[OutVoice] Music and comedy from yesteryear that's "Stranger Than Straight"

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                            THIS WAY OUT
                 the international gay & lesbian radio magazine
                      Program #974 - the week of 11/27/06
          (hosted by Greg Gordon and produced with Lucia Chappelle)
                  [There is no "NewsWrap" segment this week]
 The legendary American DJ known as "Doctor Demento" raised audio kitsch to
 an art form.  As "Nurse Pimento," the late gay activist and radio producer
 David Fradkin added his own kind of spice to pursuing the peculiarities of
    popular culture.  We've assembled his queer collection on this week's
                     special program that David called
                          "STRANGER THAN STRAIGHT"

* A program filled with some uniquely offbeat words from Carroll "Archie 
Bunker" O'Connor and comedy icon Groucho Marx, crooner Perry Como (an excerpt from 
"Keep It Gay," from the 1953 musical "Me and Juliet": music by Richard 
Rodgers and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II), endearing film comedy duo Laurel & 
Hardy (from the 1936 film classic "Babes in Toyland"), the legendary Judy Garland 
(an excerpt from "The Girl That I Marry"), the multi-talented Mickey Rooney 
(an excerpt from "Treat Me Rough," an otherwise overlooked song from the 1943 
musical "Girl Crazy"), Carl Reiner & Mel Brooks (from "The 2000 Year Old Man"), 
Tommy Smothers ("The Military Lovers"), Martin Mull ("Men"), a brief clip from 
the National Lampooned "Watergate Hearings," Bing Crosby singing "Gay Love," 
a brief musical snippet by Edie Gorme, an obscure song of uncertain origin by 
musical comedy star Danny Kaye, the poignant self-aware words of Holocaust 
teen diarist Anne Frank, a witty ditty about a "marvelous party" he attended by 
the ever-so-sophisticated Noel Coward, a "danceable" Sandy Dennis/George Segal 
film clip from "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf," and Bessie Smith singing, and 
her niece Ruby talking with Chris Albertson about, an especially entertaining 
"Buffet Flat." 
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