Sneaky Dragon

By Ian Boothby and David DedrickComedy TV & Film Music Improv

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April 22, 2021 Sneaky Dragon Listening Party – Ep. 64

Hello, partygoers! As we head into the final stretch of the Listening Party, we thought we’d take some time to read and comment on your own comments that have been sent into the show over the last few months.

It goes without saying – but we’re going to say it anyway – that the party wouldn’t have been half as fun without your contributions. Your thoughts, opinions, stories, alternate song choices, and jokes have made this podcast a real joy to do.

Of course, it wouldn’t really be the Listening Party without music, and Dave has stepped up big time to offer us four fun Top 5 categories and some truly great songs. We think you’re really going to enjoy it!

Top 5 Hair Songs:1) The Cowsills – “Hair” – MGM single b/w “What Is Happy?”, 1968 – 06:412) Pearly Gates Music – “Gossamer Hair” – Pearly Gates Music, 2010 – 21:243) Wimple Witch – “Marmalade Hair” – Tales from the Sinking Ship, 2009 – 29:504) Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – “Almost Cut My Hair (Full Version)” – CSN, 1991[1970] – 35:595) White Denim – “Mess Your Hair Up” – Workout Holiday, 2008 – 58:09Bonus Hair Song:6) Chimera – “The Lady with Bullets in Her Hair” – Holy Grail, 2002 – 1:05:36

Top 5 Train Songs:1) Five Man Electrical Band – “Private Train” – Five Man Electrical Band, 1969 – 1:14:332) Johnny Burnette and the Rock and Roll Trio – “Train Kept A-Rollin’” – Coral Records single b/w “Honey Hush”, 1956 – 1:22:153) Cindy and the Playmates – “Don’t Stop This Train” – Kemp Records single b/w “A Portrait of God’s Love”, 1972 – 1:29:444) Michael Hurley – “Water Train” – Hi-Fi Snock Uptown, 1972 – 1:40:205) The Monkees – “Steam Engine” – Listen to the Band, 1991 [1969] – 1:52:46Bonus Train Song:6) The Rising Sons – “2:10 Train” – Rising Sons featuring Taj Mahal and Ry Cooder, 1992 – 1:57:12

Top 5 Rodent Songs:1) No Fun – “Rodents Fair” – Snivel, 1984 – 2:04:152) The Kinks – “Rats” – Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One [also b-side to “Apeman” from the same album], 1970 – 2:09:333) The Monochrome Set – “Mousetrap” – Trinity Square, 1995 – 2:16:234) Junior Wells – “When the Cat’s Gone the Mice Play” – USA Records single b-side to “She’s a Sweet One”, 1963 – 2:23:345) The Modettes – “White Mice” – The Story So Far, 1982 – 2:27:24

Top 5 Tack Piano Songs (for Ed Draganski):1) The Mojo Men – “Sit Down, I Think I Love You” – Reprise single b/w “Don’t Leave Me Crying Like Before”, 1967 – 2:43:102) The Hollies – “Ye Olde Toffee Shoppe” – Evolution, 1967 – 2:52:393) Mike D’Abo – “(See the Little People) Gulliver Travels” – Immediate single b/w “An Anthology of Gulliver’s Travels – Part Two”, 1969 – 2:57:024) The Bunch – “Spare a Shilling” – CBS Records single b/w “Looking Glass Alice”, 1967 – 3:04:195) The Beach Boys – “Heroes and Villains [Alternate version]”, Good Vibrations: Thirty Years of the Beach Boys, 1993[1966} – 3:11:26Bonus Tack Piano Song:6) Freddie and the Dreamers – “I Want to Go to the Overworld” – Oliver in the Overworld, 1970 – 3:22:32

Also spinning on the old Victrola:

Tori Amos – “Mr. Zebra” – Boys for Pele, 1996 – 2:39:01Gary Usher – “Scorpio” – The Astrology Album, 1967 – 3:16:17

Thanks for listening.

