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“Heathens of Vaudeville was originally conceived as a vague cycle, something about how in the year 2000, scores of dead and forgotten vaudeville luminaries like Professor Backwards, Bessie Wynn, Mademoiselle Chester and Her Educated Statue Dog, etc. were going to rise up out of their graves and avenge Hollywood and those new-fangled talking pictures for shutting the old show palaces down. Sadly, once their wanton posthumous destruction ensues, it inadvertently catapults Branson, Missouri into the entertainment capitol of the world. There were going to be all sorts of narrative poems in between the songs just like the Moody Blues (and recited by Frankie, the Semi-Detached’s drummer and resident bard) to help move this tragic story along, but after incessant pleading with the band to forget it, what emerged was this. Ouch!” - Original Heathens of Vaudeville liner notes, 1996 Interviewer Bill Blake: (to Serene Dominic) “After years of making brilliant records that no one ever heard, is this latest the one that’s going to put you at the top?” Serene Dominic: ” Yes, I believe this will be at the top of the stack of records no one has ever heard.” - Planet Magazine, 1995