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Appaloosa Radio presents its original production of
Echoes of Barbara Mandrell —
the musical
Appaloosa Radio offers “Echoes of Barbara Mandrell,” a poignant new musical drama that explores love, loss, and the power of memory.
Charles lives in the Oak Knoll Memory Care Facility, where his memory disease has robbed him of his memories, emotions, and personality. He exists in a perpetual gray fog that makes him unresponsive to what is around him.
When Charles receives an experimental treatment to restore his lost memories, he’s suddenly transported back to his experiences performing with country legend Barbara Mandrell. Vivid recollections from decades past flood Charles’ mind, and fantasy and reality begin to blur. Believing Mandrell is in danger, he embarks on a quixotic quest to save her. Charles’ harrowing journey plays out over eighteen new and original songs created in the style of Barbara Mandrell paying tribute to her classics. The story builds to a bittersweet finale where Charles’ musical memories prove more powerful than death itself.
This musical story includes eighteen new, orginal songs created in the style of Barbara Mandrell. It is presented in Three Acts, wuth an Intermezzo and an Epilogue. It runs 117 minutes and 23 seconds.
Song List – Echoes of Barbara Mandrell
Act 1
- Country in My Soul
- You Deserve What You Got
- Little Bitty Pieces
- Hugging My Pillow
- Good Looking, Lying, Cheatin’ Man
Act 2
- I Was Country Before It Was Cool **
- Good Morning, My Love
- So, So, So Cool to be a Southern Girl
- Hony Tonk Road
- With the Man Next Door
- Is Loving You Right or Wrong ?
- Simply Ask the Animals
Intermezzo
- Cheating Is Like a Fire
- My Love Just Got On a Plane
- Cinderella’s Pumpkin Blues
Act 3
- Haunting Me
- Like a Maniac
- Power Play
- Superhero
Epilogue
- Playin’ Around with Love **
Disclaimer –
The musical includes eighteen new and original songs created in the style of Barbara Mandrell, but which were never performed by her.
It also Includes two songs (“Country Before It Was Cool” and “Playin’ Around With Love”) that were previously performed by her, but in this present work are now performed by other musicians. These two songs are used under EasySong license number #2-10301178.
This is a work of creative fiction. Charles James Daye (Charlie Daye), Gus Griswald, Roxane Rogers, Dr. Larner, and all of the other characters in this work are fictional. None are intended to represent real persons alive or dead.
While this work uses historical context to create a fictional story, none of these usages constitute an accurate depiction of those historical events. Again, its depictions are wholly fictional.
Celebrating the infectious rhythms
of Western Swing music
Musical has 28 Songs. Its run time is 152 minutes, 2 seconds.
It happened in Fort Worth, Texas in the summer of 1928. It could not have happened anywhere else. It could not have happened at another time. No one else could have done it.
A cigar salesman with a rich baritone voice, a barber who was also the best fiddle player in Texas, and a fifteen-year-old waitress who loved to dance.
Together, they created a style of music that still exists today. A style of music that is now the official music style for the state of Texas. Some called it Texas Swing. Most people just called it dance music.
They were Milt Brown, Mollie Perkins, and Jim-Bob Wills.
This is Mollie’s story.
Songs
Act 1
- Deep in the Heart of Texas ##
- Panhandle Rag ##
- Thanks for Your Letter ##
- Come and Kiss Me, Goodbye ##
- Oh, Miss Mollie ##
- Star Spangled Banner ##
- Boot Kickin’ Dance Music
- Times is Hard
- Feelin’ Rhythm in the Air
- Swingin’ Western Style
## – historical music from 1945 Armed Forces Radio broadcast
Act 2
- Lonesome Prairie Polka
- Boot Kickin’ Dance Music
- Brandin’ My Man with Love
- Breakfast for a Texas Man
- Crystal Springs
- Lawson’s Little Pills
- Zip-Zip Zipper *
- Pass them Biscuits
- Country Howdown
*Historical music performed by Light Crust Doughboys
Act 3
- Truth Wars Against My Heart
- Somebody Loses, Somebody Wins YY
- When I was Young and Handsome YY
- Galveston-Town Blues
- Hand and Hand, We Face the Sea (Glorious Morning)
- Melody Ranch Two-Step
- San Antonio Rose zz
- Fort Worth Molly
- Silver Wings
YY Historical music performed by Texas Jim Robertson
zz Historical music performed by Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys
Disclaimer:
This is a work of fiction built around historical circumstances. Molly Perkins as depicted in this work is a fictional character. She does not represent any person alive or dead.
Original music composed using Suno-AI and Soundful software.
