Songs on SCTV
Jakes127
on and put some extra relish on my hotdog/ It's sunday and I really feel
alive!" ever since because I can't seem to get it out of my head. So, by way of
exorcizing it, I thought I'd list some of my favorite music bits from SCTV
hoping something else would stick
1) Gerry Todd's "Turning Japanese"
2) Divine's version of "Santa Bring My Baby Back To Me"
3) Anything from Sammy Maudlin's "Solid Gold Telethon"
4) Sammy Maudlin's "Here Comes Santa Claus", plus coughing fit
5) Whatever it was The Queenhaters sang on Mel's Rockpile
6) Five Neat Guys singing "Raiders/ of the Lost Ark/ Met a Nazi/ Then his face
melted
7) The version of "Everybodys Talking" from the 3D remake of Midnight Cowboy
8) The version of "All Along the Watchtower" when Merv goes back to the sixties
9) Lucille Ball croaking "Mame" on Count Floyd's "Have Yourself a Scarry Little
Christmas" special.
..and wasn't there a Canadian 1 hit wonder band called Chillawack (or something
vaguely like Chillawack) who had a song "Gone so long" that the pre-teen world
kids band covered? My one Canadian pal says yes. Did that ever happen?
Wanda Sherratt
take one of those songs and write a complete song, starting with the
opening lyrics we can hear them singing. Then we'd all have something
to sing in the shower!
Wanda
Kaylum
(Jakes127) writes:
>..and wasn't there a Canadian 1 hit wonder band called Chillawack (or
>something
>vaguely like Chillawack) who had a song "Gone so long" that the pre-teen
>world
>kids band covered? My one Canadian pal says yes. Did that ever happen?
Yep! I taped it (on audio cassette) way back when.
Kay
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Jakes127 <jake...@aol.com> wrote in message
> ..and wasn't there a Canadian 1 hit wonder band called Chillawack (or
something
> vaguely like Chillawack) who had a song "Gone so long" that the pre-teen
world
> kids band covered? My one Canadian pal says yes. Did that ever happen?
I met the guys in Chilliwack years ago. In case you don't know the name
comes from a town not far from where I live here in BC. And yes the pre-teen
gang did sing that Gone So Long tune. I can still see Candy attempting to
sing it.
James Allen Gray
Jakes127 wrote:
> some of my favorite music bits from SCTV
> hoping something else would stick
>
> 1) Gerry Todd's "Turning Japanese"
>
That was actually Tom Monroe from his new videodisc "On a New Wavelength".
> ..and wasn't there a Canadian 1 hit wonder band called Chillawack (or something
> vaguely like Chillawack) who had a song "Gone so long" that the pre-teen world
> kids band covered?
Unfortunately the Pre-teen world telethon never made it to syndication. A
hilarious bit as the kids stumble through "My Girl" (the correct title).
Chilliwack had more than one hit. "She Talks Crazy Talk" was another hit for
them.
ali assa seen
<yaa...@idirect.com> wrote:
> Jakes127 wrote:
>
> > some of my favorite music bits from SCTV
> > hoping something else would stick
> > 1) Gerry Todd's "Turning Japanese"
> >
> That was actually Tom Monroe from his new videodisc "On a New Wavelength".
Who also performed "De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da" by the Police. I
mentioned this once and some folks here agreed, but The Mike Flowers
Pops version of Oasis' "Wonderwall" sounds incredibly (almost
frighteningly) like Tom Monroe's "classic" renditions of new wave
songs. And Flowers looks a hell of a lot like Moranis in the video as
well!
> > ..and wasn't there a Canadian 1 hit wonder band called Chillawack (or
> > something
> > vaguely like Chillawack) who had a song "Gone so long" that the pre-teen
> > world
> > kids band covered?
>
> Unfortunately the Pre-teen world telethon never made it to syndication. A
> hilarious bit as the kids stumble through "My Girl" (the correct title).
Wow - that means I still remember it clearly from the original airing?
But I gotta admit, now that you mention it, I don't recall seeing it
any more recently than that.
> Chilliwack had more than one hit. "She Talks Crazy Talk" was another hit for
> them.
