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Conversations With My Dummy

"Conversations With My Dummy" is a throwback to old time radio, featuring original routines, sound effects, voice characterizations and ventriloquism (yes, before you ask about his lips, Steve works on the honor system) It aired for over 30 years on commercial and public radio stations around the country. Steve Charney and his show was profiled in the "New Yorker" magazine. In other words, Steve is a serious artist, doing serious work, who"s in serious trouble.

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All Episodes

19:30

CWMD 129 Harry does impossible things

Conversations With My Dummy ·

2019/08/21

Mikhail Horowitz is Steve's guest. He's becoming a regular. His essay is about "Not so Great Expectations". Hilarious.Also Harry is set on performing impossible tasks. And he does them! You want a nail hammered in with Jello? You wanna hear Maple Leaf Rag played on Steve's arm by a dummy who's never played piano in his life and has wooden fingers? Then you've come to the right podcast. Steve also plays "We Are Americans". It's funny, it's original, it's a protest...sort of. And Emo Philips, one of

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20:41

CWMD 128 CeLEbrAtIOnS!

Conversations With My Dummy ·

2019/08/14

Mikhail Horowitz is back and we got 'em. He's doing a parody on the blind men and the elephant. Only it's unexpurgated. A little spicy so beware. Also Harry wants to point out that we don't celebrate things we should. Like the 10,000th time we've blinked our eyes. Or the 5,000th time we've brushed our teeth. Now that would be a brushing with all the bells and whistles involved. And to tie it all up, Cathy Fink and Marcy Marxer sing "The Therapy Fund". Do your kids need a college fund? Nope. You

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19:16

CWMD 127 The Comedy Inspector

Conversations With My Dummy ·

2019/08/07

Lyn Hardy and Diane Senabria are Steve's guests singing an oldie "Beware Ladies, Take Care"Also the comedy inspector arrives. He has to make sure Steve's comedy license is up to date. Guess what? It isn't and Steve and Harry are in serious trouble. No jokes until it's updated and passes inspection.Also Bob Warren sings "I Want Some Quiche, Lorraine." (Lorraine is the waitress's name)

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19:24

CWMD 126 Christo

Conversations With My Dummy ·

2019/07/31

Bill Keith, the great banjo player is playing Old Joe Clark with Steve. Harry emulates the sculptor Christo, the one who wraps buildings, bridges and put up beautiful flags in Central Park several years ago. Granted, Harry has to start small by wrapping the recording studio's pencils and CD player but, hey, it's a start. Also an oldie, Frank Crumit doing "The Song of the Prune."

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18:17

CWMD 125 Everything is a guitar/America's Heartland

Conversations With My Dummy ·

2019/07/24

Mikhail Horowitz is back with Haikus from Japan about baseball. We LOVE Mik and Harry LOVES the guitar and turns everything into one. And we mean everything. Also Washboard Jungle singing a nutty version of "Momma don't Allow" and Libby Riddles with Fishhead stew. Also if the midwest is America's Heartland, Harry wants to know where the Liverland is.

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20:06

CWMD 124 CrAzY lOvE

Conversations With My Dummy ·

2019/07/17

The theme is romance. Crazy Romance. To start it off is Ed Sanders (From the Fugs) doing "The Belle of Avenue A". A story song about a truck driver in the 60's on the Red Ball express heading into the East Village to get some hippie noogie. It satirizes the hippie movement beautifully. Then Les Vegas sings his original song "I'm in Love With A Big Blue Frog". The same one that Peter, Paul and Mary had a hit with.Harry's girlfriend is a broom and he wants Steve to make her talk.And Allan Sherman

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19:50

CWMD 123 Harry wants to be a dog

Conversations With My Dummy ·

2019/07/10

Harry really, really, really wants to be a dog. Eventually an operation is in order. And keeping up with the dog theme, is Thieme. Art Thieme that is singing a tall tale "The split dog". And Harry sings "Hound Dog". You wanna hear a bunch of dogs barking out "Jingle Bells"? Then you're at the right site.

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20:01

CWMD 122 Steve is dried up

Conversations With My Dummy ·

2019/07/03

Mikhail Horowitz is back, right in the front of the show talking about the acts performing at the 50th anniversary of Woodstock. I'll give you just one band that's playing: Asleep at the Wheelchair.And Steve is dried up. He can't come up with anymore ideas for the podcast. So Harry goes to work. First order of business, make sure Steve's no long dried up by getting his brain hydrated. It's funnier than it sounds. We also got Uncle Floyd doing "Deep in the heart of Jersey" and Andy Breckman singing

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19:10

CWMD 121 The Dollar Show

Conversations With My Dummy ·

2019/06/26

Dollars? I used to live in Dollars. Dollars, Texas. In other words it's all about the almighty dollar folks. Livingston Taylor is singing an Andy Breckman song. Harry and Steve perform an old vaudeville routine that Abbot and Costello stole first. And we got Oscar Brand as well.

