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Welcome to CRAZY COLLEGE, the last bastion of all musics odd, silly, or forgotten; anything from Stan Freberg to Allan Sherman, from Weird Al Yankovick to Spike Jones, from Noel Coward to Sir Harry Lauder, from The Foremen to..well, let's just leave it at that...Odd Instruments, Instrumentals, musicals, kids' records, stereo demonstration Lps, ephemera from Vaudeville, Tv, and Films, just about anything that makes one shake one's head up and down and even sideways.

Look for a return to WDIY for CRAZY COLLEGE in some crazy late-night slot before the end of Summer! Or better yet listen for it.

GREAT NEWS! CRAZY COLLEGE WILL BE PART OF SHOKUS INTERNET RADIO STARTING THIS JULY!!! IT'S TV ON THE RADIO FOR BABY BOOMERS! Crazy College will be on at 6 PM PDT (9 PM EDT) Monday through Saturday at 9 Pm EDT (6PM PT) and Sundays at 5:00 PM (EDT, 2 PM 9PT) starting July 7th. You should check out all their other programming - it's really cool! - Here's the link: Shokus Internet Radio

I had lunch with Soupy Sales at his home! May 19, 2008. Thank you, Kathy O'Connell and Trudy Sales for a really great day. Hear Soupy and the gang on Crazy College the week of July 14th

...We were saddened to learn that entendre comedian Ruth Wallis died right before Christmas. Read her obit here: http://www.playbill.com/news/article/113764.html.

…The cd says “tracks produced from the original masters” but I can hear what sounds an awful lot like surface noise of the first two tracks. And making matters worse the whole thing has been bathed in reverb, reviving a scam of stereo re-processing that went out of fashion years ago. Just as disappointing as the cd reprocessing, is the material itself, Ruth trying to go mainstream in all but a few tracks here. “Bill,” “My Children are My Treasure:” if you never hear those two tracks, you’re all the better for it. Why won’t someone release Ruth right, straight from the “original masters” even if it’s just a real good transfer from Lps, album for album? Sadly, the late Ruth Wallis’ legacy is not to be found here…

It's official! Crazy College favorite Roy Zimmerman of the Foreman will make his Delaware premiere at Fellowship Hall at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship on 420 Willa Rd in Newark on Friday July 25! Only $15!! Hear him on a special Crazy College edition this Sunday (20th) on WVUD only!!!...

Just got the Jerry Colonna cd. Pretty good transfers from what sounds like the original 78s. Is it a quasi-legal release? The laughs are legit enough...

More on Colonna when I air my interview with his son in the fall. Get his book on the old man while you can.

Here's the picture cover for an incredably rare double-A side 45 from Senor Wences. You'll get to hear it here on a special Crazy College Preview on Shokus Internet Radio that airs starting Monday, June 30 at 10 EDT, 7 PM PT. Thanks to the generosity of Delaware broadcast legend Roger Holmes for the record. The back of the picture sleeve is just as nice
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And surprise BOTh sides of the 45 are GREAT! A real treat!!

Look what our friends at Shout Factory sent: two great new dvd releases! We’ll be giving them starting July 7th. Just email me the first song played on Crazy College on July 7 and if you are the first email to arrive with the correct answer and your address, we'll send you a copy of "Hey, Kids!" WE HAVE A WINNER: JPH of EXTON, MD! CONGRADS!!!The rest should go out a buy a copy as it is really good (or try again on July 21st Same rules). On July 14, it's also the same deal, but for "Kung Fu Kisses!" Only one copy per household unil the end of 2008 (play nice). Decission of the judges is final (meaning the email delivery system...