Dept. of Corections:The word David was looking for was “spindle” – a record sits on a spindle on a turntable.The original singer for Manfred Mann was Paul Jones,
3 hr 31 min
April 18, 2021 Sneaky Dragon Episode 489
Hola, Sneakers! Welcome to Episode 489 of 5, 745, 633rd most popular podcast on the internet!
This week: 50% vaccinated; not feeling it; active bodies; taking it wrong; flu-like symptoms; public domain humour; better dyed the read; marriage is ageless; which Jimmy; not forgotten; birds-a-verse; catbird seat; animal bands; an audience of one; fan of Nobody; almost blackface; get off the anger ledge; Justice League’s third ending; endless sweaters; zombies aren’t interesting; unexpected casting; Dave recants; walked out on owls; trailer deprived; military popcorn; scuppered by family; boo on the world; gym strip is weird; jarring building; secret society; necrophiliac oral pig sex; get out of jail free cards; deep digs; long memoir-ies; unsympathetic; your problems are still problems; if you like seaweed; Dork Shadows – Sister’s Keeper; hot chicks and diaphanous gowns; Question of the Week – Sneakers respond; back in time; shoulder-to-shoulder harmonizing; shy pushiness; slight disabled; future hopes; glosette vaccination; band together; verified shit job; loosely knit family; sign of being gay; the right fit; and, finally, surprise horse.
Question of the week: What is a group you wanted to be a part of? Were you ever able to be part of it?
Sub-question: What is the oddest side effect you have ever had?
Hey! Check Dave out on the Dirty Harry Minute discussing The Dead Pool like he knows something! Go here to hear!
Do you want to see Canada’s favourite anthropromorphic popcorn?
That bizarre Eaton’s campaign that has scarred Ian:
2 hr 28 min
April 11, 2021 Sneaky Dragon Episode 488
Hola, Sneakers! Welcome to Episode 488 of the podcast that’s great!
This week: in the moment; Owen Chicken; clueless audience; who owes you; obscure sitcoms; forgotten unknowns; car show; it’s Cannon; non-native Native American; full of fear; tough time; metaphor mall; out on a limb; elusive chord; rude interruption; comics on one’s organ; bad time for enthusiasts; what the Beeple; can we be normal; won’t somebody think of the children; the luckiest generation; the voice of greed; the housing high tide; the laundry economy; she blew it; the upside-down boat; slim pickings indeed; you have to find your fun; invest in a moat; convince yourself; more Linklater; too authentic; scary times; stop talking; it’s what you want; unpronounceable force ghost; what the future holds; Dork Shadows – Death Is But a Dream; Question of the Week – Sneakers respond; good obituaries; tone deaf dance; white knights; tapcast; variable time; the bitter end; all or nothing; smells like Dave’s spirit; Butt love; angry Ian; rude interruption #2; and, finally, sacked.
Question of the week: When you’re finally vaccinated, what is the first thing you’d like to do?
Sub-question: Did you grow up with siblings? Did you get along? And if you didn’t have any brothers and/or sisters, did you wish you did?
Hey! Check Dave out on the Dirty Harry Minute discussing The Dead Pool like he knows something! Go here to hear!
Well, even the settings on the website agree with Ian!
We’ve talked about it twice. One more time and it will pop out of a mirror:
2 hr 57 min
April 08, 2021 Sneaky Dragon Listening Party – Ep. 63

Hello, partygoers! It was a lovely, sunny Easter Sunday, but David and Mary couldn’t resist popping into the Listening Party rumpus room for some delightful music and the usual tomfoolery.

And what a lot of music we have this week. You’ll hear girl rock, country psych, pocket prog, commercial pop, and faux feudalism, plus a mini-doc about The Left Banke and Michael Brown. Who could say no?

Join us in the rumpus room to hear:

* The Like – “What I Say and What I Mean” – Are You Thinking What I’m Thinking, 2005 – 16:24* The Left Banke – “Barterers and Their Wives” – Just Walk Away, Renée/Pretty Ballerina, 1967 – 25:25* The Kingsbury Manx – “Regular Hands” – The Kingsbury Manx, 2000 – 1:16:22* Bloomsbury People – “Pioneer Saint of Death” – Bloomsbury People, 1970 – 1:29:53* Villagers – “Nothing Arrived” – {Awayland}, 2013 – 1:49:19* The Love-Ins – “That’s All She Wrote” – Curtis Bros. Records single b/w “Everything’s There”, 1966 – 1:54:37* Rita Lee – “Frique Comigo” – Hojé E O Primiero Dia da Vida, 1972 – 1:59:51* Julie Doiron – “Consolation Prize” – I Can Wonder What You Did with Your Day, 2009 – 2:07:58* Big Star – For You (Fireplace) – Third/Sister Lovers, 1978 – 2:18:47* The Tokens – “She Let Her Hair Down (Early in the Morning)” – Both Sides Now, 1971 – 2:29:12* Olivia Tremor Control – “Holiday Surprise 1, 2 ,3” – Music from the Unrealized Film Script: Dusk at Cubist Castle, 1996 – 2:43:43* Fairport Convention – “Now Be Thankful” – Island Records single b/w “Sir B. McKenzie’s Daughter’s Lament For the 77th Mounted Lancers Retreat from the Straits Of Loch Knombe, in the Year of Our Lord 1727, on the Occasion of the Announcement of Her Marriage to the Laird of Kinleakie”, 1970 – 2:55:34* The Fall – “Leave the Capitol” – Slates, 1981 – 3:05:56

Also spinning on the old Victrola:

* The Left Banke – “Desirée” – Smash Records single b/w “I’ve Got Something on My Mind”, 1968 – 44:04* The Left Banke – “There’s Gonna Be a Storm” – The Left Banke Too, 1968 – 48:51* Montage – “Grand Pianist” – Montage, 1969 – 56:30* Steve Martin – “Love Songs in the Night” – Buddah Records single b/w “Two By Two”, 1971 – 1:00:48* Stories – “Take Cover” – Stories, 1972 – 1:04:22* The Beckies – “On the Morning That She Came” – The Beckies, 1976 – 1:09:00* Sigmund Snopek III – “Soothsayers Dove” – Virginia Woolfe, 1972 – 1:41:15

Thanks for listening.

If you’d like to hear this mixtape uninterrupted by David and Mary’s scintillating conversation, then follow this link!

Dept of Corections:Dave misspoke during the show, attributing drums to The Like’s Charlotte Froom. She was actually the original bassist for the group! Apologies all round!
3 hr 20 min
April 03, 2021 Sneaky Dragon Episode 487
Hola, Sneakers! Welcome to Episode 487 of podcasting heaven!
This week: technically a joke; door dashes; pretty good; corvid; celebrate the bad times; government ineptitude; the Caillou model; woodshedding; typewriters are old; radical corporate behemoths; defensive much; aimless blathering; so many numbers; motivation; when does a week end; a straight line; family resemblances; around the old piano; a couple of boms; old clocks; mild correction; does the carpet match the seaweed; the magical place; adult talk; down on bonfires; the kids are all right; generational change; friend choices; invisible students; brave choices; poor choices; dated comedy; exploring is not advocating; other voices; foreign people; stuck in the past; we solved it; Dork Shadows – Creature Feature; going for the Peabody; re-framed; sheeples; Question of the Week – Sneakers respond; make it rhyme; bad smells; sweet tunes; bumper smoking; dangerous acting; and, finally, interesting Britain.
Question of the week: What is a movie that you’d recommend, but would have to re-frame for modern sensibilities?
Sub-question: Who is your favourite dancer? Dave wants to know and he isn’t fussy about media.
Sub-sub-question: We all know a week has seven days, but what are those days? Do you agree with Dave that it is Sunday to Saturday or do you agree with Ian – and disagree with all calendars – that it is from Monday to Sunday?
3 hr 17 min
March 27, 2021 Sneaky Dragon Episode 486
Hola, Sneakers! Welcome to Episode 486 0f the podcast with the most to say about…er…stuff!
This week: dead donkey; computer technical difficulties; crashing plane; internet island; crow heaven; George Segal; Russian Roulette; icky 70’s; inaction flicks; château-style; dismal sci-fi; best-named magazines; underappreciated actors; guilty pleasure; teachable moment; first gay; fairy tale celebs; Day of the Triffids; how to progress; crashing airplane again; vacation plans; Big Ben pedants; vampire royalty; you say “anus”; shame on us; hard to condemn your grandma; tough job; Egyptian-rules; no teeth money; hide your past; Kevin Smith; all-talk movies; Seth Rogen; an unwatchable piece of shit; you made it wrong; an Herzog moment; no Dork Shadows; recipe a day; chicked de-spining; manic chit-chat; Question of the Week – Sneakers respond; teacher’s pet; macaroni cheese; poisoned; Dark Shadows death march; it’s on Dave; circus folks; alternative Superman; enticing onions; rain on hot pavement = blechhh; crowded house; and, finally, weird times.
Question of the week: Name a favourite underappreciated actor.
Sub-question: What is a notable, not-so-notable or favourite movie made where you live?
2 hr 48 min
March 26, 2021 Sneaky Dragon Listening Party – Ep. 62

