Dr. Caligari's cabinet is now so crammed that he had to stow stuff in the Cupboard. Time may wound all heels but once in a while you need a cup of tea.
Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with the 1938 early Porky Pig cartoon directed by Bob Clampett, Porky's Poppa:
This cartoon contains one of the first ever references to ACME in a Warner Brothers cartoon. In this case, Porky's Poppa orders an ACME mechanical cow via telephone.
The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour would like to enjoy this slightly altered version of Everything But The Girl's album Amplified Heart.
Despite its title, Amplified Heart is one of Everything but the Girl's more acoustic works.
Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with the 1961 Road Runner/ Wile E. Coyote, Chuck Jones directed Looney Tunes cartoon, Beep Prepared:
This cartoon received an Academy Award nomination as Best Animated Short for 1961 - the only Oscar-nominated Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote cartoon.
On September 23, 1969The Illinois University newspaper "Northern Star" printed a story that speculated about the death of Paul McCartney entitled Clues Hint At Beatle Death. The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour would like to commemorate this anniversary by asking you to join us in watching the funny 2005 mockumentary Paul McCartney Really Is Dead: The Last Testament of George.
Possibly for legal reasons, the title on the DVD case is Paul McCartney Really Is Dead: The Last Testament of George Harrison? while the on-screen titles lack the question mark.
Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with the 1951 Robert McKimson directed Looney Tunes cartoon, Easy Peckins:
This cartoon has sometimes had the scene cut of the fox as Paul Revere, screaming, "Open up! The British are coming!" and George the Rooster (dressed as a Redcoat) shooting him in the face
On September 17, 1997 Fleetwood Mac kicked off their reunion tour promoting their new album The Dance, which celebrates the 20th anniversary of the release of the megahit album, Rumours.The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour would like to commemorate this anniversary by asking you to join us in watching the clips from the 1997 live MTV concert Fleetwood Mac performed on August 12, 1997 to promote the release of the comeback album The Dance.
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If that wasn't enough Fleetwood Mac for you, let's listen, once again the the album being celebrated, Rumours.
Cocaine played such a major role in the production of Rumours that the band seriously considered thanking their drug dealer in the album credits, until gangland violence apparently put a premature end to the idea. Mick Fleetwood famously joked that if he laid all of the cocaine he had ever snorted into a single line, it was stretch for seven miles.
Before September 11th, we would wake up with a list of "Don't Forgets" Don't forget to wash your face Don't forget to brush your teeth Don't forget to do your homework Don't forget to wear your jacket Don't forget to clean your room Don't forget to take a bath
After September 11th, we wake up with a list of "Remembers" Remember to greet the sun each morning Remember to enjoy every meal Remember to thank your parents for their hard work Remember to honor those who keep you safe Remember to value each person you meet Remember to respect other's beliefs
Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with the 1959 Chuck Jones directed Road Runner/ Wile E. Coyote Looney Tunes cartoon, Hot Rod & Reel:
Several stations edit cuts out the part of the cartoon where Wile E. Coyote uses a camera with a gun inside of it as a ploy to kill the Road Runner and a later scene where Wile E. Coyote lights a match to rev up his unicycle.
Electric Light Orchestra peaked at number four on the Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart with the song, Don’t Bring Me Down, which was their fifth top ten single in the U.S. on September 8, 1979.
The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour would like to commemorate their hit by asking you to join us in watching the 2001 Zoom Tour Live, taped at CBS Television City in Los Angeles for the was the comeback kickoff to Electric Light Orchestra's prematurely aborted Zoom tour.
Find time this weekend to enjoy hearing ELO again.
I couldn't play any ELO music without playing the Concerto For A Rainy Day, side three of their best selling 1977 album, Out of the Blue (remember vinyl?)
Make sure you put your head phone on and play this loud!
"Show me the country that has no strikes and I'll show you the country in which there is no liberty," explained Samuel Gompers, founder of the American Federation of Labor.
