REMEMBERING an era of wonderful nonsense from the middle of the Twentieth Century.  From “The Hut-Sut Song” to “Mairzy Doats” to “Chickery Chick” and everything in between, we’ll be entertained with crazy words and crazy tunes by such notables as Spike Jones, Red Ingle, the Merry Macs, Jerry Lewis, Danny Kaye, Ozzie Nelson, Phil Harris and Mel Blanc.

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E-X-P-A-N-D your Memory Lane Podcast experience when you visit these links to a wacky world from the not-too-distant past:

JERRY LEWIS sings “The Navy Gets the Gravy but the Army Gets the Beans” in a Mess Hall scene from the 1950 film “At War with the Army.”

LIBERACE, on his TV show plays the piano beautifully and sings the heart-warming lyrics to the song “Cement Mixer.”

LEONARD MALTIN introduces Walt Disney’s 1943 World War II propaganda cartoon “Der Fuehrer’s Face” starring Donald Duck.

TIM-TAY-SHUN performed by Red Ingle and Cinderella C. Stump (Jo Stafford) in a 1960s TV appearance.

VERNA FELTON provided the voice of the Fairy Godmother in Disney’s “Cinderella” when she sang “Bibbidi Bobbidi Boo” in this scene from the 1950 animated film.

OZZIE NELSON sings and conducts his orchestra in the “Oh, What an Easy Job You’ve Got All You Do is Wave a Stick Blues.”

MEL BLANC provides the voices of Tweety Bird and Sylvester the Cat in this Warner Bros color cartoon, “I Tawt I taw a Puddy Tat.”

JIMMY DURANTE performs “I’m the Guy Who Found the Lost Chord” on a Colgate Comedy Hour in the 1950s.