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Going a little long because "Peter and the Commissar" just didn't want to get played until a few minutes late.

"There never was a commissar who ever touched a star, so I'd rather be like Peter than the highest commissar."

Going out on Meco's disco rendition of "Star Wars Theme-Cantina Band"

Tomorrow's #SourceOfTheDance will be a miscellany of holy days and unholy topics

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Have you ever heard the sound of a committee in a meeting? A committee is a very strange bird. [cue Tchaikovsky]"

You can, in this great day and age, hear the whole thing on Youtube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9tnOWAillk ; the bit I've quoted here starts at about 2:20).

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And their wheels are always clicking with internal politicking and they whisper and they chatter but it really doesn't matter, for the commissar is well aware that somewhere out in Delaware there's someone up much higher, who's priority is prior, and he's got his own committee, and you think he's sitting pretty, but he's subject to the whim of some committee over him of which I'm sure that not a one of us has heard. ...

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...And at all committee meetings people 'yes' you when they face you, but secretly of course each one is hoping to replace you. ...

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Gray is a nice color but not if you've ever seen orange or red or yellow or blue or green. And we've all heard the saying which is true as well as witty, that a camel is a horse that is designed by a committee.
The only reason for committees, people being what they are, is that everybody wants to be the big chief commissar: because you get to wear the uniform, you get to wear the medals, and you sit on the handlebars while everybody pedals. ...

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...It's a shame because one by one they might invent something colorful or create something bright. That's how anything that's beautiful always gets its start: in a single human brain, in a single human heart. For no matter how small or unimportant you are, there is something inside you that can reach a star. But these people on committees, they sit there all day, and they each put in a color and it comes out gray. ...

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I use part of this in my historiography class, talking about textbooks...
"Now the commissar in this story is Russian. But that's just for purposes of discussion. One finds this type no matter one lives; we call them junior executives. And the thing about these people that's such an awful pity, is they forget that they are people; they're parts of a committee, with committee-shaped souls and committee-shaped hearts, like interchangable auto parts. ...

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By request,
Paul Simon, "Cars Are Cars"
Ylvis, "What Does the Fox Say?"

Story time! My suggestion!
Allan Sherman and the Boston Pops, "Peter and the Commissar"

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Semi-live-batch-posting...

Billy Jones and Ernest Hare, "Barney Google"
Benny Drueger's Orchestra, "Yes, We Have no Bananas!"

Sheb Wooley, "The Purple People Eater"
David Seville, "The Witch Doctor"
Joe South, "Purple People Eater Meets The Witch Doctor"

The Beatles, "Yellow Submarine"

Little Eva, "The Loco-Motion"

Story time! My suggestion!
Allan Sherman and the Boston Pops, "Peter and the Commissar"

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Pop Songs that Kids May Enjoy features a healthy dose of old novelty songs, and one of my favorite Allan Sherman bits
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Raffi, "This Old Man"
Richard Dyer-Bennet, "There's a Hole In the Bottom of Sea" [there's a lot of versions of this song, but this is the one I grew up with]
Seamus Kennedy, "King Caractacus"

Going out on Ettore Stratt's version of Pachelbel's Canon and Gigue in D

Tomorrow's #SourceOfTheDance will be a celebration of the 12th anniversary of the show! Old favorites and looking back!

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Carole King singing Maurice Sendak's "One Was Johnny"
Peter, Paul, and Mary, "I Have a Song To Sing, O!"
Arlo Guthrie, "The House that Jack Built"
Brother Kirk, Pete Seeger, and Oscar the Grouch, "Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly"
Polcino Pio, "The Little Chick Cheep"
Spike Jones and His City Slickers, "Old McDonald Had a Farm"

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The theme, which is my fault, is songs that count/accumulate story.

By request... "The Ants Go Marching" (K8KidTunes version)
Tom Chapin, "The Parade Came Marching" and "Jump-Along Jake"
John Roberts and Tony Barrand, "Green Grow the Rushes-O"

Story time: Me, reading Dr. Seuss's "And To Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street"

Cathy Fink and Marcy Marxer with Brave Combo, "Mockingbird Polka"
Heywood Banks, "18 Wheels on a Big Rig"

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Semi-Live-Batch-Posting!
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Science time!
Schoolhouse Rock, "Interplanet Janet"
They Might Be Giants, "Meet the Elements"
Tom Lehrer, of course, "The Elements" [we have a periodic table shower curtain, so this goes through my head a LOT]

Going out on Wurlitzer 153, "School Days"
Tomorrow's #SourceOfTheDance will be Love&Marriage-themed, in honor of our anniversary (a prime year!).

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[It's kind of funny watching the frequency counter for the hashtag change as I use it...]

Homework set!
Tom Paxton, "Barney Ate My Homework"
From You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, "Book Report" [aka "A Book Report on Peter Rabbit"]

Geography!
Allan Sherman, "Holiday for States"
Stompin' Tom Connor, "Name the Capitals"
Lucky Starr, "I've Been Everywhere [Australia edition]"

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John McCutcheon, "Kindergarten Wall"
"Of all you learn here remember this the best:
Don't hurt each other and clean up your mess.
Take a nap every day; wash before you eat.
Hold hands, stick together, look before you cross the street.
Remember the seed in the little paper cup: first the root goes down and then the plant goes up!"