The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour (140)

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Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Bugs Bunny Looney Tunes cartoon, the 1946 cartoon The Big Snooze directed by Bob Clampett, (his final theatrical cartoon for Warner.)



As Bugs is pleading with Elmer not to quit, he turns to the audience and comments, "'Bette Davis' is gonna hate me for this." Davis, at the time, was going through a well-publicized legal battle with Warner Bros. trying to get out of her contract.


September 28, 2004 – After nearly 40 years of work on the would-be Beach Boys concept album, Brian Wilson Presents Smile was released on this date. Gallons of ink has been spilled writing about Brian Wilson's journey to getting his masterpiece to completion, we'll leave it to you bunkies to read up on it. We here at The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour want to celebrate the release by just listening to it. So as is our want, we would like 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 listening to a 2004 live performance of Smile



When Brian Wilson was going through a period of nervous breakdowns, he referred to the voices in his head as the "heroes and villains," which created a constant buzzing in his brain that he couldn't turn off. The Beach Boys did at least 20 recording sessions for the song Heroes and Villians over a period of several months, as Brian Wilson was very particular about it. Sections known as Cantina Scene and Bicycle Rider were dropped, although The Beach Boys often included them in live performances of the song.


I'm guess we could all use a break, right about know. As you run into the kitchen and get a beverage refill or run into the bathroom and replenish the eco-system, we here at The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour want to watch the the 1946 Looney Tunes Daffy Duck (with a cameo by Porky Pig) cartoon, The Great Piggy Bank Robbery, (Bob Clampett's penultimate Warner Bros. cartoon .)



When Duck Twacy takes a street car to the gangsters' hideout, the conductor is a thinly-disguised Porky Pig dressed in a driver's uniform and a handlebar mustache.


Before you go, please hang around and watch this 2004 Showtime produced documentary about the making of this album, Beautiful Dreamer - Brian Wilson and the Story of 'SMiLE'. So please stay with us here at The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour and sit back, get comfortable and enjoy watching our second feature this evening.



David Leaf assembled the film as a chronicle of Beach Boys musician Brian Wilson's career and his valiant attempt to resurrect the shelved project Smile, which was to follow the Beach Boys' artistic breakthrough Pet Sounds from 1966 until Wilson's triumphant release of the album in 2004.



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