Comments

cbrillow wrote on 4/11/2007, 9:41 AM
"Where in the Detroit/Windsor area are you?"

Mike: I'll answer via private message - I doubt that anybody else would care to wade through that. If you don't receive it, let me know and I'll repond here.

Chuck
dsf wrote on 4/11/2007, 8:35 PM
Enough already. Get back to work you guys. (BTW, the first record I bought was a 78 of Johnny Cash, "I walk the line.")
bw wrote on 4/12/2007, 6:23 AM
Back on off topic, what about what Stan Freeburg did to many popular songs (Ol Man River, Banana Boat Song, etc). Still cant hear normal version without subing the SF version.
I'm seventy so my early radio was valves (Toobs to the USA) and 250 volts running around the open chassis creations. They say that what doesn't kill you makes you stronger (:-)
Long live AM. Wish I could stoke up some of my old Ham gear. Working 6 metre skip for the first time is still one of my biggest thrills.
johnmeyer wrote on 4/12/2007, 7:57 AM
Stan Freeburg

I have a 45 of him doing "Green Christmas," a wonderful satire about the commercialization of Christmas. I think it came out around 1960.
cbrillow wrote on 4/12/2007, 11:43 AM
Stan Freberg was one of the top 3 parody artists of all time, IMHO. (the other two being Allan Sherman & Weird Al) Personally, I think Weird Al is the most entertaining, because he has a crackerjack band that can cover just about any modern musical style, whereas Sherman was quite one-dimensional, being basically a pianist/vocalist.

Freberg went beyond straight music parody, into comedy sketches. And he was blessed to have the great Daws Butler, the voice behind a lot of 50s & 60s cartoon characters - working at his side.

Good stuff!
johnmeyer wrote on 4/12/2007, 1:17 PM
Stan Freeburg was one of the top 3 parody artists of all time, IMHO. (the other two being Allan Sherman & Weird Al)

No need to put that in the past tense. I just checked IMDB, and he is still alive. I think he was involved in several ads just a few years ago (he went into advertising in the mid-1960s, and continued producing ads for decades).

Allan Sherman was great, but died way too young. I still play "Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah" at least once a year.

Weird Al is absolutely amazing. Hard to believe, but he's been doing his shtick for a quarter century, and he's still coming up with fresh stuff. And your right, his backup band is amazingly flexible, although his early stuff with just an accordion was pretty amazing.
cbrillow wrote on 4/12/2007, 2:48 PM
"No need to put that in the past tense. I just checked IMDB, and he is still alive. I think he was involved in several ads just a few years ago (he went into advertising in the mid-1960s, and continued producing ads for decades)."

Didn't mean to imply that he was gone - guess I should've worded that more carefully. I've always had a keen ear for his work, as well as Dick Orkin's. (aka Chickenman) There's another legendary comic ad voice...
johnmeyer wrote on 4/12/2007, 5:43 PM
I've always had a keen ear for his work, as well as Dick Orkin's. (aka Chickenman) There's another legendary comic ad voice...

Oh, I have the first six episodes in that series.

I got sidetracked and was going to send you those Detroit/Windsor airchecks. I'll grab the Chickenman as well ...

He's everywhere, he's everywhere!!

[strange looks from others in the forum ... ]

RexA wrote on 4/13/2007, 2:41 AM
>He's everywhere, he's everywhere!!

>[strange looks from others in the forum ... ]

buck, buck, buck, buck...

Some of us are old enough and strange enough not to be baffled.

Parma!


cbrillow wrote on 4/13/2007, 2:55 AM
"Some of us are old enough and strange enough not to be baffled."

Now, that's comforting!


Parma?! PARMA??!!!

Don't tell me you're a Ghoul fan...