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Oh man, I haven't heard that in 40 years. Suddenly I'm back in Stratford , Ct, sitting on my friend Kenny's porch on a warm summer day, listening to the radio. sigh

To be completely honest, in 12 years with the way, I never saw anything that I would consider a 'manifestation of the spirit'. I could be wrong, but I saw a lot of judging, finger pointing ,and accusations, that were supposedly word of knowledge, or discerning of spirits. There was a remarkable lack of word of wisdom, or gifts of healing. Don't even talk about faith or miracles. A little 'foretelling' would have been a welcome relief from the pre programmed by rote messages that we were trained to spout so well. OK, so I'm feeling cynical today. I just got a good laugh looking at Mr Hammeroni's title-'The Undisputed GS Master of PFAL", so I'm already not so cranky. Never mind.

loved that flyin' purple people eater song. I was 6 years old also, and that was probably the one song I knew from the radio. Fortunately when I got a little bit older, they gave us the itsy bitsy teeny weenie yellow polka dot bikini. Whatever happened to 'novelty songs' ?

It didn't precede 'Whiter Shade of Pale" if it came out in the 70's. since "Whiter Shade.." was out in the 60's. Somewhere between '66 and '69. It does SOUND like an earlier version of Procol Harum tho. I've never heard the 'Exotic Birds' album, but was quite fond of "A Salty Dog", which came out around 1970.

I'm looking forward to reading this book, and hope it doesn't stay in the drawer. As far as why did people stay if they weren't being blessed, an hurs reading from this website should be answer enough , if you can't figure it out for yourself. Of course there were wonderful people and an exciting brand of Christianity when we first got in. I agree that noone would get involved in something that didn't seem inviting. It's a complex subject, but I'll comment on 2 aspects. 1- We were conditioned to believe that if anything was wrong, it wasn't the ministry's fault it was ours. God's ministry surely could not be so wrong, so we needed to look inward at our own unbelief. We were taught that if we left we were 'tripped out' and destruction would surely follow. We still believed in the integrity of the organization and did not want to turn our backs on the man of god , the word, et al 2-COMMITTMENT- The most important word in way lexicon. Are you committed? where's your comittment ? Only the committed reap God's blessings. The value of our lives was reduced to the proportion we were committed to the way! You have a problem in your life? get more committed. You're not blessed? Your not committed enough. We still had a few good friends, a lovely hq to visit, rousing teachings, and a sense of belonging to something that was bigger than ourselves, and that we genuinely believed was doing some good for the world. Oh yeah-we were also brainwashed.

It's the Hollies, and since we know that, I'll reveal that the song is Bus Stop. A friendly bouncy, tune that was quite listenable. I heard 'he Ain't Heavy, he's My Brother ' by them recently, and am starting to think that is one of the great pop songs. It's real good. I was talking about New York programs, as I said. Your own local kid show host is just as relevant to you.

Sunesis, I think the more valid question is what would have happened had Michael been in that state, and Teri had the decision to make. I think she would have had the same legal power that he did. Still, I'm not discounting what you said. The aspect of all this that hasn't been discussed much is the bulimia that brought Teri to that state in the first place. Perhaps the bigger issue is the extremes that women sometimes go to in order to meet some 'acceptable' standard. Some food and some extra pounds and she would have avoided this whole disaster.

By the time I was aware, Pinky lee was n't on anymore, tho I have seen kinescopes of his show, and don't feel deprived. Another New York kid host who didn't do it for me was Claude Kirshner of Super Circus. He had maybe the worst puppet ever, some stiff generic clown called 'clowny'. The4n there was Officer Joe Bolton, who hosted the 3 Stooges. About once a year Moe would visit, with his now white hair combed down in Moe bangs, and his ancient face. It truly was a little disturbing. Officer Joe and the Stooges hit it off, and Joe appeared In 'Stop, Look, and Laugh', which was a collection of Stooge shorts, with new material from Paul Winchell and his puppets (Jerry Mahoney, and Knucklehead Smiff), Joe Bolton, and the ever annoying Marquis Chimps. Jo also appeared in the last Stooge feature, "The Outlaws is Coming". This western featured Stooge kid show hosts from around the country playing members of an outlaw gang vs the Stooges. If you lived near a major city, chances were your local host was in it. Pinky Lee did sing 'jellybeaners'. He was sort of a Pee Wee Herman type, tho nowhere near as odd.

