The cutest, with the cutest voice. No one really new how masterful Shari Lewis really was. She was also a writer, she conducted music, she was great. I was just youtubing some of the later ones.
L.R. - I think I tried to repost it somewhere but the TBR threads and sub threads get so large I get lost in them, part of my LBD problem. I even get lost in my own neighborhood sometimes! I think I was referring to Shari and her hand puppet Lamb Chop?
We can let it go, right? These discussion boards do become so unwieldy and I'm often happy to go off in all sorts of directions that lose any connection with the original topics.
Soupy came later, though, didn't he? We -- at least some of us -- were too wise and worldly to send him cash. Selling carrots doesn't ring a bell for me. I remember Sandy Becker by name, but would have to google to find his shtick. There is one performer in my adulthood who fills in nicely for Shari and some of the others: Carol Burnett. A goddess.
And G-d bless Carol she is still with us and I adore her! ЁЯЩП Don't remember Sandy Becker. Could never stand Soupy.
But TCB show. Of course the classic one where she played Scarlett O'Hara in the green drapes with the curtain rod around her neck and shoulders ЁЯШВ ..the real time laughs between Harvey Korman and Tim Conway when they tried to keep themselves from laughing and they couldn't stop. That show was seriously brilliant and hysterical.
Yes, yes, yes. And Carol herself, so genuine, decent, good. Then there was the time I went to see her on Broadway. When she made her entrance, I became breathless at the thrill of knowing that I was in the same room as she.
I forget how many years apart we are. It's a few but at our tender ages a couple of years can make all the difference, but my parents took me to see Carol Burnett on Broadway. I just looked it up. Fade Out Fade In. 1964 I was 8.
Must have been the same year or the next when the took me to see Fiddler on the Roof.
He was so funny. As much as I love to laugh, comedy is actually my least favorite genre, unless it's smart, not slapstick. I loathe Abbott and Costello, the Three Stooges, and even though I know the Marx Bros were actually brilliant, none of it is my style. But TCB show was a different level. And nothing is funnier, even in real life, trying not to laugh with someone until you finally bust a gut. Literally crying from laughter. That's what it was like with Tim and Harvey..We used to have all those comedy variety shows. I used to love Dean Martin and his roasts. Those were funny...plus even when I was young I thought Dino was sexy as hell...before I knew what sexy was.
That's it! It was long after Shari. I must have seen him waxing on about Maggio Carrots while walking by a TV set. Does Jersey still have truck farms? It seemed so odd - selling carrots to kids. With gusto!
I agree with you about the strangeness of the carrot sales pitch. I grew up in NJ but moved to FL in the 70's. So I don't know about the truck farms now but those Jersey beefsteak tomatoes were the best!
Totally. Alas, I very rarely watched her show back then. I discovered as an adult how good she was. My recall is fuzzy, but I suspect that I saw more of her when she'd be a guest on one or another of the adult variety shows?
TV was not something we children had any control of so my memories are brief but profound. They serve as a reminder to me of just how powerful a kind word can be.
The power of a kind word sometimes blasts way beyond its moment. It can change a life and the way a person proceeds in the world for a long time or even forever. Thank you for bringing back something I hadn't thought of specifically in a while and of which I need full awareness now. Btw, you've mentioned having had no control of the TV before this. For big fun, though, try Kukla, Fran and Ollie on youtube. It's not only for children.
A bit humbling and almost scary when we reflect on our effect and power in everyday life. Dad owned the TV. Mom was too busy. We were not allowed to touch. Life was simple.
N-E-S-T-L-E-S nestles makes the very best CHOOOOOOOOOOOOCLATE.
Heavens, Al and Suzanne, neither crocodile nor dog. Ollie is a dragon. His proper name is Oliver Dragon. One big tooth for all the world to see.
I'm sure he'll make an entrance in this, the first show from California. Remember Madame Oglepuss, the opera singer? I am so happy now. You will be, too, if you overlook the commercialism. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbZHridFg2k
Romper Room and Captain Kangaroo but my memories are vague. I think even then I was more into The Jetsons and The Flintstones. I was very precocious. Probably watched with my father haha.
