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UAVH H.L. Mencken, Scopes Trial – Aftermath (13 of 13)

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Aftermath

Intro. song:Bennie Kreuger “Yes! We Have No Bananas”
Outro song: Ben Bernie & His Orchestra – melody

Notes: There were some spots where I failed to edit this edition properly, so the first 25-30 people got a copy of the file with me fucking up. It has since been corrected, and the only screw-ups should be a) my lame jokes and b) the “blooper reel” at the end.

Now that the series is complete, I’ll be placing them all on a special page. I’m also going to be zipping them up and making a torrent available through The Pirate Bay (to be announced soon). If you download the torrent, seed it for a little while, will ya?

June 29th – Homo Neanderthalensis
July 9th – Sickening Doubts About Publicity
July 10th – Impossibility of Obtaining Fair Jury
July 11th – Trial as Religious Orgy
July 13th – Souls Need Reconversion Nightly
July 14th – Darrow’s Eloquent Appeal
July 15th – Law and Freedom
July 16th – Fair Trial Beyond Ken
July 17th – Malone the Victor
July 18th – Genesis Triumphant
July 20th – Tennessee in the Frying Pan
July 27th – Bryan
Sept. 14th - Aftermath
The full text of the report at the end of the blog!

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UAVH H.L. Mencken, Scopes Trial – Bryan (12 of 13)

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Bryan

Intro. song:Jeno Fesca Dance Band “Yes! We Have No Bananas”
Outro song: Al Jolson “All Alone”

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UAVH H.L. Mencken, Scopes Trial – Tennessee in the Frying Pan (11 of 13)

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Tennessee in the Frying Pan

Intro. song: Great White Way Orchestra “Yes! We Have No Bananas”
Outro song: Oliver Naylor’s Orchestra “Roaring Twenties”

Notes:

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UAVH H.L. Mencken, Scopes Trial – Genesis Triumphant (10 of 13)

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Battle Now Over, Mencken Sees; Genesis Triumphant and Ready for New Jousts

Intro. song: “The John Scopes Trial”
Outro song: Vernon Dalhart “The Prisoner’s Song”

Notes: Someone just wrote me the following interesting note…

Have you read the book Panzram: A Journal of Murder? I just got done reading it and thought you might find one of my notes interesting which has to do with Mencken…

*Henry Lesser (Jewish prison guard) sent panzram’s written material to H. L. Mencken who wrote him a letter in return saying “This is one of the most amazing documents I have ever read.”

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8578795-panzram

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UAVH H.L. Mencken, Scopes Trial – Malone the Victor (9 of 13)

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Malone the Victor, Even Though Court Sides with Opponents, Says Mencken

Intro. song: Bernard Ette “Yes! We Have No Bananas”
Outro song:

Notes: “I realize what life must have been in Judea 1925 years ago. No wonder the Romans finally bumped off the son of Joseph. After an hour on the main street, listening to the bawling, I feel like loading a cannon with the rejecta of the adjacent hogs (Sus scrofa) and letting fly. The thing is genuinely fabulous.
I have stored up enough material to last me 20 years.”
-From a letter my HLM regarding the Scopes Trail

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UAVH H.L. Mencken, Scopes Trial – Fair Trial Beyond Ken (8 of 13)

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Mencken Declares Strictly Fair Trial Is Beyond Ken of Tennessee Fundamentalists

Intro. song: Billy James “Yes! We Have No Bananas”
Outro song: Belle Baker “Hard-Hearted Hannah”

Notes: A lot of the music in this series was ripped from YouTube videos using http://www.dirpy.com/. It’s a very easy to use and free service. Copy the URL of the video, paste it into the box, add/edit info if you’d like and click download! You’ll get an mp3!

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UAVH H.L. Mencken, Scopes Trial – Law and Freedom (7 of 13)

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Law and Freedom, Mencken Discovers, Yield Place to Holy Writ in Rhea County

Intro. song: “Monkey Business”
Outro song: Ben Selvin Orch.,”That’s a Good Girl”

Notes: Okay, so the second song is from 1926. I hope it doesn’t rip you from your true love like in the movie “Somewhere in Time”.

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UAVH H.L. Mencken, Scopes Trial – Darrow’s Eloquent Appeal (6 of 13)

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Darrow’s Eloquent Appeal Wasted on Ears That Heed Only Bryan, Says Mencken

Intro. song: Paul Godwin “Yes! We Have No Bananas”
Outro song: Art Landry “Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue”

Notes: No notes that I can think of at the moment. Help spread the word about these podcasts, will ya?

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UAVH H.L. Mencken, Scopes Trial – Souls Need Reconversion Nightly (5 of 13)

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Yearning Mountaineers’ Souls Need Reconversion Nightly, Mencken Finds

Intro. song: The Pied Pipers “Yes! We Have No Bananas”
Outro song: Chick Straun “Don’t Bring Lulu!”

Notes: I’m least satisfied with the recording of the Mencken piece in this episode. I’d recorded it entirely 3 separate times and the 3rd was shortly before I posted it (the first episode to not be posted right after midnight the day of). I had to record it hastily because I’d blown out the levels on all the prior recordings, but this one suffers from plosive problems (the mic picking up the breath of air when you make “p” sounds, etc.) and various “mouth noises”. Because this is one of my favorite reports, I may rerecord it at a later date and update the file, but this’ll have to do for now.

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UAVH H.L. Mencken, Scopes Trial – Trial As Religious Orgy (4 of 13)

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Mencken Likens Trial to a Religious Orgy, with Defendant a Beelzebub

Intro. song: “Can’t Make a Monkey Out of Me”
Outro song: Sippie Wallace “Devil Dance Blues”

Notes: In the intro to the Mencken piece, the joke is that the book became a huge success, and the film is completely lost. Nerdy, yes, but the jokes just go downhill from here.

The two songs featured in this episode were supposed to be on the next one, but in all my arranging it seems I’ve switched them around. Not that you’d know that without me mentioning it here.

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