Self Help Radio 010516: Hats

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Hats!  Hats off!  Hat in hand!  Hat's down!  Wait, that's not a thing.  Hat's down?  Are you thinking "hand's down"?  Like, I won hand's down?  You can't say I won hat's down.  That doesn't make any sense.  What would "hat's down" mean, anyway?  Let's not create new idioms here.  Especially when we have a hard enough time with the ones we know.

Hat's down.  For fuck's sake.

The first Self Help Radio of the new year was about hats.  Hats & divorce.  But mainly hats.  There were so many songs about hats.  (They are listed below.)  The Rev. Dr. Howard Gently talked about the spiritual significance of hats.  The Hat Maven told us of his love of hats.  A couple of creative Texans wrote a song for the show!  & just so many hats.  There was nary a covered head in the house.

Get it?  That was a kind of hat play on the phrase "nary a dry eye in the house"!  Clever, no?  No?  Oh.

The show is the show is at the show's website which is Self Help Radio's website.  Username (SHR) + password (selfhelp) required.  It's in two parts.  I think it's as delightful as can be, under the circumstances.

Don't keep it under your hat!

(part one)

"Hats" People Like Us & Ergo Phizmiz _The Keystone Cut Ups_
"Dream Hat" The 6ths _Wasps' Nests_
"Home Under My Hat" The Five Wings _Doo-Wop Coast To Coast, Vol. 3_

"Mexican Hat Dance" Allan Sherman _My Son The Box_
"Mexican Hat Rock" Dave Appell & The Applejacks _Mexican Hat Rock_
"My Hat's On The Side Of My Head" The Four Blazes _Mary Jo_
"Hats" Eddie Lawrence _Is That What's Bothering You, Bunkie?_
"Leopard Skin Pill-Box Hat" Bob Dylan _Blonde On Blonde_

"Some Questions About Hats" Slapp Happy _Desperate Straights_
"There's A Hat For Every Occasion" Mister Ed _Straight From The Horse's Mouth_
"Hat Song" Kevin Ayers _Rainbow Takeaway_
"Sunbonnet Blue (& A Little Straw Hat)" Billie Holiday _The Quintessential Billie Holiday: Vol. 1, 1933 - 1935_
"Pulling Rabbits Out Of A Hat" Sparks _Pulling Rabbits Out Of A Hat_

"Under Hats" Rahim Quazi & Tania Rivas _Under Hats_
"Raspberry Beret" Butcher The Bar _Dressing Up: ePop Covers_

(part two)

"A New Ten Gallon Hat" Sheriff Tom Owens & His Cowboys _Mercury Nashville Gold: Catalog Sampler Volume III_
"White Hat" Big Harp _White Hat_
"King's Lead Hat" Brian Eno _Before & After Science_

"Catblack (The Wizard's Hat)" Tyrannosaurus Rex _Unicorn_
"She's Bought A Hat Like Princess Marina" The Kinks _Arthur (Or The Decline & Fall Of The British Empire)_
"King Hat" Paul F. Tompkins _Laboring Under Delusions_
"Kookie Hat" Freddie Cannon _Okefenokee_

"Call Of The Wighat" The Cramps _Smell Of Female_
"Hats On Wrong" Birthday Party _Hee Haw_
"(They Must Have Made It With Their) Hats" Chrysanthemums _Little Flecks Of Foam Around Barking_
"No Te Pongas El Sombrero" Juniper Moon _El Resto De Mi Vid_

"Wherever I Lay My Hat (That's My Home)" Marvin Gaye _The Complete Motown Singles, Vol. 9: 1969_
"Cowboy Hat" That Dog _Retreat From The Sun_
"Hats Off To Larry" Me First & The Gimme Gimmes _Shannon_