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18:08

CWMD 120 Professions

Conversations With My Dummy ·

2019/06/19

Mikhail Horowitz is Steve's guest again! He and Steve sing a Tibetan Sea Shanty called "Bonny Lama". Mik is going to become a regular guest if he's not careful. Also Harry has various jobs. He's working in a store where he's over a guy named Under but he's under a guy named Over. Then he becomes a cloud inspector rating all the clouds from G to X rated. And finally he has trouble finding the right profession. A baby sitter? Who wants to sit on babies! A Naval surgeon? Who wants to operate on

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19:45

CWMD 119 Comedyman

Conversations With My Dummy ·

2019/06/12

Harry convinces Steve he has a superpower, comedy! And he should become Comedyman to foil thugs. Yep, it's as stupid as it sounds. But funny. Kind of. That's because Steve IS Comedyman! There's also a Burns and Allen recording and other nonsense.

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20:24

CWMD 118 Special Physics

Conversations With My Dummy ·

2019/06/05

Mikhail Horowitz is Steve's guest again. This time doing an homage to Lord Buckley called "Swingin' Cicadas" And Steve's thrown in a Lord Buckley recording as well for those who never heard of him (shame on you). And Harry explains to Steve how on the podcast, special physics apply. Normally 1 and 1 is 2, but not on CWMD! Here, 1 and 1 is 5. And then he proves it. Newton's law of inertia doesn't apply either. Stuff just moves spontaneously without the benefit of an outside force...well you get the

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19:42

CWMD 117 The Double Entendre Band

Conversations With My Dummy ·

2019/05/29

Steve always wanted to have a band called "Double Entendre". Every song would be, well, a double entendre. Since he never pulled it off, he did the next best thing. He used GarageBand creating a podcast where all the songs sung by Steve and/or Harry on one level are G rated, nothing risqué about them, looked at another way, the songs are quite spicy. Helping him in his task is Bessie Smith and Dinah Washington.

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19:24

CWMD 116 The Chemistry Set

Conversations With My Dummy ·

2019/05/22

Harry has a chemistry set. Do I really have to tell you the shenanigans that go on? You can imagine. Also Robin and Linda Williams are guests singing an original song about being on the road. Burns and Allen too!

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20:32

CWMD 115 Harry's Break-it Business

Conversations With My Dummy ·

2019/05/15

Harry has a new business. Instead of repairing stuff he breaks things cleanly and expertly with style and panache. Also Camille West is singing about the time she and her friends broke into a factory in Paris and liberated the escargot.There's a strange facts segment and a featured comedian's classic routine.

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17:46

CWMD 114 Baseball

Conversations With My Dummy ·

2019/05/08

It's all about baseball folks. An old song called "I Love Micky" is featured (Micky Mantle makes a guest appearance on the recording) and Steve teaches Harry how to play baseball with disastrous results...of course.Steve has his most esteemed guest Mikhail Horowitz (who is responsible for 20 arts organizations losing their federal funding). He introduces a new take on Casey at the Bat with a hip 50's style twist. It's a cool version and you'll feel cool listening to it. Don't applaud, snap your

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20:56

CWMD 113 Money!

Conversations With My Dummy ·

2019/04/30

It's all about Harry's allowance. He needs one! Also the great Paul Geremia is a guest singing "My Money Never Runs Out". Soupy Sales is talking about the day he asked all the kids to send him money on his TV show. And Jimmy Durante's A Dollar a Year Man". In other words, it's a money show.

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18:10

CWMD 112 Bananas!

Conversations With My Dummy ·

2019/04/23

The Aliens have landed and they want bananas! Harry brings them to the studio. Cue the hilarity. Plus more on...bananas! I Like Bananas because they have no Bones, Harry sings Chiquita Banana and When Banana Skins are Falling.

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19:38

CWMD 111 AIRPLANES

Conversations With My Dummy ·

2019/04/17

Harry is into folding paper airplanes...like you've never seen before. Steve sings "Heaving on a Jet Plane". There's a strange facts segment about airplanes. Harry calls up an airline thinking he's reached a Ferris Wheel company and wonders why a ticket onto the Ferris wheel is going to cost him $700 and go 35 thousand feet into the air. Also Wes Harrison, the great SFX man does a bit about Duck Hunting with a jet. And Oscar Brand sings one of Steve's favorites when he was a kid "Teterboro Tower"

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17:34

CWMD 110 Harry is Acting Silly

Conversations With My Dummy ·

2019/04/10

Harry is silliness personified and for this podcast he pulls out all the stops. The podcast also features Ed Kohn singing "Six". No matter what the math problem, the answer is always six. and John Twomey plays "The Stars and Stripes" on his hands which sounds a lot like farting. It really is one of the funniest things you'll ever hear. And let's not forget Harry's version of Hi Heel Sneakers with Steve on piano.

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