534 00:37:57,640 --> 00:38:00,640 We got some beans 535 00:37:57,640 --> 00:38:00,640 and some good cornbread, 536 00:38:00,640 --> 00:38:03,640 now listen to 537 00:38:00,640 --> 00:38:03,640 what the preacher says 538 00:38:03,640 --> 00:38:07,640 To the lord, 539 00:38:03,640 --> 00:38:06,640 let praises be 540 00:38:06,640 --> 00:38:10,640 It's time for dinner 541 00:38:06,640 --> 00:38:10,640 now, let's go eat 542 00:38:10,640 --> 00:38:14,640 We got some beans 543 00:38:10,640 --> 00:38:13,640 and some good cornbread 544 00:38:13,640 --> 00:38:18,640 Now listen to 545 00:38:13,640 --> 00:38:16,640 what the preacher says 546 00:38:16,640 --> 00:38:21,640 To the lord, 547 00:38:21,640 --> 00:38:39,480 Say it, Lyle. Lyle Lovett from the album Joshua Judges Ruth. The tune was Church. 548 00:38:39,480 --> 00:38:46,840 I'm Peter Shickley and this is Shickley Mix from PRI, Public Radio International. 549 00:38:46,840 --> 00:38:53,480 If I were a novelist, I'd want to be the kind of novelist who writes his novel while sitting 550 00:38:53,480 --> 00:38:59,840 at a sidewalk cafe table in Paris. There's something lubricating, creatively speaking, 551 00:38:59,840 --> 00:39:06,240 about a certain kind of low-level distraction. I do a lot of composing while playing solitaire 552 00:39:06,240 --> 00:39:12,600 in hotel rooms or while driving. I used to spend a lot of time in a certain diner. The 553 00:39:12,600 --> 00:39:16,600 waitresses must have thought I was the loneliest guy in the world because sometimes I'd sit there 554 00:39:16,600 --> 00:39:22,160 for two hours or more thinking, how could they know this, about music? They don't have 555 00:39:22,160 --> 00:39:26,680 to put up with me as much anymore, not because I like diners any less, but because these 556 00:39:26,680 --> 00:39:32,440 days they usually have a radio on and that's one thing my own thoughts can't compete with. 557 00:39:32,440 --> 00:39:38,020 I understand that the French composer Darius Millau used to request hotel rooms as close 558 00:39:38,020 --> 00:39:44,080 as possible to where the band would be playing. He liked to write while hearing other music, 559 00:39:44,080 --> 00:39:50,440 but that seems absolutely bizarre to me, and I think probably to most composers. Well, 560 00:39:50,440 --> 00:39:57,100 nowadays most bars have a jukebox, a radio, and three TVs on at all times, so the diner, 561 00:39:57,100 --> 00:40:02,480 when I can find a quiet one, is my sidewalk cafe. But you can't sit there and eat for 562 00:40:02,480 --> 00:40:07,240 two hours. They'd have to roll you out to your car. So it's the old cup of coffee, or 563 00:40:07,240 --> 00:40:11,560 two or three cups of coffee. I don't really care that much about coffee. I'm not one of 564 00:40:11,560 --> 00:40:15,080 those people who isn't human until he has his cup of coffee in the morning. I don't 565 00:40:15,080 --> 00:40:19,640 usually drink it in the morning, but it's a good excuse to sit in coffee shops. Our 566 00:40:19,640 --> 00:40:26,320 last suite is the Something to Wash It Down song cycle. The second song is in German, 567 00:40:26,320 --> 00:40:31,720 and it goes, Eating and drinking hold the body together. It is my favorite pastime of 568 00:40:31,720 --> 00:40:37,280 all, eating and drinking. When food and drink cheer me no more, then farewell, then world 569 00:40:37,280 --> 00:40:44,280 goodnight. Ah, when rolls and pies bid goodbye to my palate, then my days are finished. Ah, 570 00:40:44,280 --> 00:40:49,720 and when in my sweet brimming glass sorrow and trouble sink downward, then to all the 571 00:40:49,720 --> 00:40:57,120 world, goodnight. That's the middle one of three songs. I'll see you in approximately 572 00:40:57,120 --> 00:41:09,480 seven and a half minutes. 