This long lost material has been buried in the closet of The Balloon Man since 1971. Actually, you cannot call it lost since hardly anyone ever heard this material, even back then. It was intended to be a series of one minute syndicated radio shows but no Program Director ever bought them. Who would? It was too weird for commercial radio. Bill Morrison, The Balloon Man, whose nightclub career had a brief upward bleep, after he added The Twisted Balloon Eel and The Four Balloon Left Hand Launch, to his act -- thought he might make a bundle with these recorded bio-vignettes. He was wrong but he was right to do them; they are unique, literary, funny and puzzling. They are an audio discovery of the first rank. Somewhere between the musings of Jean Shepherd and the rants of R. Crumb's Mr. Natural lies... the world of The Balloon Man.
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http://www.sharpeworld.comTrack List:
1. Blow It Up
2. Sometimes When I'm Low
3. Popped Blue Balloon Moods
4. Spirit of the Balloons
5. Get a Balloon
6. Balloonitis
7. Leftover Turkey
8. You Know?
9. Back in the Water
10. Brain Tumour
11. Smog Doesn't Help
12. Balloon Bliss
13. Make a Balloonskin Coat
14. Working Roosevelt & the WPA
15. Bleeding Salmon
16. Bowl of Cherries
17. Wish I had a Cat
18. Sex Between the Big Toe
19. It's a Day of Trouble
20. Go Climb a Rock
21. The Perfect Woman
22. Just Coats With Folks
23. Mental Health
24. Single Breath Blow
25. Balloon Person's Birth
26. Voice Out of the Past
27. Balloon Poem
28. 5 Steps to Blow Up a Balloon Into an Animal
29. Simple Balloon Animals: A Sequence
30. Politics #44
31. Be Do Be Doop
32. Buddah and Me Are Friends
33. Mistakes Are Made In Heaven (Water Sound)
34. In the Water, But There Is Something About You
35. Hello Mom, I'm Not Dead Yet
36. Pasadena New Year's Eve
37. Mom & Pop's Beach Cottage Motel
38. Down In the Ocean Face
39. Hello Dad, I'm Fine
40. Balloon Man Take Me To Wherever You Are Going
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