Hiya Kids: A '50s Saturday Morning
A '50s Saturday Morning In the 1950s, television entertain us baby-boomers much more than perhaps it should. Hiya Kids!! A '50s Saturday Morning
is a collection of the best kids' shows from the infancy of the genre. You’ll see Ding Dong School, Flash Gorden, Jerry Mahoney, Pinky Lee and a host of others – 9 hours in all! It’s like watching Tv on a Saturday morning!
Pucca in “Kung Fu Kisses”
In the mystical and strange Sooga Village, there lives a girl with stupendous strength and a loving heart. PUCCA is looked after by her three uncles, who are chefs at the Go-Rong Restaurant. Garu is a quiet boy who has dedicated his life to becoming a Ninja. All he wants is to be left in peace to pursue his Ninja path. Kung Fu Kisses is an exciting mix of martial arts, Chinese food and comedic quests in the pursuit of love.
Here’s another DVD set that Shout! Factory has donated for you listeners of Crazy College

Yankee Stadium: Baseball's Cathedral This 2-disk set celebrates the entire spectrum that makes this ballpark the most talked about sports structure in the entire world. Plus you get Lou Gehrig’s fairwell speech, Mickey Mantle's 1964 World Series Game 3 Walk-Off. The 9th Inning Of The 1999 World Series, The 9th Inning Of Jim Abbott's No Hitter plus more (like the exclusive 85-Year Yankee Stadium Commemorative Ticket and Yankee Coin.) We’re be giving them away around our Salute to Baseball the week of September 22. How to win? Check back later… .
Join me every Sunday evening at 6:00 PM on 91.3 FM, WVUD, Newark .... where like an babbling brook, they STREAM!

July 14 This week on Crazy College Albert Brooks meets up with blues giant Albert King for a daffy duet. Poncho the Singing Parrot leaves his heart in San Francisco along with a handful of pinfeathers. And Yma Sumac comes face to face with her doppelganger, Amy Camus. Plus host Geo. Stewart talks with Kid show host ledged Soupy Sales.

July 21 This week Crazy College salutes all your favorite cartoons, from Mickey Mouse and Betty Boop to The Simpsons to Pinky & the Brain. Plus host Geo. Stewart leads Led Zeppelin or someone like them in a sing-a-long of the theme song to George of the Jungle.
July 28 This week host Geo. Stewart winds up the old victorla and play some udderly silly songs about cows. We watch of old Tv shows and learn the joys of ciphering from Professor Tom Lehrer. Plus we take cursory look at the career of one Harry Stewart, who you may recall better as Yogi Yorgesson.
Aug 4 Driving This week host Geo. Stewart seeks out hilarity on the highway from the likes of Jerry Lewis and Bob Newhart. Trout Fishing in America make us a proper cup of coffee, brewed in a proper copper coffee pot. And David Seville and his chipmunks party hardy till the cows come home – hope they all live in a barn.
Aug 11 Bananas This week on your last bastion for all musics odd, silly, or forgotten music, host Geo. Stewart hits the disco floor with Martin Mull, Mad Magazine, and Gefilte Joe and The Fish. Plus Philadelphia song-meister Steve Pullara introduces the new dance craze, "The Banana" with the help of Tony Randell and The Hoosier Hotshots.
Aug 18 The Chapeau Sheau This week it's hats off for our chapeau show thanks to milliners Danny Kaye, Porky Pig, and Elsa Lancaster. We putting pants on Phillip with the help of Allen Sherman, Jimmy Durante and John Zackerley. And finally it’s hats on to Beach Bouy Mike Love in a salute to the tonsorially challenged.

