The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour (59)

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Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with the famous Michigan J. Frog Looney Tunes cartoon, the 1955 Chuck Jones directed, One Froggy Evening:



Some believe that the story of this frog was at least partly inspired by a real amphibian. In Eastland, Texas they tell the story of one horned toad named Old Rip. He was placed in the cornerstone of the courthouse there in 1897. In 1928 the courthouse was demolished and the story is that they pulled Old Rip out and he was still alive (he did not get up and dance however). Eleven months later, Old Rip finally "croaked" and the citizens made him a fancy velvet-lined casket and put him on permanent display, where you can still see him today.


St. Patrick's Day is once again upon us and here at ACME, we can want to wish everyone a happy and very healthy green Erin Go Braugh! We can think of no better way to celebrate the holidays than listening to a 1986 concert of the English band, The Smiths. The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour would like you to join us in watching the October 26, 1986 concert from the Palladium in London of The Smiths, in support of their album, The Queen is Dead.



In the three decades since its release, The Smiths' The Queen Is Dead has been called as the band's greatest album, and is usually features in lists of the greatest albums ever made. But most of us have grown out of our insufferable teenage angst (I was already in my mid 20s.) But channel your inner teenager and enjoy the evening.



The great British director, Derek Jarman created this beautiful 13-minute collage film, The Queen is Dead with the background of these three Smiths' songs: The Queen Is Dead, There Is a Light That Never Goes Out, and Panic.



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