Historical music was drawn from the American Armed Forces Radio Network Archives, Archive Number 3, 1945. It was accessed through the Internet Archive. Org website on May 11, 2024.
Peace and perpetual greetings!
Featuring new tie-dye songs in the hip style of the early 1970s
ACT 1
- Hippies Welcome!
- Almost Cosmic Horizons (instrumental)
- Moving in Harmony (instrumental)
- Barefoot Bella
- Big Wave (instrumental)
- Waterfall
- Big Wave (instrumental)
- Beyond the Magellenic Clouds
- Free Rent Forever!
- Captain Bart Brazz Built a Boat
- Meadow Moon
- Clothing is Optional March
- Sunflower in her Garden
- Hippies Welcome
Run time for Act 1 is one hour, 6 minutes and 14 seconds
ACT 2
- Melancholy Ballad (instrumental)
- When Hope is Gone
- Times are Changing
- Travelling Jazz Theme (instrumental)
- I Hate Lawyers
- Big Wave (instrumental)
- Magic Cave
- Changing Times
- Helicopters Flew In
- Big Wave (instrumental)
- Middle-Aged Hippie
Run time for Act 2 is 49 minutes and 27 seconds
ACT 3
- Dancing Feet Zydeco (instrumental)
- I Hate Lawyers
- Joy and Delight!
- Barefoot Bella
- Sunshine on the Waterfall
- Meadow Moon
- Almost Cosmic Horizons (instrumental)
- Hitch a Ride
- Big Wave (instrumental)
Run time for Act 2 is 26 minutes and 14 seconds
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Appaloosa Radio presents An original musical story
Surprise Valley
The hippie resort of perpetual happiness “In 1966, when he turned 18, Winfield Germaine Carlisle the third inherited 29 million dollars from his grandfather’s estate. His grandfather had been one of the west’s principal lumber barons, logging and milling many thousands of acres of prime redwood. Win (as I always called him) was not of the lumber baron type. He was a dreamer who loved both poetry and music. He studied business at Stanford only because that was what his family expected, but his soul was not into financial wizardry. After his sophomore year, he quit and formed a band. I met him when his band played a gig in Claremont where I was going to college. The lawyer who handled Win’s inheritance insisted that Win use some of his money to buy investment opportunities (as he called them). One morning when he perused the sports pages of the San Francisco Chronicle, Win stumbled onto a small ad for a mobil home park that was being offered for sale. Win told his attorney to buy it. The attorney asked, “Wouldn’t you like to visit the property before you buy it?” Win was never one for long deliberations or for planning (for that matter). He told the attorney, “No.” Why asked the attorney. Win answered simply, “Because it is a surprise.” That was one of Win’s recurring jokes. You see, the name of the mobile home park was “Surprise Valley,” and Win had no idea where it was at or what it was like. It was a surprise.”
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A whimsical musical journey to the early days of cartoon animation, featuring Jiminy, the ever-inquisitive, always impulsive, and incredibly funny organ grinder’s monkey, and his three animator friends at the Carousel Cartoon Company of Chicago.
It was 1934 during the very worst days of the Great Depression, and, unfortunately, the Carousel Cartoon Company of Chicago was forced to close. The three animators who had operated the company decided to store the nearly half-million ink drawings on transparent celluloid that they had created by hand in the safes of Vermont’s Old Stone Mountain Life Insurance Company. By saving these cels (as they were called), they hoped to someday begin re-animating cartoons, particularly their favorite character, Jiminy, the mischievous organ grinder’s monkey. Jiminy who so loved playing tricks and making people laugh.
Even though he was now in fragments and thousands of pieces, Jiminy’s unique anima kept doing his cartoon antics. His special monkey magic had not died.
Filled with catchy tunes, laughter, and a dash of monkey mischief, this musical tale will have everyone dancing to the rhythm of courage, friendship, and a little bit of monkey magic.
A song from the musical.
Magic of India Ink Lines
Jiminy
Song List for Act One
Jiminy – King of Cartoon Comedy
Magic of India Ink Lines
I’m Still Me!
Through the Keyhole
My Love, Lillian
Whispers of Wonder
~Act One runs 41 minutes, 51 seconds
Song List for Act Two
1955
Progress’ Ain’t Always So
Organ Grinders’ Dance
The Weight and Wonder of Words
Jiminy’s Circus March Number One
~Act Two runs 19 minutes, 24 seconds
Song List for Act Three
During a Summer Rainstorm
A Movie
This Cat Who Looks Like a Rat
Not Your Shadow
Behind the Scenes
A Little Slack-key Hawaii Style
I Always Need Friends
Jiminy – King of Cartoon Comedy
~Act Three runs 41 minutes, 18 seconds