Also sometimes labeled as "My Girl (Gone Gone Gone)", poor stuttering
kid took forever to get through all those "gone"s!
- Alley Assassin
abar...@tampabay.r
>..and wasn't there a Canadian 1 hit wonder band called Chillawack (or something
>vaguely like Chillawack) who had a song "Gone so long" that the pre-teen world
>kids band covered? My one Canadian pal says yes. Did that ever happen?
Yep. The name of the kid's band was The Recess Monkeys.
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MichaelD
Bobby Bittman's number in Maudlin's Eleven. "There's Gonna be a Heist Tonight"
Liberace & Elton John's dueling piano Christmas bit.
Lola's demented version of It's a Man's World on the final episode Pledge Week.
My Girl - Pre Teen Telethon.
The score to Power Play - the hockey movie (which never made it to syndication)
"Billy was just a symbol of the violence in our society"
And of Course Libby's play - I'm Taking my own Head, Screwing it on Right and No
Guy's Gonna Tell Me That it Ain't. Especially Seth Dick's song.
There are too many great ones to count
Rusty Shackelford
these would fall into the non-original category (like "covers," eh?)...
..anything from "Jerry Lewis sings Bob Dylan"...
..and, if I can be serious, just for a moment, the cool song Tony
Bennett sings to the McKenzie Brothers to console them after their
disastrous prime-time special...
..or, if worse comes to worse, Jakes127, and you still can't get the
"hot dog" song out of your head, just start humming "Cabbage Rolls and
Coffee." It works for me every time.
Rusty Shackelford
Jim Bennie
> SCTV had so many outstanding musical bits.
Two words: Connie Franklin.
Jim
James Allen Gray
you tear my heart apart
help me, I'm so lonesome and so blue
How was I so stupid.....
I'm losing my hearing
I've lost sight in one eye
I'm sorry I couldn't hear you
Did you really say goodbye.
Stop slapping my face please.
Now that I'm so happy
I hope you're happy too
Happy, happy ha--a-a-a-appy.
AND FOR THE YOUNG FOLK:
I am losing losing my hearing
I have lost sight in one eye
I am sorry I couldn't hear you
Did you really really say goodbye.
Doowop doowop
MAMA!
James Allen Gray
and Last Train to Clarksville.
Neil Jung's new version of Tie a Yellow Ribbon round the Old Oak Tree
Lee Iacocca and Tony Orlando doing Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round a Dodge Omni.
Richard Harris doing MacArthur Park.
Melvin and Howards doing "Get a Job"
Tom Monroe's tribute to Petula Clark: "Don't sleep in the subway darling,
it's a sign of the times. I know a place and that place is DOWNTOWN."
Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young doing "White Chrismas"
The Doobie Brothers for Carpets galore. (YA YA YA.. you can even insist)
Ringo Starr doing "Cause I know that you'll Always Be"
Devine as Peter Pan singing "I'm Flying" and "I Won't Grow Up".
Bobby Bittman singing "My Melody of Love"
Dr. Shekter
Donny and Marie singing "Go Kwalaada"
Larchman
yaa...@idirect.com wrote:
> How can one forget Lince Minyak's Leutonian versions of Stairway to
Heaven
> and Last Train to Clarksville.
I still have to see the original version of that! (I'm only familiar
with the butchered syndication edit).
>
> Tom Monroe's tribute to Petula Clark: "Don't sleep in the subway
darling,
> it's a sign of the times. I know a place and that place is
DOWNTOWN."
>
> Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young doing "White Chrismas"
>
> The Doobie Brothers for Carpets galore. (YA YA YA.. you can even
insist)
>
Has CN ever played this episode? I'm dying to see it!
Larchman
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jake...@aol.com (Jakes127) wrote:
> I'd watched "Five Neat Guys Gold" again recently and have been singing "come
> on and put some extra relish on my hotdog/ It's sunday and I really feel
> alive!" ever since because I can't seem to get it out of my head. So, by
way of
> exorcizing it, I thought I'd list some of my favorite music bits from SCTV
> hoping something else would stick
Thanks for bringing back such great memories, all of you!
