Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Bugs Bunny Merrie Melodies cartoon, the 1946 Frank Tashlin directed, Hare Remover. (This title is the last short Frank Tashlin directed before leaving Warner Bros. to direct live-action films.) :
Elmer seldom referred to his perennial co-star by name, but typically only as "that scwewy wabbit" or similar expressions. This cartoon is one of the few in which Elmer actually acknowledges the bunny's name. When he sees the bear munching a carrot and assumes that it's the rabbit transformed by his drug, Elmer cries with delight, "Bugs Bunny!" In the reverse situation, when Bugs mistakes the bear for Elmer, Bugs still calls him, "Doc!".
The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour would like to celebrate the anniversary the passing of Warren William Zevon, singer/songwriter, from cancer (peritoneal mesothelioma) on this date in 2003. In a extraordinary career that spanned more than 30 years, Zevon recorded more than 15 albums and worked with such music stars as Bonnie Raitt, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen and Jackson Brown. His last album, The Wind, one of the most commercially successful and lauded releases of his long recording career, released just two weeks before his death. Today we would like to look about at the career and life of Warren Zevon by asking you to sit back (quick, find the most comfortable seat on the sofa,) get a snack and a beverage and join The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour in watching this VH-1 documentary about the making of the Grammy nominated album The Wind, VH1 (Inside) Out - Warren Zevon: Keep Me in Your Heart.
The song, Keep Me In Your Heart was the final song Zevon wrote and recorded before dying of mesothelioma (a form of lung cancer) in September of 2003. This was also the only song on Zevon's final album The Wind that he wrote entirely after learning of his terminal illness. With the exception of the cover of Knockin' On Heaven's Door, all of the remaining songs on The Wind were songs Zevon had already at least started writing beforehand. Zevon also saved the recording of this song for last. His deteriorating health rendered him too weak to continue commuting to the studio where the other tracks had been recorded, so he had a makeshift studio set up at his home to record this song.
Before you go - not to leave the evening a total depressing mess, here is a 1982 concert Warren Zevon did at the Capitol Theatre in early October of that year - enjoy!
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