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The Quest
01:03
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Audience: (laughter)
Announcer: From Hollywood...it’s The Scambot Holiday Special!
The King Family: La da daaaa!!
Narrator: Thank you.
In a distant land, a father and son are in medieval garb, riding on horseback…
Audience: (laughter)
Narrator: …as they amble through towns, fields and farms on a quest of some sort. Long they ride, silently, through a vast array of things.
The son speaks first…
Son: O, father! Please tell me of the cataclysm, the battle royale. Who, like, took part?
Narrator: To which the elder intoned…
Father: Listen, my son, to the names of the heroes and scalliflaws bound in these deeds: Gorbenge. Twizz. Fettle and his cousin Somarmatan...
Announcer: We’ll be back with The Scambot Holiday Special...right after this!
Mike Keneally: voices, instruments and effects
Engineered and mixed by Mike Keneally at Chatfield Manor
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Holiday Face
05:06
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Holiday face
Wonderful, wonderful
Holiday face for you
Ooooh ooh ooh oooooooh...
Holiday face
Happy time, happy time
Holiday face for you
Mike Keneally: voices and instruments
Engineered and mixed by Mike Harris at Chatfield Manor
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The Swordfight
01:06
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Father: ...Fettle and his cousin Somarmatan.
Audience: (laughter)
Father: Wide-End, Beezer and Fool. Rollie O’Umbeter…
Son: (thinking) Scalliflaws???
Narrator: ...thought the son, as he and his father battled seven knights in bright red armor.
Father: (while fighting) Uhhhhhh...the Smanze Brothers, Eiffel and Tom. Fim – of course. Both Mollio AND Glem. The Oomaronians and Morkin, the mid-sized dwid…
Narrator: Later that evening, the father and son take a break from the quest at the Space-Age Lodge in Gila Bend.
Audience: (applause)
Narrator: The father continues listing names, and checking out the coffee maker, while the son falls asleep on the floor.
Father: Orzabal, Twain, Mishegoo and Fishagee, Wide-Bat the Extreme Sea Serpent...there were others, too. Mindwop, Plato II and Scambot.
Son: SCAMBOT, father??
Father: O my son.
Audience: (laughter)
Father: Yes, lad. Scambot, indeed.
Audience: (applause)
Announcer: We’ll be back with The Scambot Holiday Special...right after this!
Mike Keneally: voices, instruments and effects
Engineered and mixed by Mike Keneally at Chatfield Manor
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(instrumental)
Mike Keneally: Lead guitar and Hammond organ
Evan Francis: Alto saxophone
Rick Musallam: Guitar
Bryan Beller: Bass
Joe Travers: Drums
Basic track (organ, Rick’s guitar, bass and drums) recorded at Remora Recorders, engineered by Tom Trefethen
Lead guitar and alto sax overdubbed at Chatfield Manor, engineered by Mike Harris
Mixed by Mike Harris
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The Owl
01:51
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Narrator: The boy falls peacefully asleep.
The elder peers out the window and across the cold, blinding spotlights over the parking lot at the lodge, and he sees a baby owl sitting on his horse’s head.
Yes!!
Of course!!
And at once, he turns on the Motorola in the hotel room...well, what do you know...it’s the credit sequence to The Scambot Holiday Special.
Audience: (laughter)
(laughter)
Narrator: And then Scambot appeared on the screen and said…
Scambot: No!!
Audience: (gasp)
Scambot: It’s not madness to have hope.
Narrator: And a single, shining owl feather...the legendary Feather of Holiday Hope...appeared in the room and hovered, amusingly, above the boy’s face, rising and falling in mid-air, buffeted by the mild breeze of the young one’s snores. And with relief and gratitude, the elder understood at once that their quest, the meaning of which had been a complete mystery to him until that moment, was finally, blessedly, at its end.
The King Family:
Have a happy holiday
Holiday, holiday
Holly, holly day
And if you have a happy holiday
You
Audience: (applause)
Announcer: This has been The Scambot Holiday Special! Thanks for listening! Good night.
Mike Keneally: voices, instruments and effects
Recorded and mixed by Mike Keneally at Chatfield Manor
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Mike Keneally San Diego, California
Mike Keneally has been a lot of things in his 35 year career: stunt guitarist/keyboardist, singer/songwriter, orchestral
composer, producer, music director, painter, and more. After getting his start in Frank Zappa’s legendary 1988 big band, Keneally released his first solo album hat. in 1992. Since then he has released dozens more and is working on a new double album.
Learn more at keneally.com
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