> 1) Gerry Todd's "Turning Japanese"
This was a classic, especially with the ladies in kimonos with umbrellas.
> 2) Divine's version of "Santa Bring My Baby Back To Me"
Featuring the Juul Haalmeyer Skaters! This past Christmas when I was
riding along in the car with my oldest sister on Christmas Day, the radio
played the Elvis version and I began spontaneously singing along.
> 3) Anything from Sammy Maudlin's "Solid Gold Telethon"
Especially the moment when he is sobbing at the end and singing as they
bring out the little boy dressed up as a brick of gold bullion.
> 4) Sammy Maudlin's "Here Comes Santa Claus", plus coughing fit
"Here comes Santa Claus, here comes Santa Claus, right down Santa
Claus...*cough* *hack* *wheeze* *choke*..." Which actually reminds me, who
can forget Tex and Edna Boil being wheeled out into the SCTV Christmas
party, Tex at his organ and Edna singing "Here Comes Santa Claus"?
> 5) Whatever it was The Queenhaters sang on Mel's Rockpile
How could you forget? "I hate the bloody Queeeeeeen/She makes me go to
schoooooool/I hate the bloody Queeeeeeeen/And all her bloody
ruuuuuuuules!"
> 6) Five Neat Guys singing "Raiders/ of the Lost Ark/ Met a Nazi/ Then
his face
> melted
"Hey!"
> 7) The version of "Everybodys Talking" from the 3D remake of Midnight Cowboy
Nothing new about it, but it was funny to hear it while Dr. Tongue and
Bruno wandered around. Kind of like that hard-rock version of the "rainbow
in Toronto" song during "Garth and Gordon and Fiona and Alice." I love
that one too. Both versions.
> 8) The version of "All Along the Watchtower" when Merv goes back to the
sixties
Merv in the sixties was a hoot.
> 9) Lucille Ball croaking "Mame" on Count Floyd's "Have Yourself a Scarry
Little
> Christmas" special.
"Eggnoggin' and goin' tobogganin'..."
> ..and wasn't there a Canadian 1 hit wonder band called Chillawack (or
something
> vaguely like Chillawack) who had a song "Gone so long" that the pre-teen world
> kids band covered? My one Canadian pal says yes. Did that ever happen?
Yep, the infamous "My Girl (Gone, Gone, Gone)." I remember how those
Recess Monkeys totally screwed up the multi-part harmony. And how off-key
they were singing "My giiiiiiiiirl, she was the world to me."
Another fond memory I have from the Pre-Teen World Telethon for Pre-Teen
World is of Andrea and Catherine playing two girls tapdancing to Hall &
Oates' "I Can't Go For That (No Can Do)." Just a classic tapdancing tune,
don't you think?
Some more from others:
MichaelD mentioned:
> Bobby Bittman's number in Maudlin's Eleven. "There's Gonna be a Heist Tonight"
"Hey, all you crazy beatniks..."
> Liberace & Elton John's dueling piano Christmas bit.
A classic.
> Lola's demented version of It's a Man's World on the final episode Pledge
> Week.
And I still love her piteous drunken lament on her Love Spirit Christmas
special...maybe because it's too easy to identify with. "Still the same/On
my own/It's Christmas, 19-...(drifts off)/I don't even know what year it
is/All I know is I'm still *sniff* alooooooone..."
> My Girl - Pre Teen Telethon.
> The score to Power Play - the hockey movie (which never made it to
> syndication)
> "Billy was just a symbol of the violence in our society"
I loved that one!
> And of Course Libby's play - I'm Taking my own Head, Screwing it on
Right and > No Guy's Gonna Tell Me That it Ain't. Especially Seth Dick's
song.
This is good for when you're not feeling sorry for yourself like Lola.
From James Allen Gray, some of my personal favorites:
> Lee Iacocca and Tony Orlando doing Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round a Dodge Omni.
Especially funny back when the sister mentioned above actually drove one.
> Richard Harris doing MacArthur Park.