573 00:41:09,480 --> 00:41:27,480 I've had my fill, I've lost my will, I'm not as hungry as I used to be. I'm movin' a little 574 00:41:27,480 --> 00:41:28,480 slower, I got it achin' in my bag. But I've got so many love handles, I drive my car from 575 00:41:28,480 --> 00:41:31,960 luggage. So you can keep that dessert list, it's a waste of time, you see, cause another 576 00:41:31,960 --> 00:41:40,720 cup of coffee is dessert enough for me. I'd rather be jazz than yo-ho, I'd rather be jolted 577 00:41:40,720 --> 00:41:46,640 to Java. I'd rather have a cup of that, never get enough of that molten Brazilian lava. 578 00:41:46,640 --> 00:42:00,960 So honey, bring the pot. I need stimulation for my circulation. So bring me another cup 579 00:42:00,960 --> 00:42:05,960 of coffee, cause that's dessert enough for me. 580 00:42:05,960 --> 00:42:09,360 Friends, when it's time to set your hands to shakin', when it's time to grind your teeth 581 00:42:09,360 --> 00:42:12,880 to a powder, and when you want to stare at the ceiling all night, try a big fat steamin' 582 00:42:12,880 --> 00:42:18,120 cup of Swedish gasoline. It'll shake you down to your booty, yeah sure, you betcha. So pour 583 00:42:18,120 --> 00:42:22,400 yourself a tall one, not out of yip, but keep your pulse a-pounding with yet another cup 584 00:42:22,400 --> 00:42:27,320 of that hot steamin' joe. It's good for what ails ya, and it ails what's good for ya. 585 00:42:27,320 --> 00:42:34,320 I'd rather be jazz than yo-ho, I'd rather be jolted to Java. I'd rather have a cup of 586 00:42:34,320 --> 00:42:39,800 that, never get enough of that molten Brazilian lava. 587 00:42:39,800 --> 00:42:52,800 So honey, bring the pot. Assured you're daddy, I am not. I need stimulation for my circulation. 588 00:42:52,800 --> 00:42:59,800 So bring me another cup of coffee. I said another cup of coffee. How's about one more 589 00:42:59,800 --> 00:43:04,800 cup of coffee? What do you think about another cup of coffee? A waitress, one more cup of 590 00:43:04,800 --> 00:43:10,800 coffee. Another cup of coffee. Yeah, I'll have another cup of coffee. Another cup of 591 00:43:10,800 --> 00:43:14,800 coffee. A little skittle-dee-ah-ba-doom-chick-a-dook-a-dee-coffee. Wubba-wubba, another cup of coffee, cause 592 00:43:14,800 --> 00:43:21,800 that's dessert enough for me. Fill it to the rim, cause I'm drivin', ladies and gentlemen, 593 00:43:21,800 --> 00:43:24,800 but I'm fun, fun, fun to go! 594 00:43:51,800 --> 00:43:58,800 I'm fun, fun, fun to go! 595 00:44:51,800 --> 00:45:21,760 I love coffee, I love tea, I love the java jive, and it loves me. 596 00:45:21,760 --> 00:45:31,600 Coffee and tea, and the java and me, a cup, a cup, a cup, a cup, a cup, boy. 597 00:45:31,600 --> 00:45:43,440 I love java, sweet and hot, whoops, Mr. Moto, I'm a coffee pot, shoot me the pot, now pour 598 00:45:43,440 --> 00:45:49,400 me a shot, a cup, a cup, a cup, a cup, a cup. 599 00:45:49,400 --> 00:45:59,480 Oh, slip me a slug from the wonderful mug, I'll cut a rug, throw a slug in the jug, a 600 00:45:59,480 --> 00:46:09,080 slice of onion and a raw one, draw one, wait a, wait a, part till later. 