Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Bugs Bunny Looney Tunes cartoon, the 1942 Chuck Jones directed, Case of the Missing Hare:
This is the first cartoon Bugs quoted the famous Groucho Marx line, "Of course you realize this means war!".
April 13, 1946 –
Today is the birthday of Albert Leornes Greene, (The Reverend Al Green). Al Green is one of the greatest soul singers of his generation and The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour would like to celebration his birthday by asking you to join us in listening to a selection of his greatest hits. So get your snacks together, find the most comfortable place on the couch and join The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour in listening to the music of the good reverend. (Bunkies, if you are alone in the dark, place one hand on your monitor and the other hand upon the afflicted area. Feel the healing powers of Rev. Green emanate and pulsate through your loins.)
As you probably know, in October 1974, Al Green brought home two woman he had been seeing: his sometimes girlfriend Mary Woodson, and a stewardess named Carlotta Williams. It turned tragic when Woodson poured boiling grits she was making on him, inflicting second degree burns to the singer. As Williams tended him, Woodson killed herself with his gun. Green, who became a born-again Christian in 1973, interpreted this as a sign from God to join the ministry. In 1979, Green fell off a Cincinnati stage and was almost injured badly. He decided it was time to stop performing secular music. He won his first Grammy in 1982 for Best Traditional Soul Gospel Performance for the album The Lord Will Make a Way. Green focused primarily on gospel but eventually returned to secular music although he still remained connected with the church. Green released his first single in nearly a decade, Before The Next Teardrop Falls in September of 2018 and he continues to preach to this day.
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