the memory palace: Episode 67: Every Night Ever

June 30, 2015 1:01 PM

“It was the same night, over and over…” A true story of the time it wasn't, from Lithium Springs, Georgia in 1953.

Music

• Under the credits is “Harlaamstrat 74” off of John Dankworth’s Modesty Blaise score.
• Then, we have the most obvious crickets/summer night song ever: the fantastic, perpetually delightful [“Green Arrow”] from Yo La Tengo’s I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One, which has soundtracked many crickety summer nights for me over the years.
• The cops roll in to a loop of the very beginning of the epic “Ptah, the El Daoud”, the title track to Alice Coltrane’s album from 1970.
• Then we have a mix of two improvisations from Charles Cohen’s Brother I Prove You Wrong: “Cloud Hands” and “The Boy and the Snake Dance”.
• There’s a brief dip into “Dorian”, by Fang Island.
• The jaunty accordion, typewriter thing is “Biking is Better” on Wintergatan’s eponymous album.

Notes
[Nate DiMeo] researched this one primarily through old newspapers. The easiest place to find a number of them is to read the excellent site, The Museum of Hoaxes’ page on this event. Also: if you’re in the Atlanta area and ever want to have yourself a day, you can see the actual monkey. It’s preserved in a jar at the Georgia Bureau of Investigations museum in Decatur Georgia.

posted by Going To Maine (3 comments total)

Man, the memory palace is back! And it is in fine form.
posted by Going To Maine at 1:02 PM on June 30, 2015

This is great news. Thanks for sharing it because I otherwise probably would not have realized it.
posted by MCMikeNamara at 1:29 PM on June 30, 2015

Boy, it seems like a lot of great podcasts are jumping ship from Maximum Fun to Radiotopia.
posted by maxsparber at 10:24 PM on June 30, 2015