Click on the above ‘watch on YouTube’ sign and enjoy a marvelous seven minute collection of bench-clearing fights during televised baseball games. Since most people will agree (even baseball fans) that baseball is the most boring sport ever invented, these fights are cherished for their ability to wake up anyone
Early talking films are invaluable relics of a dead civilization–namely the 1920s. The acting, pacing, diction, style and behavior are as incomprehensible and different from anything we now consider normal as sitting around a cave might be with its cro-magnin inhabitants. The movies aren’t really useful anymore to us in
Compare and contrast two different 7-Up ads from two different decades. Above, we see a retread of the famous Gene Kelly/Jerry the Mouse half live-acrtion half-animation dance routine–and quite well accomplished it is. Below we see the great Geoffrey Holder twenty-some years later shilling for the caffeine-free soda in a
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wm_LmlFeNnMhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Md7DIQW01aM Royal Crown Cola was invented in the early 1900s as a result of a Georgia based general store owner having a dispute with Coca-Cola over…well, read the Wikipedia article if you’re really interested. My interest has to do with the storylines of RC Cola–as it had been renamed during
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fn7PKzf5tk Last week I posted various examples of TV episodic comedy show themes. I missed posting something Friday because…well, because I just missed posting something. Things happen, you know. So we’ll wrap up this theme song stuff with a little bit of ‘I Love Lucy’ history which you might or
This week I’m posting theme songs from old shows that provided the backstory to the viewer. As I mentioned yesterday, simply putting up the well known ones would be far too simple. So I’m providing a glimpse of both the flop shows and the hits. Today’s flop is ‘Occassional Wife’,
Our mission this week is to explore the theme songs of old TV comedies which contained lyrics that set-up the backstory of the show. Yesterday we wallowed in ‘The Partridge Family’ theme and frankly I thought the rest of this week would be a breeze. You know, ‘Brady Bunch’, Gilligans
In the 60s through the mid-70s, TV theme songs we’re often used to provide a backstory to the show so new viewers could get a handle on what the circumstances surrounding the characters were that led them to wind up on–er–TV. Actually, these storyline themes also gave regular viewers a
Let us bid this world-wearying week farewell with a superb performance from the great Steven Wright on The Tonight Show in 1982. Thanks to Wright’s Wikipedia entry, I learned a new word–albeit one I’m still not sure how to pronounce or even to use properly in a sentence. According to
Here’s a marvelous compilation of behind-the-scenes miscellany and interviews about and with The Three Stooges, spanning the late 1920s well into the 1970s. We see home movies of them as young chaps goofing around in the water at Coney Island; an odd promotional reel for a home movie camera that