Michael McDonald skit
Davidstacy
(from the Doobie Brothers) runs from studio to studio singing a single
phrase or line before running on to the next. Does anyone else
remember that? Who played him and how did it start out?
thanks
Markshark989
I think it was Dave Thomas, if I recall correctly, but could have been Rick
Moranis. It was a video of the Christopher Cross song "Ride Like The Wind"
(with Michael McDonald on background vocals) as featured on The Gerry Todd
Show. It is one of the most perversely funny things I have ever seen on
television...I cannot hear the song on the radio without thinking of the skit.
Buno
>Moranis.
It was Rick Moranis!!!
That character also did fake tv ads during SCTV shows. Like, Michael McDonald
singing for Carpet World LOL
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James Allen Gray
acquired the rights to SCTV and had their lawyers go through everything.
It would have cost them a fortune to acquire the rights to the songs used. The
sketch is the Gerry Todd Show originally from the emmy award winning Moral
Majority Episode. It started with Tom Munroe singing his tribute to Petula
Clark. This was quite clever because they incorporated the accompaniment
pattern from Michael MacDonald's "What a Fool Believes" into this song, thus
getting the ball rolling on the Doobies theme that will run through the entire
Gerry Todd sketch.
"Don't sleep in the subway darlin'
It's a sign of the times
I know a place, that place is downtown....."
Three songs there that would have cost a bundle.
Also in this sketch is a video from Crosby Stills Nash and Young, with Bing
(Flaherty) subbing in for David. They do "White Christmas" (another costly
song) complete with
doodoodoodoodoo
doot doot da doodadoo (the vocalise from Suite: Judy Blue Eyes). The groove gets
stuck and Gerry fades it out.
Also featured is a commercial for "Carpets Galore" which features instrumental
sections from various Doobies songs strung together with the voice of Michael
MacDonald (Rick Moranis) singing stuff like "Yeah, Yeah Yeah, free installation"
and "You can save on shags, carved...twist, you can even insist"
The sketch ends with a video for Christopher Cross' "Ride Like the Wind". The
song originally featured Michael MacDonald doing backups. That's what this video
is about Moranis as MAcDonald speeds through town to get to a recording studio ,
arriving just in time to sing "Such a long way to go". He then continues to run
back and forth from the control room into the studio, each time just making it in
time to sing "Such a long way to go". At the end he speeds away.
It would have cost a bundle to keep this sketch in syndication with three Petula
Clark songs, four Doobies songs, "White Christmas" and one Cristopher Cross song.
JS577
Wanda Sherratt
James Allen Gray wrote:
Gosh, I'd forgotten about that one! I remember a different episode,
with Rick Moranis playing one of those musicians (Young, I believe,
though I don't know them), very drugged out, singing something like
"I went to Crosby and I went to Nash,
I asked if they would like to buy some hash...
I went to Crosby and I went to Stills,
I asked if they would like to buy some pills..."
and I think it ends with him being told his guitar is out of tune, and
slowly trying to tune it again.
Wanda
Markshark989
>with Rick Moranis playing one of those musicians (Young, I believe,
>though I don't know them), very drugged out, singing something like
>
>"I went to Crosby and I went to Nash,
>I asked if they would like to buy some hash...
>
>I went to Crosby and I went to Stills,
>I asked if they would like to buy some pills..."
>
>and I think it ends with him being told his guitar is out of tune, and
>slowly trying to tune it again.
>
>Wanda
>
I think that's from "Wide World Of High Voices," but some folks out there know
this stuff better than me. Happy birthday, Wanda!
Trudi Marrapodi
<sher...@mediaone.net> wrote:
> James Allen Gray wrote:
> Gosh, I'd forgotten about that one! I remember a different episode,
> with Rick Moranis playing one of those musicians (Young, I believe,
> though I don't know them), very drugged out, singing something like
>
> "I went to Crosby and I went to Nash,
> I asked if they would like to buy some hash...
>
> I went to Crosby and I went to Stills,
> I asked if they would like to buy some pills..."
>
> and I think it ends with him being told his guitar is out of tune, and
> slowly trying to tune it again.
Yes! That was "Neil Jung, Psychiatrist," wasn't it? A completely different
sketch, but also hilarious.
--
Trudi
"His groin became a finely tuned instrument of God."
--VH1's "From the Waist Down" special (said of Prince)
James Allen Gray
Yes it is from "Jackie Stewart's Wide World of High Voices" but the song has been
cut from syndication, Dammit!!!!!
Trudi Marrapodi
Ah, you guys are right! "Neil Jung" was another sketch. But "Jackie
Stewart" was a gem.
Wanda Sherratt
Oh, yes, I'd forgotten it was Jackie Stewart! I was thinking of the
other high-voiced character played by Dave Thomas - Harvey K-Tel. I
guess that makes 3 high-voiced SCTV characters - along with Lou Jaffe.
Wanda
Trudi Marrapodi wrote:
> > > I think that's from "Wide World Of High Voices," but some folks out
> there know
> > > this stuff better than me.
> >