The Great Outdoors (#243) (852)

Xeres and I decided that we needed to get away from it all, for a while. We arrive at Big Rock Candy Mountain, a fantastic campground with a number of odd features, including a creek near an ocean beach with lots of hiking in tropical and pine forests. Occasional guests wander in, we read some poetry and short stories, offer some PSAs about camping, and we have our Short Wave Radio to tune in music and The Weather Computer.

It’s The Great Outdoors. Sit around the campfire, and stay a spell.

Enjoy!

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The Great Outdoors

 

Artist Track Album Label Year Comments

Apemen On Big Rock Candy Mountain

Xeres of Xeron & Austin Rich Driving Out The Great Outdoors       The Kinks Apeman Lola Versus Powerman And The Moneygoround, Part One Pye Records 1970   Xeres of Xeron & Austin Rich The Campsite The Great Outdoors       Harry McClintock Big Rock Candy Mountain Haywire Mac Folkways Records 1972   Xeres of Xeron & Austin Rich Setting Up Camp The Great Outdoors       Coleman Camping Gear Let’s Go Camping Let’s Go Camping Coleman 1970   Xeres of Xeron & Austin Rich Cooking Hoedown The Great Outdoors       Xeres of Xeron Results Radio Jam   1991  

Where Are We?

Xeres of Xeron & Austin Rich Down By The River The Great Outdoors       Xeres of Xeron & Austin Rich Nature Sounds on the Nature Hike The Great Outdoors       Xeres of Xeron & Austin Rich An Encounter with Gentle Ben and… The Great Outdoors       Gene Autry Smokey The Bear “Smokey The Bear” b/w “Back In The Saddle” Columbia Records 1960   Eric Haenn Jew’s Harp Eric Haenn       Ad Council Smokey Bear “Think” PSA Smokey Bear “Think” PSA   1972   Xeres of Xeron & Austin Rich The Weather Computer Calls In The Great Outdoors      

It’s Gettin’ Dark Mighty Fast

Xeres of Xeron & Austin Rich The Beach & The Whales The Great Outdoors       Xeres of Xeron & Austin Rich A Plague of Frogs The Great Outdoors       The Firesign Theater Back to the Shadows, Again! I Think We’re All Bozos On This Bus Columbia Records 1971   Fern Zimmerman The Littlest Trompt     2010  

Where Are We, Again?

Xeres of Xeron & Austin Rich Reading Pulp Fiction The Great Outdoors       Xeres of Xeron & Austin Rich Shortwave Radio Jam In A Cave (w/ Re-Started Nature) The Great Outdoors     [w/ “Ode,” “All Right,” “All Baby,” & “All Out” * Xeres * Radio Jam (1991); “Later Than We Think (w/ Woody Guthrie samples)” * Trey Gunn w/ Will Kreth * unreleased (1984)] Yogi Bear Trying To Escape Jellystone Park [Excerpt]   Hanna-Barbera 1968   Ad Council Rod Serling “Careless Killers” PSA     1962  

“He left the next day for The Mountains.”

Xeres of Xeron & Austin Rich Racoons The Great Outdoors       Eric Haenn w/ Jim Richards untitled Eric Haenn       Gary Snyder w/ Paul Winter Consort True Night Live at Zellerbach Auditorium, Berkely, CA (25 March 1979)   1979   OFF! OFF! Commercial     1970   Richard Brautigan (read by Austin Rich) A Note On The Camping Craze That is Currently Sweeping America Trout Fishing In America Four Seasons 1961   Xeres of Xeron & Austin Rich Wolf Jam The Great Outdoors       Ken Carson Clementine American’s Favorite Campfire Songs featuring Ken Carson Longines Symphonette Society 1966   Ad Council Bullwinkle PSA     1969   Ad Council Alvin & The Chipmunks PSA     1968  

Is It Raining?

Xeres of Xeron & Austin Rich The Weather Computer Calls In The Great Outdoors       Xeres of Xeron & Austin Rich Making S’mores The Great Outdoors     [w/ Ta Da * Xeres * Radio Jam (1991)] Xeres of Xeron & Austin Rich A Sad Little Song The Great Outdoors       Xeres of Xeron & Austin Rich Austin Falls Asleep The Great Outdoors       Xeres of Xeron & Austin Rich The Storm The Great Outdoors