Hello, Party-goers! Welcome back to the Listening Party rumpus room where the beanbag chairs are always waiting!

This week – having finished off our final novelty mix – Mary and David return to the mixtapes of listener Nick Owen for a mix of 80’s indie, psychedelia, alt-rock, art rock, and squelching noises.

Join us in the rumpus room to hear:

* Felt – “Sunlight Bathed the Golden Glow” – Cherry Red Records single b/w “Fortune” (the 12” single added “Sunlight Strings” – an instrumental remix of “Sunlight bathed the Golden Glow”), 1984 – 15:29* The Orange Bicycle – “Last Cloud Home” – Parlaphone Records single b-side to “Tonight I’ll Be Staying Here With You”, 1969 – 34:50* Beck – “Rental Car” – Guero, 2005 – 1:14:15* Emitt Rhodes – “Love Will Stone You” – Mirror, 1971 – 1:24:58* Eldridge Holmes – “Pop, Popcorn Children” – Atco Records single b/w “Cheating Woman”, 1969 – 1:35:55* Charlotte Hatherley – “Grey Will Fade” – Grey Will Fade, 2004 – 1:51:05* Jana Hunter – “Vultures” – There’s No Home, 2007 – 2:00:35* Field Music – “Precious Plans” – Field Music [Measure], 2010 – 2:09:20* Lyle Lovett – “Christmas Morning” – The Road to Ensenada, 1996 – 2:17:43* Super Furry Animals – “Run! Christian, Run! – Rings Around the World, 2001 – 2:30:02

Also spinning on the old Victrola:

* Felt – “Sunlight Strings” – Cherry Red 12” single b-side to “Sunlight Bathed the Golden Glow”, 1984 – 28:39* The Robb Storme Group – “Here Today” – Columbia Records single b/w “But Cry”, 1966 – 41:25* The Orange Bicycle – “Hyacinth Threads” – Columbia Records b/w “Amy Peate”, 1967 – 48:47* Wilson Malone Voiceband – “Penny Lane” – Funnysad Music, 1968 – 54:44* Boback. Johns, Malone – “On a Meadow Lea” – Motherlight, 1969 – 59:11* Wil Malone – “I Could Write a Book” – Wil Malone, 1970 – 1:07:03* John Butler – “Yes, I Do” – The Loyal Serpent, 1997 – 2:52:25* The Wackers – “Day & Night” – Shredder, 1972 – 2:58:44* Gary Usher – “Sagittarius” – The Astrology Album, 1967 – 3:03:23

Thanks for listening.

Dept. of Corections:“Willesden Green” was not a b-side, but instead an album cut from the Kinks’ so-so Percy soundtrack album.

If you’re interested in hearing Sloan’s murderecords singles collection, you can follow this link!

We talked about it during the show so here Emitt Rhodes singing live against a backing track on that show about grey whistle collections:

