It, Son of Them!

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Sixteenth of September, René Magritte, 1956

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History of the Most Important and Interesting Religious Events (1848).

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Wicker Man illustrations from the 17th and 18th century.

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From our stacks: Illustration from Aunt Mary's Illustrated Primer; A Series of Easy and Progressive Lessons in Spelling and Reading. With more than one hundred pictures. London: George Routledge and Sons, n.d. (1871?)

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Maying Songs (of varying traditionality)

Cover image is from Bodleian Broadside Ballads shelfmark Harding B 15(332a)

Miri it is While Sumer Ilast- Ensemble Belladonna

May Song- Lisa Knapp

Swinton May Song- The Watersons

The First of May- John Kirkpatrick

The Queen of May- Shirley Collins

To Hear the Nightingale Sing- Ian Campbell Folk Group

Hal-an-Tow- The Watersons

Down by the Green Groves- Peter Bellamy

The Pleasant Month of May- Jackie Oates

Jack in the Green- Magpie Lane

Gathering Rushes in the Month of May- Anne Briggs

Hail! Hail! The First of May- Beggar’s Velvet

Padstow May Song- John Graham Donaldson

May Morning- Waterson-Carthy

The Cambridgeshire May Song- Jean Ritchie

Sumer is Icumen In- The Captain’s Daughter

16 tracks; 49 mins. [Spotify] 

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cheers gang hope you all had a festive may day

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it's that time of year again

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lovely march hares

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I like your rabbits

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Roddy McDowall as Mordred in the original Broadway production of Camelot (1961)

Source: 1961 Friedman-Abeles Photography and the NYPL Digital Collections

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"The girl I was to marry… they've sent her to a breeding colony."

Hans Conried & William Bendix in Hostages (1943)

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despite appearances this is actually NOT a gay sexploitation film of the type popularized in the 1970s

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onto the pribilofs! ON to the pribilofs! make WAY for a sailor

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1937.

The young Hans Conried on NBC Radio.

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Hans Conried reading Variety

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February 8, 1960 was Hans Conried Day in Hollywood

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Hans Conried “Do Mi Do Duds (The Dressing Song)” The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T (1953)

“…not beautiful, but it should be seen by those who are bent on observing all sides of life.”

-Saki, The Chaplet (1911)

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I was divinely inspired

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when toxic people try to tell you your busby is impractically tall