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Baconwrapped
10-23-2009, 12:54 AM
An essential part of a '60s childhood...
Let's all do "The Mouse"!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kP1_F9zEF7o
Blitzzzzz
10-23-2009, 01:03 AM
I prefer the shuffle. RIP SOUPY!:cool:
denideadhead
10-23-2009, 03:11 AM
OK if you think on it Soupy's influence says alot about our taste in music and humor ..some of us were definitely influenced
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNv3rVV1mfs&feature=PlayList&p=0533704BCAFDFFE4&index=3
RIP
MaloGator
10-23-2009, 06:25 AM
Now who's gonna get the whipped cream pie in the face? RIP Soupy.
saturn
10-23-2009, 07:58 AM
Having grown up watching TV from Detroit stations, I remember Soupy well. Loved his stuff - I think the Soupy Shuffle was my first dance move.
Orleansnj
10-23-2009, 08:14 AM
oh wow - RIP.
NYMAMA
10-23-2009, 08:16 AM
RIP SOUPY.
duende
10-23-2009, 11:12 AM
Rest in peace, Soupy! and condolences to his sons, Hunt & Tony Sales, the backbone in Bowie's Tin Machine, THE SOUND in Iggy's "lust for life".
Rest in peace, Soupy! and condolences to his sons, Hunt & Tony Sales, the backbone in Bowie's Tin Machine, THE SOUND in Iggy's "lust for life".
Uh oh. I feel thread-drift convergence coming on...
wahinemicha
10-23-2009, 11:26 AM
OK if you think on it Soupy's influence says alot about our taste in music and humor ..some of us were definitely influenced
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNv3rVV1mfs&feature=PlayList&p=0533704BCAFDFFE4&index=3
RIP
There is NO doubt I have been influenced by Soupy, Pookie, White Fang, Black Tooth and all the other wacky characters that Soupy brought to life on his show. I watched every day after school with my Mom, and we both laughed our a*#@s off ! So sad, your classy humor will be greatly missed.
RIP Soupy !
Rest in peace, Soupy! and condolences to his sons, Hunt & Tony Sales, the backbone in Bowie's Tin Machine, THE SOUND in Iggy's "lust for life". good catch!
<drift warning> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWyGb4uao2g
Baconwrapped
10-23-2009, 12:58 PM
Rest in peace, Soupy! and condolences to his sons, Hunt & Tony Sales, the backbone in Bowie's Tin Machine, THE SOUND in Iggy's "lust for life".
Yeah, I noted in another conversation that it's not really many steps from "The Mouse" to "Lust for Life." Hunt and Tony learned well from their old man....
festivalgirl
10-23-2009, 03:14 PM
Cool stat of the day ..... Soupy Sales took over 25,000 pies to the face!!
Alav Hashalom :(
http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMjE4NzMzOTc4NF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTYwMzMzODI2._V1._ SX301_SY400_.jpg
festivalboy
10-23-2009, 05:55 PM
An essential part of a '60s childhood...
I must have been 3 years old and watching Soupy Sales...
His guest was a guy who made music with the saw.... I was in awe! No wonder
I still like some very strange music..... It was a great time for children's TV.
I must have been 3 years old and watching Soupy Sales...
His guest was a guy who made music with the saw.... I was in awe! No wonder
I still like some very strange music..... It was a great time for children's TV.
I think you need to throw a pie in Chrissa's face now (and then RUN!)...
festivalgirl
10-23-2009, 06:47 PM
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/23/soupy-sales-jazz-maven-brought-live-gigs-to-the-small-screen/?hp
Soupy Sales, Jazz Maven, Brought Gigs to the Small Screen
By Ben Ratliff
Beyond his revolutionary interest in pie-throwing, Soupy Sales, who died Thursday, also knew a lot about jazz and was a pioneer in the history of jazz on American television.
From 1953 to 1959, while working in Detroit and hosting a late-night television comedy show, “Soupy’s On,” he made Charlie Parker’s “Yardbird Suite” his theme song. He took advantage of all the jazz musicians stopping through town to play local clubs like the Rouge Lounge and the Blue Bird Inn and the Crystal Show Bar. His guests included Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Stan Getz, Milt Jackson, Charlie Parker and Clifford Brown; the 1956 film, below, of Brown playing “Lady Be Good” and “Memories of You” on Mr. Sales’s show is the only surviving video of one of the greatest performers in the music’s history.
According to the Detroit Free-Press’s jazz critic, Mark Stryker — who interviewed Mr. Sales about his jazz connections in 1996 — the live programs were not archived on tape. Almost none of the show is known to survive except for parts of three episodes, saved on kinescope. One of them includes Brown; the other two include the pianists Eddie Heywood and Errol Garner, but those videos haven’t yet surfaced online.
Baconwrapped
10-23-2009, 07:24 PM
festival girl.... thanks! pretty amazing... that clip of Clifford Brown is astounding, especially in the context.
festivalgirl
10-23-2009, 09:48 PM
festival girl.... thanks! pretty amazing... that clip of Clifford Brown is astounding, especially in the context.
Anytime. Most people don't know that side of him. Hopefully, more film clips surface.
steeleye
10-23-2009, 10:20 PM
I think you need to throw a pie in Chrissa's face now (and then RUN!)...
FAST.
Nice write-up on the Clifford Brown tape and Sales's jazz connection:
http://www.artsjournal.com/rifftides/2007/01/correspondence_clifford_and_so.html
Headless Hornman
10-27-2009, 09:58 AM
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/10/26/alice-cooper-on-the.html
Alice Cooper on the Soupy Sales show, 1979
The great American comedian and entertainer Soupy Sales passed away last week. Bob Merlis, who is the publicist for '70s rock icon Alice Cooper, tells Boing Boing,
We were sad to hear of Soupy Sales' death and were reminded that Alice had been a guest of his about 30 (very) odd years ago. We found the clip and are happy to share it with millions of Soupy fans that are out there. Alice recalled Soupy:
"Being from Detroit, I came home everday and watched Soupy at lunch. One of the greatest moments of my life was getting piefaced by Soupy. He was one of my all time heros."