Conversations With My Dummy

steve charney
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Conversations With My Dummy Podcast

"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.

  1. CWMD 1 Redwood Tree

    03/11/2017

    CWMD 1 Redwood Tree

    Harry wants to register as a redwood tree with the E.P.A. so they'll protect him from Stymie, the school bully. Hilarity ensues. Steve has also peppered the podcast with funny original songs just to break up the monotony, I mean the botany.

    17 min
  2. CWMD 2 Mustaches On Everything

    03/17/2017

    CWMD 2 Mustaches On Everything

    Harry wants to foil a thief in the neighborhood by putting mustaches on all the sound equipment. Will it work? Of course it will. This podcast features Steve Charney and Harry being goofballs.

    14 min
  3. CWMD 3 Headgear And Peter Schickele

    03/21/2017

    CWMD 3 Headgear And Peter Schickele

    The great Peter Schickele (P.D.Q Bach) is our guest! He shares a story about meeting Spike Jones and plays a song he wrote called "Uncle Pooty's Sugar Off." Also, Harry is now working for a company that sells protective gear and wants Steve to buy some. If he doesn't, who knows what accidents might occur. You guess what happens.

    14 min
  4. CWMD 4 Poetry Repair Shop And Tom Paxton

    03/30/2017

    CWMD 4 Poetry Repair Shop And Tom Paxton

    Tom Paxton is our guest. The writer of hits such as "The Marvelous Toy", "Last Thing On My Mind" and "Ramblin' Boy," he and Harry talk about Harry's bad attitude and then Tom sings his song (with help from Harry), "My Dog's Bigger Than Your Dog." Also, Steve and Harry open up their Poetry Workshop. It's like the car guys, Click and Clack but for poems. You know, Clicky and Slicky.

    16 min
  5. CWMD 5 Steve Imitates Harry's Voice

    04/05/2017

    CWMD 5 Steve Imitates Harry's Voice

    The wonderful Tom Chapin is in the studio and with the help of Harry they sing Tom's "Whale Song." Harry has to use the bathroom. While he's gone, Steve imitates Harry's voice with such success that when Harry returns, Steve decides he doesn't need him anymore. Harry sues. Steve also sings his original tune "I Wanna Iguana".

    19 min
  6. CWMD 6 Flyptonite And John Sebastian

    04/12/2017

    CWMD 6 Flyptonite And John Sebastian

    Our guest on this podcast is John Sebastian, writer of "Summer in the City," "Do you Believe in Magic," "Daydream." and "Welcome Back Kotter". Harry and he sing "The Cat Came Back." Also, the song Steve wrote "Picture Of Health" that played on Jim Henson's "Bear In The Big Blue House" is featured. But the big news is that Steve has a confession to make. He's the funniest man on the planet because he was born on Flypton and has a super powered sense of humor. So why isn't he funnier? Listen and find out.

    18 min
  7. CWMD 7 Untrue Facts And Eric Weissberg (Dueling Banjos)

    04/18/2017

    CWMD 7 Untrue Facts And Eric Weissberg (Dueling Banjos)

    Eric Weissberg is Steve's guest on this podcast. This is the man who played the hit "Dueling Banjos" and has been on thousands of recordings as a studio musician, including Bob Dylan's "Blood On the Tracks." He's played with Barbra Streisand and almost every other well known musician for the last 40 years. On this episode, Steve, in over his head, plays the big hit from "Deliverance," "Dueling Banjos" with Eric. Harry shares his Untrue Facts with listeners. Here he is reading some of his whoppers. Steve and his pal, Paul Jay, wrote the song Pete and his 45 Caliber Pun for The Riddle King's Riddle Songs which was distributed nationally (available at www.stevecharney.com/stuff.html). Helping Steve on this tune is John Sebastian on lead guitar, Bill Keith on banjo, Jay Ungar on fiddle, Molly Mason on bass, and Doug James on drums. Everyone knows an apple a day keeps the doctor away, so when Harry forgets to eat his apple, the doctors start invading.

    19 min
  8. CWMD 8 The Store Has Everything

    04/26/2017

    CWMD 8 The Store Has Everything

    The charming and funny, Christine Lavin is Steve's guest on the podcast. She's talking about her career before being a singer songwriter and sings an original song about finding a puppy on the subway tracks in New York. Or is it? The general store is open and it's so big it makes a Super Walmart look like a little mom and pop shop. It has everything, and I mean everything. You want to teach a chicken to play oboe? They have a book on how to do it. You wanna send your kid to the moon? They have the rocket.

    19 min
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About

"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.

Information

  • Creator
    steve charney
  • Years Active
    2012 - 2017
  • Episodes
    149
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Copyright steve charney
  • Show Website
    Conversations With My Dummy

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