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Dr. Gwendolini's Amazing Medicine Show (parts 1 & 2)

from Dr. Gwendolini's Amazing Medicine Show by DOUG the Eagle

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Okay, this is one of the strangest and most expensive songs I've made so far, where a snake-oil salesman gets in trouble with the Mob. It makes extensive use of the Bluegrass Banjo disk from the Optigan for that authentically tacky medicine show feel.
I came up with the idea about two years ago, in 2016 and attempted to use the Dixieland tapes for the mellotron, but this didn't work out and the project was shelved until I obtained some samples from the Optigan, a strange 1970s home organ which used 12" disks of photographic film containing optical soundtracks to provide this weird lo-fi sound with actual recorded accompaniments. Aside from the Bluegrass Banjo disk, samples from the experimental mandolin disk were also used.
I was also rather saddened by the untimely loss of Keith Emerson, and as a result one of the instrumental sections veers off to do some weird sample-and-hold things in the manner of Karn Evil Nine. Hope you like.

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Dr. Gwendolini’s Amazing Medicine Show

Part 1

We interrupt this program for a very special thing...
Dr. Gwendolini’s here and he is gonna sing!
Dr. Gwendolini:
Welcome one and welcome all and just forget your woe!
It’s Dr. Gwendolini’s Amazing Medicine Show!
Selling patent miracles and snake oil in a jar...
It’s not true I’m a wanted man, that would be bizarre!
Here we have a little pill to save you from your fate
Side effects include REST IN PEACE and a sudden loss of weight
That’s all we have time for, but don’t forget to go
To Doctor Gwendolini’s Amazing Medicine Show!

Part 2

The Don:
Upon her sickbed my grandmother lay
I got the news that she had died today
He said he’d cure her sickness, but that was just a lie...
Now Doctor Gwendolini... must die.

Minions:
How should we do the deed? (We got katanas)
How should we do the deed? (Poisoned bananas)
How should we do the deed? (Can’t we just shoot him?)
How should we ‘do’ Doctor Gwendolini?

The Don:
With Doctor Gwendolini, I want the job done neat
Into the river, with weights around his feet!

Minions:
That’s how we’ll do the deed! (He’s gonna get drowned)
That’s how we’ll do the deed! (He’ll never be found)
That’s how we’ll do the deed! (Can’t we just shoot him?)
That’s how we’ll ‘do’ Doctor Gwendolini!

The Don:
...and on the Third Day
She had arisen!
She rose from the very grave itself...
Fifty years younger and in perfect health
What dark miracle has Doctor Gwendolini wrought?!

Minions:
Where did his body go? (We thought we’d drowned him)
Where did his body go? (Still haven’t found him)
Where did his body go? (He’s done a runner)
Risen from the dead – Doctor Gwendolini!

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from Dr. Gwendolini's Amazing Medicine Show, released April 22, 2018

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