Brother Theodore on Crazy College the week of August 25. See Jeff Semeral's documentary on Theodore at the Newark Film Festival (Delaware), September 4-11
Aug 25 Brother Theodore This week Crazy College salutes great stand up comedians and monologists. We hear some classic routines for the likes of Shelly Berman, Nichols & May, Lord Buckley, Mel Brooks. And host Geo. Stewart talk with the ever-elusive Brother Theodore about his rather unusual career. See a great documentary on Theodore at the Newark (DE) Film Festival the weekend of september 4th
Sep 1 Work! A special Labor Day edition of Crazy College this week when host Geo. Stewart salutes all us working stiffs who keep the economic wheels of our great nation turning and grinding. We’ll hear from the likes of Allan Sherman and Lonnie Donegan. David Seville and his Chipmunks do the old nine-to-five two-step and Randy Newman partitions our government for some much need relief.
9/8 Spike Jones Jr This week Crazy College starts a series of programs dedicated to Spike Jones. Host Geo. Stewart will play a wide selection of hits, near misses and rare releases, documenting all phases of Spikes career. Plus he talks with Spike Jones Jr about what his old man was like around the house.
Sept 15 Feet This week Host Geo. Stewart salutes the pedal extremities, i.e. your “feet”, with such soul singers as Fats Waller, Nancy Sinatra and Patrick MacNee. Groucho Marks and Homer and Jethro get matching tattoos. And Christine Laven’s piercing screams rend the air when she goes in for some more extreme forms of body art.
Sept 22 Baseball This week Crazy College host Geo. Stewart salutes the great American pastime, Baseball. We hear from the likes of Sam & Dave, Danny Kaye and Gene Kelly. Nat King Cole will review the history of the game. And Homer and Jethro manage to field an entire team just from all their kith and kin.
Fire up the colortini, kick back and put on the head phones...and wait some more....
NEWS FLASHS!..SEE EXCERPTS FROM THE CRAZY COLLEGE TV SHOW, BAKED POTATO, now on YOUTUBE!! Search "Baked Potato George" or copy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjlxxD575Ns Thanks to Al Engberg for making that happen...
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We note with sadness the passing of Tom Poston. Born on Oct 12, 1921, he made us laugh until the end on April, 2007. Tom was always a welcome sight on any sit-com. But I think his most memorable work was on the Steve Allen Show where was a "Man in the Street" who couldn't remember his own name. Here's a great cover of Tom from the Valentine's Day edition of Harvey Kurttzman's "Help!" Magazine......

"Howdoyado, everybody, howdoyado?" Billy Jones and Ernie Hare, The Happiness Boy, singing about Interwoven Socks. They recorded a lot of great comedy 78s in the 1920s and can be heard all too often on Crazy College
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More News You Can Loose...Check out the interview section for insightful conversations with satirists Tom Lehrer and Stan Freberg, comedian Dayton Allen, Disney animator and founder of The Firehouse Five plus Two, Ward Kimball, and satanic madmad (he was really a nice guy) Brother Theodore and more!. New Theodore documentary making the rounds at film festivals. Look for it in Newark Film Festival (Delaware) this September...

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Now hear all WVUD's fine programming over the web by going to the web page and then clicking on "LISTEN", something good to do on Sunday nights twix 6 and 7 on WVUD..

I remeber when Calvert "performed" at the University of Delaware in the late 1980s. His rider required a bark-o-lounger and a bottle of scotch on stage, which was really the gym forecourt with a hundred folding chairs around. A student was selected to hold his cue cards which he read with continuingly demishing success as he drank more and more of his scotch while reclining in his bark-o-lounger. When the bottle was finsihed, so was the show - and him. A pleasant time was had by all.

Hey, all you big time public radio stations!
Share the Red Scare with all your friends and listeners as we do an hour of recordings about the atomic bom and the loosers of the Cold War. Now Available, with a one year window. Also note that you can still get a free Crazy College Special on SPIKE JONES thanks to Collectors' Choice Music and/or a National edition of Crazy College featuring DAVID OSSMAN of FIRESIGN THEATER or our Silly Seasonal Christmas Songs Fest: merry music from the likes of Stan Freberg, Allan Sherman, Tom Lehrer, and the like. Or the Halloween Special...Or get the Stan Freberg Special featuring interviews with June Foray, Daws Butler, Peter Leeds, Dr. Demento and Stan the man himself. Plus lots of musical tracks from Stan! Available to any and all by contacting Crazy College [use my e-mail] They're now available on CD! You can run it anytime you want as often as you want until the end of time or the end of the next millenium, whichever comes first! Perfect come fund raising time. No salesmen will call. Act now! No unpleasent bending; no visable panty lines. Call [302] 994 - 7571 for details. Get any or all: The Spike Jones Special, The Firesign Theater special, the Tom Lehrer special, the Stan Freberg AND The Halloween and Christmas Specials for the incredably low price of ABSOLUTLY FREE! You can't get a better deal ANYWHERE!! As seen on television! Not available in stores!!!

Updated 7/15/2008.
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This leading page designed according to Geo's desires by: Neil Banerjee [Neil does a really neat show of music from the Indian Subcontinant that you should listen to on Sundays at 4pm (skbde@yahoo.com) For a free sample visit RAGA and experience music and culture from the other side of the world!

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