Thursday, March 1, 2018

Freedomland, USA!



            This was the name of an American-History theme park in New York.  It was also the name of a 1960 album produced to plug the place.  It’s almost embarrassing in its gosh-wow sincerity.

           

01 - Overture to "Freedomland"

02 - Little Old New York

03 - Satellite City

04 - Danny the Dragon

05 - The Jalopy Song

06 - Pine Country

07 - Johnny Freedom

08 - On the Showboat

09 - San Francisco Fran

10 - So Long, Ma

11 - The Chicago Fire



You may feel like you’re watching a scene from Green Acres – one of those times when Oliver Douglas starts orating and an unknown, offscreen, non-diegetic band sarcastically plays “Glory Hallelujah.”  But that’s America, too!









See you back here on Monday, kids!
 

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