According to the U.S. Department of Labor, Mr. Gompers also stated: "All other holidays are in a more or less degree connected with conflicts and battles of man's prowess over man, of strife and discord for greed and power, of glories achieved by one nation over another. Labor Day. . . is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race, or nation."
And yet, despite Mr. Gompers's assertions, Labor Day is not a Seinfeldian holiday about nothing. It is, according to Department of Labor, "dedicated to the social and economic achievements of American workers. It constitutes a yearly national tribute to the contributions workers have made to the strength, prosperity, and well-being of our country."
Workers being whom, exactly?
Whenever someone talks about Labor with an audible capital L, I picture a bunch of sweaty, grease-stained steelworkers, or guys in blue overalls and goggles with soldering irons. Their contribution is the oft-cited "sweat of their brows." Union regulations being what they are, though, they seem to be pretty well compensated for that sweat.
The term "Workers" has to include more than steelworkers and welders—otherwise we could just call it "Steelworkers and Welders Day." After all, a worker is just "one who works." I'm a worker (yes sporadically I consider myself a worker). Almost everyone I know is or was a worker.
The difference seems to be unions. If you belong to a union, you're a Worker or a Laborer (I'm not sure if they have different unions). If you don't belong to a union, you're a lousy lazy-ass—an exploiting bourgeois bastard.
Think what this means: All of the Kardashians, The Property Brothers, Caitlyn Jenner, and yes, even Donald Trump are Workers. Your friends who work awful hours at lousy jobs in wretched offices — they're bourgeois scum.
But let's take a step back and see how we got a Labor Day holiday.
Grover Cleveland was a very unpopular man back in 1896. He was one of the fattest Presidents in US history, (Chris Christie is a contender, if he runs in 2020.) No one really likes a fat man - weighing over 300lbs, his nieces and nephews called him Uncle Jumbo to his face; only William Howard Taft was fatter, weighing in at a ginormous 335lbs, but I digress...)
Two years earlier, Cleveland had broken up the Pullman Car strike using United States Marshals and some 2,000 United States Army troops, on the premise that the strike interfered with the delivery of U.S. Mail. During the course of the strike, 13 strikers were killed and 57 were wounded. It didn't win him any friends with the fledgling labor movement in America.
In order to throw a bone to Labor, Cleveland supported a holiday honoring workers on the first Monday in September, hoping it would help Democrats in the upcoming midterm elections. May 1st was initially proposed but was then rejected because government leaders believed that commemorating Labor Day on May 1 could become an opportunity to commemorate the Chicago Haymarket riots which had occurred in early May of 1886.
Cleveland was proven wrong and the Democratic party suffered their worse defeat ever.
So remember the cynical origins of the holiday while you are BBQ'ing this afternoon.
Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with the 1959 Chuck Jones directed Road Runner/ Wile E. Coyote Looney Tunes cartoon, Wild About Hurry:
Some local TV stations except Cartoon Network cut the obligatory frozen introductory shot of the Road Runner in the beginning of the cartoon (because his faux Latin name in this cartoon technically says "Bat-outta-hell-ius").
The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side - a quote usually attributed to Hunter S. Thompson. He actually said a similar thing about the television industry.
The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour scours the internet to bring you the best for your Saturday musical entertainment. We would like to thank the folks at Nag on the Lake for reminding us the the 2009 BBC Four documentary covering the 50th anniversary of Island Records and it's iconoclastic founder Chris Blackwell - Keep On Running: 50 Years Of Island Records.
Find the time to watch the documentary, if you listened to any music in the last half-century, you probably came across an artist from Island Records.
In honor of the anniversary of the classic Chuck Jone cartoon, The Duckster, which introduced the world to ACME's wonderful product Eagle Hand Soap, we'd like to share a bonus for your viewing pleasure this evening with you
- here's a Puddles Pity Party Concert, from about two weeks ago, presented in a 360° experience :
The show was good and we hope you were about to see the 360° experience on your computer because it was amazing.
This is an artist's rendering of the moment, in the late 90s, while at the bar in the Ritz Carlton in Hong Kong, that I discovered that some people garnish their martini's with lemon peels rather than olives -