No Romper Room for me. Maybe because I was a tad too old for it? I watched Captain Kangaroo just a bunch of times; he was uncomfortable for me. My fare was Howdy Doody (though, from what I see on youtube, I'm sure that Buffalo Bob became creepy to me back then) and Kukla, Fran and Ollie. I don't recall the other one or three shows at the moment. Oh, Ding-Dong School, but at some point, Miss Frances became creepy. Maybe because she seemed to sit so much of the time with tables of the next activity being rolled in from the wings. Perhaps she had a physical difficulty. RootieKazootie wasn't my thing, either.
I'm old enough to remember Ding Dong School and Romper Room and all the rest. Imagine if the Trumpites, using time machines, produced the early children shoes. Laura Loomer instead of Mrs Frances, Hegseth instead of Capt Kangaroo, Pam Bondi instead of Shari Lewis. And worst of all, "Spider" Miller instead of Mr. Rogers! "Won't you be my neighbor?". Talk about creepy!
Michael, thanks for the giggles. One correction, though -- if you really did mean children's shoes, that would have been Buster Brown (and his dog, Tige).
Well you're right of course, my fat finger disease! But speaking of shoes do you remember PF Flyers? Or Poll Parrot or those boxes some shoe stores had in the fifties that glowed green when you stuck your foot in them? They were supposed to be X-rays machines to guarantee an accurate foot measurement but I doubt they were the former or did the latter. Still I blame my severe osteoarthritis of the big toe joint on them!
I totally forgot about Ding Dong School - the first show I kind of remember. Was that the one where you could stick a film on the tv screen and draw along (or something like that)?
I don't want to imagine your alternate cast, Michael! Traumatizing at the very least.
Suzanne! My parents did the very same thing on a smaller scale. Somehow they got me on a locally produced children's TV show in Houston circa 1953 or so. In a brightly lit tv studio we kids were seated on three wood bleachers and had to endure a horrid entertainer and his clown sidekick standing in front of us talking incomprehensibly. Now I'm old and can't remember what I ate last night, but this memory comes popping In. Time flies...
Suzanne, I can believe there was grounds for your reaction to being in the studio. Clarabell was pretty beastly-looking, for starters. The whole thing was off just watching from home. Buffalo Bob seemed sweaty. I don't know what it was about that show. Howdy, too, was no treat. None of them, marionette or human. Hey, why don't you come to the city, if you're elsewhere, and let's go to the Peanut Gallery together. More ice cream cones!
Out here on the Left Coast where I currently reside we don't have such travel problems. We just hitch a ride on a passing beaver as it swims by. Beats the Staten Island Ferry!
Somehow you just made me flash on a rude children's joke about H.D, It was told to me in childhood by a friend a couple of years older. Dare I whisper it?
"Howdy Doody is his stage name. What is his real name?"
"Hello Sh*t."
I blanch slightly for having understood it at the time.
Richard, if you're slurring Howdy Doody, please reconsider.
Or Shari Lewis!
sing along with me . . . "this is the BS that never ends, it goes on and on, my friends"
He could do worse than being friends.with "Lamb Chop".
And he has, at every turn. However, Robin, if you're referring to Richard and not trump, ignore my comment.
I was referring to Al Keim who mentioned Shari Lewis about Trump's "friends". I loved Lamb Chop.
I certainly missed that boat, didn't I? Everyone loved Lamb Chop for being such a, well, lamb chop.
The cutest, with the cutest voice. No one really new how masterful Shari Lewis really was. She was also a writer, she conducted music, she was great. I was just youtubing some of the later ones.
S predecessor to the Muppets.
Michael, please clarify. It looks as though the system dropped some of your note. But the Muppets, oh, be still, my heart.
L.R. - I think I tried to repost it somewhere but the TBR threads and sub threads get so large I get lost in them, part of my LBD problem. I even get lost in my own neighborhood sometimes! I think I was referring to Shari and her hand puppet Lamb Chop?
We can let it go, right? These discussion boards do become so unwieldy and I'm often happy to go off in all sorts of directions that lose any connection with the original topics.
Yes, a far more serious offense. Present vorpal blades!
Shari was a respite in a sea of childhood angst.
Soupy Sales was that person for me.
Onions Oregano, White Fang, Pookie!
I don't remember a whole lot of the show, but know I loved it. It ran from 1953-1966.