The best parts of this, of course, being a) the way he danced around
frantically during the instrumental breaks and b) the way the woman sat in
a chair on the stage near him, reading a book and looking utterly bored,
making you wonder what the hell she was even there for, until the song
finally wound up, and she stepped to the microphone to sing the
"Oooohhhhhhhhh, oh noooooooooooo!s" at the very end of the 20-minute-long
song.
> Melvin and Howards doing "Get a Job"
And all those other classics, like "Guantanamera" and who can forget "The
Name Game"?
"Let's try 'Chuck'! Chuck, Chuck, Buh-Bo-Buck, Bonanna-Fanna Fo-Fu--"
*slap* "I'm wise to THAT!"
> Tom Monroe's tribute to Petula Clark: "Don't sleep in the subway darling,
> it's a sign of the times. I know a place and that place is DOWNTOWN."
A classic for all of us who grew up with "Petulia," as I believe Gerry
Todd called her.
> Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young doing "White Chrismas"
You can almost see the smoke rising from Bing's pipe now.
> The Doobie Brothers for Carpets galore. (YA YA YA.. you can even insist)
Michael McDonald racing desperately to get to all those recording
sessions. Racing into the studio just in time to add "Such a long way to
goooooo" to Christopher Cross's "Ride Like the Wind" and a few "Badadadada
ba-ba-ba-baaa"s and then leaving and realizing the song wasn't over, and
he had to come back and keep adding them.
> Ringo Starr doing "Cause I know that you'll Always Be"
That wonderful plodding song.
> Devine as Peter Pan singing "I'm Flying" and "I Won't Grow Up".
He didn't grow up, but he did grow OUT!
What happy memories!
--
Trudi
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James Allen Gray
Larchman wrote:
> ,,,Lince Minyak's Leutonian versions of Stairway to
> Heaven
> > and Last Train to Clarksville.
>
> I still have to see the original version of that! (I'm only familiar
> with the butchered syndication edit).
It's brutal, eh? Managed to get a copy of the original. It's
priceless.
>
> >
> > Tom Monroe's tribute to Petula Clark: "Don't sleep in the subway
> darling,
> > it's a sign of the times. I know a place and that place is
> DOWNTOWN."
> >
> > Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young doing "White Chrismas"
> >
> > The Doobie Brothers for Carpets galore. (YA YA YA.. you can even
> insist)
> >
> Has CN ever played this episode? I'm dying to see it!
Not sure if they have or not. However, it would seem that they've been
running them in order for the last couple of months in the morning
slot. Every one from the first one was run in sequence. The only one
missing so far was number 44 "Fantasy Island". Of they continue the
same pattern, tomorrow (Jan 25) they'll be running syndicated episode
number 57 "Play it Again Bob".
In the evening/late night slot they just ran the Zontar ones the last
two days/ Not sure of the order in that slot. Always a guess. Sure
wish they'd list the episodes they're running on the web site.
I only need the "I'm taking My own Head.." and "Walter Cronkite's Brain"
Episodes to complete my syndication collection.
Wanda Sherratt
Bouncin' Back to You!" That song she sings, "The one YOOOUU didn't want
to DOOOO!" where the lyrics just get worse and worse:
I wake up late at night in bed,
And panic, thinking that I'm dead...
all the way to
Oh, you call me a tramp!
Put me on the rack
Until we hit the sack....What, ya scared I'm gonna name names? Mr. GUY
CABALLERO!! Mr. Bobby 'How was I?' Bittman? Mr. Johnny 'Why don't you
just suffocate me?' Larue!
It's like watching a slow-motion train wreck, just mesmerizing!
Actually, a few lines from that episode have become regular expressions
in our house: "I never sing anything unless it comes straight from
HERE," as she slaps her breast (how I wish I had the guts to do that!).
And "I'm gonna SING ALL NIGHT!!" One of my favourite episodes.
Wanda
George Hiebert
> > 3) Anything from Sammy Maudlin's "Solid Gold Telethon"
>
> Especially the moment when he is sobbing at the end and singing as they
> bring out the little boy dressed up as a brick of gold bullion.
I'll always remember Sammy singing, to the tune of Feelings..........Inguts,
send us all your inguts.
I haven't seen that one in years, was always one of my all time favorites
from the early era.
