WTWP Classical Talkity-Talk Radio

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WTWP Classical Talkity-Talk Radio was released in 1991 by Telarc Records. The album contains the "last hour of the broadcast from station WTWP in Hoople on May 5, 1991, the 184th anniversary of the death of P. D. Q. Bach." The station name WTWP means "Wall to Wall Pachelbel" in which some unusual instruments play his Canon in D.

Performers

Professor Peter Schickele
Donna Brown as Blondie
Elliott Forrest as Jocko
Dana Krueger, mezzanine-soprano
Peter Lurye, piano
Calliope, a renaissance band

Track listing

Getting ready
Theme song: opening
"Canzon Per Sonar a Sei — Count Them — Sei" (P.D.Q. Bach)
Pledge plea
Four Folk Song Upsettings (P.D.Q. Bach)
- Index 1: "Little Bunny Hop Hop Hop"
- Index 2: "Oft of an E'en Ere Night is Nigh"
- Index 3: "He Came From Over Yonder Ridge"
- Index 4: "The Farmer on the Dole"
Station ID
Classical Kwickie-Kwiz
"Sam and Janet" (P.D.Q. Bach)
Weather report
"Hound Dog" (Leiber & Stoller)
Flip side intro
"Love Me" (Leiber & Stoller)
Station ID
Cadenza
"Safe Sextet" (P.D.Q. Bach)
Oo-La-La intro
Oo-La-La: Cookin' French Like the French Cook French
Station ID
Canzonetta intro
"Canzonetta La Hooplina" (P.D.Q. Bach)
Wrap-up
Theme song (Pachelbel's Canon)

(NOTE: DURING THE REPRISE OF THE PACHEBEL CANON, BLONDIE SUFFERS A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN, DUE TO AN OVERDOSE OF PACHEBEL.)

Sources

P.D.Q. Bach: WTWP Classical Talkity-Talk Radio
"Missing Pieces" by Stephen Budiansky, The Atlantic, March 2002
Fink, Robert (2010). "Prisoners of Pachelbel: An Essay in Post-Canonic Musicology". Hamburg Jahrbuch: 99.

v t e P. D. Q. Bach
Albums	An Evening with P. D. Q. Bach (1965) An Hysteric Return (1966) Report from Hoople: P. D. Q. Bach on the Air (1967) The Stoned Guest (1970) The Wurst of P. D. Q. Bach (1971) The Intimate P. D. Q. Bach (1974) Portrait of P. D. Q. Bach (1977) Black Forest Bluegrass (1979) Liebeslieder Polkas (1980) Music You Can't Get Out of Your Head (1982) A Little Nightmare Music (1983) 1712 Overture and Other Musical Assaults (1989) Oedipus Tex and Other Choral Calamities (1990) WTWP Classical Talkity-Talk Radio (1991) Music for an Awful Lot of Winds and Percussion (1992) Two Pianos Are Better Than One (1994) The Short-Tempered Clavier and other dysfunctional works for keyboard (1995) The Dreaded P. D. Q. Bach Collection (1996) The Ill-Conceived P. D. Q. Bach Anthology (1998) The Jekyll and Hyde Tour (2007)
Compositions	The Abduction of Figaro Concerto for Horn and Hardart Echo Sonata for Two Unfriendly Groups of Instruments Grand Serenade for an Awful Lot of Winds and Percussion Oedipus Tex Pervertimento for Bagpipes, Bicycle and Balloons The Stoned Guest
Videos/DVDs	The Abduction of Figaro (1984) P. D. Q. Bach in Houston: We Have a Problem! (2006)
Books	The Definitive Biography of P.D.Q. Bach, 1807–1742? (1976, by Peter Schickele)

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