Just skimmed one on YT and BB King was on it.
Was he the guy who sold carrots?
He was the guy who turned to the camera and told all the kids to take one of those green bills from their parents wallets and send them to him.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/greenmail/
I clearly remember that New Year's Day '65 show. I was just a kid, but I knew it was a joke. Soupy and his fans understood one another.
Soupy came later, though, didn't he? We -- at least some of us -- were too wise and worldly to send him cash. Selling carrots doesn't ring a bell for me. I remember Sandy Becker by name, but would have to google to find his shtick. There is one performer in my adulthood who fills in nicely for Shari and some of the others: Carol Burnett. A goddess.
And G-d bless Carol she is still with us and I adore her! ЁЯЩП Don't remember Sandy Becker. Could never stand Soupy.
But TCB show. Of course the classic one where she played Scarlett O'Hara in the green drapes with the curtain rod around her neck and shoulders ЁЯШВ ..the real time laughs between Harvey Korman and Tim Conway when they tried to keep themselves from laughing and they couldn't stop. That show was seriously brilliant and hysterical.
Yes, yes, yes. And Carol herself, so genuine, decent, good. Then there was the time I went to see her on Broadway. When she made her entrance, I became breathless at the thrill of knowing that I was in the same room as she.
I forget how many years apart we are. It's a few but at our tender ages a couple of years can make all the difference, but my parents took me to see Carol Burnett on Broadway. I just looked it up. Fade Out Fade In. 1964 I was 8.
Must have been the same year or the next when the took me to see Fiddler on the Roof.
Amen..Tim was the jewel in the crown
He was so funny. As much as I love to laugh, comedy is actually my least favorite genre, unless it's smart, not slapstick. I loathe Abbott and Costello, the Three Stooges, and even though I know the Marx Bros were actually brilliant, none of it is my style. But TCB show was a different level. And nothing is funnier, even in real life, trying not to laugh with someone until you finally bust a gut. Literally crying from laughter. That's what it was like with Tim and Harvey..We used to have all those comedy variety shows. I used to love Dean Martin and his roasts. Those were funny...plus even when I was young I thought Dino was sexy as hell...before I knew what sexy was.
No; that was Sandy Becker.
No, it was Soupy; I remember it; and see Snopes above in Robin D's post. Or did Sandy Becker do it too?
My comment about Becker was in response to Al's question about carrots.
Sandy Becker promoted Maggio Carrots.
That's it! It was long after Shari. I must have seen him waxing on about Maggio Carrots while walking by a TV set. Does Jersey still have truck farms? It seemed so odd - selling carrots to kids. With gusto!
I agree with you about the strangeness of the carrot sales pitch. I grew up in NJ but moved to FL in the 70's. So I don't know about the truck farms now but those Jersey beefsteak tomatoes were the best!
Oh, so sorry!
What did you do?
Totally. Alas, I very rarely watched her show back then. I discovered as an adult how good she was. My recall is fuzzy, but I suspect that I saw more of her when she'd be a guest on one or another of the adult variety shows?
TV was not something we children had any control of so my memories are brief but profound. They serve as a reminder to me of just how powerful a kind word can be.
The power of a kind word sometimes blasts way beyond its moment. It can change a life and the way a person proceeds in the world for a long time or even forever. Thank you for bringing back something I hadn't thought of specifically in a while and of which I need full awareness now. Btw, you've mentioned having had no control of the TV before this. For big fun, though, try Kukla, Fran and Ollie on youtube. It's not only for children.
A bit humbling and almost scary when we reflect on our effect and power in everyday life. Dad owned the TV. Mom was too busy. We were not allowed to touch. Life was simple.
N-E-S-T-L-E-S nestles makes the very best CHOOOOOOOOOOOOCLATE.
I can hear the song. Makes me smile.
We did just great with 13 channels. Test pattern at midnight. Now I have thousands and streaming and can't find a thing to watch.
The dial went as far as 13, but not all were functioning channels. I think we had 7 operating channels. The test pattern was always a letdown.
Wasn't that stupid dog wonderful?
Dog? I thought it was a crocodile! With one tooth:-)
Heavens, Al and Suzanne, neither crocodile nor dog. Ollie is a dragon. His proper name is Oliver Dragon. One big tooth for all the world to see.