3 hr 11 min
March 21, 2021 Sneaky Dragon Episode 485
Hola, Sneakers! Welcome to Episode 485 of the Real Podcasts of Beverley Hills!
This week: let’s do a podcast; bugged by musicals; lovely Rita; dignified bird; your town is a slag heap; the grouch vote; let the doggies bark; Irene Cara facts; all that jabs; the many flavours of Tab; all that juice; keep it short; joke writer; non-competitive acting; poor losers and bad winners; disappointing yourself; the perfect trap; failure moves you forward; you think you’re so smart; be a parent; bland food; the magical fruit; boastful hypocrite; lil’ servers; more Bugsy; unseen characters; dangling from your ankles; Dork Shadows – Bad Dreams; Question of the Week – Sneakers respond; fucking liar; child lottery ticket; and, finally, monkey in a teacup.
Thanks for listening.
Question of the week: What used to be your comfort food and, if it has changed, what is it now?
Sub-question (from Brent): If you were allowed only five smells in your life, what five smells would you choose?
2 hr 45 min
March 14, 2021 Sneaky Dragon Episode 484
Hola, Sneakers! Welcome to Episode 484 of the podcast that knows better!
This week: no hits; 1:1 ratio; syncopated chocolate talk; waits and measures; penis thoughts; unfriendly friends; mean comedy; Covid fever; the Great Comedy Crash; Hollywood North; escaping MacGyver; tasting fame; pre-Internet nerd culture; typecast; Martin and Murray; or Chevy Chase; Firefly and Serenity; gratuitous death; powerful women are crazy; controversial flips; different experiences; bad marketing; super neck muscles; freaky dancing; my friend Ian; Dork Shadows – Journey Through Time; Question of the Week – Sneakers respond; perfect role; chopped food; chowsering; stinky pets; parents; 500 plans; and, finally, too long.
Thanks for listening.
Question of the week: What is your longest friendship and what do you think has made it last?
Sub-question (from Brent): What famous person are you related to and are people impressed when you tell them?
2 hr 27 min
March 11, 2021 Sneaky Dragon Listening Party – Ep. 61

Hello, partygoers, and welcome back to party headquarters. As always, we appreciate visitors to the Listening Party rumpus room!

This week, Mary and her dad tackle side two of our final novelty song mix tape, and Mary questions her dad’s rather broad definition of a novelty song. Despite some complaints at the beginning of this series, it wasn’t so bad, was it?

It was?

Well anyway, pull up a comfy chair and settle down for some more novel songs!

* The Chips – “Rubber Biscuit” – Josie single b/w “Oh Little Darling”, 1956 – 13:21* Carla Thomas & Otis Redding – “Tramp” – King and Queen, 1967 – 29:29* The Parade – “Frog Prince” – A&M single b/w “Hallelujah Rocket”, 1967 – 41:45* The Book of Changes – “I Stole the Goodyear Blimp” – Tower Records single b/w “Suddenly I’m Desperately in Love”, 1967 – 48:30* Roy Wood – “When Gran’ma Plays the Banjo” – Boulders, 1972 – 59:51* Bull Moose Jackson with Tiny Bradshaw’s Orchestra – “Big Ten-Inch Record” – King Records b/w “I Needed You”, 1952 – 1:14:10* Bit A’Sweet – “2086” – Hypnotic 1, 1968 (also a single on ABC Records b/w “A Second Time”) – 1:27:22* Biff Rose – “Evolution” – Children of Light, 1969 – 1:41:34* Sagittarius – “Hotel Indiscreet” – Columbia single b/w “Virgo”, 1967) – 1:47:44* The Fugs – “Wet Dream” – Tenderness Junction, 1968 – 2:24:18* The Move – “Cherry Blossom Clinic Revisited (Edit)” – Shazam, 1970 – 2:48:14* Wanda Jackson – “Hot Dog! That Made Him Mad” – Rockin’ with Wanda, 1960 – 2:55:07* Belle and Sebastian – “I Love My Car” – Jeepster single “I’m Waking Up to Us” b/w “I Love My Car” and “Marx and Engels”, 2001 – 3:04:08

Also spinning on the old Victrola:

* The Devons – “Honda Bike” – Decca single b/w “Free Fall”, 1965 – 1:54:45* Sagittarius – “My World Fell Down” – Columbia single b/w “Libra”, 1967 – 2:00:55* The Byrds – “Draft Morning” – The Notorious Byrd Brothers, 1968 – 2:09:21* Gary Usher – “Virgo” – The Astrology Album, 1967 – 2:17:48* Gary Usher – “Pisces” – The Astrology Album, 1967 – 2:20:21

Thanks for listening.

Dept. of Freebies:If you’d like to listen to an uninterrupted collection of novelty songs, you can find Dave’s original mix here.
3 hr 10 min