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Isn't Life Terrible

Saturday, June 30, 2007

Why did Soupy look DOWN when the naked lady came to the door?

I've had a few remarkable experiences in my life. One was somehow getting onto the set of The Soupy Sales Show at WNEW-TV in New York in 1965. Another was finding the pictures I took on that occasion nearly forty years later (that's one of them above). I've posted Soupy videos here and here on YouTube, and to the available Soupy on the 'net, I now add Soupy Sales on The Tom Snyder Radio Show (36m) - an old hour-long interview (minus commercials) in which Soupy reveals why, in that famous NSFW outtake, he was looking down when he opened the door.

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Mickey Mouse Music

I tend to listen to the Internet more than read it or watch it, so lots of files on this blog will be listenable. This particular post is Mickey's Son and Daughter (3m) by the BBC Dance Orchestra. I first heard this track performed by The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band on their album Gorilla in October 1967. A great album of the originals of many of the 20's and 30's songs later covered by the Bonzos is now available through Amazon.uk.

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Jay Ward: The Musical Suite

The place: 8218 Sunset Boulevard. The time: long, long ago. The Store: Dudley Do-Right's Emporium. The purchase: the lovely production cel image of Snidely Whiplash (above), and The Jay Ward Music Cassette, (12m) with best excerpts presented here for your listening or downloading pleasure. There are two things you cannot help but do while listening: 1) mentally insert all missing sound effects, and 2) Do your best impression of the narrations that accompanied some of these tunes.

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