Trudi Marrapodi
"Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme" sang on the Solid Gold Telethon. And I
found 'em!
For the benefit of all you lovey-dovey married couples out there...this
one goes out to you.
STEVE:
I married you,
You were young and now you're older,
You were shy but now you're bolder,
What was hot is now much colder!
EYDIE:
I married you,
And every day has been a bad one,
Don't think you're the only sad one,
I'd take my own life--if I had one!
TOGETHER:
Dogface!
You're just a slimy little creep!
Why don't you take a flying leap,
Before the dogcatcher puts you to sleep!
EYDIE:
Your breath's so bad,
And your BO's quite offensive,
Soap and water's not expensive,
Hey, don't you be so defensive!
STEVE:
You make me puke,
Like a gargoyle you're grotesque, dear!
EYDIE:
You're the bird-poo in my nest, dear!
STEVE:
Why don't we give it a rest, dear?
STEVE:
Dogface!
EYDIE:
Warthog!
STEVE:
Slug!
TOGETHER:
Hey look at it this way now!
I wish that you would go and take a flying leap,
Before the dogcatcher puts you to sleep!
STEVE:
Your life's a joke!
EYDIE:
Your creation was satanic,
Truly evil--
STEVE:
People panic
Near you!
EYDIE:
You hosebag!
STEVE:
You're just a sleazy shrew!
(scat singing)
EYDIE:
I could kill myself for letting
You talk me into a wedding!
STEVE:
Yes, I know it's so upsetting!
EYDIE:
Why did I ever promise you my hand?
STEVE:
'Cause it's all that I could stand!
If I had the rest--
EYDIE:
--You'd have the best!
TOGETHER:
I hate your guts,
And you've made my life a nightmare,
Thinking that I really might care,
I do...
God help me!
Why do I
STILL
LOVE
YOU!?
James Allen Gray
Meanderers
I remember when that was first released - Second City fans were so thrilled that it made national radio air time...
and it still remains a "Christmas Classic" today! Wow!!
(What year was that released? Does anyone know?)
Great newsgroup, btw... I just subscribed today!
BDeMain
Pardon me miss but I've never done this . . . with a real live squirrel! from
the special "Ol' Mother Nature She Loves Me" (actually it's Rogers, Jr. playing
his dad).
Also, the song he sings on "F.Lee Bailey's Lie Detector."
The Lola song with the jabs at LaRue and Bobby "How are thy" Bittman is
actually a very pretty Henry Mancini song called "Soldier In The Rain." With
new lyrics, of course.
Markshark989
>From: Meanderers mean...@home.com
>Bob and Doug Mackenzie's "Twelve Days of Christmas"
>(What year was that released? Does anyone know?)
1981
Wanda Sherratt
up for the show. Thanks!
Wanda
James Allen Gray
Hochma hochma hochma hocha
Love you with all my heart
Return to me
And always be
My melody of...
Love Love Love
My melody of ...
Love, love me do
You know I love you
My melody of...
Some people think the world has had enough of Polish love songs...
My melody of Love
Lahhhhve!
Treeclimbr
smashing in my book. I really also
dug, dig, the Cliff the Magic Squirrel
song. Awesome.
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G222harpo
course who could forget pimples and pockmarks.
biohazard
>>Bob and Doug Mackenzie's "Twelve Days of Christmas"
>
>>(What year was that released? Does anyone know?)
>
>1981
Now, can anyone name all the songs sampled in Bob and Doug's Canadian
Anthem?
Trudi Marrapodi
treec...@aol.comnospamma (Treeclimbr) wrote:
> Dig, anything to do with squirrels is
> smashing in my book. I really also
> dug, dig, the Cliff the Magic Squirrel
> song. Awesome.
Ah! You just reminded me of that group! They were a takeoff on the
Weavers--what were they? The Wanderers? Or am I getting their name mixed
up with The Happy Wanderers?
"Bottle a' wine,
sittin' on my doorstep,
Gotta lotta drinkin' to do..."
"I'm goin' down with the ship
to the bottom of the sea,
I'm goin' down with the ship
Just to see what I can see..."
biohazard
Marrapodi) wrote:
>Ah! You just reminded me of that group! They were a takeoff on the
>Weavers--what were they? The Wanderers? Or am I getting their name mixed
>up with The Happy Wanderers?
