[78-L] "House Party" now TV scores

[Taylor Bowie]

"Old Man" Linkletter  vs.  "Kid" Ginell...this could be a great episode of 
Celebrity Smack-Down...a strange show I happened to watch on TV in a hotel 
room one night.

By the time I was eight,  my mother gave up and let me watch  The 
Untouchables anyway...but I think M-Sqaud had already been cancelled.

One thing the shows had in common was great musical scores...from people 
like Nelson Riddle,  Count Basie, John Williams (way pre-Star Wars!), Benny 
Carter, etc.

Are there any TV shows on these days which have interesting or at least 
entertaining musical scores?

Taylor


----- Original Message ----- 
From: <soundthink at aol.com>
To: <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Sent: Saturday, June 27, 2009 7:15 PM
Subject: Re: [78-L] "House Party" ^


> Does your mother know you have these?
>
> Cary Ginell (who will take Linkletter on - any time, anywhere)
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Taylor Bowie <bowiebks at isomedia.com>
> To: 78-L Mail List <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Sent: Sat, Jun 27, 2009 6:47 pm
> Subject: Re: [78-L] "House Party" ^
>
>
>
> Careful,  Cary...Art is still going strong at age 97 and he might chase 
> you
> down and give you a good thrashing!
>
> Has anybody else seen the movie "Champagne for Caesar" with Ronald Colman,
> Celeste Holm and Vincent Price?  In the movie Art plays a TV game show 
> host
> and he gives  a very funny and self-satiric performance.
>
> When I was little my fave shows were The Untouchables and M-Sqaud,  which 
> my
> mother didn't like me to watch.   Now I have all the M-Squads on DVD,  and
> the entire first two seasons of The Untouchables as well.  They are still
> great...and M Sqaud has all that cool music as well.
>
> Taylor
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <soundthink at aol.com>
> To: <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Sent: Saturday, June 27, 2009 6:38 PM
> Subject: Re: [78-L] "House Party" ^
>
>
>> "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>
>> To: 78-L Mail List <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
>> Sent: Sat, Jun 27, 2009 1:10 pm
>> Subject: Re: [78-L] "House Party"
>>
>>
>>
>> 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
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Michael Biel" <mbiel at mbiel.com>
>> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
>> Sent: Saturday, June 27, 2009 1:01 PM
>> Subject: Re: [78-L] "House Party"
>>
>>
>>> 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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