That theme was a better show-at least it featured Tom Terrific cartoons. But for my money, it was the local kid show of the early 60's that really grabbed me. Growing up in range of the New York TV stations, I was priveleged to have Sandy Becker, Sonny Fox, Chuck McCann, and others. These shows were very inventive, and did not talk down to the audience.

Love the Do-Bee pic. I also dug the looking though the mirror thing, but was always bummed because my name was never called out. I remember a cheesy set with the teacher podium in the middle and a few seats for the kids on each side of her. I also remember a punch ball game-a big ball on a line that you could get a good rhythm up punching the ball. The teacher was always real good at it and the kids sucked. Thats all I remember tho-not a great show.

Im looking through my magic mirror, and I see Sudo and Bluzman, and Kathy and Shellon and.... It was much better to be a Do Bee than a Dont Bee, a lesson I never forgot when I discovered doobies.

The most recent episode contained the most disturbing back story yet. I rarely am moved by anything on tv anymore, but I really felt for this man. "Lost" is the only show I regularly tune in for, and I'm hoping probably against hope, that we'll start to get some real answers before the seasons over. I'm tired of more mysteries without anypayoff. Still, I find myself coming back, and enjoy it despite feeling like I'm being manipulated.

This is a thin list at best. A longer one if you count all the 'rumored' famous people. There was Tony Collins of the NE Patriots. Craig tripped all over himself to laud him to the sky. Interesting how every 'worldly' achievement was useless until it wasa football player, or someone who the way could point at for credibility. Also his teammate Irving Fryar, who had drug and domestic abuse problems. In baseball, there was Tony Phillips of the oakland A's. Then there was Dave Garibaldi and Skip mesquite of Tower of Power. And good Seed featured the back up singers from gary Puckett and the Union gap, but we're pushing the 'famous' envelope here. Then there was..uh... can't think of anyone else who actually took the class. Oh-Ron deVoe, who was a semi-regular on the Gong show-as you can see I'm really stretching. Urban legends abounded concerning people witnessed to. Cher supposedly was going to take the class, but turned it down when she said it didn't cost enough, so it must not be worth it. This was used as fodder to build a mindset that 200 bucks was chicken feed.

At least now we can expect universal health care, for mental as well as physical health. Anything less than that would seem to be a contradiction in a 'culture of life'.

I didn't know that Vic Mizzy wrote the green Acres theme, knowing him mainly from the Don Knotts films of the 60's, eg "the Ghost and Mr Chicken", "How to Frame a Figg", etc). So I do a google search and find he wrote the Addams Family theme too, as well as many other 60's shows. While I don't concur that Green Acres was the GREATEST, it's certainly way up there on my list, and I really don't know what I'd name number one offhand.

This is a dark day for the nostalgia thread. Paul Henning has passed away at the age of 93. Paul was the creator, producer, writer of the Beverly Hillbillies, Petticoat Junction, and executive producer of Green Acres. The Beverly Hillbillies was one of the most critically attacked shows ever, but I contend that in it's best days was brilliantly conceived, written and acted.Buddy Ebsen actually brought a dignity to the Jed Clampett role. Irene Ryan was amazing as granny. Donna Douglas was many baby boomer's first love, and In my opinion Max Baer jr has been underrated for his Jethro Bodine. Some of the biggest laughs were Jethro wanting to be a double knot spy, or his other 'careers'. And unlike other TV 'idiots' (like Crazy Guggenheim or Gomer pyle) he thankfully never sang! Paul Henning wrote for George Burns and Gracie Allen during the forties, and created the Bob Cummings Show (Love that Bob) in the 50's.