I'm sure he'll make an entrance in this, the first show from California. Remember Madame Oglepuss, the opera singer? I am so happy now. You will be, too, if you overlook the commercialism. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbZHridFg2k
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Oh, joy! Rapture! Thanks, Mary.
Romper Room and Captain Kangaroo but my memories are vague. I think even then I was more into The Jetsons and The Flintstones. I was very precocious. Probably watched with my father haha.
No Romper Room for me. Maybe because I was a tad too old for it? I watched Captain Kangaroo just a bunch of times; he was uncomfortable for me. My fare was Howdy Doody (though, from what I see on youtube, I'm sure that Buffalo Bob became creepy to me back then) and Kukla, Fran and Ollie. I don't recall the other one or three shows at the moment. Oh, Ding-Dong School, but at some point, Miss Frances became creepy. Maybe because she seemed to sit so much of the time with tables of the next activity being rolled in from the wings. Perhaps she had a physical difficulty. RootieKazootie wasn't my thing, either.
I'm old enough to remember Ding Dong School and Romper Room and all the rest. Imagine if the Trumpites, using time machines, produced the early children shoes. Laura Loomer instead of Mrs Frances, Hegseth instead of Capt Kangaroo, Pam Bondi instead of Shari Lewis. And worst of all, "Spider" Miller instead of Mr. Rogers! "Won't you be my neighbor?". Talk about creepy!
Michael, thanks for the giggles. One correction, though -- if you really did mean children's shoes, that would have been Buster Brown (and his dog, Tige).
Well you're right of course, my fat finger disease! But speaking of shoes do you remember PF Flyers? Or Poll Parrot or those boxes some shoe stores had in the fifties that glowed green when you stuck your foot in them? They were supposed to be X-rays machines to guarantee an accurate foot measurement but I doubt they were the former or did the latter. Still I blame my severe osteoarthritis of the big toe joint on them!
I totally forgot about Ding Dong School - the first show I kind of remember. Was that the one where you could stick a film on the tv screen and draw along (or something like that)?
I don't want to imagine your alternate cast, Michael! Traumatizing at the very least.
L.R., I remember my Aunt Helene,(a very influential New Yorker) getting
my sister and I into the "Peanut Gallery" one time. I was totally disillusioned
by the set, the puppeteer and Clarabell snarling, "OK kids. Showtime. Keep
it down!" It took a large, chocolate cone for my poor Aunt to undo the
damage.
Suzanne! My parents did the very same thing on a smaller scale. Somehow they got me on a locally produced children's TV show in Houston circa 1953 or so. In a brightly lit tv studio we kids were seated on three wood bleachers and had to endure a horrid entertainer and his clown sidekick standing in front of us talking incomprehensibly. Now I'm old and can't remember what I ate last night, but this memory comes popping In. Time flies...
Suzanne, I can believe there was grounds for your reaction to being in the studio. Clarabell was pretty beastly-looking, for starters. The whole thing was off just watching from home. Buffalo Bob seemed sweaty. I don't know what it was about that show. Howdy, too, was no treat. None of them, marionette or human. Hey, why don't you come to the city, if you're elsewhere, and let's go to the Peanut Gallery together. More ice cream cones!
Best offer I've had in years! lol Sorry. I'm in Wash.St. and air trans-
portation is a little dodgy these days. My luck, they'd fly me into
Newark.
Shucks, on first reading, I thought you meant Washington Street in the Village. We'd certainly want better than Newark Airport for you.
Out here on the Left Coast where I currently reside we don't have such travel problems. We just hitch a ride on a passing beaver as it swims by. Beats the Staten Island Ferry!
I'm sure Mr. Doody will have other puppets within the administration to socialize.
Somehow you just made me flash on a rude children's joke about H.D, It was told to me in childhood by a friend a couple of years older. Dare I whisper it?
"Howdy Doody is his stage name. What is his real name?"
"Hello Sh*t."
I blanch slightly for having understood it at the time.
LOL
Thanks so much, Suzanne. I was afraid someone would slap me. Not for the naughtiness of the joke, but for its stupididity.
I think it's hilarious. Never heard it, of course. Back "in the day"
boys didn't swear in front of girls usually. But funny, nevertheless.