>
>"Bottle a' wine,
>sittin' on my doorstep,
>Gotta lotta drinkin' to do..."
No, that was The Ramblers. The members of Spinal Tap also did a
similar skewering of Seegerism, "The Folksmen"...
"There's a puppy in the parlor,
and a skillet on the stove,
and a smelly old blanket
that a Navajo wove..."
Treeclimbr
Jim Bennie
tru...@clarityconnect.com (Trudi Marrapodi) wrote:
> In article <20010128211040...@ng-ch1.aol.com>,
> treec...@aol.comnospamma (Treeclimbr) wrote:
> > Dig, anything to do with squirrels is
> > smashing in my book. I really also
> > dug, dig, the Cliff the Magic Squirrel
> > song. Awesome.
> Ah! You just reminded me of that group! They were a takeoff on the
> Weavers--what were they? The Wanderers?
More like Peter, Paul and Mary. The Weavers were all-male .. or
maybe I'm thinking of The Limelighters. They were all folky and
the parody evoked all of them.
Jim
Trudi Marrapodi
<bio...@mindspring.com> wrote:
THAT was it! The Ramblers! I knew it was some name that suggested they
wandered around a lot...but not The Peregrinators or something like
that...
tone...@juno.com
1) The Queenhaters on Mel Slurp's Rockpile - "I Hate the Bloody
Queen" Martin Short's punk frontman is priceless. I have it on Beta.
2) Wendy O. Williams & the Plasmatics on The Fishin' Musician - The
sound and performance on this show surpasses the version on WOW&P's
fully produced album - not saying alot, but big ups to SCTV production
crew. I have most of it, but would appreciate a clean version.
On 21 Jan 2001 11:57:18 GMT, jake...@aol.com (Jakes127) wrote:
> I'd watched "Five Neat Guys Gold" again recently and have been singing "come
>on and put some extra relish on my hotdog/ It's sunday and I really feel
>alive!" ever since because I can't seem to get it out of my head. So, by way of
>exorcizing it, I thought I'd list some of my favorite music bits from SCTV
>hoping something else would stick
>
>1) Gerry Todd's "Turning Japanese"
>2) Divine's version of "Santa Bring My Baby Back To Me"
>3) Anything from Sammy Maudlin's "Solid Gold Telethon"
>4) Sammy Maudlin's "Here Comes Santa Claus", plus coughing fit
>5) Whatever it was The Queenhaters sang on Mel's Rockpile
>6) Five Neat Guys singing "Raiders/ of the Lost Ark/ Met a Nazi/ Then his face
> melted
>7) The version of "Everybodys Talking" from the 3D remake of Midnight Cowboy
>8) The version of "All Along the Watchtower" when Merv goes back to the sixties
>9) Lucille Ball croaking "Mame" on Count Floyd's "Have Yourself a Scarry Little
>Christmas" special.
>
j...@cape.com
"She loves me, and to my amazement, I love her what the hell does
that mean, she loves me yesterday she hates me, she looovves
mmeeeeeeeeeee! boom be ka choong - oh!(foot catches fire in campfire)
"Pardon me miss but I've never done this with a real live
squirrel..."(tiger attacks)
"Animal crackers in my soup, animal crackers loop de loop, gosh oh gee
but I have fun eating animal crackers one BY (slipping from tree - how
in God's name did MS get up there??)
Mary
In article <20010121065718...@ng-bk1.aol.com>,
j...@cape.com
MichaelD <mic...@rcn.com> wrote:
> And of Course Libby's play - I'm Taking my own Head, Screwing it on
Right and No
> Guy's Gonna Tell Me That it Ain't. Especially Seth Dick's song.
Oh man, that is such a classic.
Mary
j...@cape.com
Meanderers <mean...@home.com> wrote:
> Does Bob and Doug Mackenzie's "Twelve Days of Christmas" qualify?
>
> I remember when that was first released - Second City fans were so
thrilled that it made national radio air time...
> and it still remains a "Christmas Classic" today! Wow!!