601 00:46:09,080 --> 00:46:18,320 I love coffee, I love tea, I love the java jive, and it loves me. 602 00:46:18,320 --> 00:46:29,680 Coffee and tea, and the java and me, a cup, a cup, a cup, a cup, a cup, oh, Boston beans, 603 00:46:29,680 --> 00:46:43,080 soy beans, green beans, cabbage and greens, I'm not keen upon a bean, unless it is a cheery, 604 00:46:43,080 --> 00:46:46,000 cheery bean, boy. 605 00:46:46,000 --> 00:46:57,480 I love coffee, I love tea, I love the java jive, and it loves me, coffee and tea, and 606 00:46:57,480 --> 00:47:04,640 the java and me, a cup, a cup, a cup, a cup, a cup, yeah. 607 00:47:04,640 --> 00:47:15,960 I love java, sweet and hot, whoops, Mr. Moto, I'm a coffee pot, shoot me the pot, now pour 608 00:47:15,960 --> 00:47:27,680 me a shot, a cup, a cup, a cup, yeah, oh, throw me that slug from the wonderful mug, 609 00:47:27,680 --> 00:47:39,320 I'll cut a rug till I'm snug in the jug, drop a nickel in a pot, Joe, I take them slow, 610 00:47:39,320 --> 00:47:51,600 wait a, wait a, percolate a, I love coffee, I love tea, I love the java jive, and it loves 611 00:47:51,600 --> 00:48:06,560 me, coffee and tea, and the java and me, yeah, a cup, a cup, a cup, a cup, oh. 612 00:48:06,560 --> 00:48:11,600 The Something to Wash It Down song cycle, something very nice to wash it down. 613 00:48:11,600 --> 00:48:19,520 We began with Mr. Elk and Mr. Seal, a cassette of theirs called Nulla Verba Obsenitus, No 614 00:48:19,520 --> 00:48:26,440 Dirty Words, and they write about that, and that was a tune called, what was it called, 615 00:48:26,440 --> 00:48:32,640 it's called Another Cup of Coffee, and then we had from an album called The Comic Mozart, 616 00:48:32,640 --> 00:48:39,160 a canon called Essen und Trinken, Eating and Drinking, and that was the Vienna Akademie 617 00:48:39,160 --> 00:48:44,280 Kammerchor, Chamber Choir, conducted by Zaver Meyer. 618 00:48:44,280 --> 00:48:49,080 Mozart, you know, was a real party animal, I've said that many times, and even if the 619 00:48:49,080 --> 00:48:55,680 movie Amadeus is a little bit perhaps over-stylized, or at least if you want to take it as history 620 00:48:55,680 --> 00:49:01,300 it's over-stylized, nevertheless, it's true that compared to the old image of Mozart, 621 00:49:01,300 --> 00:49:04,600 he probably was a fairly gross person. 622 00:49:04,600 --> 00:49:08,240 Certainly his sense of humor was gross by modern standards, but that's not necessarily 623 00:49:08,240 --> 00:49:13,280 an indication of how it was viewed by his contemporary standards, but he wrote a lot 624 00:49:13,280 --> 00:49:18,600 of canons and rounds and party pieces, and this is a very nice album containing examples 625 00:49:18,600 --> 00:49:21,480 of all those genres. 626 00:49:21,480 --> 00:49:26,920 And then finally, the suite ended with The Ink Spots, the original Ink Spots, album called 627 00:49:26,920 --> 00:49:33,160 Whispering Grass, but that tune was called Java Jive. 628 00:49:33,160 --> 00:49:42,280 Okay, now, you know, I was thinking during that suite, and it seems to me that we have 629 00:49:42,280 --> 00:49:43,880 time to do this. 630 00:49:43,880 --> 00:49:50,200 I was just thinking, you know, I write songs too, and I've got a song that is so perfect 631 00:49:50,200 --> 00:49:56,320 for this program, and here we are, we have some time, I think, that I happen to know 632 00:49:56,320 --> 00:50:01,240 there's a piano in the next studio over, the big studio, and I have found the place to 633 00:50:01,240 --> 00:50:06,200 patch in, you know, to get that mic on and everything, so I'm just going to move over 634 00:50:06,200 --> 00:50:09,280 to the next studio and do that song. 635 00:50:09,280 --> 00:50:16,720 I'm going to get the, that should be on in the other studio, so if you'll just bear with 636 00:50:16,720 --> 00:50:27,800 me, it won't take a minute to get in there and sing that song for you, I'm