A Live Radio Broadcast

KHSC-FM Fall 1972 program guide

**"A Live Radio Broadcast"** is the title ascribed to a live radio performance by N. Senada and Philip C. Lithman, broadcast from KHSC-FM studios in Arcata, California on October 30th 1971.

Residents, Uninc. used an excerpt from the broadcast in "The Fourth Crucifixion" on their 1971 demo album *B.S..* The Residents later released an alternate, longer excerpt on their *Daydream B-Liver* compilation album in 1991, where it is overdubbed with a much later instrumental piece known as "Amazon".

To date, these heavily augmented excerpts are all that have been publicly released of the performance; its full length is not known to the public record.

## Set list

* Cantaten und Symphonen mit Eine Poem (Senada)
* Cantaten und Symphonen for der Saxophonen und Violinen (Senada)

## Transcript

*Note: The below transcript was compiled by The Mysterious Spanish Ladies from the two publicly available edits of the broadcast (each of which features unique content) and is almost certainly an incomplete representation of the recording as it exists in The Cryptic Corporation archive.* *The Ladies have included their sources for each line* *in* *references following the text.*

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**Woman:** Hello, this is KHSC-FM in Arcata, 90.5 on your FM Dial.

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**Interviewer:** Yeah, okay, hello, 1-2, um...

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**Philip:** Are we on the air?

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**Interviewer:** Yeah, we certainly are! *[laughs]*

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**Philip:** Ha.

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**Interviewer:** So, can we open with, uh... a... a sensible conversation, like...

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**Philip:** Certainly. Well, first of all, let me say how pleased and genuinely proud I am to be in your wonderful, wonderful country, and N. Senada is also pleased and proud to be in your wonderful country. We're having a wonderful time.

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**Interviewer:** N. Senada is here, *[unclear]*, can he get on the other mic?

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**Philip:** Yeah, N. Senada?

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**N. Senada:** *[gibberish]*

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**Interviewer:** N. Senada has a peculiar language pattern that not everyone can un--

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**Philip:** Be... be... be... before we start anything, uh... I'd like to say a few words about N. Senada, who is, uh... a wonderful, truly wonderful man who I met in the woods of Bavaria whilst I was on an expedition in... Britain, my country. Um, he worked... he worked with strange instruments that genuinely fascinated me...

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**Senada:** Bedaboda.

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**Philip:** And, uh... he... he... he's asking me to explain about his instruments. He worked with, uh, phonetic wood instruments, which he, um... made himself, and... we translated his music into, um... phonetics, and now we play music together with our... with our group... in San Francisco.

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**Interviewer:** Well, what are you doing up--

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**N. Senada:** *[gibberish]*

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**Interviewer:** Okay, are you going to play the music?

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**Philip:** Yeah, we're going to play a piece that, uh, N. Senada wrote back in the Bavarian, uh, forest. This is called... "Cantat... Cantaten und Symphonen mit Eine Poem". We're going to play this number now for you.

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**Interviewer:** The most amazing thing about you, Philip, is that all of this is absolutely serious too.

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**Philip:** It's totally serious. Yeah, we're very serious about the whole thing.

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**Senada:** GADA!

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**Philip:** And, uh... this piece is one of his more... um, intricate and, uh... important pieces, and we're going to play it for you now.

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**Woman:** *[in background, unclear]*

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**Philip:** Ladies and gentlemen, N. Senada and P.C. Lithman give you "Cantaten und Symphonen for der Saxophonen und Violinen".

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**Woman:** *[laughs]*

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*[Song: "Cantaten und Symphonen for der Saxophonen und Violinen"]*

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## List of releases

### "A Live Radio Broadcast"

* *Daydream B Liver* (1991)
* *UWEB Box Set* (1995)

### "The Fourth Crucifixion"

* *B.S.* (recorded 1971, released 2019)
* *A Nickle If Your Dick's This Big* (2019)

## See also

* *B.S.*
* The Boarding House
* Party of '71

## External links and references

* *Daydream B-Liver* at The Residents Historical

1. ↑ Ian Shirley, *Never Known Questions: Five Decades of The Residents*, 2016
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Lisa French, "1971 Demo Albums", Cryptic: A Guide to The Residents, July 11th 2020
3. ↑ 3.00 3.01 3.02 3.03 3.04 3.05 3.06 3.07 3.08 3.09 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14 "The Fourth Crucifixion", *B.S.*, 1971 (released 2019)
4. ↑ 4.00 4.01 4.02 4.03 4.04 4.05 4.06 4.07 4.08 4.09 4.10 4.11 4.12 4.13 4.14 4.15 4.16 4.17 "A Live Radio Broadcast", *Daydream B-Liver*, 1991

**Side A**
"We Stole This Riff" · "Holelottadick" · "B.S." · "Deepsea Diver Song" · "King Kong" · "Cantaten to der Dyin Prunen"
**Side B**
"Somethin' Devilish" · "The Fourth Crucifixion" · "Hallowed Be Thy Wean" ("Pink Lemonade" · "Sandman" · "Eat Me Mother" · "Bumble Bee" · "Eloise" · "Somethin' Devilish" · "Kamakazi Lady" · "D For Doorknob" · "The Three Most Important Things In The Whole Wide World")
**Personnel**
Residents, Uninc. · Philip "Snakefinger" Lithman · N. Senada · Peggy Honeydew (Margaret Smyk)
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