>
> (What year was that released? Does anyone know?)
I'm guessing '79-80? That was so cool to hear it on the major radio
stations.
Mary
>
> Great newsgroup, btw... I just subscribed today!
>
>
j...@cape.com
> Two classics:
>
> 1) The Queenhaters on Mel Slurp's Rockpile - "I Hate the Bloody
> Queen" Martin Short's punk frontman is priceless. I have it on Beta.
That's a great one.
> 2) Wendy O. Williams & the Plasmatics on The Fishin' Musician -
I also liked the Tubes ("Sushi Girl") and Joe Walsh - I wonder if he
even knew the show wasn't real.
Mary
j...@cape.com
his Swingin' with Mother Nature special:
"She loves me and to my amazement, I love her, what the hell does that
mean, she loves me now today she hates me, she looovees mmmeeeeeeeee
boom be ca choom - oh!" (foot caught in campfire)
"Animal crackers in my soup, animal crackers loop de loop, gosh oh gee
but I have fun eating animal crackers, one BBBYYYY-" (slips from tree -
how in God's name did MS get up there???)
"Pardon me miss but I've never been kissed by a real live
squirrel..."(tiger attacks him)
Mary
(sorry if this duplicates, Deja is going loopy)
In article <20010121065718...@ng-bk1.aol.com>,
James Allen Gray
(Catherine O'Hara) singing along off key.
Treeclimbr
Just
listen to Indira Gandhi sing "Be My Baby."
j...@cape.com
Bring Me Flowers".
And RM's Ringo Starr - in his new band the Rings - "Cause I know that
you'll always be true..." then just all drum solo...
Mary
In article <3A7DD083...@idirect.com>,
Peter Eric Bruner
doo doo doo, da da da da" and The Vapors' song "Turning Japanese".
These were done on the Gerry Todd Show. Too funny, Rick Moranis walking
around the parks and streets of Edmonton in a Gold or Silver Lamme jumpsuit
with 5 inch Platform shoes to match, all done to a "Lounge Singer" type
beat. Laughed so hard first time I saw that back around 80 or 81 when I was
16 years old!
Pete in Calgary
raymond...@my-deja.com
the grounds of the 'clearing music rights' problem that D Thomas
mentioned as the reason there have not been videos produced thus far?
raymond...@my-deja.com
the grounds of the 'clearing music rights' problem that D Thomas
mentioned as the reason there have not been videos produced thus far?
Also, then, a related question, which is a separate conversation, but I
will ask it anyway:
Ms Morrison from Andrew Alexanders 2nd city has said 'yes' they will
produce a video release of SOME kind this Sept. Does this mean, then,
that whatever was stopping them from doing this for so many yrs
(clearing music) is now CLEARED?
Again, looking at the sum total of their their liberal use of music
contained in this thread, I can see why it has been so difficult to
clear this thus far.
Did we ever find out if they cleared the music by replacing or
reengineering the music with allowable music that was suggested in the d
thomas july thread? If this is the case, of course, we would lose all
this creative stuff that we have been remined of in this 44 msg thread.
Or, did Mr Alexander just paid for the rights? If this is true, and if
it is true that, as was said in response to my reuqest for them to get
back together, they were then and now just a cult playing to a limited
audience, how would it EVER by cost effective to pay for all the music
rights?
That is, merely coming to the 25th anniv, how does this allow for making
the video / dvd distribution a reasonable thing to do?
That is, I would like more detail about this 'pending' video release.
James Allen Gray
raymond...@my-deja.com wrote:
> Are all these great renditions of the songs noted in this fertile thread
> the grounds of the 'clearing music rights' problem that D Thomas
> mentioned as the reason there have not been videos produced thus far?
>
Here's a list of music that has not made it to syndication because the
rights have not been secured.
"Macho Man" deleted from Cooking with Prickley and from Big Jim McBob and
Billy Sol Hurok's Rock concert.
"Short People" also deleted from Rock concert
"G-L-O-R-I-A" deleted from Rock concert as well
"light My Fire" Deleted from Merv in the 60's
"We Can Change the World" Not sure of the title of this one but it has
also been deleted from Merv in the 60's
The Indira Sketch didn't make it to syndication because of all the
Lloyd-Weber music parodied.
