Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Bugs Bunny Looney Tunes cartoon (featuring Battling McGook, who later goes on to be identified as The Crusher,) the 1948 Rabbit Punch directed by Chuck Jones.
The cut film gag was last used in the Daffy Duck and Porky Pig Looney Tunes My Favorite Duck, only in this cartoon, Bugs Bunny doesn't tell us how the ending of the cartoon came out, which leaves Looney Tunes fans to picture in their minds how it would end if the film wasn't cut.
November 23, 1970 -
Steven Demetre Georgiou had no reason to believe that this album, released on this date would do any better than his previous album released earlier in the year. The album, Mona Bone Jakon had just been released in April 1970 and peaked at No. 164. The programming department of The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour would like to celebrate the release of Tea for the Tillerman and introduced Cat Stevens (now known as Yusuf Islam) to a larger audience. So, as we always do, 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 Tea for the Tillerman.
Much of the album is inspired by a search for deeper spiritual connections in the composer's life. Many of the songs are about traveling, not in a literal sense but in finding out who he was and the purpose if any of his existence. Cat Stevens had fame and fortune thrust upon him at an early age, and like so many people in a similar position he looked at what he'd accomplished and realized it had brought him neither happiness nor peace of mind. Many of the songs on this album were written after his recovery from tuberculosis, which in his case was brought on by personal neglect and fast living.
Demand Euphoria!
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