Mitchell&Webb

One of the things I quite like about living in the U.K is that there is still a healthy tradition of creating content for the Radio. I’m not talking about a load of quaint little ‘tea time with the vicar’ sort of programming here I mean full-on proper radio programs. Only, they’re not programs because they’re programmes and I think it must be that superfluous (sorry… requisite concomitant) ‘m’ that makes the difference. In any case one such programme is That Mitchell and Webb Sound. Not to be confused with their excellent televisual offering, That Mitchell and Webb Look.  For those outside of Blighty the previous links will likely yield very little in the way of joy but get thee to a proxy and perhaps you too can bask in the glory that is Auntie or just type their names into that Youtubes.

Baby Snooks

Fanny Brice dropped out of school in 1908 but managed to land herself a cherry gig with the legendary Ziegfeld Follies in 1910.  While with the Follies she wrote a skit about a toddler named Snooks.  The character would later become a major radio hit.

With the fame that Baby Snooks brought Fanny she was of course straddled with great responsibility. How best to use her fame to guide the legion of young fans that very fame brought her? Her path was obvious; imbue each sketch with  clear and valuable life lessons.

In the above track Baby Snooks teaches young children the importance of road safety through songs of monkey massacres and tales of child abuse.