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OST 27.11.2010 – Robin the Fog

This weekly programme is dedicated to film, TV and library music, and is hosted by Jonny Trunk. But this week Jonny’s got the builders in, so long-standing OST engineer Robin the Fog is taking the hotseat to present two-hour smorgasbord of the funky, the strange and the diabolically instructional.  Features a world exclusive from Basil Kirchin, the wonderful Loretta Long, a tour of Jim Henson’s brain,  an overly-perky gent known only as the K-Tel Exercise Man; an awful lot of awkward 60’s small-talk and some screaming. Also features Alex Fitch, host of Resonance’s Panel Border’s show discussing the merits of Cilla Black. Fun for all the family!

Appears here ‘warts-and-all’ as it originally went out on 27/11/2010, so feel free to skip through the talky bits.  Here’s what we played:

Loretta Long: ABC Song (from the LP ‘Susan Sings Songs from Sesame Street’, Scepter Records, 1970)

Bob Dorough: Ready or Not, Here I Come (from the LP ‘Multiplication Rock’, Captiol, 1973)

Electric Company Cast: Electric Company Main Theme (Warner Brothers 7″, 1972)

Loretta Long: Right in the Middle of My Face (from the LP ‘Susan Sings Songs from Sesame Street’)

Bert: Clink, Clank (Columbia Records 7″, 1972)

Jim Henson: Tick Tock Sick (Signature Records 7″, 1960)

Bob Dorough: Four-Legged Zoo (from the LP ‘Multiplication Rock’)

Loretta Long: Three of These Sounds (from the LP ‘Susan Sings Songs from Sesame Street’)

The Short Circus: Hard, Hard, Hard (from ‘The Electric Company OST’, CTW, 1972)

Bob McGraph: Why Choose to be Afraid (from ‘Bob McGraph from Sesame Street’, Affinity Records, 1970)

Electric Company: JJ to Brenda to Mark (from ‘The Electric Company OST’)

Bob Dorough: Three is a Magic Number (from the LP ‘Multiplication Rock’)

Jim Henson: The Countryside (Signature Records 7″, 1960)

Electric Company: Punctuation Song (from ‘The Electric Company OST’)

Bob McGraph: Good, Good Morning Day (from ‘Bob McGraph from Sesame Street’)

Electric Company: Fight! (from ‘The Electric Company OST’)

Electric Company: My Name is Kathy (from ‘The Electric Company OST’)

Bob Dorough and Blossom Dearie: Figure Eight (from the LP ‘Multiplication Rock’)

Loretta Long: Someday Little Children (CTW 7″, 1970)

Electric Company: Signs Song (from ‘The Electric Company OST’)

Hap Palmer: Bossa Nova to Eight (from ‘Math Readiness’ LP, 1980)

The Short Circus: Jelly Belly (from ‘The Electric Company OST’)

Les Chanteurs et L’Orchestre De Michel Triventi: Ulysse ’31 (from ‘Hit Parade des Enfants’, label and date unknown)

Basil Kirchin: Primitive London Part 1 (from ‘Primitive London OST’, forthcoming on Trunk Records)

Bob & Gertrude Kimble(?): S-T-R-E-T-C-H like a Cat (taken from ‘Rhythmic Activity Songs’, Kimbo Instructional Records c.1962)

Jim Henson with Raymond Scott: Limbo- The Organised Mind (taken from ‘Manhattan Research’, Basta Recordings, exact date unknown)

The K-Tel Exercise Man: K-Tel Multi-Exerciser Instructional Record (1st extract) (K-Tel, date unknown)

The Green Goddess: Jump (Renault Trucks Workout) (Renault Trucks 7″, c.1980)

Laban Movement Study Aids: Listen and Move extract (Laban, 78rpm shellac disc, date unknown)

The K-Tel Exercise Man: K-Tel Multi-Exerciser Instructional Record (2nd extract)

Linguaphone: English Lesson 14: Saturday Traffic (Linguaphone 7″, c.1962)

Dick Mills/BBC Radiophonic Workshop: Adagio (taken from ‘The Radiophonic Workshop’, BBC Records, 1975)

BBC Special Effects: The Countryside (taken from ‘BBC Sound Effects vol. 23- Relaxing Sounds’, BBC Records, 1979)

BBC Special Effects:  Screams (taken from ‘BBC Sounds Effects vol. 13- Sounds of Death and Horror’. BBC Records, 1977)

Basil Kirchin: Primitive London Part 4 (forthcoming on Trunk Records)

Unknown: BBC: Acetate disc marked November 1954

Loretta Long: Happy Talk (from the LP ‘Susan Sings Songs from Sesame Street’)

With thanks/apologies to Jonny Trunk. To learn more about the great man and his work why not visit www.trunkrecords.com ? Go on, it’s super.

Yummy Mummy: Series 2, episode 4

Resonance FM’s high-octane, low-concept children’s light entertainment bonanza for forward-thinking little people and backward-thinking big people. This week, in a desperate bid to force the sartorially-challenged station staff to smarten up their collective act, Resonance Commander-in-Chief Thomas Weaver-Baxter has ordered a large antique ornamental mirror to be hung above the studio’s mantelpiece. Predictably, it turns out to be magic and sends Yummy Mummy off on another wild adventure. Features graphic reconstructions of fairies being eaten by lions.

Originally broadcast 25/10/2010

Yummy Mummy: Series 2, episode 3

Resonance FM’s high-octane, low-concept children’s light entertainment bonanza for forward-thinking little people and backward-thinking big people. This week, following yet another ball-bursting incident with the primary school next door, the YMSR team find themselves barricaded in the studio by an army of angry young tear-aways. Reasoning that they never had this kind of problem at the old studio in Denmark Street, evil Station-Commander Thomas Weaver-Baxter decides that the only sensible solution is to tunnel their way back there at once. Unfortunately they don’t realise they’ve taken a wrong turn until they hear the distant sound of yodelling. Slight confusing fun for children of all ages.

Originally broadcast 18/10/2010

Yummy Mummy: Series 2, episode 2

Resonance FM’s high-octane, low-concept children’s light entertainment bonanza for forward-thinking little people and backward-thinking big people. This week everyone at the station is very excited to be receiving a visit from HRH The Prince of Radio, especially despotic station commander Thomas-Weaver-Baxter, who is planning to desperately beg for an increase in funding. Unfortunately he just happens to be passing underneath the ladder where Yummy Mummy is making some last-minute repairs to the Resonance FM escutcheon and receives a spanner to the cranium, thereby drastically impairing his begging abilities. Will jazz-physician Dr. Gillespie’s experimental hard-bop technique work its remedy before the princely motorcade graces the car-park? Will Resonance receive its much needed cash injection? What exactly is an escutcheon? And is anybody actually listening? Find out inside!

Originally broadcast 11/10/2010

Yummy Mummy: Series 2, episode 1

Resonance FM’s high-octane, low-concept children’s light entertainment bonanza for forward-thinking little people and backward-thinking big people. Everyone is very happy this week that Resonance FM is being forced to air another series of it’s reasonably popular children’s entertainment show YMSR. And with good reason, because in a first show packed to the very gills with top-drawer radio fodder, a troop of Girl Guides will be visiting the studio to regale us with a camp-fire classic. And if that doesn’t sound like enough of a roller-coaster ride of excitement and intrigue, how about the mysterious threats the show has been receiving from a disenfranchised former presenter? Or the ominous ticking noise coming from the base of the Resonance FM antennae? Slightly confusing fun for children of all ages.

Originally Broadcast on 04/10/2010