I know the quote,but can't think of a clever way to not reveal the film. Sometimes I get a little spacey.

The Amos and Andy Tv show aired in the early 50's. The biggest difference between it and the earlier radio series was that the men who played Amos and Andy on the radio were white!!! I've not listened to enough of the radio show, nor seen the tv show in so long a time. I cannot speak to other differences or similarities between the radio and tv versions. As I stated earlier, my chief memory of the TV series is Kingfish eating his way through jelly donuts to retrieve a lost ring.

I thought about the Fonz comparison, Matilda. Perhaps 'too normal' was the wrong choice of words. The Amos character was not broad,like Kingfish and Andy, and the show's humor played to that brand of humor. From what I understand, though never have seen, is that Amos' most memorable episode was the Christmas show, where he tells the story of Christmas to a child.

The "Amos' character was shoved way in the background on the tv series, largely because he was 'too normal'. Kingfish was the broad character that played well with the type of sitcom it was.

Understood Steve, but 'before my time' is not what being into this junk is all about. "Amos and Andy' were before most of our times, except in some blurry childhood memory of reruns before it got pulled from the air. It still lives on as a cultural icon of sorts. Part of the fun on this board is drawing on memories not only of having been there, but general osmosis through re reuns, books,old school jokes, anything that stirs a responsive chord. I love Buster Keaton silent films, and they weredecades before my time. I can see where you may have no cultural reference for Amos and Andy in your databank, and that's fine. Maybe this will stir you to find out about them, and that may be the best benefit of this board.

The Flintstones used to advertise Winston cigarettes during the show featuring cartoons of Fred , Wilma, and Barney lighting up. The Flintstones were originally a prime time show, kind of the Simpsons of their day, but those ads are still a wonder.

An interesting theme, Sudo, and the clues are in the context of some previous posts. Seemed like everytime I saw it, they ran the episode where a ring is lost in a jelly donut, and the main character eats his way through a platter od donuts to find it.

The black male in the Dick Van Dyke episode was Greg Morris, who went on to 'Mission Impossible'. He may have been finely featured, but he and his wife were non apolgetically black. Another excellent 'race relation' episode was the one where Rob is to be presented an award from a Black organization ,for the work the Alan Brady Show had done. He mistakenly gets his hands in black dye that laura was using, and his hands are covered in unremovable black dye. He 's rightfully afraid of accepting the award with black hands, and shows up wearing the whitest gloves you ever saw, which really looked awkward when he tried to shake hands with gloves on. Rob rescues the event by taking off the glove and being honest about what happened. There was also the episode where Godrey Cambridge played an FBI agent using The petrie's home for a stake out. This was great because his race never came up, so it was not a 'big deal' that he was black. Pretty good track record for a show of that time.

That would be Crazy Guggenheim, aka Frank Fontaine. Every week Crazy would visit Joe the bartender (hiya Joe... hiya Mr Dunahee), and for 5 minutes play this wacked out character. Then Joe would say-'how bout a song, Crazy', and he would suddenly turn into Frank Fontaine and sing some lovely, yet boring to my 10 year old taste. song. Then I'd watch Andy Griffith, and there's Gomer Pyle singing like an angel. Made me wonder if all the 'retarded' characters on TV had to be good singers. Oh-Red Skelton's pigeons were Gertrude and Heathcliff. I liked Clem, Freddie the Freeloader, and Sheriff Deadeye, but ultimately was not that wild about Skelton. It seemed like part of the show for him to not make it through a sketch without breaking himself up, and his pantomime bits just didn't do it for me. Still I watched every week. I much preferred Gleason and the 'American Scene Magazine'. It's all about ambience, and I'd love to find the music that was played during the skits. Those silents skits were funny.