SPACE GHOST'S MUSICAL BAR-B-QUE  -  SPACE GHOST, BRAK & ZORAK

YEAR:  1997
LABEL:  Rhino
TRACK LISTING:  Smells Like Cartoon Planet,  The Cartoon Planet Story,  Big Head,  I Love You Baby,  A Nugget of Joy from Zorak,  Zingor,  Hero In His Own Mind (Part 1),  Don't Touch Me,  Ordinary Guy,  The TV,  I Love Beans,  Minkey Boodle,  Everyone Needs Lovin',  Brak's School Daze:  Trust A Monkey,  What Day Is It,  I Love Almost Everybody,  The Song That Doesn't End,  Down To the River,  Oh Fun Kee Bay Bee,  Fluffy,  Hoodleehoo,  Everybody Wants To Be Space Ghost,  Another Nugget of Joy from Zorak,  Put Your Sox On Mama,  Ramblin' and Wanderin',  Brak's School Daze:  Gym Class,  Crazy Lovesick Fool,  Hero In His Own Mind (Part 2),  Water,  It Stunk,  Don't Send In the Clowns,  Muh Nuh Muh Nuh,  Highway 40 Unplugged,  Space Ghost's "Something To Think About",  De Der Down,  I Love You Baby (Karaoke),  Zingor (Karaoke),  Bye-Bye Goodbye Goodbye Everybody
IMPRESSIONS:  Back in the mid-1990s, I used to drive home from work on wings of glory so that I'd be in time to watch Cartoon Planet on cable TV.  The 90's were something of a renaissance for children's programming that we adults liked as well.  If you remember there was REN & STIMPY, SPACE GHOST COAST TO COAST, CARTOON PLANET, WHERE IN THE WORLD IS CARMEN SANDIEGO?, MATHNET, ANIMANIACS, BATMAN:  THE ANIMATED SERIES, CRASHBOX and countless others.  I would be a little obsessed with each of these shows at one point or another and my co-workers would be just as devoted as I was.  CARTOON PLANET was a really great way to show those old cartoons we all grew up with but the major draw was the fake "variety show" starring Space Ghost and his old enemies Zorak and Brak; that was what we really tuned in for.  One silly song was catchier than the other and their frequent repetition allowed us to sing along when they came on; thus an album collecting the songs and skits (many ad-libbed) was a natural and there would be a few in this series with SPACE GHOST'S MUSICAL BAR-B-QUE being only the first.  Space Ghost, Brak & Zorak proved daily that they were the true heirs to the Beatles!
MY FAVOURITE TRACKS:  Smells Like Cartoon Planet,  The Cartoon Planet Story,  Big Head,  I Love You Baby,  A Nugget of Joy from Zorak,  Hero In His Own Mind (Part 1),  Don't Touch Me,  The TV,  I Love Beans,  Minkey Boodle,  Brak's School Daze:  Trust A Monkey,  What Day Is It,  I Love Almost Everybody,  The Song That Doesn't End,  Down To the River,  Oh Fun Kee Bay Bee,  Fluffy,  Hoodleehoo,  Put Your Sox On Mama,  Brak's School Daze:  Gym Class,  Water,  It Stunk,  Muh Nuh Muh Nuh,  Space Ghost's "Something To Think About",  Bye-Bye Goodbye Goodbye Everybody
FACT SHEET:  SPACE GHOST'S MUSICAL BAR-B-QUE is the first album derived from the Cartoon Network programme CARTOON PLANET.   The show debuted in 1995 on the cable TV channel TBS Superstation and moved to Cartoon Network from 1996 to 1997.  CARTOON PLANET was a spin-off of the SPACE GHOST COAST TO COAST programme; it began as an hour-long block of cartoons hosted by Space Ghost, Zorak and Brak during which the trio would perform many songs and skits in between cartoons from the Turner Entertainment library, Hanna-Barbera and Space Ghost's own 1960s cartoons.  New material stopped being made in 1997 and the show was re-edited into half-hour programmes sans cartoons.  THE BRAK SHOW was another spin-off from CARTOON PLANET.  Space Ghost was voiced by George Lowe, Zorak was voiced by C. Martin Croker and Brak was voiced by Andy Merrill.