At Home With Th' Harrises! Dept.

Foam-O-Graph© - Th' Serving Suggestion Of Th' Mind!

Th' IoF© postbag is full of requests from hundreds [Monty and Bunty Hundreds, Greasecake, MI - Ed.] axin' what's playing on th' IoF© radiogram! Is it mayhap a slab of rare jazz funk, or perchance the Inuit Zither Ensemble playing Twenty Hard Rock Power Ballads? Nay, nay, and thrice nay! Them of youse schnooks what have managed to read this far without snapping yer attention span like the waistband on yer skeevy old undershorts will be facsinated to learn is that what which your host has been listening to on the radiogram is ... the radio.

Not what passes for radio today - if anything does - but transcriptions of radio shows from as far back as the 'thirties, right up to today, which is, like, the 'fifties, when television killed radio as radio had killed vaudeville. And my current binge listening is The Phil Harris And Alice Faye Show. You don't care, and why should you? So let's "tune in" to Phil n' Alice Harris, with daughters Phyllis n' Baby Alice Harris, at their H'wood palace (as imagined by some eel-hipped lisping Mexican interior designer hired by the ad agency) to see what's warming the valves on their consolette!

Our intimate peek [above - Ed.] into the Lives of the Stars shews a family phonograph festival! Daughter Phyllis has taken all the vinyl out of the sleeves, because she's a girl, and stacked them on the occasional table [sometimes it's a refrigerator - Ed.]. Mom'll learn her to throw 'em on the carpet later. But what of the album propped up at the bottom of our colorful composition? Do you recognise it, readers?

Frankly, I'm passed caring if youse bums recognise it or not. The back-breakin' woik what I put into dese quizzes ain't recompensated by yer lazy-ass lackadaisical participation, hey. So I'll tell yez up front, hey. It's the first Fallen Angels album, which I bought back in the early 'seventies on account which 1: paisley on sleeve and 2: someone thanked for "good vibes" in credits - two of my prime purchase parameters back then. And their follow-up stacked behind it. They're swell long-playing L.P.'s, and exactly what I'd expect Hipster Harris to be spinning on his spindle!

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