The Shmenges Salute John Williams didn't make it ot syndication. Williams
music probably costs too much to use
"Stairway to Heaven" Stairways to Heaven didn't make it to syndication and
Lince Minyak's leutonian version has been cut as well.
"Go Kwallada" was also cut. Could it be that the original jingle music was
too expensive or was the sketch deemed to risqué for syndication?
Those are the only ones I can think of off the top of my head. The
deletion of "Macho Man" is a new thing I understand. The Canadian (and I
assume other) syndication versions went through a revision recently, and a
few more things were cut.
I know that both Gerry Todd shows still exist in syndication. I have seen
the entire Tom Munroe new wave one. Still waiting to see the Doobies one
on TV.
Wanda Sherratt
Make it an open casket,
'Cause I might be coming back...
Killing me softly with his truck,
Spreading his tires on my head
Killing me softly...
The night they drove old Edna down...and I was dead! In a long
hallway...
Wanda
George Hiebert
Wanda Sherratt <sher...@mediaone.net> wrote in message
news:3A7F1D35...@mediaone.net...
> And another weird one: "Edna's Back!":
>
> Make it an open casket,
> 'Cause I might be coming back...
>
> Killing me softly with his truck,
> Spreading his tires on my head
> Killing me softly...
Well it wasn't that soft, it was a MAC TRUCK!
Treeclimbr
doesn't drop in here and tell us what is
going on.
raymond...@my-deja.com
caballero and <tex boil> as they plotted the cutting up and re-running
of the show, with that maniacal laughter. I wonder if mr a is now so
laughing?
God bless you, AA. I am in a 12 step recovery program now with mayor
shanks. It was YOU who single handedly kept the show going against all
odds. Since I am 43 and a man, I want to ADOPT YOUR CHILDREN! Everyday
in every way were are getting closer to a closed captioned, troupe
member narrated, dvd boxed, set of all episodes, for an average of $5
per disk like x files...uh double sided.
With a bit of apology to another canadian comic movie that we all love,
the pink panther, of course.
In article <20010205212258...@ng-mi1.aol.com>,
Len
back into Ed Grimly
"whoaaaa!!! life goes on!!!
long after the thrill of living is gone.. i must say"
treec...@aol.comnospamma (Treeclimbr) wrote in
<20010205212258...@ng-mi1.aol.com>:
James Allen Gray
Edinburgh Blues accompanied by Gordon Sunny Boy MacPherson on harp and
Lighting Sam MacGregor on guitar.
I woke up this mornin'
In Aberdeen
I cranked up my "Voksol"(?)
It's a mean machine
I'm goin' south now, ochay!
Down to Edinburgh town
(I'm gonna walk around the streets and have myself a ball)
Got five guineas in my pocket
And I hope some lassie don't let me down
Fast Talkin Scottish Blues:
Gimme one, gimme two gimme three gimme five pound note
Gimme six gimme ten gimme twenty, twenty bob.
Twenty bob and pub job.
Dwight
>
> I woke up this mornin'
> In Aberdeen
> I cranked up my "Voksol"(?)
> It's a mean machine
Vauxhall, I think; a European car of some sort.
http://buypower.vauxhall.co.uk/index.jhtml
Cheers
James Allen Gray
Jim Bennie
wrote:
> One musical performance not yet mentioned in this thread was Angus Crock's
> Edinburgh Blues accompanied by Gordon Sunny Boy MacPherson on harp and
> Lighting Sam MacGregor on guitar.
> I woke up this mornin'
> In Aberdeen
> I cranked up my "Voksol"(?)
> It's a mean machine
It's a mighty Vauxhall. I used to see them when I was a kid
(1960s). They were small cars, like the Austin, which came from
England as well. Back in the days before Japanese imports.
Something that surprised me is they still make Vauxhalls. There
was a story on the BBC web site last week about it.
Jim
of the Bennies of Govan, Scotland
MSB
Oldsmobile, etc...
There are others, too... Holden (Australia) and Opel (Europe).
