WTWP Classical Talkity-Talk Radio

WTWP Classical Talkity-Talk Radio
Studio album by P. D. Q. Bach
Released	1991
Label	Telarc
P. D. Q. Bach chronology
Oedipus Tex and Other Choral Calamities (1990) WTWP Classical Talkity-Talk Radio (1991) Music for an Awful Lot of Winds and Percussion (1992)

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."^[1] The station name WTWP means "Wall to Wall Pachelbel" in which some unusual instruments play his Canon in D.^[2][3]

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

1. Getting ready
2. Theme song: opening
3. "Canzon Per Sonar a Sei — Count Them — Sei" (P.D.Q. Bach)
4. Pledge plea
5. 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"
6. Station ID
7. Classical Kwickie-Kwiz
8. "Sam and Janet" (P.D.Q. Bach)
9. Weather report
10. "Hound Dog" (Leiber & Stoller)
11. Flip side intro
12. "Love Me" (Leiber & Stoller)
13. Station ID
14. Cadenza
15. "Safe Sextet" (P.D.Q. Bach)
16. Oo-La-La intro
17. Oo-La-La: Cookin' French Like the French Cook French
18. Station ID
19. Canzonetta intro
20. "Canzonetta La Hooplina" (P.D.Q. Bach)
21. Wrap-up
22. Theme song (Pachelbel's Canon)

Sources

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