The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour (58)

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Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with a Porky Pig Looney Tunes cartoon, the 1939 Robert Clampett directed, Pied Piper Porky:


This is the first of two outing that Porky would play the Pied Piper. Ten years later, Porky would once again play the Piper in Bob McKinson's Paying the Piper.


There are moments when a rock bands career can go from zero to 60 in a heart beat. On March 9, 1987, Island Records released U2's fifth studio album, The Joshua Tree. The album became the group's first No. 1 album and spawned their first chart-topping singles with With Or Without You and I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For, both hitting No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour would like you to join us in listening to the album that’s credited with turning U2 “from heroes to superstars” according to Rolling Stone.



Its U2’s biggest selling album to date with over 10 million copies sold in the U.S. alone.


Before we watch a documentary about the making of The Joshua Tree Album, ACME would like to continue the evening with another Porky Pig Looney Tunes cartoon, the 1940 Robert Clampett directed, The Sour Puss:



After Porky tells his cat about their fishing excursion, the cat goes bouncing around the room happily, a display that catches the attention of a canary who proclaims, "Now I've seen everything!" and shoots himself with a gun.


The documentary series Classic Albums covers the making of the U2 album, The Joshua Tree. The program shows the making of the album with interviews of the band and archival film footage.



The Joshua Tree was the first major release to come out on CD at the same time as cassette and vinyl. It was common practice to release the CD a few weeks later. It was the first million-selling CD.



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