Evangelical Wood – on Vinyl!
I’m a Crypt Leak’s been following some strange thread only to find it was a marionette string in the service of The Lord! Praise JAY-zus! This led him to someone’s collection of evangelical records, many of which are conceptually entertaining to heathens such as IaCL and I.
A recurring theme of ventriloquist’s dummies couldn’t help but catch my attention. Click on any of the images to be taken to a little info on each. Each of them have a Left/Right button on its page so you can cycle through the entire gallery.
Surely I can't be the only one to notice that one of the characters on the "Bible Stories That Live" LP cover bears a striking resemblance to Uncle Floyd's sidekick, Oogie, seen here to the left. A relative, or the strange past of a single performer? Who - save Oogie -- can say? Did he have a falling out with the minister and strike out into show business? Was the seemingly benign and benevolent Uncle Floyd actually an agent of Satan, luring the young Oogie away from a life of Christian service into the living Hell of New Jersey public television? If so, then I suspect Oogie's been punished quite enough already...
Poking around on some of the others, one of them was for an LP called Silhouette, by evangelist John Rydgren, who pitched his message to hippies in the parlance of the times. Linked to that page is an mp3 of a "teen prayer", and listening to it I was reminded for some reason of Tony Hendra's "Deteriorata", performed as part of a National Lampoon Radio Hour program in 1972. You can listen to (and read along with) "Deteriorata" here, be it for the first time or (likely) for the first time in a long time. That's one of my favorites from the show; it's fun to find I still like it as much after over three decades.
Poking around on some of the others, one of them was for an LP called Silhouette, by evangelist John Rydgren, who pitched his message to hippies in the parlance of the times. Linked to that page is an mp3 of a "teen prayer", and listening to it I was reminded for some reason of Tony Hendra's "Deteriorata", performed as part of a National Lampoon Radio Hour program in 1972. You can listen to (and read along with) "Deteriorata" here, be it for the first time or (likely) for the first time in a long time. That's one of my favorites from the show; it's fun to find I still like it as much after over three decades.
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