[78-L] "House Party" ^

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"House Party" always brings up a sore point with me. I watched the show when I was a kid and always got a kick out of it. It wasn't my favorite show, but it was enjoyable. 
One day, a phone call came in and the woman who was cleaning our house answered it. She said one thing to the person on the other end: "Art Linkletter's House Party." When she hung up, I asked her who was on the phone. She said it was someone taking a survey on what the favorite show was in our household. Now, I loved "The Wild, Wild West," "Get Smart," "The Addams Family," "Mission Impossible," and a bunch of other shows and NEVER would have named "House Party" as my favorite. So I was ticked that the Ginell household had voted for this harmless little afternoon show. A waste of a vote. My parents laughed at my anger, but I've never forgotten it. Art Linkletter. Phooey.

Cary Ginell


-----Original Message-----
From: Taylor Bowie <bowiebks at isomedia.com>
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Heck,  I loved that show when I was a little kid (late 50s).  To show you 
how naive I was,  I recall asking my parents why there weren't more shows 
like that on the radio.  The little bands on House Party and on Arthur 
Godfrey played some damn good music.

I don't think I heard the song "You"  again until much later...by my late 
teens I had the Dorsey Victor and the Stew Pletcher Bluebird,  not to 
mention a nice track on a  Sonny Rollins LP.

I love the Pletcher,  and even love Stew's vocal.  When he draws out the 
word "you-u-u-u-u-u" in the lyrics,  it sounds like someone is tickling him 
with a feather.

And a tip of the hat to Walter Donaldson,  one of the finest and most 
under-rated tunesmiths of all time.


Taylor


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From: "Michael Biel" <mbiel at mbiel.com>
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Sent: Saturday, June 27, 2009 1:01 PM
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> From: Dnjchi at aol.com
>> Out of the blue I began humming the song "You"--and instantly
>> thought of Art Linkletter's "House Party". That song was the
>> theme, wasn't it?    Don Chichester
>
> Oh great, now I'm not going to be able to get it out of my head, because
> that thing never ended.  They just kept playing it on and on and on and
> on and on and on until the announcer finally said "This is the CBS Radio
> Network" or "This is the CBS Television Network" depending on which
> version you were tuned to.  Played by something like the Muzzi Marcelino
> Trio I believe.
>
> Mike (at least Michael Jackson never recorded it) Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
>
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