not really 637 00:50:27,800 --> 00:50:31,280 warmed up. 638 00:50:31,280 --> 00:50:51,480 Got up this morning, couldn't fit in my jeans, I need to lose a lot of weight, and you know 639 00:50:51,480 --> 00:51:00,040 what that means, it means hunger, hunger, it means hunger, all it takes is a couple 640 00:51:00,040 --> 00:51:07,200 of weeks on the road and I come back looking like Mr. Toad, cause of hunger, hunger, cause 641 00:51:07,200 --> 00:51:13,640 of hunger, now I really hate being so galled, earned, fat, but there's something else I 642 00:51:13,640 --> 00:51:22,400 may hate worse than that, and that's hunger, hunger, and that's hunger, still and all you 643 00:51:22,400 --> 00:51:26,400 know it doesn't make sense to be a dictionary picture of the adjective immense, cause of 644 00:51:26,400 --> 00:51:34,880 hunger, hunger, cause of hunger, and you can't believe all that you read in the press, if 645 00:51:34,880 --> 00:51:43,600 you want to lose weight, well you got to eat less, it means hunger, hunger, it means hunger, 646 00:51:43,600 --> 00:51:48,360 so to most of the foods that I love, so I'm going to say goodbye and I'll say hello to 647 00:51:48,360 --> 00:51:57,600 old hunger, hunger, to old hunger, and every time I feel I can't be strong, I'll just write 648 00:51:57,600 --> 00:52:08,680 another verse to this dippy little song about hunger, hunger, about hunger, bye bye love, 649 00:52:08,680 --> 00:52:22,960 bye bye happiness, hello emptiness, feel like I could die, alright, now I guess I have to 650 00:52:22,960 --> 00:52:42,520 get back to the other studio here, okay, that wasn't so hard, now let's get that mic back 651 00:52:42,520 --> 00:52:48,920 off, everything should be cool in the other studio, live music is not dead on radio, that 652 00:52:48,920 --> 00:52:57,240 was my song, hunger, sung by me, and as far as I'm concerned, this was a very successful 653 00:52:57,240 --> 00:53:02,400 show, why do I say that? Those of you who listen to this show regularly will agree that 654 00:53:02,400 --> 00:53:08,320 I don't make value judgments on the program, but in this case, I know it's a successful 655 00:53:08,320 --> 00:53:16,520 show because I am one hungry puppy, and all I can say is, that I hope you're as close 656 00:53:16,520 --> 00:53:28,600 to some food as I am. And that's Chick-fil-A Mix for this week. Our program is made possible 657 00:53:28,600 --> 00:53:34,680 with funds provided by this radio station and you, its members. We'll tell you in a 658 00:53:34,680 --> 00:53:39,440 moment how you can get an official playlist of all the music on today's program with record 659 00:53:39,440 --> 00:53:46,080 numbers and everything. Just refer to the program number, this is program 47. And this 660 00:53:46,080 --> 00:53:50,000 is Peter Sickely saying goodbye and reminding you that it don't mean a thing if it ain't 661 00:53:50,000 --> 00:54:18,160 got that certain je ne sais quoi. You're looking good. See you next week. 662 00:54:20,160 --> 00:54:30,160 ♪♪♪ 663 00:54:30,160 --> 00:54:50,160 ♪♪♪ 664 00:54:50,160 --> 00:55:10,160 ♪♪♪ 665 00:55:10,160 --> 00:55:30,160 ♪♪♪ 666 00:55:30,160 --> 00:55:50,160 ♪♪♪ 667 00:55:50,160 --> 00:56:10,160 ♪♪♪ 668 00:56:10,160 --> 00:56:30,160 ♪♪♪ 669 00:56:30,160 --> 00:56:43,160 ♪♪♪ 670 00:56:43,160 --> 00:56:47,160 If you'd like a copy of that playlist I mentioned, send a stamped, self-addressed envelope to 671 00:56:47,160 --> 00:57:01,160 Sickely Mix. That's S-C-H-I-C-K-E-L-E, Sickely Mix. Care of Public Radio International, 100 672 00:57:01,160 --> 00:57:19,160 655-5403. P-R-I, Public Radio International.