[78-L] Gene Deitch & Howdy-Doody + ME

[Michael Biel]

David Lennick wrote:
> I actually listened to the Howdy Doody radio show when the CBC ran it around 1953. 

Although I was bored by that time with the TV show I was a faithful 
listener to the radio version.  The two books about the show both 
discuss how the radio show was recorded in a radio studio separately 
from the TV show, and that they had no need for Keesham since he didn't 
talk and anybody could honk the horn -- so he lost out on the extra 
money which was another reason to leave.  The blooper of the little kid 
saying "I farted" came from a radio program recording session.

> In retrospect, it sounded as if a lot of bits and pieces were supplied and someone flung them together to fill the time, but maybe that was how the CBC got it (someone may have had to remove commercials). 

There were song bridges that were heard week after week.  One was Loch 
Lomand, and that was the reason why I went out of my way to visit Loch 
Lomand when I went to Scotland.  I can tell you that NEITHER the High 
Road nor the Low Road go to Loch Lomand.

> Soon after, the CBC began its own radio version of Howdy Doody, which was mercifully short-lived (I think my dad was asked to audition for it). CBC's TV version of Howdy Doody started a little while later and ran for years, depriving Canadians away from border cities of the real thing.  dl
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I never heard anything about this.  They had a set of the 
marionettes?????  Who was the human star, Toronto Tom?

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com

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>> Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2010 21:52:22 -0400
>> From: mbiel at mbiel.com
>> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
>> Subject: Re: [78-L] Gene Deitch & Howdy-Doody + ME
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>> Steve Ramm wrote:
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>>> Speaking of HD (Howdy Doody), long before internet and even cassette tapes, I wrote to Bob Smith (living in FL) and asked if he has any recordings of the audio of the TV show. He wrote me that he had only a few and was coming to near Philly soon to do a nostalgia show (this is in late 60s - early 70s. He offereed to have his engineer make me a RTR tape of it for $25.00 if I promised not to share it. I sent him the money and he delivered it when he came to area for his show. I have it SOMEWHERE. (My 15 minutes of fame with Buffalo Bob") Steve
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>> Well, if that is your 15 minutes of fame, I have 45 minutes because I 
>> met and talked with Buffalo Bob twice (in Columbia, Missouri and Paramus 
>> NJ) and one of my college chums was at the first show Bob did at the U 
>> of Pa, arranged the show at Temple soon after, and continued to be a 
>> close friend of Bob -- who actually gave him a few of the kines. I 
>> supplied both of them with two hours of the Howdy Doody radio show, 
>> which was a separate production from the TV show. I wouldn't be 
>> surprised if what Bob gave you is the audio of the program he showed at 
>> the nostalgia shows. It would probably match one of the shows on the 
>> DVDs that have been released in the past few years. 
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>> Mike Biel mbiel at mbiel.com 
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>>>> From: soundthink at live.com
>>>> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
>>>> Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2010 10:23:03 -0700
>>>> Subject: [78-L] Gene Deitch & Howdy-Doody
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>>>> Gene Deitch, whose "Cat" cartoons satirized (and some say defined) jazz record collectors in "The Record Changer" magazine, is in the news. Apparently, in 1953, Deitch produced an animated short "Howdy Doody & his Magic Hat," whose negative was ordered destroyed by Buffalo Bob Smith. The short was Deitch's first directorial effort, but he hasn't seen it in 57 years. A print was discovered and it will be screened at the CineFamily Silent Movie Theater in Los Angeles tomorrow evening. Deitch, now 85, is delighted by the discovery. He is living in Prague, Czechoslovakia, where he has lived since 1960. 
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>>>> Cary Ginell
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>> Gene's a good friend and we correspond regularly. Remember he is the guy who created the cartoon Tom Terriffic for TV in the 1950s.
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>> His sons are also well known cartoonists.
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